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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Exim version 4.92
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10
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11JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
13
14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
16
17JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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21JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
24
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25JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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30 messed with.
31
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32PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
34
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35JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
42
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43JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
45
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46JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
47 legitimate.
48
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49JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
51
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52JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
53 segfault.
54
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55JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
56 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
57 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
58 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
59 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
60 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
61
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62JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
63
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64JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
65 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
66 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
67 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
68
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69JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
70
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71JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
72 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
73 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
74 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
75
5054c4fd 76JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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77
78JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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80JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
81 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
82 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
83
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84JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
85 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
86 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
87
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88PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
89
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90JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
91 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
92 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
93 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
94
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95PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
96 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
97 promised '?' replacement.
98
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99PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
100
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101JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
102 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
103 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
104 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
105 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
106
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107JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
108 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
109 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
110
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111JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
112 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
113 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
114
7ea1237c 115JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 116 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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117 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
118
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119JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
120 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
121 hope that is portable enough.
122
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123JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
124 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
125 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
126 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
127
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128JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
129 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
130 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
131
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132JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
133 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
134 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
135 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
136
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459fca58 140
c39c8870 141GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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142 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
143 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
144 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
145 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
146 be defined in redis_servers.
c39c8870 147
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148GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
149 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
150
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151JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
152 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
153 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
154 extant use locations.
155
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156JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
157 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
158
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159JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
160 Previously only the last row was returned.
161
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162JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
163 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
164 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
165 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
166 input.
167
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168JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
169 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
170 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
171 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
172 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
173 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
174 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
175 Main pool for expansions.
176 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
177 active in the testsuite.
178 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
179
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180JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
181 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
182 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
183 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
184 round-robin DNS.
185
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186JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
187 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
188 failure response.
189
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190JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
191 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
192 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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193
194JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
195 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
196 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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198JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
199 rows affected is given instead).
200
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201JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
202 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
203
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204JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
205 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
206 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
207 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
208 for all multi-message initiating connections.
209
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210JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
211 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
212 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
213
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214JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
215 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
216 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
217 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
218 separate.
219
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220JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
221 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
222 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
223 fake-reject.
224
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225HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
226
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227JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
228 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
229
aab9a843 230PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 231 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 232 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 233
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234JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
235 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
236 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
237 and send a quit.
238
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239JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
240 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
241
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242JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
243 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
244 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
245
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246JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
247 for the build is renamed.
248
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249JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
250 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
251 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
252
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253JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
254 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
255 result replacing the original.
256
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257JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
258 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
259 and the resources needed to be freed.
260
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261JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
262
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263JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
264 was not propagated.
265
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266JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
267 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
268 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
269 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
270
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271JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
272 length value. Previously this would segfault.
273
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274HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
275 newer versions of the scanner.
276
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277JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
278 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
279 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
280 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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281 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
282 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
283 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 284
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285JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
286 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
287 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
288 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
289 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
290 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
291 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
292 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
293 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
294 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
295
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296JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
297 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
298
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299JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
300
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301HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
302 allows proper process termination in container environments.
303
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304JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
305 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
306
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307JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
308 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
309 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
310
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311JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
312 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
313 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 314 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 315
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316JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
317 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
318 would be spooled.
319
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320PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
321 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
322
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323HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
324 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
325 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
326 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
327 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 328
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329JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
330 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
331 lines.
332
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333JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
334 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
335
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336PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
337 suffix list.
338
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339JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
340 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
341 "bare" representation.
342
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343JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
344 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
345 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
346 corrupted the output.
347
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351
352JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
353 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
354 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
355 pairs of long lines into single ones.
356
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357PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
358 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
359
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360JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
361 This permits better logging.
362
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363JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
364 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
365 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
366 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
367 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 368 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 369
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370JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
371 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
372 "exiwhat" output.
373
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374PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
375 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
376 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
377
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378JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
379 than 255 are no longer allowed.
380
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381JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
382 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
383 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
384 client, there is no benefit for these.
385 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
386 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
387 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
388 is used (3.2.4 +).
389
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390PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
391 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
392
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393JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
394 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
395 erroneously found still-pending ones.
396
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397JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
398 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
399
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400JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
401 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
402 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
403 signature and again for transmission.
404
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405JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
406 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 407 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 408
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409JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
410 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
411 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
412 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
413 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
414 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
415 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
416
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417JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
418 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
419 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 420 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 421
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422PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
423 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
424 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
425 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
426 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
427 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
428 processing options.
429
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430JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
431 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
432 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
433 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
434 connections.
925ac8e4 435
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436PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
437 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
438 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
439 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
440 versions.
441
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442JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
443 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
444 inaccessible.
445
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446JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
447 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
448 banner-time rejection.
449
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450JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
451 callout/hold.
452
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453PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
454 is the name of a transport.
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455 Fixes bug 2140.
456
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457HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
458
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459JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
460 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
461
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462JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
463 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
464 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
465 during compilation.
466
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467JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
468 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
469 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 470 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 471
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472JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
473 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
474 initial verify call returned a defer.
475
ad1a76fe 476JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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477 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
478
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479JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
480 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
481
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482JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
483 if present. Previously it was ignored.
484
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485JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
486 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
487
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488JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
489 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
490 extensible.
491
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492PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
493 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
494
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495PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
496 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
497 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
498
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499JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
500 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
501 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
502 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
503
2cee425a
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504HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
505 and confused the parent.
506
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507JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
508 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
509
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510JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
511 for log purposes.
512
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513JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
514 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
515 out-of-order delivery.
516
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517JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
518 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
519 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
520 error for the HELO.
521
e99a3a6c
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522JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
523 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
524 desynchronisation.
525
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526JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
527 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
528 one run was done. Bug 2189.
529
72934ba7
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530JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
531 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
532 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
533 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
534 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
535 message is still "Temporary local problem".
536
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537JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
538 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
b488395f
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539 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
540
541HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
542 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
543 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 544
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545JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
546 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
547 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
548 though a different problem.
549
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9427e879 554JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 555 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 556
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557JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
558
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559PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
560 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
561
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562JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
563 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
564
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565JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
566 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
567 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
568 before acknowledging the chunk.
569
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570PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
571 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
572 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
573
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574JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
575 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
576 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
577 should.
578
579JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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580 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
581 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 582
bd8fbe36 583JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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584 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
585
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586JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
587 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
588 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
589 body hash calculated value.
590
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591JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
592 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
593 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
594
44e6651b
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595JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
596
597JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
598 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
599
600JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
601 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
602 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
603
604JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
605 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
606 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
607 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
608 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
609 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
610
611JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
612 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
613 past that check, despite the cost.
614
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615JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
616 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
617 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
618
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619PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
620 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
621 TLS library to consume.
622
da88acae
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623PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
624
f6ef9370
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625PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
626
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627JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
628 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
629 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
630 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
631 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
632 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
633 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
634
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635PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
636
637PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
638
639PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
640 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
641 should be warning-free.
642
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643JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
644
645HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
646 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
647
d953610f
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648HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
649 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
650 general solution here.
651
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652PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
653 already-broken messages in the queue.
654
4bb432cb
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655JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
656
3b1a84c8
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657JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
658
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663JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
664 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 665
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666JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
667 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
668 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
669
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670JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
671 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
672 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
673 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
674 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
675 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
676 if one fails this test.
677 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
678 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
679
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680JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
681 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
682
23bb6982 683JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 684 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 685
0bd1b1ed 686JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 687 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 688
20b9a2dc
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689JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
690 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
691
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692JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
693 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
694
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695JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
696
cfab9d68
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697JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
698 certificate).
699
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700JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
701 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
702 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
703 connection after a verify cache hit.
704 Do not update it with the verify result either.
705
706JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
707 when routing results in more than one destination address.
708
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709JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
710 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
711 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
712 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
713 when the cutthrough connection is made).
714
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715JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
716 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
717
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718JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
719 Previously they were not counted.
720
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721JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
722 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
723 that needed the lookup.
724
4c04137d 725JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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726 distinguished as "(=".
727
1435d4b2
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728JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
729 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
730
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731JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
732
733JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
734 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 735
4c04137d 736JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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737 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
738
1c788856
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739JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
740 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
741 compatible.
742
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743JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
744 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
745 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
746 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
747
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748JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
749
f59aaaaa 750JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
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751 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
752 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
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754JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
755 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
756 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
757 be lost.
758
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759JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
760 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
761 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
762 itself :(
763
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764JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
765 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
766 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
767
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768JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
769 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
770 options.
771
ae5afa61
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772JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
773
317e40ac
PP
774PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
775 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
776
8b0fb68e
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777PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
778 are not in the system include path.
779
ad7fc6eb 780JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 781 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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782 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
783 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 784
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785JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
786 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
787 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
788
5ddc9771
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789JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
790
8d73599f
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791HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
792 an incoming connection.
793
446415f5
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794HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
795 to rspamd.
796
8e53a4fc
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797HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
798 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 799
87cb4a16 800JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 801 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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802
803
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807JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
808 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
809 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
810 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 811
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812TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
813 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
814
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815TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
816 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
817 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
818 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
819 outgoing I= field.
820
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821JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
822 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
823 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
824 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
825 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
826 check on the next write.
827
f1b81d81
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828HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
829 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
830 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
831 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
832 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
833
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834JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
835 mime_regex ACL conditions.
836
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837JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
838 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
839 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
840
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841JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
842 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
843 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
844 an authenticate fail is not an error.
845
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846HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
847 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
848
4c04137d 849JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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850 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
851
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852JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
853 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
854 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
855 distinct.
856
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857JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
858
859JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
860
ec0eb1a3
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861JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
862
41e93589
JH
863JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
864 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
865
98b98887 866JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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867 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
868
98b98887
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869JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
870
858e91c2
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871JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
872 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
873
874JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
875
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876JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
877 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
878
3b957582
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879JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
880
23f3dc67
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881JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
882 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 883 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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884 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
885 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
886 they will retry in-clear.
887 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
888 at installation time.
889
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890HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
891 with the $config_file variable.
892
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893JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
894 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
895 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
896 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 897 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 898
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899GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
900 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
901 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
902 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
903 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
904
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905JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
906
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907JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
908 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
909 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
910 list order is no longer honoured.
911
4c04137d 912JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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913 for DKIM processing.
914
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915JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
916 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 917
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918JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
919 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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920 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
921 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 922
8c5d388a
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923JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
924 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
925
2d8d625b
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926JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
927 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
928
0cbf2b82
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929JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
930 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
931
f2f2c91b
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932JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
933
ce325893
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934JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
935 cached by the daemon.
936
de78e2d5
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937JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
938 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
939
379ba7d0
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940JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
941 keys are given for lookup.
942
f444c2c7
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943JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
944 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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945 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
946 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 947
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948JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
949 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
950 server-side so match that on older versions.
951
07c73177 952JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 953 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 954 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 955
4f6ae5c3
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956JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
957 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
958
1bc460a6
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959JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
960 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
961 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 962 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1bc460a6
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963 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
964 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
965 initial truncated version.
966
ab9152ff 967JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 968
67e87fcf
JH
969JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
970
ab9152ff
JH
971JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
972 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
973
af483912
JH
974JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
975
bc3c7bb7 976HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 977
13559da6
JH
978JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
979 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
980 induced overflows.
981
59eaad2b
JH
982JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
983 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
984 stage.
985
f9334a28
JH
986JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
987 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
988
dc8091e7
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989JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
990 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
991 former class.
992
dfe7d917
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993JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
994 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
995 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
996
93cc2d6e
JH
997JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
998 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
999 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1000 extraction. Accept either.
1001
13559da6 1002
9c695f6d
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4c57a40e 1005
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1006JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1007 expanded.
1008
506900af
JH
1009JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1010
ad07e9ad
JH
1011JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1012 it.
1013
01a4a5c5 1014JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1015 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
01a4a5c5
JH
1016 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1017 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1018
cb1d7830 1019JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1020 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
cb1d7830
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1021 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1022
610ff438 1023JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
6d580f19
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1024 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1025 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1026 TLS connections
610ff438 1027
f926e272
JH
1028JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1029 sites use this now.
1030
50dc7409
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1031JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1032 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1033 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1034 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1035 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1036
0f0c8159
JH
1037JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1038 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1039 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1040
1ad6489e
JH
1041JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1042
aeaf5db3
JH
1043JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1044 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1045
5032d1cf
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1046JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1047 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1048
7e8360e6
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1049JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1050 /defer_ok option.
1051
c5f280e2
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1052JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1053 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1054
fd4d8871 1055JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1056 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
fd4d8871
R
1057 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1058
1059JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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1060 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1061 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1062
23763898
JH
1063JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1064 timeout value per server.
