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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 26
a3fb9793 27PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 32 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 33
d27f98fe 34TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 35
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36TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
37
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38TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
40
ae0e32ee 41TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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44
45TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 46
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47JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
48
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49JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
50
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51PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
52
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53NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
54 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 55
585121e2 56JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 57
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58PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
59
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60PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
61 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
62
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63JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
64 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
65 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 66
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67JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
68
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69JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
70
ea722490 71JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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72 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
73
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74JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
75 Bugzilla 884.
76
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77JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
78 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
79
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80JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
81 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
82
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83PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
84 CVE-2012-5671
85
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86JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
87 authenticators.
88
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89JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
90 for control.
91
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92PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
93
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94PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
95 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
96 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
97 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
98
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99TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
100
101 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
102 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
103 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
104 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
105 the retry rules.
106
107 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
108 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
109 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
110
111 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
112 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
113 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
114 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
115
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116 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
117 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
118 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
119 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
120 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
121 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
122 delivery, as in LMTP.
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123
124 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
125 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
126
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127TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
128
129 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
130
131 Resent-From: f
132
133 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
134 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
135 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
136 username as equal to the username.
137
138 This change corrects that bug.
139
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140GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
141 Error conditions log to mainlog rather than paniclog.
142 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
143
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147
148PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
149 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 150 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 151
ea722490 152
b1770b6e 153Exim version 4.80
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155
156PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
157 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
158 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
159
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160NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
161
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162NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
163 improved.
164
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165NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
166
c1e794ba 167PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 168
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169PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
170
171PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
172 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
173
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174PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
175 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
176
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177PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
178 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
179
f1e05cc7 180PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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181 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
182 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 183
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184PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
185
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186PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
187 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
188
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189PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
190
c45dd180 191PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 192
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193PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
194 non-compliant senders.
195 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
196
eae0036b 197NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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198 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
199 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
200
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201PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
202 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
203 in spool file corruption.
204
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205PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
206 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
207 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
208 "Got SSL error 2".
209
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210TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
211 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
212 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
213
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214JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
215 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
216
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217JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
218
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219PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
220 diagnostics.
221 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
222
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223PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
224 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
225 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
226
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227PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
228 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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229 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
230 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 231
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232PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
233 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
234
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235PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
236 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
237 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
238 resolver implementation change.
239
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240PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
241 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
242
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243PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
244
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245PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
246
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247PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
248 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
249
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250PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
251 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
252
9e45c72b 253JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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254 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
255
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256PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
257 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
258 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
259 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 260 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 261
53947857 262PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 263
eae0036b 264PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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265 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
266 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 267
9e45c72b 268JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 269
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270PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
271 read-only, out of scope).
272 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
273
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274PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
275 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
276 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
277 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
278
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279PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
280
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281PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
282 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
283 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
284 real issues in debug logging.
285
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286PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
287 assignment on my part. Fixed.
288
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289PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
290 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
291 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
292
293PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
294 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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295 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
296 problems.
3375e053 297
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298PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
299 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
300
57eb9e91 301PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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302 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
303 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
304 needs to override this, it can.
305
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306PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
307 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
308 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
309
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310PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
311 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
312 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
313 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
314
3ecab157 315PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 316
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318Exim version 4.77
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320
321PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
322 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
323
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324TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
325
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326TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
327 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 328
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329TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
330 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
331
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332TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
333 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
334 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
335
336 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
337 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
338 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
339 not safe for signals.
340
341 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
342 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
343 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
344 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
345 exiwhat.
346
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347TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
348
349 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
350 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
351 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
352 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
353 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
354
355 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
356 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
357 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
358 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
359 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
360 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
361
362 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
363 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
364 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
365 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
366
367 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
368 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
369 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
370 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
371
372 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
373 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
374 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
375 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
376 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
377 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
378 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
379 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
380 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
381
382 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
383 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
384 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
385 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
386
387 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
388 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
389 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
390 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
391 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
392 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
393 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
394 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
395 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
396 details in the main documentation.
397
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398TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
399
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400TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
401
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402TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
403 repository when doing development or release builds.
404
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405PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
406 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 407
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408PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
409 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
410 Bugzilla 97.
411
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412PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
413
9e949f00 414PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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415 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
416
417PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
418 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 419
555ae6af 420PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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421 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
422
423PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
424 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 425
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426PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
427 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
428
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429PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
430 Bugzilla 1156.
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431 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
432 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 433
d6cc7c78 434PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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435 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
436 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
437
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438PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
439
3399bb60 440PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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441
442PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
443 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
444
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446Exim version 4.76
447-----------------
448
449PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
450
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451PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
452 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
453
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454PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
455
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456PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
457
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458PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
459 Bugzilla 1098.
460
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461PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
462 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 463
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464TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
465 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
466
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467PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
468 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
469
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470PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
471 Bugzilla 1104.
472
c8d52a00 473TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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474 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
475
476TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
477 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
478 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
479 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
480
481PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
482 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 483
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485Exim version 4.75
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487
4c9ef03a 488NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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489 Bugzilla 1073
490
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491TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
492 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
493 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
494
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495TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
496 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
497
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498PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
499 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
500 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
501
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502PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
503 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
504
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505PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
506 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
507
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508NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
509 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
510
09dcaba9
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511NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
512 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
513
bc19a55b
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514PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
515 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 516
bd4c9759
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517NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
518 Fixes bug 943.
519
b72aab72
PP
520PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
521 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
522
2fe76745
PP
523PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
524 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
525
76aa570c
PP
526PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
527 SQL string expansion failure details.
528 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
529
f1e5fef5
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530PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
531 Patch from Simon Arlott.
532
4d805ee9
PP
533PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
534 extern declarations in function scope.
535 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
536
cd59ab18
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537PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
538 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
539 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
540 a kernel bug).
541
332f5cf3
PP
542PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
543 Patch from Mark Zealey.
544
29cfeb94
PP
545PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
546 Patch from Mark Zealey.
547
660242ad
PP
548PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
549 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
550
bc4bc4c5
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551PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
552 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
553
2e64baa9
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554NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
555 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
556 Dennis Davis.
557
bddd7526
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558PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
559
6bac1a9a
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560PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
561
552193f0
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562NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
563 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 564
1b587e48
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565TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
566 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
567
aa097c4c 568
8c07b69f
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569Exim version 4.74
570-----------------
571
572TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
573 consequences so log it to the panic log.
574
c0ea85ab
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575TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
576 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
577
0761d44e
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578TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
579
0a349494
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580DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
581 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
582 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
583
584PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
585 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
586 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
587
fea24b2e
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588PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
589 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
590 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
591 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
592
6545de78
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593PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
594 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
595 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
596 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
597
1670ef10
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598PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
599 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
600 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
601 arbitrary files.
602
c0886197
PP
603PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
604 (Wolfgang Breyha)
605
b7487bce
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606PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
607 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
608 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
609 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
610 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
611
8c07b69f 612
97fd1e48 613Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 614-----------------
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615
616PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
617 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
618 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
619
6901c596
PP
620PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
621 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
622
a8c8d6b5
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623JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
624
77bb000f
PP
625PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
626
a29e5231
PP
627PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
628
ec5a0394 629PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 630
55c75993
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631PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
632
453a6645 633PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
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634 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
635 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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636 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
637
8544e77a
PP
638PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
639 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
640 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
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641 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
642 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 643
83e029d5
PP
644PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
645
ed7f7860
PP
646PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
647
7d9f747b
PP
648PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
649
4b2241d2
PP
650PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
651
10385c15
PP
652PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
653
dbc4b90d
PP
654PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
655
532be449
PP
656PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
657
6a8de854 658PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
659 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
660 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 661
5dc43717
JJ
662JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
663
664JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
665 "exim" to be used
55c75993 666
3346ab01
PP
667PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
668 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
669
491fab4c
PP
670PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
671 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
672 Notification from John Horne.
673
13eb9497
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674PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
675 compatible.
676
677PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
678 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
679 it normally works.
680
7f36d675
DW
681DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
682 access.
683
c1d94452
DW
684DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
685 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
686 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
687
e2f5dc15
DW
688DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
689 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
690 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
691 configuration file.
692
cd25e41d
DW
693DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
694 option (effectively making it always true).
695
261dc43e
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696DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
697 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
698
fa32850b
DW
699DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
700 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
701
79d4bc3d
PP
702PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
703 run-time user, instead of root.
704
43236f35 705PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
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706 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
707
fb08281f
DW
708DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
709 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
710 arguments.
3346ab01 711
74935b98
DW
712DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
713 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
714 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
715
90b6341f
DW
716DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
717
57730b52
ML
718NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
719
66581d1e 720
465e92cf
JJ
721Exim version 4.72
722-----------------
723
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724JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
725 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
726 typos
465e92cf 727
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728JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
729 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
730 (Finput)
edae0343 731
9bd3e22c
NM
732NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
733 Patch from Alain Williams
734
bb576ff7
NM
735NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
736
5a1a5845
NM
737NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
738 Patch from Andreas Metzler
739
981a9fad
NM
740NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
741 Patch from Kirill Miazine
742
7fc497ee
NM
743NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
744
1a41defa
JJ
745JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
746
a466095c 747NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 748 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 749
94a6bd0b
NM
750TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
751
752TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
753
754MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
755 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
756 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
757
c1b141a8
NM
758NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
759 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 760
b26eacf1 761NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
762 Patch by Simon Arlott
763
179c5980 764PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 765 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 766
9bd3e22c 767
7c6d71af
NM
768Exim version 4.71
769-----------------
770
7d9f747b 771TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 772
f013fb92
NM
773NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
774
0eb8eedd
NM
775NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
776
663ee6d9
NM
777NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
778
177ebd9b
NM
779NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
780
7c6d71af 781
210f147e
NM
782Exim version 4.70
783-----------------
784
cdd3bb85 785TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 786 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
787
788TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
789 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 790 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
791
792TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
793 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 794 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
795
796TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
797 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
798
210f147e
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799NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
800 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
801 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
802 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
803
deafd5b3
NM
804NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
805 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 806 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 807
089793a4
TF
808TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
809
5f16ca82
TF
810TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
811
dae9d94e 812NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 813 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 814
7d9f747b 815NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 816
06864c44
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817TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
818 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
819 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
820 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
821
65a7d8c3 822NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 823 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 824
23510047 825TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 826
7d9f747b 827NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 828
7d8eec3a 829NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 830 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 831
89dec7b6
TF
832TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
833 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 834
a99de90c
TF
835TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
836 that they are available at delivery time.
837
e2803e40
TF
838TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
839
7199e1ee
TF
840TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
841 incoming_port log selectors.
842
e276e04b
TF
843TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
844 setting expands to an empty string.
845
ce552449 846NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 847 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 848
e765a0f1 849NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 850 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 851
4f054c63 852NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 853 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 854
7d9f747b
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855NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
856 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 857
7d9f747b
PP
858NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
859 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 860
b52bc06e 861NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 862 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 863
447de4b0
NM
864NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
865
4c69d561 866NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 867 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 868
d5c39246 869NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 870 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 871
0b23848a
TK
872TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
873
8f3414a1 874NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 875 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 876
fb6f955d
NM
877NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
878
879NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 880
7d9f747b
PP
881NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
882 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 883
7d9f747b
PP
884NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
885 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 886
7d9f747b
PP
887NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
888 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 889
7d9f747b
PP
890NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
891 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 892
7d9f747b
PP
893NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
894 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 895
7d9f747b
PP
896NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
897 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 898
7d9f747b
PP
899NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
900 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 901
7d9f747b 902NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 903 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 904
7d9f747b 905NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 906
7d9f747b
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907NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
908 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 909
7d9f747b 910NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 911
7d9f747b 912NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 913
7d9f747b 914NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 915
7d9f747b 916NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 917
17792b53 918NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 919 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 920
7d9f747b
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921NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
922 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 923
91576cec 924NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 925 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 926
7d9f747b
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927NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
928 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 929
7d9f747b 930NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 931
7d9f747b 932NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 933
7d9f747b 934NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 935
7d9f747b 936NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 937
deafd5b3 938
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939Exim version 4.69
940-----------------
941
4b3504d0
TK
942TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
943 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
944 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
945
946 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
947 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
948 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
949 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
950 build errors in sieve.c.
951
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952NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
953 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
954 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
955
f13cddcb
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956SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
957
7d9f747b 958NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 959
7d9f747b 960NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 961
7d9f747b 962NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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963
964
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965Exim version 4.68
966-----------------
967
968PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
969
6a3bceb1
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970PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
971 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
972 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
973 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
974 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
975 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
976 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
977 for iplsearch lookups.
978
979 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
980 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
981 previously such lookups could never work.
982
983 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
984 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
985 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
986
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987TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
988 version.
989
0806a9c5
MH
990MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
991 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
992 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
993 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
994 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
995 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
996
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997TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
998 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
999
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1000MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1001 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1002 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1003 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1004 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1005 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1006
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PH
1007PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1008 local_scan API.
1009
93655c46
PH
1010PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1011
6c512171
PH
1012PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1013 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1014 encrypted.
1015
1016PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1017 by clients under certain conditions.
1018
aa6dc513
PH
1019PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1020 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1021
a96603a0
PH
1022PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1023
8f240103
PH
1024PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1025 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1026
1027PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1028
d677b2f2
PH
1029PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1030
d52120f2
PH
1031PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1032
64f2600a
PH
1033PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1034 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1035
8669f003
PH
1036PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1037
a4dc33a8
PH
1038PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1039 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1040
d6a60c0f
PH
1041PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1042
8f128379
PH
1043PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1044
8932dffe
PH
1045PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1046 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1047 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1048 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1049
ddea74fa 1050PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1051 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1052 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1053
ddea74fa 1054PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1055 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1056
ddea74fa
PH
1057PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1058
ce9f225c
PH
1059PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1060
19897d52
PH
1061PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1062
bc64a74d
PH
1063PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1064 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1065 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1066
eb4c0de6 1067
b4ed4da0
PH
1068Exim version 4.67
1069-----------------
1070
22ad45c9
MH
1071MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1072 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1073 Jan Srzednicki.
1074
b4ed4da0
PH
1075PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1076 issue a MAIL command.
1077
431b7361
PH
1078PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1079
1080 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1081
1082 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1083 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1084 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1085 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1086 item. This has been fixed.
1087
1088PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1089 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1090
83da1223
PH
1091PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1092 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1093
54fc8428
PH
1094PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1095 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1096 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1097
34c5e8dd
SC
1098SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1099
bbe15da8
PH
1100PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1101 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1102 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1103 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1104 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1105
0e8a9471
MH
1106MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1107 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1108 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1109
f0872424
PH
1110PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1111 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1112 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1113 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1114
b01dd148
PH
1115PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1116
6bf342e1
PH
1117PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1118
273f34d0
PH
1119PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1120 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1121 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1122 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1123 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1124
cf8b11a5
PH
1125PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1126
41c7c167
PH
1127PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1128 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1129 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1130 values).
1131
9c57cbc0
PH
1132PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1133
f3f065bb
PH
1134PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1135
047bdd8c
PH
1136PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1137
0ce9abe6
PH
1138PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1139
0e22dfd1
PH
1140PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1141
4c590bd1
PH
1142PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1143 no_callout_flush is set.
1144
09945f1e
PH
1145PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1146 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1147 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1148 fixed.
1149
c51b8e75
PH
1150PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1151
e28326d8
PH
1152PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1153 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1154 other ACL rejections are.
1155
75b1493f
PH
1156PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1157 with slight modification.
1158
7c5214ec
PH
1159PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1160 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1161
4311097e
PH
1162PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1163 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1164 connection.
1165
29f89cad
PH
1166PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1167 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1168
5e687460
SC
1169SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1170
c3611384
PH
1171PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1172 expansion side effects.
1173
5a11a7b4
PH
1174PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1175 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1176 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1177 be the same.
1178
0e20aff9
MH
1179MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1180 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1181 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1182
ca86f471
PH
1183PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1184 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1185 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1186 were accidentally chopped off.
1187
a14e5636
PH
1188PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1189 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1190 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1191 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1192 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1193 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1194 pipelining has not been advertised.
1195
ec95d1a6
PH
1196PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1197
42855d71
PH
1198PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1199 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1200 This has been fixed.
1201
57c2c631
PH
1202PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1203 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1204 reported on Solaris.
1205
58c01c94
PH
1206PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1207 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1208 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1209 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1210 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1211 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1212 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1213
dee5a20a
PH
1214PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1215 cpus.
1216
d2ee6114
PH
1217PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1218
b2d5182b
PH
1219PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1220
79749a79
PH
1221PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1222 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1223 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1224 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1225 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1226 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1227
c456d9bb
PH
1228PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1229 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1230 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1231 host_all_ignored option.
1232
cd9868ec
PH
1233PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1234 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1235 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1236 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1237 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1238 is what is supposed to happen).
1239
ebeaf996
PH
1240PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1241 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1242 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1243 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1244 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1245 uses the Exim user.
1246
2679d413
PH
1247PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1248 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1249 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1250 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1251 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1252 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1253 users.
1254
84024b72
PH
1255PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1256
8005d38e
SC
1257SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1258 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1259 (Jez Hancock).
1260 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1261 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1262
3298c6c6
SC
1263SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1264
a43a27c5
PH
1265PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1266
58eb016e 1267PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1268 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1269 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1270 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1271 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1272 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1273 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1274 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1275 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1276 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1277 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1278
b43a74ea
PH
1279PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1280 advertised in response to EHLO.
1281
b4ed4da0 1282
5dd1517f
PH
1283Exim version 4.66
1284-----------------
1285
1286PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1287 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1288
1289 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1290 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1291
1292 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1293 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1294 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1295
1296 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1297 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1298 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1299 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1300 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1301
1302
93cfa765
TK
1303Exim version 4.65
1304-----------------
1305
1306TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1307 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1308 versions. (#438)
1309
d6066548
MH
1310MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1311 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1312 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1313
4362ff0d
PH
1314PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1315 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1316 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1317 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1318 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1319 rather than extend the field.
1320
93cfa765 1321
944e9e9c
TF
1322Exim version 4.64
1323-----------------
aa41d2de 1324
21d74bd9
TK
1325TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1326 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1327 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1328 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1329 these files.
1330
1331TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1332 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1333 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1334
1335TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1336 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1337 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1338
1339TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1340 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1341 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1342 in the field name.
1343
2b1c6e3a
PH
1344PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1345 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1346 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1347 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1348 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1349 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1350 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1351 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1352 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1353 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1354 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1355
1f872c80
PH
1356PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1357 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1358
1359PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1360 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1361 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1362 ignores EPIPE as well.
1363
d203e649
PH
1364PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1365 (quoted-printable decoding).
1366
cc2ed8f7 1367PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1368 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1369
ddfcd446
PH
1370PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1371
d45b1de8
PH
1372PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1373
1374PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1375
38a0a95f 1376PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1377 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1378
a2405d83
JJ
1379JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1380 in 4.64-PH/09.