1065
2ad78978
JH
1066JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1067 now have the list separator specified.
1068
8a512ed5 1069JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1070 option values.
8a512ed5 1071
82c0c8ea 1072JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
f69979cf
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1073 under OpenSSL.
1074
cc00f4af
JH
1075JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1076
82c0c8ea
JH
1077JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1078 rather than the verbs used.
1079
b980ed83
JH
1080JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1081 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1082
6c9ed72e
JH
1083JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1084
cfab9d68 1085HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1086 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1087
f846c8f5
JH
1088JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1089 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1090
fd4c285c
HSHR
1091HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1092 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1093
4c04137d 1094JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1095
d2a2c69b
JH
1096JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1097
8241d8dd
JH
1098JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1099 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1100 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
8241d8dd
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1101 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1102
1f12df4d
JH
1103JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1104
1f155f8e
JH
1105JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1106 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1107
1705dd20
JH
1108JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1109 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1110
038597d2
PP
1111JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1112
474f71bf
JH
1113JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1114
7137ca4b
JH
1115JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1116
dcb1095c
JH
1117JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1118 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1119
2f460950
JH
1120JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1121 added for tls authenticator.
1122
2f680c0c
HSHR
1123HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1124
9c695f6d 1125
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1129TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1130 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1131 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1132 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1133 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1134 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1135 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1136
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1137TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1138 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1139 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1140 function when detected.
1141
a9b8ec8b
JH
1142JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1143 cause callback expansion.
1144
6286d7c4
TL
1145TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1146 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1147 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1148 instead of bool when processing it.
1149
0f06b4f2 1150JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
d567a64d
JH
1151 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1152
be36e572
JH
1153JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1154
ac4ef9bd
JH
1155JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1156
0eb51736
TL
1157TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1158
c713ca4b
TL
1159TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1160 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1161
bd21a787
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1162JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1163 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1164 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1165 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1166 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1167 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1168
8bc732e8
JH
1169JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1170 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1171 exceeded it.
1172
a7fec7a7
JH
1173JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1174 version 3.3.6 or later.
1175
4c04137d 1176JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
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1177 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1178 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1179 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
JH
1180 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1181 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1182 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1183
eca4debb
TL
1184TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1185 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1186
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1187JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1188 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1189 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1190 matches.
1191
e9477a08
JH
1192JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1193 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1194 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1195
ad4c5ff9
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1196JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1197 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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1198
1199JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1200 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1201 syntax errors.
1202
3394b36a 1203JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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1204
1205JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1206 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1207
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1208TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1209 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1210 tarball.
1211
ad4c5ff9
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1212JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1213
4c04137d 1214JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1215 Bug 1561.
1216
1217JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1218 output list separator was used.
1219
8bc732e8 1220
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1223TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1224 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1225 return.
1f0ebb98 1226
a612424f 1227JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1228 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
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1229
1230JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1231
1232TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1233 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1234
1f0ebb98 1235
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1237-----------------
1238
1239TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1240
1241 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1242 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1243 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1244 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1245 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1246 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1247
7245734e
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1248TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1249 utilities have not been installed.
1250
fd5dad68
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1251JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1252 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1253
5428a946
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1254TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1255 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1256
a3c86431
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1257TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1258 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1259 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1260 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1261
aa26e137
JH
1262JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1263
5a1b8443
WB
1264TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1265 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1266
72c9e342
PP
1267PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1268 not dns_use_dnssec.
1269
76f44207
WB
1270JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1271
770747fd
MFM
1272TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1273 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1274 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1275
8ddef691 1276TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1277 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1278 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1279 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1280 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1281 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1282
b9c2e32f
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1283JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1284
e45a1c37
JH
1285JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1286 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1287
67d81c10
JH
1288JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1289 failed delivery.
1290
b1f8e4f8
JH
1291JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1292
511a6c14 1293JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1294
1295JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1296 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1297
51c7471d
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1298JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1299 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1300
3695be34
TL
1301TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1302
1e06383a
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1303JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1304
76146973
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1305JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1306 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1307
1308 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1309 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1310 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1311
8c8b8274
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1312TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1313 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1314 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1315 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1316
35aba663
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1317JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1318
8c51eead 1319JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1320 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1321 lookup).
8c51eead 1322
deae092e
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1323TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1324 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1325 Schlichting.
35aba663 1326
fd3b6a4a 1327JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1328 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1329
8d91c6dc
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1330TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1331 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1332
2b4a568d
JH
1333JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1334
d2af03f4
HS
1335TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1336 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1337 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1338
9d1c15ef
JH
1339JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1340 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1341
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1342JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1343 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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1344 hosts_request_ocsp.
1345
ed3bba5f 1346JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1347 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1348 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1349
8ccd00b1
JH
1350JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1351
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1352TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1353 Christian Aistleitner.
1354
f2de3a33
JH
1355JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1356
6eb02f88
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1357TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1358 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1359
00bff6f6
JH
1360JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1361 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1362
071c51f7
JH
1363JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1364 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1365
a6d4c44e
TF
1366TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1367 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1368
3ae173e7
ACK
1369TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1370 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1371
c13d09b8
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1372TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1373 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1374 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1375
0df4ab80
JH
1376JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1377
66be95e0
PP
1378PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1379 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1380 Jasper Wallace.
1381
1bd0d12b
JH
1382JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1383
0de7239e
TL
1384TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1385 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1386 CVE-2014-2972
1387
fd3b6a4a 1388
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1391
1392PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1393
12f69989
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1394PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1395 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1396
54c90be1
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1397PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1398 by GnuTLS.
1399
1f4a55da
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1400PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1401 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1402 routines.
1403
13363eba 1404PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1405
66645890 1406PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1407 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1408 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1409 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1410 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1411
a3fb9793 1412PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1413 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1414 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1415 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1416 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1417 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1418
d27f98fe 1419TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1420
6822b909
TL
1421TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1422
e7568d51
TL
1423TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1424 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1425
ae0e32ee 1426TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1427 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1428 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1429
1430TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1431
e2658fff
TL
1432TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1433
83712b39
TL
1434TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1435 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1436
976b7e9f
JH
1437JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1438
be4a1376
JH
1439JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1440
ec4b68e5
PP
1441PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1442
d7148a07
NM
1443NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1444 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1445
585121e2 1446JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1447
2519e60d
TL
1448PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1449 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1450 function.
a5f239e4 1451
13d08c90
PP
1452PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1453 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1454
bef3ea7f
JH
1455JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1456 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1457 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1458
846726c5
JH
1459JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1460
3a796370
JH
1461JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1462
ea722490 1463JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1464 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1465
b1b05573
JH
1466JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1467 Bugzilla 884.
1468
362145b5
JH
1469JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1470 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1471
3c0a92dc
JH
1472JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1473 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1474
6d7c6175
PP
1475PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1476 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1477 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1478
6f123593
JH
1479JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1480 authenticators.
1481
c8e2fc1e
JH
1482JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1483 for control.
1484
005ac57f
PP
1485PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1486
3f1df0e3
PP
1487PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1488 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1489 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1490 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1491
67bd1ab3
TF
1492TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1493
1494 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1495 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1496 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1497 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1498 the retry rules.
1499
1500 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1501 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1502 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1503
1504 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1505 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1506 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1507 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1508
1ddeb334
TF
1509 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1510 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1511 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1512 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1513 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1514 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1515 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1516
1517 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1518 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1519
326cdc37
TF
1520TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1521
1522 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1523
1524 Resent-From: f
1525
1526 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1527 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1528 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1529 username as equal to the username.
1530
1531 This change corrects that bug.
1532
f62514b3
GF
1533GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1534 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1535 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1536
eb505532
TF
1537TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1538
14c7b357
PP
1539PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1540 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1541 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1542 NULL dereference and crash.
1543
94eaf700
PP
1544JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1545
6f5a440a
PP
1546PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1547 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1548 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1549
514ee161
SC
1550SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1551
fd98a5c6
JH
1552JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1553 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1554 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1555 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1556 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1557 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1558 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1559 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1560 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1561 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1562 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1563
035c7f1e
PP
1564PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1565 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1566
ff284120
PP
1567PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1568 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1569 Bugzilla 880.
1570
26e72755
PP
1571PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1572 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1573 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1574 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1575 an empty string is now equivalent.
1576
0fbd9bff
PP
1577PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1578 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1579 not performing validation itself.
1580
700d22f3
PP
1581PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1582 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1583
fcc8e047
JH
1584JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1585 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1586
4c04137d 1587TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1588
8c020188
PP
1589PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1590 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1591 other false fix of the same issue.
1592 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1593 Bugzilla 1363.
1594
d13cdd30
PP
1595PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1596 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1597
e2fbf4a2
PP
1598PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1599 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1600 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1601
f4c1088b
PP
1602PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1603 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1604 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1605
c5c2182f
PP
1606TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1607
73431ca9
JH
1608JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1609
2d07a215
TL
1610TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1611 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1612
a30a8861
TL
1613TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1614 Alexander Miroch.
1615
33382dd9
TL
1616TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1617 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1618 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1619 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1620 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1621
046172e6
TL
1622TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1623 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1624
581d7bee 1625TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1626 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1627 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1628
1629TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1630 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1631 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1632 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1633
237b2cf2
TL
1634TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1635
9fc5a352
TL
1636TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1637 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1638 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1639
b10e4ec2
TL
1640TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1641
e2cebd74
TL
1642TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1643 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1644 interaction.
1645
1646TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1647 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1648
2519e60d
TL
1649TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1650 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1651
e78e6ecf 1652
4263f395
PP
1653Exim version 4.80.1
1654-------------------
1655
1656PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1657 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1658 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1659
ea722490 1660
b1770b6e 1661Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1662-----------------
1663
1664PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1665 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1666 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1667
23c7e742
NM
1668NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1669
b322aac8
NM
1670NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1671 improved.
1672
4a891427
NM
1673NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1674
c1e794ba 1675PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1676
97753960
PP
1677PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1678
1679PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1680 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1681
df6303fa
PP
1682PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1683 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1684
7e6a8985
PP
1685PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1686 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1687
f1e05cc7 1688PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1689 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1690 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1691
4c287009
PP
1692PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1693
b98bb9ac
PP
1694PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1695 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1696
4a6a987a
PP
1697PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1698
c45dd180 1699PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1700
7db8d074
PP
1701PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1702 non-compliant senders.
1703 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1704
eae0036b 1705NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1706 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1707 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1708
dec5017e
PP
1709PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1710 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1711 in spool file corruption.
1712
c80c5570
PP
1713PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1714 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1715 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1716 "Got SSL error 2".
1717
076b11e2
PP
1718TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1719 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1720 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1721
5407bfff
JH
1722JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1723 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1724
9e45c72b
PP
1725JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1726
e74376d8
PP
1727PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1728 diagnostics.
1729 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1730
4c04137d 1731PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1732 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1733 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1734
7be682ca
PP
1735PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1736 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1737 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1738 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1739
ef840681
PP
1740PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1741 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1742
5bfb4cdf
PP
1743PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1744 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1745 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1746 resolver implementation change.
1747
c6e95d22
PP
1748PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1749 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1750
9cbad13b
PP
1751PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1752
9ee44efb
PP
1753PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1754
6a6084f8
PP
1755PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1756 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1757
12dd53c7
PP
1758PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1759 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1760
9e45c72b 1761JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1762 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1763
17c76198
PP
1764PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1765 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1766 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1767 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1768 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1769
53947857 1770PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1771
eae0036b 1772PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1773 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1774 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1775
9e45c72b 1776JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1777
7390e768
PP
1778PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1779 read-only, out of scope).
1780 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1781
08488c86
PP
1782PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1783 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1784 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1785 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1786
6475bd82
PP
1787PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1788
81f91683
PP
1789PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1790 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1791 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1792 real issues in debug logging.
1793
5779e6aa
PP
1794PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1795 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1796
3375e053
PP
1797PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1798 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1799 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1800
1801PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1802 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1803 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1804 problems.
3375e053 1805
9d26b8c0
PP
1806PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1807 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1808
57eb9e91 1809PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1810 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1811 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1812 needs to override this, it can.
1813
16880d1a
PP
1814PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1815 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1816 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1817
a799883d
PP
1818PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1819 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1820 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1821 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1822
3ecab157 1823PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1824
0599f9cf 1825
867fcbf5
PP
1826Exim version 4.77
1827-----------------
1828
1829PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1830 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1831
f1a29782
TF
1832TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1833
ab42bd23
TK
1834TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1835 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1836
0ca0cf52
TF
1837TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1838 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1839
921b12ca
TF
1840TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1841 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1842 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1843
1844 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1845 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1846 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1847 not safe for signals.