1381
1382JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1383 miscellaneous code fixes
1384
6ea85e9a
PH
1385PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1386 rejections.
1387
26da7e20
PH
1388PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1389 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1390 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1391 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1392 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1393 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1394 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1395 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1396
14aa5a05 1397PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1398 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1399 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1400 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1401 function.
1402 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1403 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1404 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1405 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1406 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1407 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1408 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1409 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1410 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1411
ff75a1f7
PH
1412PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1413 decoding.
1414
e6f6568e
PH
1415PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1416 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1417 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1418 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1419 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1420 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1421 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1422 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1423
d6f6e0dc
PH
1424PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1425 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1426 list.
1427
322050c2
PH
1428PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1429 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1430 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1431 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1432 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1433 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1434 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1435 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1436 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1437 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1438 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1439 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1440 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1441
08955dd3
PH
1442PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1443 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1444 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1445 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1446 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1447 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1448 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1449
1eccaa59
PH
1450PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1451 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1452 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1453 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1454 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1455 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1456 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1457 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1458 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1459 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1460
602e59e5
PH
1461PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1462 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1463 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1464 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1465 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1466
411ef850
PH
1467PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1468 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1469 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1470 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1471 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1472 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1473 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1474
7befa435
PH
1475PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1476 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1477 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1478 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1479 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1480 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1481 been verified.
1482
48da4259 1483PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1484 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1485 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1486 and authorization.)
1487
48da4259
PH
1488PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1489 if any retry times were supplied.
1490
d1d5595c
PH
1491PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1492 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1493 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1494
0ef732d9
PH
1495PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1496
328895cc
PH
1497PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1498
fd700877
PH
1499PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1500 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1501 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1502 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1503 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1504 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1505
8dce1a6f
PH
1506PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1507 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1508
17af4a17
PH
1509PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1510 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1511 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1512
1513PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1514 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1515 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1516 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1517 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1518 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1519 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1520 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1521 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1522
1523 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1524 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1525 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1526 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1527 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1528 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1529 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1530 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1531 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1532
1533 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1534 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1535 hammering the server.
1536
c1114884
PH
1537PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1538 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1539
7a0743eb
PH
1540PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1541
0d85fa3f
PH
1542PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1543 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1544 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1545
1bf43b78
PH
1546PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1547 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1548 one case where this was not true.
1549
520de300
PH
1550PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1551 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1552 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1553 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1554 fails.
1555
48c7f9e2
PH
1556PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1557 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1558 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1559 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1560 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1561 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1562 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1563 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1564 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1565 smtp transport.
1566
99ea1c86
PH
1567PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1568 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1569 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1570 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1571
a2042e78
PH
1572PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1573 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1574
4fbcfc2e
PH
1575PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1576 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1577 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1578
aa41d2de
PH
1579PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1580
af561417
PH
1581PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1582
3cc66b45
PH
1583PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1584
194cc0e4
PH
1585PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1586 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1587 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1588 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1589
a401ddaa
PH
1590PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1591 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1592
4e88a19f
PH
1593PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1594 be meaningful with "accept".
1595
d7d7b289
SC
1596SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1597 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1598
1599SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1600 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1601 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1602
1603SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1604 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1605 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1606 there is data to show.
1607 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1608
1609SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1610 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1611 as well as the number of messages.
1612
1613SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1614 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1615 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1616
1617SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1618 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1619 have a flag are now skipped.
1620
1621SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1622 Added the -emptyok flag.
1623
1624SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1625 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1626
0ea2a468
JJ
1627JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1628 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1629 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1630
1631JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1632 match 4.64-PH/13
1633
1634JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1635 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1636
1637JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1638
1639JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1640 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1641
8a10f5a4
PH
1642PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1643
30e18802
PH
1644PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1645 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1646 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1647 contravention of the specifications.
1648
55728a4f
PH
1649PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1650 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1651 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1652
d7837193
PH
1653PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1654 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1655 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1656
87054a31
PH
1657PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1658
ea2c01d2
MH
1659MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1660 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1661 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1662 some point in the past.
1663
e4fa6968
PH
1664PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1665 transport during callout processing was broken.
1666
56f5d9bd
PH
1667PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1668 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1669
922e1c28
PH
1670PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1671 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1672
21eb6e72
PH
1673PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1674 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1675
a0540757
PH
1676PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1677
944e9e9c 1678
478be7b0
SC
1679Exim version 4.63
1680-----------------
1681
1682SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1683 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1684
1685SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1686 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1687 there is data to show.
1688 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1689
1690SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1691 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1692
2b965a65
TF
1693TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1694 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1695
45b91596
PH
1696TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1697 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1698
c59f5781
TF
1699TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1700 submissions from trusted users.
1701
90fc3069
TF
1702TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1703 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1704
6083aca0
TF
1705TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1706 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1707 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1708 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1709 there is now a framework to start from.
1710
765b530f
PH
1711PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1712 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1713 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1714
4e167a8c
PH
1715PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1716
4608d683
PH
1717PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1718
b8dc3e4a
PH
1719PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1720
5418e93b
PH
1721PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1722 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1723 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1724
b4a9bda2
PH
1725PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1726 libradius.
1727
45b91596
PH
1728PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1729 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1730 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1731
5547e2c5
PH
1732PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1733 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1734 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1735 its arguments.
1736
dbcef0ea
PH
1737PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1738 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1739 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1740 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1741 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1742
25257489
PH
1743PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1744 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1745
c816d124
PH
1746PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1747
a9ccd69a
PH
1748PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1749 operations in malware.c.
1750
75fa1910
PH
1751PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1752 signatures.
1753
a7d7aa58
PH
1754PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1755 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1756 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1757 all.
1758
42119b09
PH
1759PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1760 statements to "add_header".
1761
41609df5
PH
1762PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1763 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1764
a5bd321b
PH
1765PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1766 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1767 latter.
1768
e85a7ad5 1769PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1770 so that it is now:
1771
e85a7ad5
PH
1772 ${if or { \
1773 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1774 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1775 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1776 }{no}{yes}}
1777
e85a7ad5
PH
1778 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1779 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1780
d8fe1c03
PH
1781PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1782 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1783
16282d2b
PH
1784PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1785 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1786 any possible encoding problems.
1787
35d40a98
PH
1788PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1789 but not after initializing Perl.
1790
034d99ab
PH
1791PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1792 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1793 apparently, which is not desirable.
1794
6ec97b1b
PH
1795PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1796 queries.
1797
e22ca4ac
JJ
1798JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1799 --not options
1800
1801JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1802
33d73e3b
PH
1803PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1804 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1805 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1806 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1807
9ecb03f3
PH
1808PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1809 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1810 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1811
084efe8d
PH
1812PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1813 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1814 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1815 0.12.
1816
366fc9f0
PH
1817PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1818 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1819 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1820 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1821 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1822
c59f5781 1823
c887c79e
TF
1824Exim version 4.62
1825-----------------
1826
1827TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1828 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1829
1cce3af8
PH
1830PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1831 patch).
1832
afb3eaaf
PH
1833PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1834 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1835 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1836 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1837 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1838 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1839 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1840 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1841 451 error is used.
1842
e173618b
PH
1843PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1844
dd16e114
PH
1845PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1846 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1847 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1848
f7fd3850
PH
1849PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1850 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1851 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1852 odd errors.
1853
d87df92c
PH
1854PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1855 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1856
7e9f683d
PH
1857PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1858 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1859 option (which defaults to 0600).
1860
bfad5236
PH
1861PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1862
01c490df
PH
1863PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1864 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1865 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1866 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1867 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1868 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1869 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1870
d6629cdc
PH
1871PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1872
1cce3af8 1873
214e2000
PH
1874Exim version 4.61
1875-----------------
1876
1877PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1878 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1879 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1880 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1881 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1882 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1883 addresses as local.
1884
f9daeae0
PH
1885PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1886 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1887
7e66e54d
PH
1888PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1889
c8ea1597
PH
1890PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1891 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1892 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1893 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1894 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1895 grumble.
1896
911f6fde
PH
1897PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1898 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1899
47ca6d6c
PH
1900PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1901 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1902 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1903 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1904 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1905
ed0e9820
PH
1906PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1907 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1908 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1909 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1910
eff37e47
PH
1911PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1912 be the same on different OS.
1913
1921d2ea
PH
1914PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1915 testing.
1916
b3f69ca8
JJ
1917JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1918 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1919
1920JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1921 in 4.61-PH/06
1922
424a1c63
PH
1923PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1924 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1925 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1926 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1927 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1928 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1929 bounce message.
1930
7a100415
PH
1931PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1932 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1933 when Exim was called.
1934
19b9dc85
PH
1935PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1936 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1937
309bd837
PH
1938PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1939 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1940 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1941 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1942
59e82a2a
PH
1943PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1944 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1945 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1946 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1947 changes:
1948
1949 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1950 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1951 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1952
1953 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1954 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1955 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1956
9edc04ce
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1957PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1958 feature).
1959
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1960PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1961 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1962 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1963 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1964 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1965 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1966 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1967 values from the SRV records were lost.
1968
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1969PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1970 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1971 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1972
064a94c9
PH
1973PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1974 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1975 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1976
727071f8
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1977PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1978 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1979 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1980 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1981 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1982 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1983 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1984 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1985 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1986 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1987
f78eb7c6
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1988PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1989 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1990 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1991
21c28500
PH
1992PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1993 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1994
1995PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1996 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1997 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1998 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1999 is given.
2000
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2001PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2002 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2003 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2004
2005PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2006 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2007 PH/23 above applies.
2008
9675b384
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2009PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2010 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2011 (for which there is an explicit test).
2012
6a3f1455
PH
2013PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2014
dac79d3e
PH
2015PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2016 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2017 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2018 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2019 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2020
5977a0b3
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2021PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2022 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2023 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2024 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2025
c91535f3
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2026PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2027 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2028 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2029
0d46a8c8
PH
2030PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2031
278c6e6c
PH
2032PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2033
2cbb4081
PH
2034PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2035 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2036 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2037
3eef829e
PH
2038PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2039 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2040 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2041 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2042 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2043
1ab95fa6
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2044PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2045 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2046 the message gets confusing).
2047
230205fc
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2048PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2049 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2050 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2051 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2052
75e0e026
PH
2053PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2054 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2055 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2056 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2057 same order.
2058
2059PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2060 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2061 the different processes.
2062
145396a6
PH
2063PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2064
3cd34f13
PH
2065PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2066
11121d3d
JJ
2067JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2068 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2069
2070JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2071 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2072
2073JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2074 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2075 messages matching specified criteria.
2076
8def5aaf
PH
2077PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2078
929ba01c
PH
2079PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2080 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2081
2632889e
PH
2082PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2083 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2084 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2085 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2086 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2087 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2088 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2089 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2090 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2091 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2092
944a9c55
PH
2093PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2094 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2095 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2096
4a23603b
PH
2097PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2098
4730f942
PH
2099PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2100 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2101 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2102 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2103 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2104 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2105 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2106 the variable.
2107
30dba1e6
PH
2108PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2109 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2110
382afc6b
PH
2111PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2112
a86229cf
PH
2113PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2114
50c99ba6
PH
2115PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2116
d35e429d
PH
2117PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2118 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2119 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2120 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2121 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2122 size of the count of files.
2123
f90d018c
PH
2124PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2125
75def545
PH
2126PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2127 used in LMTP mode:
2128
2129 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2130 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2131 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2132 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2133
2134 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2135 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2136 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2137
2138PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2139 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2140 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2141 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2142 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2143
c46782ef
PH
2144PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2145 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2146
71fafd95
PH
2147PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2148 will now be deprecated.
2149
2c5db4fd
PH
2150PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2151
9cf6b11a
JJ
2152JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2153 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2154 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2155
2156JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2157 with very large, slow to parse queues
2158
2159JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2160
2161JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2162
898d150f
PH
2163PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2164 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2165 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2166 SMTP output lines.
2167
46218253
PH
2168PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2169 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2170 Sieve code now uses this.
2171
e97957bc
PH
2172PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2173 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2174
81e509d7
PH
2175PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2176 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2177
3d240ff7
PH
2178PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2179
b37c4101
PH
2180PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2181 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2182 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2183 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2184 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2185
79378e0f
PH
2186PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2187 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2188 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2189 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2190
e49c7bb4
PH
2191PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2192
d114ec46
PH
2193PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2194
f3d7df6c
PH
2195PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2196 is preferred over IPv4.
2197
715ab376
PH
2198PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2199 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2200 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2201 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2202 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2203 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2204 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2205
6b31b150
PH
2206PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2207 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2208 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2209
2210PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2211
d515a917
PH
2212PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2213 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2214 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2215 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2216 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2217 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2218 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2219 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2220 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2221 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2222 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2223
9b8fadde
PH
2224PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2225 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2226 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2227
214e2000 2228
5de37277
PH
2229Exim version 4.60
2230-----------------
2231
cc38ddbf
PH
2232PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2233
2234 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2235 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2236
2237 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2238 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2239 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2240
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PH
2241PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2242
2243 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2244 not a single digit.
2245
2246 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2247 string.
2248
2249 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2250 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2251 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2252 silly things.
2253
2254 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2255 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2256
2257 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2258 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2259
cb741023
PH
2260PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2261 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2262 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2263
f174f16e
PH
2264PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2265 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2266
c25242d7
PH
2267PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2268 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2269
2270 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2271
2272 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2273 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2274 this:
2275
2276 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2277
82c19f95
PH
2278PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2279 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2280 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2281 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2282 identical. For example:
2283
2284 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2285
2286 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2287 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2288 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2289
d7ffbc12
PH
2290PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2291 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2292 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2293 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2294
9f526266
PH
2295PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2296 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2297 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2298 message.
2299
87fcc8b9
PH
2300PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2301
2302 o fixes some comments
2303 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2304 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2305 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2306 and documents the missing references header update
2307
2308 and most important:
2309
2310 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2311 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2312 result)
2313
456682f5
PH
2314PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2315 Electronic Mail") by including:
2316
2317 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2318
2319 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2320 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2321 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2322 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2323 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2324
2325 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2326
2327 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2328
2329 The auto-replied keyword:
2330
2331 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2332 message by an automatic process,
2333
2334 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2335
2336 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2337 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2338
2339 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2340 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2341 other messages.
2342
3e46c1aa
PH
2343PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2344 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2345
49826d12
PH
2346PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2347
eba0c039
PH
2348PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2349 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2350 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2351
a0d6ba8a
PH
2352PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2353 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2354 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2355
f0917727
PH
2356PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2357 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2358 and treats the condition as false.
2359
096fee00
PH
2360PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2361
024bd3c2
PH
2362PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2363 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2364 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2365 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2366 not changing the active code.
2367
2368 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2369 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2370
2371 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2372 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2373
df199fec
PH
2374PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2375 (Bugzilla #53).
2376
d27f1df3
PH
2377PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2378 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2379 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2380 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2381 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2382 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2383 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2384 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2385 the text comparison.
2386
96776534
PH
2387PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2388 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2389 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2390 The same fix has been applied.
2391
5de37277 2392
9a799bc0
PH
2393Exim version 4.54
2394-----------------
2395
2396PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2397 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2398 It now does.
2399
99a4b039
PH
2400PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2401 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2402
2403PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2404
4b233853
PH
2405PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2406 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2407 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2408 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2409 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2410
8857ccfd
PH
2411TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2412 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2413 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2414 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2415 or /domain=).
2416
433a2980
PH
2417PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2418 testing suite.
2419
3e46c1aa 2420
9a799bc0 2421
e3a311ba
TK
2422Exim version 4.53
2423-----------------
2424
2425TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2426 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2427
13b685f9
PH
2428PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2429
395ff96d
PH
2430PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2431
5b68f6e4
PH
2432PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2433 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2434 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2435
1ab52c69
PH
2436PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2437 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2438 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2439
b07e6aa3
PH
2440PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2441 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2442 operating systems.
2443
254e032f
PH
2444PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2445 ${stat: expansion item.
2446
3af76a81
PH
2447PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2448 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2449
2548ba04
PH
2450PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2451 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2452 file for comments.
2453
b6c6011d
PH
2454PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2455
cf39cf57
PH
2456PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2457 setting.
2458
f1513293
PH
2459PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2460 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2461
727549a4
PH
2462TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2463
af46795e
PH
2464PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2465 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2466 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2467 the end of the subprocess.
2468
d7b47fd0
PH
2469PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2470 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2471 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2472 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2473 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2474
ee744174
JJ
2475JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2476
b582ab87
PH
2477TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2478
41a13e0a
PH
2479PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2480 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2481
f625cc5a
PH
2482PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2483
2484PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2485
21f7af35
PH
2486PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2487 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2488 HP-UX compiler.
2489
31480e42
PH
2490PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2491
2d280592
PH
2492PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2493 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2494 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2495
7cd1141b
PH
2496PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2497 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2498
2499PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2500 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2501
750af86e
PH
2502PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2503 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2504
2505 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2506 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2507
2508 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2509 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2510 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2511 contributed by a Radius user.
2512
2513PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2514 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2515
4304270b
TK
2516TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2517 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2518
750af86e
PH
2519PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2520 available.
2521
64ffc24f
PH
2522PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2523 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2524 received.
2525
5dd9625b
PH
2526PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2527 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2528 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2529 header lines when this was not necessary.
2530
5591031b
PH
2531PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2532
ba18e66a
PH
2533PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2534 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2535 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2536 exists".
2537
9cec981f
PH
2538PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2539 -bV or -d is used.
2540
aa2b5c79
PH
2541PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2542 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2543 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2544 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2545
48a53b7f
PH
2546PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2547
1c59d63b
PH
2548PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2549
671012da
TK
2550TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2551
1509d3a8
PH
2552PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2553
2554PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2555 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2556 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2557 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2558 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2559 settings.
2560
2561PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2562
2fe1a124
PH
2563PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2564 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2565 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2566 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2567 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2568 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2569 which is clearly wrong.
2570
8800895a
PH
2571PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2572
ccfdb010
PH
2573PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2574 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2575 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2576 subsequently added.
2577
1130bfb0
PH
2578PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2579 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2580
ebcb507f
PH
2581PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2582
c35e155c
PH
2583PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2584 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2585
95d1f782
PH
2586PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2587 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2588
fd6de02e
PH
2589PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2590 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2591
58de37c5
PH
2592PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2593 recipients, not senders.
2594
261cf466
TF
2595TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2596 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2597
3ee512ff
PH
2598PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2599
e08c430f
PH
2600PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2601
bef5a11f
PH
2602PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2603 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2604 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2605 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2606
7546de58
TF
2607TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2608
e5d5a95f
TF
2609TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2610 clock is set back in time.
2611
2e88a017
TF
2612TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2613 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2614
a5f65aa4
TF
2615TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2616 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2617
e7726cbf
PH
2618PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2619 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2620 (see PH/47 above).
2621
a7fdad5b
TF
2622TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2623 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2624 header rewrites.
2625
6af56900
PH
2626PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2627 type ("H").