1848
1849 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1850 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1851 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1852 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1853 exiwhat.
1854
c99ce5c9
TF
1855TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1856
1857 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1858 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1859 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1860 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1861 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1862
1863 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1864 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1865 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1866 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1867 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1868 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1869
1870 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1871 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1872 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1873 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1874
1875 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1876 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1877 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1878 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1879
1880 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1881 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1882 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1883 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1884 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1885 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1886 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1887 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1888 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1889
1890 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1891 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1892 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1893 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1894
1895 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1896 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1897 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1898 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1899 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1900 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1901 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1902 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1903 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1904 details in the main documentation.
1905
3634fc25
TF
1906TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1907
792e8a19
TF
1908TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1909
5901f0ab
TF
1910TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1911 repository when doing development or release builds.
1912
7f2a2a43
PP
1913PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1914 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1915
061b7ebd
PP
1916PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1917 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1918 Bugzilla 97.
1919
e12f8c32
PP
1920PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1921
9e949f00 1922PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1923 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1924
1925PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1926 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1927
555ae6af 1928PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1929 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1930
1931PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1932 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1933
6f7fe114
PP
1934PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1935 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1936
c566dd90
PP
1937PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1938 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1939 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1940 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1941
d6cc7c78 1942PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1943 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1944 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1945
0d0e4455
PP
1946PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1947
3399bb60 1948PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1949
1950PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1951 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1952
0ca0cf52 1953
10906672
PP
1954Exim version 4.76
1955-----------------
1956
1957PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1958
754a0503
PP
1959PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1960 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1961
c0c7b2da
PP
1962PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1963
e97d1f08
PP
1964PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1965
084c1d8c
PP
1966PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1967 Bugzilla 1098.
1968
4e7ee012
PP
1969PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1970 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1971
c8d52a00
PP
1972TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1973 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1974
54e7ce4a
PP
1975PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1976 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1977
5ee6f336
PP
1978PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1979 Bugzilla 1104.
1980
c8d52a00 1981TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1982 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1983
1984TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1985 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1986 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1987 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1988
1989PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1990 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1991
10906672 1992
aa097c4c
NM
1993Exim version 4.75
1994-----------------
1995
4c04137d 1996NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1997 Bugzilla 1073
1998
7f3d9eff
TF
1999TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2000 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2001 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2002
159f52d2
TF
2003TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2004 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2005
0cc9542a
PP
2006PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2007 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2008 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2009
f7274286
PP
2010PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2011 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2012
7b797365
PP
2013PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2014 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2015
caacae52
NM
2016NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2017 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2018
09dcaba9
NM
2019NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2020 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2021
bc19a55b
PP
2022PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2023 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2024
bd4c9759
NM
2025NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2026 Fixes bug 943.
2027
b72aab72
PP
2028PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2029 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2030
2fe76745
PP
2031PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2032 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2033
76aa570c
PP
2034PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2035 SQL string expansion failure details.
2036 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2037
f1e5fef5
PP
2038PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2039 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2040
4d805ee9
PP
2041PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2042 extern declarations in function scope.
2043 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2044
cd59ab18
PP
2045PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2046 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2047 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2048 a kernel bug).
2049
332f5cf3
PP
2050PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2051 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2052
29cfeb94
PP
2053PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2054 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2055
660242ad
PP
2056PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2057 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2058
bc4bc4c5
PP
2059PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2060 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2061
2e64baa9
NM
2062NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2063 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2064 Dennis Davis.
2065
4c04137d 2066PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2067
6bac1a9a
PP
2068PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2069
552193f0
NM
2070NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2071 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2072
1b587e48
TF
2073TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2074 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2075
aa097c4c 2076
8c07b69f
TF
2077Exim version 4.74
2078-----------------
2079
2080TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2081 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2082
c0ea85ab
TF
2083TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2084 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2085
0761d44e
TF
2086TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2087
0a349494
PP
2088DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2089 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2090 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2091
2092PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2093 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2094 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2095
fea24b2e
PP
2096PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2097 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2098 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2099 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2100
6545de78
PP
2101PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2102 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2103 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2104 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2105
1670ef10
PP
2106PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2107 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2108 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2109 arbitrary files.
2110
c0886197
PP
2111PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2112 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2113
b7487bce
PP
2114PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2115 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2116 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2117 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2118 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2119
8c07b69f 2120
97fd1e48 2121Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2122-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2123
2124PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2125 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2126 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2127
6901c596
PP
2128PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2129 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2130
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2131JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2132
77bb000f
PP
2133PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2134
a29e5231
PP
2135PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2136
ec5a0394 2137PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2138
55c75993
PP
2139PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2140
453a6645 2141PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2142 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2143 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2144 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2145
8544e77a
PP
2146PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2147 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2148 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2149 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2150 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2151
83e029d5
PP
2152PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2153
ed7f7860
PP
2154PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2155
7d9f747b
PP
2156PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2157
4b2241d2
PP
2158PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2159
10385c15
PP
2160PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2161
dbc4b90d
PP
2162PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2163
532be449
PP
2164PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2165
6a8de854 2166PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2167 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2168 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2169
5dc43717
JJ
2170JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2171
2172JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2173 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2174
3346ab01
PP
2175PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2176 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2177
491fab4c
PP
2178PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2179 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2180 Notification from John Horne.
2181
13eb9497
PP
2182PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2183 compatible.
2184
2185PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2186 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2187 it normally works.
2188
7f36d675
DW
2189DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2190 access.
2191
c1d94452
DW
2192DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2193 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2194 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2195
e2f5dc15
DW
2196DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2197 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2198 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2199 configuration file.
2200
cd25e41d
DW
2201DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2202 option (effectively making it always true).
2203
261dc43e
DW
2204DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2205 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2206
fa32850b
DW
2207DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2208 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2209
79d4bc3d
PP
2210PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2211 run-time user, instead of root.
2212
43236f35 2213PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2214 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2215
fb08281f
DW
2216DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2217 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2218 arguments.
3346ab01 2219
74935b98
DW
2220DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2221 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2222 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2223
90b6341f
DW
2224DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2225
57730b52
ML
2226NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2227
66581d1e 2228
465e92cf
JJ
2229Exim version 4.72
2230-----------------
2231
453a6645
PP
2232JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2233 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2234 typos
465e92cf 2235
453a6645
PP
2236JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2237 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2238 (Finput)
edae0343 2239
9bd3e22c
NM
2240NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2241 Patch from Alain Williams
2242
bb576ff7
NM
2243NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2244
5a1a5845
NM
2245NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2246 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2247
981a9fad
NM
2248NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2249 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2250
7fc497ee
NM
2251NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2252
1a41defa
JJ
2253JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2254
a466095c 2255NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2256 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2257
94a6bd0b
NM
2258TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2259
2260TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2261
2262MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2263 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2264 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2265
c1b141a8
NM
2266NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2267 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2268
b26eacf1 2269NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2270 Patch by Simon Arlott
2271
179c5980 2272PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2273 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2274
9bd3e22c 2275
7c6d71af
NM
2276Exim version 4.71
2277-----------------
2278
7d9f747b 2279TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2280
f013fb92
NM
2281NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2282
0eb8eedd
NM
2283NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2284
663ee6d9
NM
2285NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2286
177ebd9b
NM
2287NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2288
7c6d71af 2289
210f147e
NM
2290Exim version 4.70
2291-----------------
2292
cdd3bb85 2293TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2294 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2295
2296TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2297 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2298 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2299
2300TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2301 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2302 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2303
2304TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2305 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2306
210f147e
NM
2307NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2308 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2309 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2310 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2311
deafd5b3
NM
2312NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2313 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2314 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2315
089793a4
TF
2316TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2317
5f16ca82
TF
2318TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2319
dae9d94e 2320NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2321 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2322
7d9f747b 2323NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2324
06864c44
TF
2325TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2326 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2327 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2328 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2329
65a7d8c3 2330NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2331 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2332
23510047 2333TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2334
7d9f747b 2335NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2336
7d8eec3a 2337NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2338 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2339
89dec7b6
TF
2340TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2341 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2342
a99de90c
TF
2343TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2344 that they are available at delivery time.
2345
e2803e40
TF
2346TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2347
7199e1ee
TF
2348TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2349 incoming_port log selectors.
2350
e276e04b
TF
2351TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2352 setting expands to an empty string.
2353
ce552449 2354NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2355 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2356
e765a0f1 2357NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2358 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2359
4f054c63 2360NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2361 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2362
7d9f747b
PP
2363NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2364 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2365
7d9f747b
PP
2366NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2367 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2368
b52bc06e 2369NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2370 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2371
447de4b0
NM
2372NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2373
4c69d561 2374NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2375 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2376
d5c39246 2377NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2378 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2379
0b23848a
TK
2380TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2381
8f3414a1 2382NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2383 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2384
fb6f955d
NM
2385NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2386
2387NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2388
7d9f747b
PP
2389NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2390 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2391
7d9f747b
PP
2392NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2393 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2394
7d9f747b
PP
2395NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2396 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2397
7d9f747b
PP
2398NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2399 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2400
7d9f747b
PP
2401NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2402 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2403
7d9f747b
PP
2404NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2405 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2406
7d9f747b
PP
2407NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2408 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2409
7d9f747b 2410NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2411 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2412
7d9f747b 2413NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2414
7d9f747b
PP
2415NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2416 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2417
7d9f747b 2418NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2419
7d9f747b 2420NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2421
7d9f747b 2422NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2423
7d9f747b 2424NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2425
17792b53 2426NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2427 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2428
7d9f747b
PP
2429NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2430 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2431
91576cec 2432NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2433 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2434
7d9f747b
PP
2435NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2436 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2437
7d9f747b 2438NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2439
7d9f747b 2440NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2441
7d9f747b 2442NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2443
7d9f747b 2444NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2445
deafd5b3 2446
47db1125
NM
2447Exim version 4.69
2448-----------------
2449
4b3504d0
TK
2450TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2451 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2452 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2453
2454 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2455 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2456 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2457 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2458 build errors in sieve.c.
2459
81ea09ca
NM
2460NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2461 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2462 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2463
f13cddcb
SC
2464SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2465
7d9f747b 2466NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2467
7d9f747b 2468NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2469
7d9f747b 2470NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2471
2472
eb4c0de6
PH
2473Exim version 4.68
2474-----------------
2475
2476PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2477
6a3bceb1
PH
2478PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2479 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2480 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2481 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2482 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2483 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2484 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2485 for iplsearch lookups.
2486
2487 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2488 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2489 previously such lookups could never work.
2490
4c04137d 2491 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2492 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2493 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2494
2e30fa9d
TK
2495TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2496 version.
2497
0806a9c5
MH
2498MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2499 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2500 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2501 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2502 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2503 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2504
ae276964
TK
2505TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2506 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2507
0f2cbd1b
MH
2508MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2509 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2510 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2511 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2512 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2513 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2514
2b85bce7
PH
2515PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2516 local_scan API.
2517
93655c46
PH
2518PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2519
6c512171
PH
2520PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2521 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2522 encrypted.
2523
2524PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2525 by clients under certain conditions.
2526
aa6dc513
PH
2527PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2528 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2529
a96603a0
PH
2530PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2531
8f240103
PH
2532PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2533 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2534
2535PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2536
d677b2f2
PH
2537PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2538
d52120f2
PH
2539PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2540
64f2600a
PH
2541PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2542 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2543
8669f003
PH
2544PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2545
a4dc33a8
PH
2546PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2547 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2548
d6a60c0f
PH
2549PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2550
8f128379
PH
2551PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2552
8932dffe
PH
2553PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2554 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2555 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2556 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2557
ddea74fa 2558PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2559 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2560 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2561
ddea74fa 2562PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2563 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2564
ddea74fa
PH
2565PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2566
ce9f225c
PH
2567PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2568
19897d52
PH
2569PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2570
bc64a74d
PH
2571PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2572 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2573 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2574
eb4c0de6 2575
b4ed4da0
PH
2576Exim version 4.67
2577-----------------
2578
22ad45c9
MH
2579MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2580 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2581 Jan Srzednicki.
2582
b4ed4da0
PH
2583PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2584 issue a MAIL command.
2585
431b7361
PH
2586PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2587
2588 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2589
2590 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2591 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2592 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2593 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2594 item. This has been fixed.