2628
0925ede6
PH
2629PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2630
66afa403
TF
2631TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2632 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2633 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2634
0154e85a
TF
2635TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2636 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2637 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2638 helo verification defer as a failure.
2639
16f12c76
PH
2640PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2641 actual error message.
2642
bbe902f0 2643
e5a9dba6
PH
2644Exim version 4.52
2645-----------------
2646
2647TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2648
22c3b60b
PH
2649PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2650 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2651 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2652 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2653
06a9b4b5
PH
2654TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2655
c1ac6996
PH
2656PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2657 can still be requested.
2658
9c7a242c
PH
2659PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2660 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2661 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2662 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2663
87ba3f5f
PH
2664TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2665 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2666 circumstances, but probably never did.
2667
2668PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2669 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2670 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2671 in the header line.
2672
29aba418
TF
2673TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2674
fe0dab11
TF
2675TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2676 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2677
11d337a4
TK
2678TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2679
2680TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2681
415c8f3b
PH
2682PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2683 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2684 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2685 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2686 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2687 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2688
958541e9
PH
2689PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2690 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2691 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2692 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2693 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2694 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2695
c206415f
TK
2696TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2697 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2698
2a4be8f9
PH
2699PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2700 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2701
1cba11c5
SC
2702SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2703 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2704
2705SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2706
2707SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2708
2709SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2710
2711SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2712
2713SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2714
2715SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2716
1005d00e
TK
2717TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2718
2719TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2720 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2721 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2722
2723TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2724 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2725 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2726 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2727
9b4768fa
PH
2728PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2729 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2730 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2731
2732PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2733 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2734 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2735 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2736
0d7eb84a
PH
2737PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2738 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2739 to be made).
2740
2741PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2742 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2743 should work with maildirs and everything.
2744
40727bee
TK
2745TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2746 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2747
554d2369
TF
2748TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2749 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2750
1f922db1
PH
2751PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2752 function for BDB 4.3.
2753
ef213c3b
PH
2754PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2755
8ac170f3
PH
2756PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2757 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2758 involved.
2759
b1c749bb
PH
2760PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2761 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2762 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2763 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2764 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2765 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2766
4aac9b49
PH
2767PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2768 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2769 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2770 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2771 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2772 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2773 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2774 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2775
294520c8
TK
2776TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2777 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2778 details.
2779
5bd022fe
PH
2780PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2781 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2782
90e9ce59
PH
2783PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2784 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2785 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2786 test. It is now used for both.
2787
5ea81592
PH
2788PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2789 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2790 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2791 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2792 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2793 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2794
c6c2dc1d
PH
2795PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2796 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2797 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2798 string_vformat().
2799
fffffe4c
PH
2800PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2801 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2802 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2803
9a26b6b2
PH
2804PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2805 experimental DomainKeys support:
2806
2807 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2808 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2809 the control was given.
2810
2811 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2812
4aee0225
PH
2813PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2814
32d668a5
PH
2815PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2816
8187c3f3
PH
2817PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2818 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2819 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2820 db.h files).
2821
ff790e47 2822PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2823 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2824 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2825 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2826 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2827 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2828 course.
ff790e47 2829
5417f6d1
PH
2830PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2831 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2832 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2833 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2834 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2835 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2836
59cf8544
PH
2837PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2838 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2839 do -d+all out of habit.
2840
e7ad8a65
PH
2841PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2842 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2843 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2844
ade42478
PH
2845PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2846 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2847 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2848 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2849 record types that Exim uses.
2850
182ad5cf
PH
2851PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2852 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2853 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2854 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2855 non-existent file that was broken.
2856
b0d9fc80
TK
2857TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2858 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2859
2860TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2861 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2862 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2863
2864TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2865
47c7a64a
PH
2866PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2867 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2868 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2869 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2870 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2871 same time.
2872
a388bce4
SC
2873SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2874 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2875 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2876 at a slight CPU cost.
2877
2878SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2879 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2880
2881SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2882 by Marc Sherman.
2883
0793e4ed
SC
2884SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2885
c58b88df
PH
2886PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2887 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2888
e7ad8a65 2889
7982096b
PH
2890Exim version 4.51
2891-----------------
2892
1a46a8c5
PH
2893TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2894 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2895
2f079f46 2896TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2897
2898TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2899
2900PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2901 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2902
2903PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2904 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2905 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2906 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2907 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2908 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2909 file.
2910
2911PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2912 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2913 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2914 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2915 these two options.
2916
2917PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2918 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2919 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2920 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2921 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2922 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2923 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2924 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2925
2926PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2927 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2928
2929PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2930 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2931 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2932 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2933 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2934 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2935
2936PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2937 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2938 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2939 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2940
2941PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2942 Finch).
2943
2944PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2945 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2946
49c2d5ea
PH
2947PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2948 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2949 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2950 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2951 message.
49c2d5ea 2952
bf759a8b
PH
2953PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2954
83364d30
PH
2955PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2956 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2957
7999bbd7
PH
2958PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2959 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2960 to what was transported.)
2961
7dbf77c9
PH
2962TF/01 Added $received_time.
2963
74e0617f
PH
2964PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2965 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2966 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2967 spamd_address settings.
2968
2f079f46
PH
2969PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2970 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2971 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2972 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2973 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2974
8c841523
PH
2975PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2976
7766a4f0
PH
2977PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2978 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2979 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2980 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2981 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2982
8b417f2c
PH
2983PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2984 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2985
901f42cb
PH
2986PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2987 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2988 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2989 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2990 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2991 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2992 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2993 for failure.
2994
f9b9210e
PH
2995PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2996 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2997 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2998 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2999 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3000 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3001 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3002 "input=".
3003
54cdb463
PH
3004PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3005
cf00dad6
PH
3006PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3007 driver and ACL definitions.
3008
acb1b346
PH
3009PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3010 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3011
c5ddb310
PH
3012PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3013 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3014 understands it better than I do:
3015
3016 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3017 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3018
3019 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3020 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3021 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3022 => three warnings about OTP not working
3023 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3024
3025 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3026 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3027 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3028 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3029 for each call.)
3030 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3031 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3032
3033 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3034 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3035 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3036
31619da6
PH
3037PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3038 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3039 specified.
3040
bebaf0fc
PH
3041PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3042 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3043 "Linux".
3044
475fe28a
PH
3045PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3046 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3047 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3048
3049 warn !verify = sender
3050 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3051
3052 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3053 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3054
7e8bec7a
PH
3055PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3056
3057 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3058 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3059
3060 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3061 nomenclature these days.)
3062
e4a89c47
PH
3063PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3064 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3065
5ca2a9a1
PH
3066PH/30 In these circumstances:
3067 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3068 . First host does not offer TLS;
3069 . First host accepts first address;
3070 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3071 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3072 . Second host accepts second address.
3073 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3074 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3075 address.
7e8bec7a 3076
c688b954
PH
3077PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3078 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3079 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3080 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3081 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3082
fed77020
PH
3083PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3084 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3085
7fe1560f
PH
3086PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3087 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3088
ebb6e6d5
PH
3089PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3090 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3091 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3092
9c4e8f60
PH
3093PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3094 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3095 overlooked.
3096
3097PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3098
d7174846
PH
3099PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3100 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3101 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3102 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3103 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3104 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3105 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3106
3107 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3108 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3109 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3110 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3111 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3112
3113 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3114 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3115 routed further.
3116
cfe75fc3
PH
3117PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3118 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3119 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3120 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3121 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3122 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3123
be22d70e
PH
3124PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3125
0612b098
PH
3126PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3127 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3128 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3129 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3130 printable escape sequences.
3131
2e0c1448
PH
3132PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3133 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3134 body only.
3135
447d236c
PH
3136PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3137 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3138 are as follows:
3139
3140 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3141 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3142 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3143 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3144 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3145
3146 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3147 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3148 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3149
d20976dc
PH
3150PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3151
f656d135
PH
3152PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3153 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3154 play with."
3155
2e2a30b4
PH
3156PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3157 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3158 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3159 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3160 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3161 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3162 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3163 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3164 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3165 the log output.
3166
9176e9f0
PH
3167PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3168 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3169 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3170 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3171 "make".
3172
7982096b 3173
bbe902f0
PH
3174A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3175----------------------------------------
3176
3177Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3178changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3179needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3180in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3181that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3182release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3183from 4.43.
3184
3185I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
31864.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3187those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3188historical information.
3189
3190
f7b63901 3191Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3192-----------------
3193
5fe762f6
PH
3194 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3195
139059f6 3196 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3197 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3198
7086e875
PH
3199 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3200 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3201 place.
3202
35af9f61
PH
3203 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3204 filter fails to execute.
3205
b668c215
PH
3206 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3207 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3208 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3209 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3210 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3211
a494b1e1
PH
3212 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3213
3214 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3215 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3216 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3217 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3218
c5fcb476
PH
3219 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3220 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3221 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3222 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3223 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3224
69358f02
PH
3225 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3226
5be20824
PH
322710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3228
eb2c0248
PH
322911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3230 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3231 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3232 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3233
2a3eea10
PH
323412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3235 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3236 sender verification.
3237
323813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3239 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3240
23c7ff99
PH
324114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3242
4deaf07d
PH
324315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3244 connection timeout.
3245
926e1192
PH
324616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3247 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3248
650edc6f
PH
324917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3250 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3251
2c7db3f5
PH
325218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3253 information about exactly what failed.
3254
3d235903
PH
325519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3256
7c7ad977
PH
325720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3258 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3259 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3260
981756db
PH
326121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3262 It is now set to "smtps".
3263
d4eb88df
PH
326422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3265 ignore_target_hosts.
3266
326723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3268 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3269 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3270 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3271 "[x.x.x.x]".
3272
7d468ab8
PH
327324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3274 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3275 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3276
327725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3278 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3279 wake it up if nothing else does.
3280
62c0818f
PH
328126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3282 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3283 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3284 end up negative.
3285
26034054
PH
328627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3287 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3288
af66f652
PH
328928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3290
90af77f4
PH
329129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3292 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3293 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3294 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3295 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3296 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3297 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3298 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3299
d8ef3577
PH
330030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3301 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3302 than one IP address.
3303
5cb8cbc6
PH
330431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3305 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3306 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3307 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3308
14702f5b
PH
330932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3310 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3311 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3312 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3313 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3314 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3315
063b1e99
PH
331633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3317 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3318 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3319 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3320
652e1b65
PH
332134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3322 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3323 respected.
3324
6f0c9a4f
PH
332535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3326 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3327 $sender_host_address.
3328
33397d19
PH
332936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3330 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3331 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3332 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3333 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3334 very small.
3335
7bb56e1f
PH
333637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3337
3338 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3339 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3340
ea3bc19b
PH
3341 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3342 just the host names, not the priorities.
3343
3344 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3345 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3346 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3347
ea3bc19b 3348 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3349 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3350
0bcb2a0e
PH
335138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3352 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3353 domain.
3354
2ac0e484
PH
335539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3356
4e1fde53
PH
335740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3358 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3359
de365ded
PH
336041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3361 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3362 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3363
f05da2e8
PH
336442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3365
d6453af2
PH
336643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3367
f7b63901
PH
336844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3369
337045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3371 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3372 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3373 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3374 because the tests only now provoked it.
3375
a444213a
PH
337646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3377 (this can affect the format of dates).
3378
0ec020ea
PH
337947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3380 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3381 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3382 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3383
b1206957
PH
338448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3385
338649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3387 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3388 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3389 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3390
26dd5a95
PH
339150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3392 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3393 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3394
343b2385
PH
339551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3396 autoreply.
3397
1c5466b9
PH
339852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3399 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3400 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3401 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3402 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3403 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3404 is going on).
3405
55ee9ee3
PH
340653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3407 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3408 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3409 the line.
3410
d38f8232
PH
341154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3412 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3413 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3414
3415 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3416 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3417 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3418 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3419 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3420 so I produce this patch..."
3421
3295e65b
PH
3422 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3423 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3424 is not defined.
3425
7102e136
PH
342655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3427 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3428 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3429 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3430 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3431
3ca0ba97
PH
343256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3433
c2bcbe20
PH
343457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3435 long debug lines gets shown.
3436
18ce445d
PH
343758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3438 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3439
1f5b4c3d
PH
344059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3441
3442 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3443 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3444 of $primary_hostname.
3445
b975ba52
PH
344660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3447 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3448 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3449 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3450 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3451 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3452 by change 4.50/55 above.
3453
3454 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3455 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3456 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3457 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3458 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3459 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3460 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3461
346261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3463 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3464 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3465 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3466
17ffcae7
PH
346762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3468 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3469
d95f9fdb
PH
347063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3471 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3472 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3473 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3474 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3475
86b8287f
PH
347664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3477 This has been fixed.
3478
60dc5e56
PH
347965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3480 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3481 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3482 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3483 the caching.)
3484
533244af
PH
348566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3486
a5a28604
PH
348767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3488 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3489 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3490 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3491
7e634d24
PH
349268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3493 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3494
3e11c26b
PH
349569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3496 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3497 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3498
6729cf78
PH
349970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3500 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3501 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3502 message there.
3503
00f00ca5
PH
350471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3505 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3506 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3507
c9bdd01c
PH
350872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3509 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3510 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3511 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3512
d43194df
PH
351373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3514 during host lookups.
3515
fe5b5d0b
PH
351674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3517 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3518
3519 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3520
76a2d7ba
PH
352175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3522 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3523 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3524 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3525 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3526 background.
3527
352876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3529 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3530
04f7d5b9
PH
353177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3532 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3533 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3534
bc60667e
PH
353578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3536
bb6e88ff
PH
353779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3538 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3539 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3540 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3541 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3542 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3543 process earlier.
3544
1e70f85b
PH
354580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3546 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3547 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3548 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3549 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3550
355181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3552 tables).
3553
4e01f9d6
PH
355482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3555
1ee1cef2
PH
355683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3557 "vacation" handling.
3558
6e2b4ccc
PH
355984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3560 OS variants using glibc.
3561
8e669ac1
PH
356285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3563
495ae4b0 3564
bbe902f0
PH
3565----------------------------------------------------
3566See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3567----------------------------------------------------
3568
3569
3570Exim version 4.44
3571-----------------
3572
3573 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3574 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3575 transport
3576
3577 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3578 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3579 place.
3580
3581 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3582 filter fails to execute.
3583
3584 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3585 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3586 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3587 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3588 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3589
3590 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3591 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3592 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3593 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3594
3595 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3596 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3597 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3598 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3599 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3600
3601 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3602
3603 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3604 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3605 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3606 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3607
3608 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3609 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3610 sender verification.
3611
361210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3613 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3614
361511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3616 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3617
361812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3619 ignore_target_hosts.
3620
362113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3622 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3623 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3624 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3625 "[x.x.x.x]".
3626
362714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3628 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3629 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3630
363115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3632 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3633 wake it up if nothing else does.
3634
363516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3636 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3637 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3638 end up negative.
3639
364017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3641 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3642
ea3a6f44 364318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3644
364519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3646 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3647 empty pattern.
3648
364920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3650 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3651 one IP address.
3652
ea3a6f44
NM
365321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3654 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3655 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3656 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3657 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3658 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3659
ea3a6f44
NM
366022. 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.
bbe902f0
PH
3663
366423. 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
366824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3669
ea3a6f44
NM
367025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3671 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3672 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3673
367426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3675 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3676
ea3a6f44
NM
367727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3678 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3679
ea3a6f44
NM
368028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3681 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3682 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3683 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3684
368529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3686 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3687 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3688
ea3a6f44
NM
368930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3690 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3691 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3692 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3693
ea3a6f44
NM
369431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3695 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3696 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3697
ea3a6f44
NM
369831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3699 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3700
ea3a6f44
NM
370132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3702 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3703 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3704 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3705 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3706 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3707 is going on).
bbe902f0 3708
ea3a6f44
NM
370933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3710 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3711 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3712 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3713 CAN-2005-0021
3714
ea3a6f44
NM
371534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3716 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3717 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3718 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3719 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3720 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3721 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3722
3723 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3724 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3725 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3726 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3727 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3728 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3729 CAN-2005-0021
3730
ea3a6f44
NM
373135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3732 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3733 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3734 CAN-2005-0022
3735
ea3a6f44
NM
373636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3737 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3738 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3739 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3740 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3741
ea3a6f44
NM
374237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3743 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3744 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3745 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3746 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3747
ea3a6f44
NM
374838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3749 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3750 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3751 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3752 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3753
3754
495ae4b0
PH
3755Exim version 4.43
3756-----------------
3757
3758 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3759 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3760 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3761 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3762 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3763 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3764 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3765
3766 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3767 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3768 the delivery.
3769
3770 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3771
3772 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3773
3774 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3775 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3776 to local_scan().
3777
3778 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3779 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3780 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3781 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3782 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3783
3784 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3785 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3786
3787 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3788
3789 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3790
379110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3792 header_sender only.
3793
379411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3795 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3796
379712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3798 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3799 affecting debugging statements).
3800
380113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3802
380314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3804 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3805 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3806 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3807 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3808 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3809 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3810 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3811 after the received time, and all would be well.
3812
381315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3814 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3815 condition in an expansion string.
3816
381716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3818
381917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3820 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3821 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3822 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3823 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3824 job under whatever limits there are.
3825
382618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3827
382819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3829 space).
3830
383120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3832 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3833 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3834 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3835 return path is set.
3836
383721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3838 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3839 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3840 binary data in such strings.
3841
384222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3843
384423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3845 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3846 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3847 failure, which is pointless.
3848
384924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3850
385125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3852
385326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3854 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3855 Sender: header lines.
3856
385727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3858 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3859 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3860
386128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3862 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3863 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3864 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3865 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3866 happens.
3867
386829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3869 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3870 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3871 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3872 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3873
387430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3875 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3876 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3877 1024.
3878
387931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3880 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3881
388232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3883 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3884
388533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3886
388732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3888
388933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3890
389134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3892 syntax error.
3893
389435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3895
389636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3897
389837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3899 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3900 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3901 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3902
390338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3904 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3905
3906
3907Exim version 4.42
3908-----------------
3909
3910 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3911 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3912 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3913 it was not quoted.
3914 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3915 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3916 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3917 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3918 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3919 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3920
3921 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3922 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3923 verification failure".
3924
3925 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3926 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3927 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3928 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3929
3930 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3931 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3932 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3933 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3934 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3935 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3936 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3937 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3938 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3939 treated as a timeout.
3940
3941 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3942 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3943 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3944 not set for Exim filters).
3945
3946 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3947 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3948 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3949
3950 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3951
3952 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3953 try to make them clearer.
3954
3955 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3956 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3957
3958 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3959
3960 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3961
396210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3963 only the Cygwin environment.
3964
396511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3966 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3967 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3968 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3969 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3970
397112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3972 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3973 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3974 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3975 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3976 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3977 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3978
397913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3980 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3981
398214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3983
3984 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3985 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3986 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3987
3988 To: susanne@some.where
3989
3990 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3991 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3992 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3993 of addresses in From: header lines).