2595
2596PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2597 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2598
83da1223
PH
2599PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2600 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2601
54fc8428
PH
2602PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2603 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2604 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2605
34c5e8dd
SC
2606SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2607
bbe15da8
PH
2608PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2609 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2610 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2611 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2612 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2613
0e8a9471
MH
2614MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2615 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2616 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2617
f0872424
PH
2618PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2619 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2620 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2621 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2622
b01dd148
PH
2623PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2624
6bf342e1
PH
2625PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2626
273f34d0
PH
2627PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2628 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2629 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2630 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2631 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2632
cf8b11a5
PH
2633PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2634
41c7c167
PH
2635PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2636 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2637 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2638 values).
2639
9c57cbc0
PH
2640PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2641
f3f065bb
PH
2642PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2643
047bdd8c
PH
2644PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2645
0ce9abe6
PH
2646PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2647
0e22dfd1
PH
2648PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2649
4c590bd1
PH
2650PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2651 no_callout_flush is set.
2652
09945f1e
PH
2653PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2654 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2655 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2656 fixed.
2657
c51b8e75
PH
2658PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2659
e28326d8 2660PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2661 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2662 other ACL rejections are.
2663
75b1493f
PH
2664PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2665 with slight modification.
2666
7c5214ec
PH
2667PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2668 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2669
4311097e
PH
2670PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2671 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2672 connection.
2673
29f89cad
PH
2674PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2675 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2676
5e687460
SC
2677SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2678
c3611384
PH
2679PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2680 expansion side effects.
2681
5a11a7b4
PH
2682PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2683 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2684 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2685 be the same.
2686
0e20aff9
MH
2687MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2688 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2689 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2690
ca86f471
PH
2691PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2692 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2693 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2694 were accidentally chopped off.
2695
a14e5636
PH
2696PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2697 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2698 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2699 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2700 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2701 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2702 pipelining has not been advertised.
2703
ec95d1a6
PH
2704PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2705
42855d71
PH
2706PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2707 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2708 This has been fixed.
2709
57c2c631
PH
2710PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2711 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2712 reported on Solaris.
2713
58c01c94
PH
2714PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2715 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2716 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2717 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2718 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2719 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2720 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2721
dee5a20a
PH
2722PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2723 cpus.
2724
d2ee6114
PH
2725PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2726
b2d5182b
PH
2727PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2728
79749a79
PH
2729PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2730 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2731 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2732 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2733 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2734 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2735
c456d9bb
PH
2736PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2737 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2738 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2739 host_all_ignored option.
2740
cd9868ec
PH
2741PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2742 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2743 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2744 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2745 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2746 is what is supposed to happen).
2747
ebeaf996
PH
2748PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2749 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2750 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2751 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2752 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2753 uses the Exim user.
2754
2679d413
PH
2755PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2756 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2757 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2758 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2759 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2760 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2761 users.
2762
84024b72
PH
2763PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2764
8005d38e
SC
2765SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2766 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2767 (Jez Hancock).
2768 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2769 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2770
3298c6c6
SC
2771SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2772
a43a27c5
PH
2773PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2774
58eb016e 2775PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2776 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2777 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2778 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2779 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2780 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2781 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2782 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2783 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2784 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2785 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2786
b43a74ea
PH
2787PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2788 advertised in response to EHLO.
2789
b4ed4da0 2790
5dd1517f
PH
2791Exim version 4.66
2792-----------------
2793
2794PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2795 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2796
2797 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2798 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2799
2800 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2801 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2802 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2803
2804 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2805 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2806 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2807 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2808 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2809
2810
93cfa765
TK
2811Exim version 4.65
2812-----------------
2813
2814TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2815 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2816 versions. (#438)
2817
d6066548
MH
2818MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2819 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2820 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2821
4362ff0d
PH
2822PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2823 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2824 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2825 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2826 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2827 rather than extend the field.
2828
93cfa765 2829
944e9e9c
TF
2830Exim version 4.64
2831-----------------
aa41d2de 2832
21d74bd9
TK
2833TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2834 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2835 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2836 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2837 these files.
2838
2839TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2840 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2841 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2842
2843TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2844 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2845 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2846
2847TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2848 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2849 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2850 in the field name.
2851
2b1c6e3a
PH
2852PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2853 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2854 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2855 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2856 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2857 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2858 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2859 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2860 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2861 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2862 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2863
1f872c80
PH
2864PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2865 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2866
2867PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2868 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2869 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2870 ignores EPIPE as well.
2871
d203e649
PH
2872PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2873 (quoted-printable decoding).
2874
cc2ed8f7 2875PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2876 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2877
ddfcd446
PH
2878PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2879
d45b1de8
PH
2880PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2881
2882PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2883
38a0a95f 2884PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2885 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2886
a2405d83
JJ
2887JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2888 in 4.64-PH/09.
2889
2890JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2891 miscellaneous code fixes
2892
6ea85e9a
PH
2893PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2894 rejections.
2895
26da7e20
PH
2896PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2897 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2898 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2899 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2900 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2901 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2902 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2903 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2904
14aa5a05 2905PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2906 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2907 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2908 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2909 function.
2910 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2911 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2912 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2913 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2914 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2915 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2916 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2917 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2918 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2919
ff75a1f7
PH
2920PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2921 decoding.
2922
e6f6568e
PH
2923PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2924 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2925 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2926 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2927 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2928 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2929 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2930 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2931
d6f6e0dc
PH
2932PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2933 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2934 list.
2935
322050c2
PH
2936PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2937 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2938 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2939 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2940 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2941 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2942 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2943 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2944 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2945 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2946 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2947 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2948 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2949
08955dd3
PH
2950PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2951 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2952 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2953 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2954 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2955 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2956 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2957
1eccaa59
PH
2958PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2959 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2960 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2961 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2962 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2963 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2964 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2965 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2966 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2967 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2968
602e59e5
PH
2969PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2970 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2971 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2972 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2973 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2974
411ef850
PH
2975PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2976 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2977 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2978 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2979 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2980 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2981 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2982
7befa435
PH
2983PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2984 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2985 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2986 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2987 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2988 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2989 been verified.
2990
48da4259 2991PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2992 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2993 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2994 and authorization.)
2995
48da4259
PH
2996PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2997 if any retry times were supplied.
2998
d1d5595c
PH
2999PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3000 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3001 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3002
0ef732d9
PH
3003PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3004
328895cc
PH
3005PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3006
fd700877
PH
3007PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3008 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3009 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3010 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3011 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3012 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3013
8dce1a6f
PH
3014PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3015 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3016
17af4a17
PH
3017PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3018 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3019 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3020
3021PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3022 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3023 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3024 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3025 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3026 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3027 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3028 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3029 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3030
3031 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3032 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3033 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3034 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3035 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3036 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3037 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3038 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3039 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3040
3041 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3042 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3043 hammering the server.
3044
c1114884
PH
3045PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3046 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3047
7a0743eb
PH
3048PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3049
0d85fa3f
PH
3050PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3051 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3052 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3053
1bf43b78
PH
3054PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3055 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3056 one case where this was not true.
3057
520de300
PH
3058PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3059 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3060 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3061 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3062 fails.
3063
48c7f9e2
PH
3064PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3065 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3066 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3067 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3068 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3069 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3070 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3071 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3072 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3073 smtp transport.
3074
99ea1c86
PH
3075PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3076 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3077 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3078 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3079
a2042e78
PH
3080PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3081 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3082
4fbcfc2e
PH
3083PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3084 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3085 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3086
aa41d2de
PH
3087PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3088
af561417
PH
3089PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3090
3cc66b45
PH
3091PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3092
194cc0e4
PH
3093PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3094 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3095 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3096 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3097
a401ddaa
PH
3098PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3099 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3100
4e88a19f
PH
3101PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3102 be meaningful with "accept".
3103
d7d7b289
SC
3104SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3105 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3106
3107SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3108 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3109 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3110
3111SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3112 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3113 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3114 there is data to show.
3115 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3116
3117SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3118 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3119 as well as the number of messages.
3120
3121SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3122 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3123 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3124
3125SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3126 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3127 have a flag are now skipped.
3128
3129SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3130 Added the -emptyok flag.
3131
3132SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3133 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3134
0ea2a468
JJ
3135JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3136 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3137 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3138
3139JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3140 match 4.64-PH/13
3141
3142JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3143 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3144
3145JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3146
3147JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3148 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3149
8a10f5a4
PH
3150PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3151
30e18802
PH
3152PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3153 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3154 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3155 contravention of the specifications.
3156
55728a4f
PH
3157PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3158 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3159 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3160
d7837193
PH
3161PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3162 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3163 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3164
87054a31
PH
3165PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3166
ea2c01d2
MH
3167MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3168 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3169 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3170 some point in the past.
3171
e4fa6968
PH
3172PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3173 transport during callout processing was broken.
3174
56f5d9bd
PH
3175PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3176 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3177
922e1c28
PH
3178PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3179 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3180
21eb6e72
PH
3181PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3182 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3183
a0540757
PH
3184PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3185
944e9e9c 3186
478be7b0
SC
3187Exim version 4.63
3188-----------------
3189
3190SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3191 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3192
3193SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3194 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3195 there is data to show.
3196 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3197
3198SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3199 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3200
2b965a65
TF
3201TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3202 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3203
45b91596
PH
3204TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3205 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3206
c59f5781
TF
3207TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3208 submissions from trusted users.
3209
90fc3069
TF
3210TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3211 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3212
6083aca0
TF
3213TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3214 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3215 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3216 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3217 there is now a framework to start from.
3218
765b530f
PH
3219PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3220 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3221 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3222
4e167a8c
PH
3223PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3224
4608d683
PH
3225PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3226
b8dc3e4a
PH
3227PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3228
5418e93b
PH
3229PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3230 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3231 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3232
b4a9bda2
PH
3233PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3234 libradius.
3235
45b91596
PH
3236PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3237 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3238 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3239
5547e2c5
PH
3240PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3241 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3242 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3243 its arguments.
3244
dbcef0ea
PH
3245PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3246 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3247 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3248 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3249 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3250
25257489
PH
3251PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3252 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3253
c816d124
PH
3254PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3255
a9ccd69a
PH
3256PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3257 operations in malware.c.
3258
75fa1910
PH
3259PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3260 signatures.
3261
a7d7aa58
PH
3262PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3263 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3264 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3265 all.
3266
42119b09
PH
3267PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3268 statements to "add_header".
3269
41609df5
PH
3270PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3271 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3272
a5bd321b
PH
3273PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3274 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3275 latter.
3276
e85a7ad5 3277PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3278 so that it is now:
3279
e85a7ad5
PH
3280 ${if or { \
3281 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3282 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3283 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3284 }{no}{yes}}
3285
e85a7ad5
PH
3286 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3287 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3288
d8fe1c03
PH
3289PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3290 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3291
16282d2b
PH
3292PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3293 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3294 any possible encoding problems.
3295
35d40a98
PH
3296PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3297 but not after initializing Perl.
3298
034d99ab
PH
3299PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3300 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3301 apparently, which is not desirable.
3302
6ec97b1b
PH
3303PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3304 queries.
3305
e22ca4ac
JJ
3306JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3307 --not options
3308
3309JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3310
33d73e3b
PH
3311PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3312 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3313 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3314 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3315
9ecb03f3
PH
3316PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3317 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3318 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3319
084efe8d
PH
3320PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3321 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3322 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3323 0.12.
3324
366fc9f0
PH
3325PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3326 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3327 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3328 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3329 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3330
c59f5781 3331
c887c79e
TF
3332Exim version 4.62
3333-----------------
3334
3335TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3336 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3337
1cce3af8
PH
3338PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3339 patch).
3340
afb3eaaf
PH
3341PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3342 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3343 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3344 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3345 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3346 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3347 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3348 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3349 451 error is used.
3350
e173618b
PH
3351PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3352
dd16e114
PH
3353PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3354 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3355 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3356
f7fd3850
PH
3357PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3358 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3359 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3360 odd errors.
3361
d87df92c
PH
3362PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3363 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3364
7e9f683d
PH
3365PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3366 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3367 option (which defaults to 0600).
3368
bfad5236
PH
3369PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3370
01c490df
PH
3371PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3372 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3373 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3374 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3375 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3376 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3377 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3378
d6629cdc
PH
3379PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3380
1cce3af8 3381
214e2000
PH
3382Exim version 4.61
3383-----------------
3384
3385PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3386 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3387 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3388 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3389 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3390 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3391 addresses as local.
3392
f9daeae0
PH
3393PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3394 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3395
7e66e54d
PH
3396PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3397
c8ea1597
PH
3398PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3399 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3400 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3401 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3402 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3403 grumble.
3404
911f6fde
PH
3405PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3406 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3407
47ca6d6c
PH
3408PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3409 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3410 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3411 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3412 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3413
ed0e9820
PH
3414PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3415 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3416 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3417 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3418
eff37e47
PH
3419PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3420 be the same on different OS.
3421
1921d2ea
PH
3422PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3423 testing.
3424
b3f69ca8
JJ
3425JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3426 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3427
3428JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3429 in 4.61-PH/06
3430
424a1c63
PH
3431PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3432 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3433 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3434 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3435 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3436 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3437 bounce message.
3438
7a100415
PH
3439PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3440 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3441 when Exim was called.
3442
19b9dc85
PH
3443PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3444 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3445
309bd837
PH
3446PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3447 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3448 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3449 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3450
59e82a2a
PH
3451PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3452 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3453 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3454 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3455 changes:
3456
3457 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3458 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3459 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3460
3461 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3462 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3463 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3464
9edc04ce
PH
3465PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3466 feature).
3467
1349e1e5
PH
3468PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3469 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3470 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3471 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3472 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3473 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3474 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3475 values from the SRV records were lost.
3476
ea49d0e1
PH
3477PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3478 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3479 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3480
064a94c9
PH
3481PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3482 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3483 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3484
727071f8
PH
3485PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3486 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3487 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3488 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3489 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3490 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3491 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3492 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3493 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3494 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3495
f78eb7c6
PH
3496PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3497 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3498 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3499
21c28500
PH
3500PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3501 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3502
3503PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3504 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3505 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3506 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3507 is given.
3508
1688f43b
PH
3509PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3510 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3511 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3512
3513PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3514 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3515 PH/23 above applies.
3516
9675b384
PH
3517PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3518 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3519 (for which there is an explicit test).
3520
6a3f1455
PH
3521PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3522
dac79d3e
PH
3523PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3524 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3525 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3526 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3527 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3528
5977a0b3
PH
3529PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3530 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3531 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3532 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3533
c91535f3
PH
3534PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3535 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3536 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3537
0d46a8c8
PH
3538PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3539
278c6e6c
PH
3540PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3541
2cbb4081
PH
3542PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3543 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3544 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3545
3eef829e
PH
3546PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3547 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3548 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3549 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3550 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3551
1ab95fa6
PH
3552PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3553 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3554 the message gets confusing).
3555
230205fc
PH
3556PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3557 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3558 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3559 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3560
75e0e026
PH
3561PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3562 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3563 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3564 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3565 same order.
3566
3567PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3568 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3569 the different processes.
3570
145396a6
PH
3571PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3572
3cd34f13
PH
3573PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3574
11121d3d
JJ
3575JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3576 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3577
3578JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3579 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3580
3581JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3582 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3583 messages matching specified criteria.
3584
8def5aaf
PH
3585PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3586
929ba01c
PH
3587PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3588 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3589
2632889e
PH
3590PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3591 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3592 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3593 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3594 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3595 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3596 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3597 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3598 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3599 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3600
944a9c55
PH
3601PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3602 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3603 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3604
4a23603b
PH
3605PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3606
4730f942
PH
3607PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3608 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3609 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3610 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3611 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3612 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3613 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3614 the variable.
3615
30dba1e6
PH
3616PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3617 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3618
382afc6b
PH
3619PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3620
a86229cf
PH
3621PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3622
50c99ba6
PH
3623PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3624
d35e429d
PH
3625PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3626 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3627 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3628 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3629 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3630 size of the count of files.
3631
f90d018c
PH
3632PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3633
75def545
PH
3634PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3635 used in LMTP mode:
3636
3637 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3638 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3639 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3640 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3641
3642 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3643 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3644 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3645
3646PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3647 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3648 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3649 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3650 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3651
c46782ef
PH
3652PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3653 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3654
71fafd95
PH
3655PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3656 will now be deprecated.
3657
2c5db4fd
PH
3658PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3659
9cf6b11a
JJ
3660JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3661 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3662 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3663
3664JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3665 with very large, slow to parse queues
3666
3667JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3668
3669JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3670
898d150f
PH
3671PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3672 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3673 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3674 SMTP output lines.
3675
46218253
PH
3676PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3677 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3678 Sieve code now uses this.
3679
e97957bc
PH
3680PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3681 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3682
81e509d7
PH
3683PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3684 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3685
3d240ff7
PH
3686PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3687
b37c4101
PH
3688PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3689 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3690 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3691 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3692 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3693
79378e0f
PH
3694PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3695 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3696 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3697 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3698
e49c7bb4
PH
3699PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3700
d114ec46
PH
3701PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3702
f3d7df6c
PH
3703PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3704 is preferred over IPv4.
3705
715ab376
PH
3706PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3707 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3708 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3709 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3710 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3711 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3712 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3713
6b31b150
PH
3714PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3715 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3716 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3717
3718PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3719
d515a917
PH
3720PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3721 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3722 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3723 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3724 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3725 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3726 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3727 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3728 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3729 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3730 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3731
9b8fadde
PH
3732PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3733 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3734 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3735
214e2000 3736
5de37277
PH
3737Exim version 4.60
3738-----------------
3739
cc38ddbf
PH
3740PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3741
3742 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3743 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3744
3745 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3746 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3747 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3748
72fdd6ae
PH
3749PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3750
3751 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3752 not a single digit.
3753
3754 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3755 string.
3756
3757 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3758 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3759 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3760 silly things.
3761
3762 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3763 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3764
3765 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3766 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3767
cb741023
PH
3768PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3769 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3770 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3771
f174f16e
PH
3772PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3773 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3774
c25242d7
PH
3775PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3776 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3777
3778 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3779
3780 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3781 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3782 this:
3783
3784 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3785
82c19f95
PH
3786PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3787 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3788 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3789 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3790 identical. For example:
3791
3792 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3793
3794 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3795 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3796 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3797
d7ffbc12
PH
3798PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3799 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3800 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3801 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3802
9f526266
PH
3803PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3804 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3805 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3806 message.
3807
87fcc8b9
PH
3808PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3809
3810 o fixes some comments
3811 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3812 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3813 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3814 and documents the missing references header update
3815
3816 and most important:
3817
3818 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3819 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3820 result)
3821
456682f5
PH
3822PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3823 Electronic Mail") by including:
3824
3825 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3826
3827 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3828 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3829 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3830 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3831 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3832
3833 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3834
3835 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3836
3837 The auto-replied keyword:
3838
3839 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3840 message by an automatic process,
3841
3842 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3843
3844 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3845 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3846
3847 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3848 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3849 other messages.
3850
3e46c1aa
PH
3851PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3852 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3853
49826d12
PH
3854PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3855
eba0c039
PH
3856PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3857 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3858 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3859
a0d6ba8a
PH
3860PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3861 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3862 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3863
f0917727
PH
3864PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3865 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3866 and treats the condition as false.
3867
096fee00
PH
3868PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3869
024bd3c2
PH
3870PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3871 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3872 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3873 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3874 not changing the active code.
3875
3876 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3877 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3878
3879 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3880 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3881
df199fec
PH
3882PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3883 (Bugzilla #53).
3884
d27f1df3
PH
3885PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3886 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3887 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3888 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3889 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3890 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3891 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3892 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3893 the text comparison.
3894
96776534
PH
3895PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3896 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3897 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3898 The same fix has been applied.
3899
5de37277 3900
9a799bc0
PH
3901Exim version 4.54
3902-----------------
3903
3904PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3905 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3906 It now does.
3907
99a4b039
PH
3908PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3909 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3910
3911PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3912
4b233853
PH
3913PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3914 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3915 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3916 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3917 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3918
8857ccfd
PH
3919TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3920 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3921 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3922 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3923 or /domain=).
3924
433a2980
PH
3925PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3926 testing suite.
3927
3e46c1aa 3928
9a799bc0 3929
e3a311ba
TK
3930Exim version 4.53
3931-----------------
3932
3933TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3934 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3935
13b685f9
PH
3936PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3937
395ff96d
PH
3938PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3939
5b68f6e4
PH
3940PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3941 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3942 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3943
1ab52c69
PH
3944PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3945 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3946 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3947
b07e6aa3
PH
3948PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3949 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3950 operating systems.
3951
254e032f
PH
3952PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3953 ${stat: expansion item.
3954
3af76a81
PH
3955PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3956 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3957
2548ba04
PH
3958PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3959 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3960 file for comments.
3961
b6c6011d
PH
3962PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3963
cf39cf57
PH
3964PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3965 setting.
3966
f1513293
PH
3967PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3968 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3969
727549a4
PH
3970TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3971
af46795e
PH
3972PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3973 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3974 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3975 the end of the subprocess.
3976
d7b47fd0
PH
3977PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3978 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3979 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3980 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3981 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3982
ee744174
JJ
3983JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3984
b582ab87
PH
3985TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3986
41a13e0a
PH
3987PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3988 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3989
f625cc5a
PH
3990PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3991
3992PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3993
21f7af35
PH
3994PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3995 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3996 HP-UX compiler.
3997
31480e42
PH
3998PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3999
2d280592
PH
4000PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4001 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4002 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4003
7cd1141b
PH
4004PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4005 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4006
4007PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4008 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4009
750af86e
PH
4010PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4011 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4012
4013 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4014 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4015
4016 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4017 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4018 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4019 contributed by a Radius user.
4020
4021PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4022 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4023
4304270b
TK
4024TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4025 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4026
750af86e
PH
4027PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4028 available.
4029
64ffc24f
PH
4030PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4031 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4032 received.
4033
5dd9625b
PH
4034PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4035 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4036 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4037 header lines when this was not necessary.
4038
5591031b
PH
4039PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4040
ba18e66a
PH
4041PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4042 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4043 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4044 exists".
4045
9cec981f
PH
4046PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4047 -bV or -d is used.
4048
aa2b5c79
PH
4049PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4050 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4051 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4052 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4053
48a53b7f
PH
4054PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4055
1c59d63b
PH
4056PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4057
671012da
TK
4058TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4059
1509d3a8
PH
4060PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4061
4062PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4063 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4064 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4065 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4066 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4067 settings.
4068
4069PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4070
2fe1a124
PH
4071PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4072 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4073 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4074 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4075 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4076 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4077 which is clearly wrong.
4078
8800895a
PH
4079PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4080
ccfdb010
PH
4081PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4082 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4083 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4084 subsequently added.
4085
1130bfb0
PH
4086PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4087 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4088
ebcb507f
PH
4089PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4090
c35e155c
PH
4091PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4092 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4093
95d1f782
PH
4094PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4095 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4096
fd6de02e
PH
4097PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4098 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4099
58de37c5
PH
4100PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4101 recipients, not senders.
4102
261cf466
TF
4103TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4104 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4105
3ee512ff
PH
4106PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4107
e08c430f
PH
4108PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4109
bef5a11f
PH
4110PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4111 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4112 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4113 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4114
7546de58
TF
4115TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4116
e5d5a95f
TF
4117TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4118 clock is set back in time.
4119
2e88a017
TF
4120TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4121 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4122
a5f65aa4
TF
4123TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4124 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4125
e7726cbf
PH
4126PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4127 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4128 (see PH/47 above).
4129
a7fdad5b
TF
4130TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4131 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4132 header rewrites.
4133
6af56900
PH
4134PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4135 type ("H").
4136
0925ede6
PH
4137PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4138
66afa403
TF
4139TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4140 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4141 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4142
0154e85a
TF
4143TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4144 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4145 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4146 helo verification defer as a failure.
4147
16f12c76
PH
4148PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4149 actual error message.
4150
bbe902f0 4151
e5a9dba6
PH
4152Exim version 4.52
4153-----------------
4154
4155TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4156
22c3b60b
PH
4157PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4158 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4159 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4160 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4161
06a9b4b5
PH
4162TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4163
c1ac6996
PH
4164PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4165 can still be requested.
4166
9c7a242c
PH
4167PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4168 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4169 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4170 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4171
87ba3f5f
PH
4172TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4173 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4174 circumstances, but probably never did.
4175
4176PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4177 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4178 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4179 in the header line.
4180
29aba418
TF
4181TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4182
fe0dab11
TF
4183TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4184 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4185
11d337a4
TK
4186TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4187
4188TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4189
415c8f3b
PH
4190PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4191 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4192 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4193 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4194 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4195 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4196
958541e9
PH
4197PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4198 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4199 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4200 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4201 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4202 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4203
c206415f
TK
4204TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4205 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4206
2a4be8f9
PH
4207PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4208 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4209
1cba11c5
SC
4210SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4211 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4212
4c04137d 4213SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4214
4215SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4216
4217SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4218
4219SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4220
4221SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4222
4223SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4224
1005d00e
TK
4225TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4226
4227TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4228 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4229 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4230
4231TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4232 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4233 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4234 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4235
9b4768fa
PH
4236PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4237 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4238 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4239
4240PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4241 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4242 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4243 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4244
0d7eb84a
PH
4245PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4246 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4247 to be made).