3994
3995 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3996 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3997 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3998
3999 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4000 treated as non-personal.
4001
4002 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4003 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4004
400515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4006
400716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4008
400917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4010 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4011 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4012
401318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4014 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4015
401619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4017 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4018 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4019 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4020 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4021 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4022
402320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4024 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4025 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4026 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4027 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4028 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4029 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4030 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4031
4032 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4033
403421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4035 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4036
403722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4038 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4039 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4040
404123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4042 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4043
404424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4045 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4046 rather than long int.
4047
404825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4049
405026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4051
4052
4053Exim version 4.41
4054-----------------
4055
4056 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4057 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4058 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4059 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4060 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4061 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4062
4063
4064Exim version 4.40
4065-----------------
4066
4067 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4068 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4069
4070 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4071 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4072 socklen_t is defined.
4073
4074 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4075 always exist.
4076
4077 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4078 configured.
4079
4080 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4081 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4082 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4083 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4084 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4085
4086 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4087 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4088 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4089 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4090
4091 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4092 of flapping under certain conditions.
4093
4094 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4095 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4096 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4097
4098 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4099
410010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4101
410211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4103 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4104 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4105 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4106
410712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4108 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4109 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4110 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4111 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4112 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4113 preserved with the message after it was received.
4114
411513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4116 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4117 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4118 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4119 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4120 test suite worked just fine.
4121
412214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4123 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4124 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4125
412615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4127 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4128 string.
4129
413016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4131 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4132 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4133 does not fully solve it.
4134
413517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4136 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4137 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4138 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4139 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4140
414118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4142 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4143 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4144
414519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4146 string, for example:
4147
4148 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4149
4150 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4151 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4152 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4153 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4154 the routers could not see them.
4155
415620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4157 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4158
415921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4160 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4161 output).
4162
416322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4164 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4165 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4166 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4167 that needed quoting.
4168
416923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4170 was not being matched caselessly.
4171
417224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4173 backslashes.
4174
417525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4176 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4177 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4178 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4179 when use_sender is false.
4180
418126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4182
418327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4184
418528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4186
418729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4188 the configuration file.
4189
419030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4191 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4192
419331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4194
419532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4196 bytes in the message body.
4197
419833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4199 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4200 delivery.
4201
420234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4203
420435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4205
420636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4207 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4208 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4209 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4210 another IP address.
4211
4212
4213Exim version 4.34
4214-----------------
4215
4216 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4217 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4218
4219 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4220 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4221 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4222 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4223 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4224
4225 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4226 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4227
4228 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4229 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4230 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4231
4232 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4233 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4234 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4235
4236 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4237 for routers.
4238
4239 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4240 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4241 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4242 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4243 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4244 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4245 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4246
4247
4248Exim version 4.33
4249-----------------
4250
4251 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4252 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4253 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4254 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4255 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4256 default (and expected) setting.
4257
4258 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4259 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4260 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4261 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4262
4263 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4264 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4265
4266 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4267 in domain lists.
4268
4269 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4270 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4271 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4272 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4273 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4274 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4275
4276 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4277 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4278 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4279
4280 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4281 part (NOT match_host).
4282
4283 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4284
4285 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4286 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4287 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4288 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4289 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4290 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4291 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4292 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4293 the same named file.
4294
429510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4296 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4297 when Exim is built.
4298
429911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4300 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4301 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4302 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4303 a host name.
4304
430512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4306 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4307 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4308
430913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4310
431114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4312
431315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4314
431516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4316 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4317
431817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4319 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4320 before starting the TLS session.
4321
432218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4323
432419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4325 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4326
432720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4328 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4329 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4330 colon in the middle).
4331
4332
4333Exim version 4.32
4334-----------------
4335
4336 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4337 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4338 multiple configurations are in use.
4339
4340 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4341 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4342 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4343 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4344 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4345 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4346
4347 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4348 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4349
4350 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4351 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4352 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4353
4354 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4355 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4356 occurs.
4357
4358 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4359 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4360
4361 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4362
4363 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4364 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4365
4366 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4367
4368 -prval:sval
4369
4370 is equivalent to
4371
4372 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4373
4374 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4375 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4376 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4377 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4378 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4379
438010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4381 Exim's behaviour:
4382
4383 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4384 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4385 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4386 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4387 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4388 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4389
4390 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4391 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4392 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4393 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4394 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4395 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4396 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4397 string.
4398
4399 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4400 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4401 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4402 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4403 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4404
440511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4406
440712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4408 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4409 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4410
441113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4412
441314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4414 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4415 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4416 information.
4417
441815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4419 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4420
442116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4422 Three changes have been made:
4423
4424 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4425 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4426 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4427 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4428 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4429
4430 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4431 been restored.
4432
4433 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4434 the modified behaviour.
4435
4436
4437Exim version 4.31
4438-----------------
4439
4440 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4441 Larry Rosenman.
4442
4443 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4444 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4445
4446 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4447 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4448 try to track down a specific problem.
4449
4450 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4451 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4452 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4453
4454 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4455 warning.
4456
4457 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4458 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4459 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4460 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4461 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4462 some earlier ones do not.
4463
4464 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4465
4466 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4467 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4468 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4469 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4470 address literals are enabled, of course).
4471
4472 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4473
447410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4475 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4476 by a command such as
4477
4478 exim -f "" ...
4479
4480 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4481
448211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4483
448412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4485 remained set. It is now erased.
4486
448713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4488 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4489
449014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4491 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4492 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4493 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4494 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4495 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4496 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4497 appropriate error code.
4498
449915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4500 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4501 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4502 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4503 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4504 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4505
450616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4507 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4508 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4509
451017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4511 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4512 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4513 terminate the header.
4514
451518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4516 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4517 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4518
451919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4520 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4521 (4.30/29). In particular:
4522
4523 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4524 imposed.
4525
4526 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4527 to write a maildirsize file.
4528
4529 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4530 the transport, the new value overrides.
4531
4532 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4533 count.
4534
453520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4536 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4537 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4538 space or a tab.
4539
454021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4541 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4542 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4543 the fallback hosts.
4544
454522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4546 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4547 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4548
454923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4550 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4551 using a union.
4552
455324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4554 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4555 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4556
455725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4558
455926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4560
456127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4562
456328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4564 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4565 become corrupted.
4566
456729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4568 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4569 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4570 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4571 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4572 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4573 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4574 too great.
4575
457630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4577 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4578 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4579 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4580 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4581 incorrectly.
4582
458331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4584 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4585 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4586 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4587 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4588 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4589 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4590 cached value only when the same options are set.
4591
459232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4593
459433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4595 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4596 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4597 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4598 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4599
460034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4601 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4602 it is clearly obsolete.
4603
460435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4605 transport.
4606
460736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4608 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4609 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4610 times.
4611
461237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4613 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4614 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4615 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4616 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4617
461838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4619 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4620 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4621 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4622
462339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4624
4625 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4626
4627 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4628 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4629 2^31.
4630
463140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4632 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4633 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4634 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4635 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4636 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4637 $localpart_data.
4638
463941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4640 with the -f command-line option.
4641
464242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4643 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4644 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4645 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4646 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4647 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4648
464943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4650 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4651 line.
4652
465344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4654 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4655 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4656 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4657 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4658 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4659 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4660 buffer is too small.
4661
466245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4663 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4664
466546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4666 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4667 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4668 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4669 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4670 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4671 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4672 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4673 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4674
467547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4676 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4677 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4678
467948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4680 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4681 ACL").
4682
468349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4684 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4685 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4686 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4687 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4688
468950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4690 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4691 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4692 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4693 is set.
4694
469551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4696
469752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4698
469953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4700 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4701
470254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4703 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4704 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4705
470655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4707 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4708 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4709 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4710 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4711
471256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4713 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4714 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4715 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4716 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4717 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4718 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4719
472057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4721 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4722 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4723 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4724 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4725 the test of how many are available.
4726
472758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4728 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4729 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4730 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4731 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4732 new message is started.
4733
473459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4735 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4736
473760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4738 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4739
474061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4741 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4742 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4743 is no long logged.
4744
474562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4746 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4747 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4748 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4749 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4750 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4751 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4752
475363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4754 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4755 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4756 interpreted as octal.
4757
475864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4759 setting.
4760
476165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4762 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4763 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4764 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4765 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4766 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4767
476866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4769 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4770 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4771 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4772
4773 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4774 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4775 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4776 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4777
4778 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4779 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4780 is a bug fix.
4781
4782 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4783 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4784
478567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4786
478768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4788 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4789 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4790 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4791
479269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4793 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4794 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4795 supplied", which is not helpful.
4796
479770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4798 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4799 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4800
480171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4802 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4803 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4804 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4805 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4806 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4807 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4808 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4809
481072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4811 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4812 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4813 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4814 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4815
481673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4817 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4818 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4819 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4820 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4821 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4822
482374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4824 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4825 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4826
482775. Added write_rejectlog option.
4828
482976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4830 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4831 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4832 variables.
4833
483477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4835
483678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4837 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4838 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4839 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4840 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4841 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4842 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4843 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4844
484579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4846 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4847 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4848 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4849 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4850
485180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4852 Haardt.
4853
485481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4855 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4856 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4857 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4858 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4859 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4860 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4861 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4862 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4863
4864
4865Exim version 4.30
4866-----------------
4867
4868 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4869 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4870 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4871
4872 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4873 fixed.
4874
4875 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4876 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4877 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4878
4879 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4880 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4881 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4882 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4883 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4884 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4885
4886 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4887 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4888 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4889 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4890 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4891 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4892 the Exim test suite.