4248
4249PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4250 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4251 should work with maildirs and everything.
4252
40727bee
TK
4253TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4254 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4255
554d2369
TF
4256TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4257 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4258
1f922db1
PH
4259PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4260 function for BDB 4.3.
4261
ef213c3b
PH
4262PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4263
8ac170f3
PH
4264PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4265 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4266 involved.
4267
b1c749bb
PH
4268PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4269 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4270 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4271 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4272 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4273 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4274
4aac9b49
PH
4275PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4276 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4277 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4278 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4279 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4280 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4281 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4282 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4283
294520c8
TK
4284TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4285 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4286 details.
4287
5bd022fe
PH
4288PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4289 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4290
90e9ce59
PH
4291PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4292 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4293 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4294 test. It is now used for both.
4295
5ea81592
PH
4296PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4297 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4298 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4299 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4300 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4301 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4302
c6c2dc1d
PH
4303PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4304 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4305 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4306 string_vformat().
4307
fffffe4c
PH
4308PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4309 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4310 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4311
9a26b6b2
PH
4312PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4313 experimental DomainKeys support:
4314
4315 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4316 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4317 the control was given.
4318
4319 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4320
4aee0225
PH
4321PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4322
32d668a5
PH
4323PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4324
8187c3f3
PH
4325PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4326 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4327 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4328 db.h files).
4329
ff790e47 4330PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4331 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4332 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4333 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4334 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4335 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4336 course.
ff790e47 4337
5417f6d1
PH
4338PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4339 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4340 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4341 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4342 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4343 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4344
59cf8544
PH
4345PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4346 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4347 do -d+all out of habit.
4348
e7ad8a65
PH
4349PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4350 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4351 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4352
ade42478
PH
4353PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4354 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4355 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4356 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4357 record types that Exim uses.
4358
182ad5cf
PH
4359PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4360 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4361 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4362 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4363 non-existent file that was broken.
4364
b0d9fc80
TK
4365TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4366 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4367
4368TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4369 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4370 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4371
4372TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4373
47c7a64a
PH
4374PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4375 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4376 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4377 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4378 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4379 same time.
4380
a388bce4
SC
4381SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4382 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4383 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4384 at a slight CPU cost.
4385
4386SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4387 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4388
4389SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4390 by Marc Sherman.
4391
0793e4ed
SC
4392SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4393
c58b88df
PH
4394PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4395 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4396
e7ad8a65 4397
7982096b
PH
4398Exim version 4.51
4399-----------------
4400
1a46a8c5
PH
4401TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4402 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4403
2f079f46 4404TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4405
4406TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4407
4408PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4409 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4410
4411PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4412 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4413 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4414 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4415 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4416 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4417 file.
4418
4419PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4420 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4421 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4422 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4423 these two options.
4424
4425PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4426 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4427 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4428 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4429 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4430 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4431 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4432 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4433
4434PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4435 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4436
4437PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4438 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4439 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4440 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4441 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4442 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4443
4444PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4445 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4446 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4447 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4448
4449PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4450 Finch).
4451
4452PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4453 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4454
49c2d5ea
PH
4455PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4456 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4457 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4458 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4459 message.
49c2d5ea 4460
bf759a8b
PH
4461PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4462
83364d30
PH
4463PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4464 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4465
7999bbd7
PH
4466PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4467 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4468 to what was transported.)
4469
7dbf77c9
PH
4470TF/01 Added $received_time.
4471
74e0617f
PH
4472PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4473 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4474 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4475 spamd_address settings.
4476
2f079f46
PH
4477PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4478 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4479 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4480 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4481 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4482
8c841523
PH
4483PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4484
7766a4f0
PH
4485PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4486 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4487 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4488 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4489 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4490
8b417f2c
PH
4491PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4492 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4493
901f42cb
PH
4494PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4495 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4496 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4497 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4498 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4499 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4500 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4501 for failure.
4502
f9b9210e
PH
4503PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4504 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4505 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4506 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4507 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4508 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4509 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4510 "input=".
4511
54cdb463
PH
4512PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4513
cf00dad6
PH
4514PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4515 driver and ACL definitions.
4516
acb1b346
PH
4517PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4518 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4519
c5ddb310
PH
4520PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4521 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4522 understands it better than I do:
4523
4524 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4525 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4526
4527 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4528 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4529 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4530 => three warnings about OTP not working
4531 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4532
4533 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4534 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4535 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4536 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4537 for each call.)
4538 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4539 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4540
4541 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4542 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4543 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4544
31619da6
PH
4545PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4546 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4547 specified.
4548
bebaf0fc
PH
4549PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4550 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4551 "Linux".
4552
475fe28a
PH
4553PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4554 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4555 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4556
4557 warn !verify = sender
4558 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4559
4560 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4561 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4562
7e8bec7a
PH
4563PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4564
4565 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4566 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4567
4568 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4569 nomenclature these days.)
4570
e4a89c47
PH
4571PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4572 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4573
5ca2a9a1
PH
4574PH/30 In these circumstances:
4575 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4576 . First host does not offer TLS;
4577 . First host accepts first address;
4578 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4579 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4580 . Second host accepts second address.
4581 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4582 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4583 address.
7e8bec7a 4584
c688b954
PH
4585PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4586 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4587 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4588 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4589 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4590
fed77020
PH
4591PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4592 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4593
7fe1560f
PH
4594PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4595 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4596
ebb6e6d5
PH
4597PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4598 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4599 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4600
9c4e8f60
PH
4601PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4602 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4603 overlooked.
4604
4605PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4606
d7174846
PH
4607PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4608 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4609 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4610 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4611 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4612 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4613 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4614
4615 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4616 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4617 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4618 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4619 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4620
4621 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4622 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4623 routed further.
4624
cfe75fc3
PH
4625PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4626 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4627 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4628 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4629 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4630 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4631
be22d70e
PH
4632PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4633
0612b098
PH
4634PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4635 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4636 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4637 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4638 printable escape sequences.
4639
2e0c1448
PH
4640PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4641 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4642 body only.
4643
447d236c
PH
4644PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4645 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4646 are as follows:
4647
4648 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4649 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4650 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4651 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4652 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4653
4654 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4655 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4656 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4657
d20976dc
PH
4658PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4659
f656d135
PH
4660PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4661 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4662 play with."
4663
2e2a30b4
PH
4664PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4665 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4666 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4667 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4668 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4669 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4670 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4671 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4672 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4673 the log output.
4674
9176e9f0
PH
4675PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4676 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4677 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4678 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4679 "make".
4680
7982096b 4681
bbe902f0
PH
4682A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4683----------------------------------------
4684
4685Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4686changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4687needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4688in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4689that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4690release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4691from 4.43.
4692
4693I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
46944.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4695those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4696historical information.
4697
4698
f7b63901 4699Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4700-----------------
4701
5fe762f6
PH
4702 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4703
139059f6 4704 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4705 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4706
7086e875
PH
4707 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4708 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4709 place.
4710
35af9f61
PH
4711 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4712 filter fails to execute.
4713
b668c215
PH
4714 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4715 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4716 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4717 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4718 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4719
a494b1e1
PH
4720 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4721
4722 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4723 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4724 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4725 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4726
c5fcb476
PH
4727 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4728 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4729 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4730 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4731 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4732
69358f02
PH
4733 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4734
5be20824
PH
473510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4736
eb2c0248
PH
473711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4738 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4739 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4740 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4741
2a3eea10
PH
474212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4743 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4744 sender verification.
4745
474613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4747 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4748
23c7ff99
PH
474914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4750
4deaf07d
PH
475115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4752 connection timeout.
4753
926e1192
PH
475416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4755 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4756
650edc6f
PH
475717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4758 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4759
2c7db3f5
PH
476018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4761 information about exactly what failed.
4762
3d235903
PH
476319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4764
7c7ad977
PH
476520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4766 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4767 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4768
981756db
PH
476921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4770 It is now set to "smtps".
4771
d4eb88df
PH
477222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4773 ignore_target_hosts.
4774
477523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4776 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4777 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4778 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4779 "[x.x.x.x]".
4780
7d468ab8
PH
478124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4782 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4783 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4784
478525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4786 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4787 wake it up if nothing else does.
4788
62c0818f
PH
478926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4790 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4791 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4792 end up negative.
4793
26034054
PH
479427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4795 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4796
af66f652
PH
479728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4798
90af77f4
PH
479929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4800 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4801 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4802 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4803 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4804 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4805 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4806 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4807
d8ef3577
PH
480830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4809 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4810 than one IP address.
4811
5cb8cbc6
PH
481231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4813 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4814 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4815 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4816
14702f5b
PH
481732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4818 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4819 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4820 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4821 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4822 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4823
063b1e99
PH
482433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4825 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4826 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4827 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4828
652e1b65
PH
482934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4830 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4831 respected.
4832
6f0c9a4f
PH
483335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4834 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4835 $sender_host_address.
4836
33397d19
PH
483736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4838 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4839 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4840 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4841 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4842 very small.
4843
7bb56e1f
PH
484437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4845
4846 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4847 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4848
ea3bc19b
PH
4849 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4850 just the host names, not the priorities.
4851
4852 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4853 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4854 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4855
ea3bc19b 4856 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4857 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4858
0bcb2a0e
PH
485938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4860 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4861 domain.
4862
2ac0e484
PH
486339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4864
4e1fde53
PH
486540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4866 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4867
de365ded
PH
486841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4869 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4870 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4871
f05da2e8
PH
487242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4873
d6453af2
PH
487443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4875
f7b63901
PH
487644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4877
487845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4879 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4880 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4881 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4882 because the tests only now provoked it.
4883
a444213a
PH
488446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4885 (this can affect the format of dates).
4886
0ec020ea
PH
488747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4888 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4889 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4890 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4891
b1206957
PH
489248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4893
489449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4895 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4896 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4897 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4898
26dd5a95
PH
489950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4900 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4901 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4902
343b2385
PH
490351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4904 autoreply.
4905
1c5466b9
PH
490652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4907 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4908 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4909 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4910 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4911 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4912 is going on).
4913
55ee9ee3
PH
491453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4915 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4916 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4917 the line.
4918
d38f8232
PH
491954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4920 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4921 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4922
4923 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4924 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4925 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4926 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4927 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4928 so I produce this patch..."
4929
3295e65b
PH
4930 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4931 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4932 is not defined.
4933
7102e136
PH
493455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4935 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4936 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4937 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4938 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4939
3ca0ba97
PH
494056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4941
c2bcbe20
PH
494257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4943 long debug lines gets shown.
4944
18ce445d
PH
494558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4946 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4947
1f5b4c3d
PH
494859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4949
4950 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4951 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4952 of $primary_hostname.
4953
b975ba52
PH
495460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4955 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4956 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4957 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4958 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4959 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4960 by change 4.50/55 above.
4961
4962 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4963 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4964 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4965 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4966 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4967 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4968 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4969
497061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4971 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4972 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4973 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4974
17ffcae7
PH
497562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4976 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4977
d95f9fdb
PH
497863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4979 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4980 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4981 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4982 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4983
86b8287f
PH
498464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4985 This has been fixed.
4986
60dc5e56
PH
498765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4988 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4989 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4990 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4991 the caching.)
4992
533244af
PH
499366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4994
a5a28604
PH
499567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4996 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4997 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4998 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4999
7e634d24
PH
500068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5001 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5002
3e11c26b
PH
500369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5004 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5005 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5006
6729cf78
PH
500770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5008 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5009 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5010 message there.
5011
00f00ca5
PH
501271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5013 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5014 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5015
c9bdd01c
PH
501672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5017 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5018 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5019 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5020
d43194df
PH
502173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5022 during host lookups.
5023
fe5b5d0b
PH
502474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5025 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5026
5027 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5028
76a2d7ba
PH
502975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5030 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5031 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5032 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5033 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5034 background.
5035
503676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5037 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5038
04f7d5b9
PH
503977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5040 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5041 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5042
bc60667e
PH
504378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5044
bb6e88ff
PH
504579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5046 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5047 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5048 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5049 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5050 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5051 process earlier.
5052
1e70f85b
PH
505380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5054 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5055 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5056 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5057 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5058
505981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5060 tables).
5061
4e01f9d6
PH
506282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5063
1ee1cef2
PH
506483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5065 "vacation" handling.
5066
6e2b4ccc
PH
506784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5068 OS variants using glibc.
5069
8e669ac1
PH
507085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5071
495ae4b0 5072
bbe902f0
PH
5073----------------------------------------------------
5074See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5075----------------------------------------------------
5076
5077
5078Exim version 4.44
5079-----------------
5080
5081 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5082 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5083 transport
5084
5085 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5086 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5087 place.
5088
5089 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5090 filter fails to execute.
5091
5092 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5093 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5094 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5095 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5096 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5097
5098 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5099 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5100 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5101 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5102
5103 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5104 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5105 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5106 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5107 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5108
5109 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5110
5111 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5112 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5113 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5114 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5115
5116 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5117 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5118 sender verification.
5119
512010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5121 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5122
512311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5124 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5125
512612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5127 ignore_target_hosts.
5128
512913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5130 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5131 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5132 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5133 "[x.x.x.x]".
5134
513514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5136 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5137 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5138
513915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5140 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5141 wake it up if nothing else does.
5142
514316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5144 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5145 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5146 end up negative.
5147
514817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5149 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5150
ea3a6f44 515118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5152
515319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5154 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5155 empty pattern.
5156
515720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5158 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5159 one IP address.
5160
ea3a6f44
NM
516121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5162 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5163 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5164 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5165 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5166 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5167
ea3a6f44
NM
516822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5169 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5170 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5171
517223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5173 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5174 $sender_host_address.
5175
517624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5177
ea3a6f44
NM
517825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5179 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5180 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5181
518226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5183 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5184
ea3a6f44
NM
518527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5186 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5187
ea3a6f44
NM
518828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5189 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5190 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5191 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5192
519329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5194 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5195 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5196
ea3a6f44
NM
519730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5198 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5199 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5200 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5201
ea3a6f44
NM
520231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5203 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5204 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5205
ea3a6f44
NM
520631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5207 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5208
ea3a6f44
NM
520932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5210 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5211 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5212 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5213 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5214 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5215 is going on).
bbe902f0 5216
ea3a6f44
NM
521733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5218 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5219 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5220 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5221 CAN-2005-0021
5222
ea3a6f44
NM
522334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5224 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5225 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5226 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5227 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5228 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5229 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5230
5231 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5232 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5233 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5234 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5235 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5236 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5237 CAN-2005-0021
5238
ea3a6f44
NM
523935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5240 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5241 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5242 CAN-2005-0022
5243
ea3a6f44
NM
524436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5245 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5246 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5247 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5248 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5249
ea3a6f44
NM
525037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5251 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5252 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5253 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5254 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5255
ea3a6f44
NM
525638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5257 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5258 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5259 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5260 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5261
5262
495ae4b0
PH
5263Exim version 4.43
5264-----------------
5265
5266 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5267 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5268 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5269 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5270 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5271 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5272 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5273
5274 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5275 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5276 the delivery.
5277
5278 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5279
5280 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5281
5282 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5283 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5284 to local_scan().
5285
5286 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5287 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5288 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5289 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5290 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5291
5292 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5293 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5294
5295 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5296
5297 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5298
529910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5300 header_sender only.
5301
530211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5303 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5304
530512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5306 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5307 affecting debugging statements).
5308
530913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5310
531114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5312 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5313 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5314 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5315 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5316 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5317 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5318 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5319 after the received time, and all would be well.
5320
532115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5322 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5323 condition in an expansion string.
5324
532516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5326
532717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5328 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5329 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5330 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5331 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5332 job under whatever limits there are.
5333
533418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5335
533619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5337 space).
5338
533920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5340 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5341 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5342 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5343 return path is set.
5344
534521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5346 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5347 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5348 binary data in such strings.
5349
535022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5351
535223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5353 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5354 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5355 failure, which is pointless.
5356
535724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5358
535925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5360
536126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5362 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5363 Sender: header lines.
5364
536527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5366 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5367 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5368
536928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5370 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5371 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5372 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5373 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5374 happens.
5375
537629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5377 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5378 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5379 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5380 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5381
538230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5383 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5384 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5385 1024.
5386
538731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5388 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5389
539032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5391 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5392
539333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5394
539532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5396
539733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5398
539934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5400 syntax error.
5401
540235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5403
540436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5405
540637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5407 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5408 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5409 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5410
541138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5412 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5413
5414
5415Exim version 4.42
5416-----------------
5417
5418 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5419 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5420 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5421 it was not quoted.
5422 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5423 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5424 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5425 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5426 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5427 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5428
5429 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5430 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5431 verification failure".
5432
5433 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5434 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5435 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5436 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5437
5438 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5439 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5440 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5441 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5442 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5443 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5444 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5445 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5446 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5447 treated as a timeout.
5448
5449 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5450 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5451 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5452 not set for Exim filters).
5453
5454 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5455 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5456 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5457
5458 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5459
5460 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5461 try to make them clearer.
5462
5463 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5464 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5465
5466 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5467
5468 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5469
547010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5471 only the Cygwin environment.
5472
547311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5474 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5475 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5476 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5477 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5478
547912. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5480 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5481 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5482 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5483 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5484 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5485 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5486
548713. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5488 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5489
549014. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5491
5492 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5493 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5494 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5495
5496 To: susanne@some.where
5497
5498 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5499 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5500 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5501 of addresses in From: header lines).
5502
5503 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5504 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5505 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5506
5507 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5508 treated as non-personal.
5509
5510 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5511 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5512
551315. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5514
551516. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5516
551717. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5518 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5519 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5520
552118. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5522 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5523
552419. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5525 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5526 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5527 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5528 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5529 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5530
553120. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5532 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5533 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5534 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5535 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5536 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5537 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5538 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5539
5540 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5541
554221. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5543 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5544
554522. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5546 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5547 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5548
554923. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5550 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5551
555224. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5553 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5554 rather than long int.
5555
555625. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5557
555826. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5559
5560
5561Exim version 4.41
5562-----------------
5563
5564 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5565 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5566 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5567 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5568 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5569 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5570
5571
5572Exim version 4.40
5573-----------------
5574
5575 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5576 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5577
5578 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5579 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5580 socklen_t is defined.
5581
5582 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5583 always exist.
5584
5585 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5586 configured.
5587
5588 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5589 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5590 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5591 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5592 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5593
5594 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5595 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5596 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5597 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5598
5599 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5600 of flapping under certain conditions.
5601
5602 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5603 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5604 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5605
5606 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5607
560810. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5609
561011. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5611 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5612 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5613 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5614
561512. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5616 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5617 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5618 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5619 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5620 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5621 preserved with the message after it was received.
5622
562313. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5624 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5625 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5626 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5627 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5628 test suite worked just fine.
5629
563014. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5631 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5632 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5633
563415. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5635 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5636 string.
5637
563816. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5639 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5640 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5641 does not fully solve it.
5642
564317. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5644 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5645 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5646 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5647 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5648
564918. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5650 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5651 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5652
565319. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5654 string, for example:
5655
5656 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5657
5658 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5659 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5660 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5661 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5662 the routers could not see them.
5663
566420. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5665 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5666
566721. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5668 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5669 output).
5670
567122. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5672 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5673 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5674 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5675 that needed quoting.
5676
567723. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5678 was not being matched caselessly.
5679
568024. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5681 backslashes.
5682
568325. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5684 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5685 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5686 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5687 when use_sender is false.
5688
568926. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5690
569127. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5692
569328. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5694
569529. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5696 the configuration file.
5697
569830. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5699 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5700
570131. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5702
570332. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5704 bytes in the message body.
5705
570633. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5707 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5708 delivery.
5709
571034. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5711
571235. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5713
571436. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5715 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5716 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5717 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5718 another IP address.
5719
5720
5721Exim version 4.34
5722-----------------
5723
5724 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5725 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5726
5727 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5728 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5729 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5730 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5731 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5732
5733 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5734 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5735
5736 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5737 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5738 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5739
5740 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5741 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5742 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5743
5744 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5745 for routers.
5746
5747 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5748 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5749 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5750 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5751 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5752 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5753 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5754
5755
5756Exim version 4.33
5757-----------------
5758
5759 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5760 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5761 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5762 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5763 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5764 default (and expected) setting.
5765
5766 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5767 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5768 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5769 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5770
5771 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5772 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5773
5774 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5775 in domain lists.
5776
5777 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5778 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5779 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5780 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5781 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5782 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5783
5784 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5785 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5786 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5787
5788 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5789 part (NOT match_host).
5790
5791 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5792
5793 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5794 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5795 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5796 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5797 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5798 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5799 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5800 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5801 the same named file.
5802
580310. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5804 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5805 when Exim is built.
5806
580711. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5808 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5809 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5810 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5811 a host name.
5812
581312. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5814 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5815 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5816
581713. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5818
581914. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5820
582115. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5822
582316. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5824 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5825
582617. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5827 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5828 before starting the TLS session.
5829
583018. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5831
583219. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5833 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5834
583520. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5836 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5837 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5838 colon in the middle).
5839
5840
5841Exim version 4.32
5842-----------------
5843
5844 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5845 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5846 multiple configurations are in use.
5847
5848 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5849 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5850 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5851 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5852 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5853 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5854
5855 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5856 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5857
5858 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5859 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5860 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5861
5862 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5863 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5864 occurs.
5865
5866 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5867 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5868
5869 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5870
5871 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5872 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5873
5874 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5875
5876 -prval:sval
5877
5878 is equivalent to
5879
5880 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5881
5882 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5883 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5884 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5885 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5886 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5887
588810. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5889 Exim's behaviour:
5890
5891 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5892 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5893 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5894 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5895 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5896 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5897
5898 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5899 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5900 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5901 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5902 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5903 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5904 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5905 string.
5906
5907 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5908 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5909 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5910 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5911 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5912
591311. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5914
591512. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5916 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5917 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5918
591913. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5920
592114. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5922 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5923 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5924 information.
5925
592615. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5927 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5928
592916. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5930 Three changes have been made:
5931
5932 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5933 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5934 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5935 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5936 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5937
5938 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5939 been restored.
5940
5941 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5942 the modified behaviour.
5943
5944
5945Exim version 4.31
5946-----------------
5947
5948 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5949 Larry Rosenman.
5950
5951 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5952 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5953
5954 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5955 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5956 try to track down a specific problem.
5957
5958 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5959 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5960 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5961
5962 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5963 warning.
5964
5965 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5966 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5967 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5968 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5969 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5970 some earlier ones do not.
5971
5972 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5973
5974 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5975 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5976 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5977 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5978 address literals are enabled, of course).
5979
5980 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5981
598210. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5983 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5984 by a command such as
5985
5986 exim -f "" ...
5987
5988 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5989
599011. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5991
599212. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5993 remained set. It is now erased.
5994
599513. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5996 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5997
599814. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5999 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6000 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6001 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6002 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6003 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6004 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6005 appropriate error code.
6006
600715. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6008 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6009 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6010 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6011 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6012 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6013
601416. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6015 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6016 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6017
601817. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6019 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6020 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6021 terminate the header.
6022
602318. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6024 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6025 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6026
602719. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6028 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6029 (4.30/29). In particular:
6030
6031 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6032 imposed.
6033
6034 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6035 to write a maildirsize file.
6036
6037 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6038 the transport, the new value overrides.
6039
6040 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6041 count.
6042
604320. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6044 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6045 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6046 space or a tab.
6047
604821. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6049 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6050 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6051 the fallback hosts.
6052
605322. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6054 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6055 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6056
605723. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6058 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6059 using a union.
6060
606124. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6062 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6063 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6064
606525. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6066
606726. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6068
606927. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6070
607128. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6072 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6073 become corrupted.
6074
607529. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6076 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6077 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6078 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6079 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6080 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6081 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6082 too great.
6083
608430. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6085 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6086 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6087 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6088 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6089 incorrectly.
6090
609131. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6092 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6093 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6094 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6095 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6096 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6097 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6098 cached value only when the same options are set.
6099
610032. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6101
610233. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6103 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6104 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6105 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6106 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6107
610834: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6109 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6110 it is clearly obsolete.
6111
611235. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6113 transport.
6114
611536. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6116 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6117 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6118 times.
6119
612037. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6121 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6122 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6123 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6124 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6125
612638. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6127 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6128 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6129 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6130
613139. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6132
6133 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6134
6135 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6136 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6137 2^31.
6138
613940. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6140 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6141 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6142 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6143 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6144 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6145 $localpart_data.