4893
4894 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4895 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4896 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4897 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4898
4899 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4900 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4901 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4902 specify it in this variable.
4903
4904 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4905 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4906 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4907 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4908
4909 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4910 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4911 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4912 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4913
4914 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4915 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4916 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4917 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4918 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4919
4920 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4921
492210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4923 they are logged.
4924
492511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4926 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4927 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4928 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4929 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4930
493112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4932 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4933
493413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4935 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4936 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4937 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4938 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4939
494014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4941 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4942
494315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4944 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4945 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4946
494716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4948 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4949
495017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4951 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4952
495318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4954 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4955 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4956
495719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4958 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4959
496020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4961 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4962 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4963 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4964
496521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4966
496722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4968 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4969 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4970 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4971
497223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4973
497424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4975 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4976
497725. Added .include_if_exists.
4978
497926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4980 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4981 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4982 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4983 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4984 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4985
498627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4987
498828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4989 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4990 this.
4991
499229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4993
499430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4995 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4996
4997 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4998 550 Sender verify failed
4999
5000 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5001 the final line of the response.
5002
500331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5004 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5005 all other user lookups.
5006
500732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5008 delivery time.
5009
501033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5011 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5012 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5013 result into an int without checking.
5014
501534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5016 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5017 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5018
501935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5020 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5021 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5022 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5023
502436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5025 correctly.
5026
502737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5028 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5029
503038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5031 to the empty sender.
5032
503339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5034 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5035 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5036 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5037 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5038 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5039 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5040 panic log.
5041
504240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5043 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5044 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5045 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5046 used.
5047
504841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5049 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5050
505142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5052 timestamps.
5053
505443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5055 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5056
505744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5058
505945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5060 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5061 logs.
5062
506346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5064 as soon as it is encountered.
5065
506647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5067
506848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5069 rewritten to "<>".
5070
507149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5072 recognizes a tab character.
5073
507450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5075 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5076 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5077 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5078
507951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5080
508152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5082 crash.
5083
508453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5085
508654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5087
508855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5089 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5090 2822.
5091
509256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5093 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5094 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5095 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5096 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5097
509857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5099 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5100
510158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5102 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5103 list (.included file names were always shown).
5104
510559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5106 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5107 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5108 root at that time.
5109
511060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5111 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5112
511361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5114
511562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5116
511763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5118
511964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5120 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5121 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5122 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5123 failures to open the logs.
5124
512565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5126 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5127 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5128 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5129 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5130 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5131 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5132
5133
5134Exim version 4.24
5135-----------------
5136
5137 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5138 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5139 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5140 change 4.23/1.
5141
5142 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5143 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5144 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5145
5146 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5147 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5148 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5149
5150 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5151 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5152 causing some misleading effects.
5153
5154 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5155 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5156 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5157
5158 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5159 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5160 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5161 queue-runner function directly.
5162
5163
5164Exim version 4.23
5165-----------------
5166
5167 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5168 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5169
5170 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5171 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5172 was always written to the default place.
5173
5174 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5175 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5176 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5177
5178 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5179
5180 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5181
5182 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5183 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5184 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5185
5186 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5187 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5188 must start.
5189
5190 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5191 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5192 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5193
5194 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5195 command line option is disabled.
5196
5197 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5198 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5199
5200 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5201
5202 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5203
5204 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5205 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5206
520710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5208
520911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5210 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5211 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5212 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5213 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5214 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5215
521612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5217 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5218 timeout.
5219
522013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5221 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5222
522314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5224 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5225
522615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5227 received was valid base64.
5228
522916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5230 name of the variable that was being set.
5231
523217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5233
523418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5235 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5236 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5237 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5238 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5239 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5240
524119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5242
524320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5244 nor realm was specified.
5245
524621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5247 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5248 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5249 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5250
525122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5252 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5253 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5254
525523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5256 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5257 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5258
525924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5260 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5261 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5262 some systems use these upper case variants.
5263
526425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5265 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5266 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5267 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5268
526926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5270
527127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5272 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5273
527428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5275 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5276 expansion variable.
5277
527829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5279
528030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5281 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5282 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5283 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5284
528531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5286 using it.
5287
528832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5289 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5290 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5291
529233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5293 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5294
529534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5296 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5297 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5298 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5299
530035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5301 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5302 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5303
530436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5305
530637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5307 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5308 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5309 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5310 aborted.
5311
531238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5313 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5314 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5315
531639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5317
531840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5319 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5320
532141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5322 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5323
532442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5325 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5326 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5327 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5328 when emails are that large.
5329
5330
5331
5332Exim version 4.22
5333-----------------
5334
5335 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5336 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5337
5338 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5339 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5340 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5341
5342 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5343 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5344 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5345
5346 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5347 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5348 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5349 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5350 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5351
5352 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5353 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5354 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5355 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5356 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5357 ever.
5358
5359 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5360 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5361 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5362 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5363 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5364 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5365 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5366 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5367 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5368 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5369 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5370 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5371 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5372 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5373
5374 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5375 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5376 parameterised it.
5377
5378 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5379 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5380 error should be diagnosed.
5381
5382 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5383 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5384 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5385 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5386 appeared instead of "NULL".
5387
538810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5389 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5390 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5391 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5392 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5393 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5394 proceeds).
5395
5396 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5397 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5398 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5399
5400
5401Exim version 4.21
5402-----------------
5403
5404 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5405 or receiver verification errors.
5406
5407 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5408 name.
5409
5410 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5411 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5412 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5413 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5414
5415 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5416 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5417 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5418 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5419 shouldn't happen again.
5420
5421 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5422 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5423 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5424
5425 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5426 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5427
5428 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5429
5430 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5431 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5432
5433 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5434 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5435 RFC.
5436
543710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5438 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5439 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5440
544111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5442 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5443 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5444 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5445
544612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5447 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5448 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5449 to define what should happen).
5450
545113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5452 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5453 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5454
545514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5456
545715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5458
545916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5460 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5461
546217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5463 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5464 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5465 structure in all cases.
5466
5467 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5468 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5469 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5470 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5471
547218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5473 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5474 domain name.
5475
547619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5477 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5478
547920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5480 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5481
548221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5483 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5484 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5485
548622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5487 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5488 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5489
549023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5491 the book and for uniformity.
5492
549324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5494
549525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5496 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5497 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5498 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5499 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5500 non-existent command as the problem.
5501
550226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5503 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5504 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5505
550627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5507
550828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5509 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5510 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5511
551229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5513 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5514 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5515 timestamps using strftime().
5516
551730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5518 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5519
552032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5521 transport-time rewrites.
5522
552333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5524 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5525 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5526 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5527
552834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5529 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5530
553135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5532 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5533 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5534 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5535 comma and a space.
5536
553736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5538 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5539 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5540 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5541 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5542 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5543 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5544
554537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5546 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5547 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5548 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5549 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5550
555138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5552 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5553 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5554 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5555 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5556 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5557 remaining text gets split now.
5558
555939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5560 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5561 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5562 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5563
556440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5565 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5566 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5567 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5568 $return_path.
5569
557041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5571 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5572 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5573 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5574 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5575 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5576 passed through if needed.
5577
557842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5579 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5580 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5581 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5582 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5583 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5584
558543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5586 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5587 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5588 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5589 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5590
559144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5592 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5593 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5594 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5595 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5596
559745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5598 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5599 noticed.
5600
560146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5602 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5603 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5604 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5605 mayhem of various kinds.
5606
560747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5608 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5609 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5610 the right test for positive values.
5611
561248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5613 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5614 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5615 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5616 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5617 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5618 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5619 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5620 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5621 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5622 envelope.
5623
562449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5625 module.
5626
562750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5628 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5629 forbidding it.
5630
563151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5632 the existing equality matching.
5633
563452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5635 dealing with inode numbers.
5636
563753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5638 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5639 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5640
564154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5642 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5643 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5644 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5645 local_scan().
5646
564755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5648 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5649 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5650 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5651 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5652 relay addresses has also been removed.
5653
565456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5655
565657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5657 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5658 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5659
566058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5661 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5662 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5663 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5664 processing applies to CR:
5665
5666 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5667 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5668
5669 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5670 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5671 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5672 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5673
567459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5675 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5676 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5677
567860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5679 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5680 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5681 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5682 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5683 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5684 arisen.
5685
568661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5687 program routers.
5688
568962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5690 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5691 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5692 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5693 adds:
5694
5695 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5696
5697 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5698
5699 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5700
570163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5702 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5703 not considered personal.
5704
570564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5706
570765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5708
570966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5710
571167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5712 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5713 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5714 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5715 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5716 header lines, and spool format errors.
5717
571868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5719 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5720 for more flexibility.
5721
572269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5723 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5724 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5725
572670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5727 Sabourenkov.
5728
572971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5730 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5731 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5732 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5733 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5734 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5735 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5736 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5737 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5738
573972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5740 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5741 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5742 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5743 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5744 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5745 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5746
574773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5748 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5749 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5750
575174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5752 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5753 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5754 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5755 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5756 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5757 instead of killing the process with assert().
5758
575975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5760 than Unicode encoding.
5761
576276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5763 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5764 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5765 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5766
576777. Added process_log_path.
5768
576978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5770 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5771
577279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5773 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5774
577580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5776 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5777 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5778
577981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5780 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5781 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5782 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5783 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5784 were applied:
5785
5786 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5787 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5788 as invalid.
5789
579082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5791 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5792 they will be used during message reception.
5793
5794
5795Exim version 4.20
5796-----------------
5797
5798The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5799
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