6146
614741. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6148 with the -f command-line option.
6149
615042. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6151 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6152 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6153 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6154 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6155 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6156
615743. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6158 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6159 line.
6160
616144. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6162 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6163 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6164 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6165 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6166 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6167 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6168 buffer is too small.
6169
617045. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6171 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6172
617346. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6174 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6175 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6176 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6177 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6178 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6179 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6180 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6181 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6182
618347. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6184 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6185 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6186
618748. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6188 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6189 ACL").
6190
619149. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6192 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6193 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6194 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6195 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6196
619750. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6198 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6199 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6200 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6201 is set.
6202
620351. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6204
620552. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6206
620753. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6208 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6209
621054. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6211 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6212 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6213
621455. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6215 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6216 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6217 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6218 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6219
622056. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6221 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6222 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6223 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6224 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6225 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6226 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6227
622857. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6229 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6230 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6231 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6232 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6233 the test of how many are available.
6234
623558. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6236 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6237 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6238 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
6239 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6240 new message is started.
6241
624259. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6243 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6244
624560. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6246 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6247
624861. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6249 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6250 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6251 is no long logged.
6252
625362. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6254 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6255 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6256 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6257 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6258 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6259 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6260
626163. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6262 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6263 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6264 interpreted as octal.
6265
626664. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6267 setting.
6268
626965. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6270 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6271 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6272 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6273 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6274 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6275
627666. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6277 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6278 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6279 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6280
6281 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6282 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6283 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6284 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6285
6286 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6287 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6288 is a bug fix.
6289
6290 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6291 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6292
629367. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6294
629568. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6296 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6297 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6298 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6299
630069. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6301 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6302 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6303 supplied", which is not helpful.
6304
630570. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6306 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6307 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6308
630971. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6310 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6311 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6312 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6313 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6314 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6315 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6316 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6317
631872. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6319 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6320 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6321 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6322 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6323
632473. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6325 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6326 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6327 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6328 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6329 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6330
633174. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6332 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6333 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6334
633575. Added write_rejectlog option.
6336
633776. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6338 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6339 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6340 variables.
6341
634277. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6343
634478. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6345 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6346 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6347 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6348 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6349 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6350 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6351 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6352
635379. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6354 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6355 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6356 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6357 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6358
635980. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6360 Haardt.
6361
636281. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6363 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6364 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6365 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6366 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6367 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6368 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6369 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6370 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6371
6372
6373Exim version 4.30
6374-----------------
6375
6376 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6377 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6378 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6379
6380 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6381 fixed.
6382
6383 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6384 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6385 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6386
6387 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6388 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6389 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6390 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6391 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6392 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6393
6394 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6395 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6396 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6397 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6398 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6399 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6400 the Exim test suite.
6401
6402 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6403 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6404 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6405 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6406
6407 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6408 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6409 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6410 specify it in this variable.
6411
6412 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6413 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6414 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6415 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6416
6417 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6418 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6419 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6420 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6421
6422 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6423 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6424 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6425 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6426 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6427
6428 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6429
643010. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6431 they are logged.
6432
643311. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6434 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6435 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6436 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6437 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6438
643912. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6440 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6441
644213. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6443 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6444 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6445 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6446 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6447
644814. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6449 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6450
645115. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6452 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6453 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6454
645516. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6456 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6457
645817. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6459 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6460
646118. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6462 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6463 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6464
646519. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6466 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6467
646820. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6469 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6470 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6471 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6472
647321. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6474
647522. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6476 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6477 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6478 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6479
648023. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6481
648224. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6483 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6484
648525. Added .include_if_exists.
6486
648726. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6488 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6489 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6490 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6491 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6492 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6493
649427. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6495
649628. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6497 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6498 this.
6499
650029. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6501
650230. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6503 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6504
6505 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6506 550 Sender verify failed
6507
6508 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6509 the final line of the response.
6510
651131. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6512 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6513 all other user lookups.
6514
651532. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6516 delivery time.
6517
651833. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6519 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6520 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6521 result into an int without checking.
6522
652334. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6524 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6525 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6526
652735. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6528 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6529 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6530 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6531
653236. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6533 correctly.
6534
653537. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6536 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6537
653838. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6539 to the empty sender.
6540
654139. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6542 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6543 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6544 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6545 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6546 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6547 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6548 panic log.
6549
655040. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6551 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6552 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6553 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6554 used.
6555
655641. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6557 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6558
655942. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6560 timestamps.
6561
656243. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6563 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6564
656544. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6566
656745. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6568 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6569 logs.
6570
657146. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6572 as soon as it is encountered.
6573
657447. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6575
657648. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6577 rewritten to "<>".
6578
657949. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6580 recognizes a tab character.
6581
658250. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6583 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6584 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6585 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6586
658751. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6588
658952. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6590 crash.
6591
659253. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6593
659454. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6595
659655. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6597 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6598 2822.
6599
660056. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6601 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6602 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6603 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6604 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6605
660657. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6607 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6608
660958. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6610 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6611 list (.included file names were always shown).
6612
661359. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6614 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6615 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6616 root at that time.
6617
661860. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6619 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6620
662161. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6622
662362. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6624
662563. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6626
662764. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6628 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6629 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6630 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6631 failures to open the logs.
6632
663365. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6634 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6635 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6636 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6637 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6638 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6639 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6640
6641
6642Exim version 4.24
6643-----------------
6644
6645 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6646 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6647 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6648 change 4.23/1.
6649
6650 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6651 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6652 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6653
6654 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6655 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6656 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6657
6658 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6659 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6660 causing some misleading effects.
6661
6662 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6663 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6664 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6665
6666 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6667 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6668 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6669 queue-runner function directly.
6670
6671
6672Exim version 4.23
6673-----------------
6674
6675 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6676 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6677
6678 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6679 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6680 was always written to the default place.
6681
6682 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6683 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6684 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6685
6686 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6687
6688 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6689
6690 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6691 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6692 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6693
6694 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6695 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6696 must start.
6697
6698 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6699 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6700 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6701
6702 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6703 command line option is disabled.
6704
6705 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6706 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6707
6708 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6709
6710 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6711
6712 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6713 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6714
671510. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6716
671711. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6718 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6719 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6720 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6721 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6722 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6723
672412. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6725 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6726 timeout.
6727
672813. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6729 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6730
673114. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6732 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6733
673415. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6735 received was valid base64.
6736
673716. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6738 name of the variable that was being set.
6739
674017. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6741
674218. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6743 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6744 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6745 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6746 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6747 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6748
674919. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6750
675120. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6752 nor realm was specified.
6753
675421. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6755 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6756 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6757 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6758
675922. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6760 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6761 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6762
676323. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6764 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6765 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6766
676724. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6768 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6769 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6770 some systems use these upper case variants.
6771
677225. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6773 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6774 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6775 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6776
677726. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6778
677927. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6780 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6781
678228. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6783 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6784 expansion variable.
6785
678629. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6787
678830. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6789 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6790 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6791 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6792
679331. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6794 using it.
6795
679632. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6797 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6798 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6799
680033. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6801 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6802
680334. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6804 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6805 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6806 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6807
680835. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6809 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6810 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6811
681236. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6813
681437. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6815 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6816 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6817 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6818 aborted.
6819
682038. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6821 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6822 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6823
682439. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6825
682640. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6827 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6828
682941. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6830 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6831
683242. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6833 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6834 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6835 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6836 when emails are that large.
6837
6838
6839
6840Exim version 4.22
6841-----------------
6842
6843 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6844 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6845
6846 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6847 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6848 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6849
6850 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6851 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6852 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6853
6854 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6855 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6856 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6857 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6858 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6859
6860 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6861 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6862 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6863 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6864 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6865 ever.
6866
6867 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6868 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6869 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6870 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6871 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6872 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6873 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6874 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6875 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6876 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6877 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6878 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6879 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6880 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6881
6882 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6883 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6884 parameterised it.
6885
6886 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6887 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6888 error should be diagnosed.
6889
6890 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6891 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6892 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6893 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6894 appeared instead of "NULL".
6895
689610. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6897 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6898 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6899 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6900 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6901 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6902 proceeds).
6903
6904 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6905 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6906 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6907
6908
6909Exim version 4.21
6910-----------------
6911
6912 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6913 or receiver verification errors.
6914
6915 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6916 name.
6917
6918 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6919 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6920 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6921 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6922
6923 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6924 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6925 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6926 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6927 shouldn't happen again.
6928
6929 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6930 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6931 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6932
6933 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6934 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6935
6936 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6937
6938 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6939 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6940
6941 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6942 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6943 RFC.
6944
694510. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6946 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6947 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6948
694911. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6950 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6951 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6952 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6953
695412. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6955 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6956 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6957 to define what should happen).
6958
695913. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6960 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6961 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6962
696314. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6964
696515. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6966
696716. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6968 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6969
4c04137d 697017. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6971 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6972 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6973 structure in all cases.
6974
6975 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6976 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6977 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6978 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6979
698018. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6981 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6982 domain name.
6983
698419. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6985 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6986
698720. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6988 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6989
699021. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6991 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6992 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6993
699422. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6995 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6996 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6997
699823. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6999 the book and for uniformity.
7000
700124. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7002
700325. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7004 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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7005 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7006 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7007 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7008 non-existent command as the problem.
7009
701026. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7011 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7012 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7013
701427. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7015
701628. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7017 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7018 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7019
702029. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7021 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7022 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7023 timestamps using strftime().
7024
702530. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7026 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7027
702832. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7029 transport-time rewrites.
7030
703133. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7032 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7033 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7034 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7035
703634. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7037 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7038
703935. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7040 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7041 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7042 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7043 comma and a space.
7044
704536. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7046 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7047 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7048 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7049 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7050 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7051 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7052
705337. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7054 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7055 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7056 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7057 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7058
705938. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7060 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7061 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7062 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7063 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7064 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7065 remaining text gets split now.
7066
706739. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7068 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7069 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7070 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7071
707240. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7073 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7074 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7075 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7076 $return_path.
7077
707841. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7079 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7080 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7081 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7082 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7083 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7084 passed through if needed.
7085
708642. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7087 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7088 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7089 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7090 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7091 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7092
709343. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7094 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7095 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7096 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7097 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7098
709944. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7100 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7101 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7102 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7103 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7104
710545. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7106 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7107 noticed.
7108
710946. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7110 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7111 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7112 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7113 mayhem of various kinds.
7114
711547. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7116 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7117 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7118 the right test for positive values.
7119
712048. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7121 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7122 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7123 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7124 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7125 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7126 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7127 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7128 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7129 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7130 envelope.
7131
713249. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7133 module.
7134
713550. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7136 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7137 forbidding it.
7138
713951. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7140 the existing equality matching.
7141
714252. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7143 dealing with inode numbers.
7144
714553. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7146 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7147 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7148
714954. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7150 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7151 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7152 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7153 local_scan().
7154
715555. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7156 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7157 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7158 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7159 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7160 relay addresses has also been removed.
7161
716256. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7163
716457. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7165 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7166 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7167
716858. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7169 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7170 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7171 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7172 processing applies to CR:
7173
7174 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7175 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7176
7177 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7178 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7179 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7180 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7181
718259. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7183 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7184 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7185
718660. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7187 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7188 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7189 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7190 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7191 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7192 arisen.
7193
719461. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7195 program routers.
7196
719762. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7198 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7199 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7200 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7201 adds:
7202
7203 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7204
7205 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7206
7207 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7208
720963. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7210 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7211 not considered personal.
7212
721364. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7214
721565. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7216
721766. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7218
721967. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7220 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7221 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7222 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7223 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7224 header lines, and spool format errors.
7225
722668. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7227 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7228 for more flexibility.
7229
723069. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7231 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7232 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7233
723470. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7235 Sabourenkov.
7236
723771. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7238 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7239 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7240 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7241 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7242 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7243 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7244 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7245 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7246
724772. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7248 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7249 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7250 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7251 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7252 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7253 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7254
725573. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7256 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7257 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7258
725974. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7260 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7261 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7262 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7263 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7264 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7265 instead of killing the process with assert().
7266
726775. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7268 than Unicode encoding.
7269
727076. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7271 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7272 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7273 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7274
727577. Added process_log_path.
7276
727778. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7278 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7279
728079. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7281 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7282
728380. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7284 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7285 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7286
728781. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7288 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7289 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7290 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7291 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7292 were applied:
7293
7294 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7295 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7296 as invalid.
7297
729882. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7299 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7300 they will be used during message reception.
7301
7302
7303Exim version 4.20
7304-----------------
7305
7306The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7307
7308****