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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
8 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
9 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
10 client dropping the TLS connection.
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12TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
13 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
14
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15TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
16 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
17 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
18 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
19 outgoing I= field.
20
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21JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
22 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
23 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
24 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
25 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
26 check on the next write.
27
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28HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
29 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
30 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
31 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
32 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
33
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34JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
35 mime_regex ACL conditions.
36
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37JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
38 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
39 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
40
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41JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
42 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
43 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
44 an authenticate fail is not an error.
45
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46HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
47 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
48
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49JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
50 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
51
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52JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
53 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
54 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
55 distinct.
56
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57JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
58
59JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
60
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61JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
62
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63JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
64 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
65
98b98887 66JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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67 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
68
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69JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
70
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71JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
72 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
73
74JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
75
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76JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
77 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
78
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79JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
80
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81JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
82 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
83 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
84 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
85 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
86 they will retry in-clear.
87 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
88 at installation time.
89
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90HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
91 with the $config_file variable.
92
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93JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
94 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
95 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
96 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
97 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
98
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99GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
100 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
101 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
102 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
103 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
104
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105JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
106
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107JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
108 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
109 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
110 list order is no longer honoured.
111
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112JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
113 for DKIM processing.
114
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115JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
116 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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118JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
119 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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120 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
121 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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123JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
124 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
125
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126JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
127 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
128
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129JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
130 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
131
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132JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
133
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134JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
135 cached by the daemon.
136
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137JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
138 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
139
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140JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
141 keys are given for lookup.
142
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143JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
144 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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145 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
146 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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148JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
149 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
150 server-side so match that on older versions.
151
07c73177 152JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 153 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 154 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 155
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156JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
157 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
158
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159JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
160 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
161 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 162 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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163 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
164 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
165 initial truncated version.
166
ab9152ff 167JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
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169JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
170
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171JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
172 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
173
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174JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
175
bc3c7bb7 176HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
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178JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
179 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
180 induced overflows.
181
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182JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
183 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
184 stage.
185
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186JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
187 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
188
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189JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
190 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
191 former class.
192
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197JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
198 expanded.
199
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200JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
201
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202JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
203 it.
204
01a4a5c5 205JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 206 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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207 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
208 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
209
cb1d7830 210JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 211 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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212 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
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610ff438 214JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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215 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
216 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
217 TLS connections
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219JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
220 sites use this now.
221
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222JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
223 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
224 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
225 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
226 have a dsn_lasthop option.
227
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228JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
229 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 230 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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232JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
233
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234JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
235 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
236
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237JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
238 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
239
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240JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
241 /defer_ok option.
242
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243JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
244 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
245
fd4d8871 246JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 247 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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248 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
249
250JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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251 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
252 specify a port-range.
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254JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
255 timeout value per server.
256
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257JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
258 now have the list separator specified.
259
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260JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
261 option values.
262
82c0c8ea 263JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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264 under OpenSSL.
265
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266JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
267
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268JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
269 rather than the verbs used.
270
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271JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
272 from 255 to 1024 chars.
273
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274JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
275
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276HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
277 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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279JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
280 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
281
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282HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
283 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
284
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285JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
286
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287JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
288
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289JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
290 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
291 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
292 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
293
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294JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
295
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296JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
297 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
298
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299JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
300 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
301
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302JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
303
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304JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
305
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306JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
307
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308JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
309 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
310
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311JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
312 added for tls authenticator.
313
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315Exim version 4.85
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317TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
318 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
319 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
320 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
321 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
322 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
323 the script parsing/test process like normal.
324
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325TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
326 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
327 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
328 function when detected.
329
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330JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
331 cause callback expansion.
332
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333TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
334 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
335 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
336 instead of bool when processing it.
337
0f06b4f2 338JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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339 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
340
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341JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
342
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343JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
344
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345TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
346
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347TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
348 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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350JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
351 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
352 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
353 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
354 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
355 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
356
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357JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
358 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
359 exceeded it.
360
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361JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
362 version 3.3.6 or later.
363
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364JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
365 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
366 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 367 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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368 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
369 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
370 option is defined.
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372TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
373 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
374
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375JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
376 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
377 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
378 matches.
379
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380JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
381 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
382 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
383
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384JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
385 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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387JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
388 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
389 syntax errors.
390
3394b36a 391JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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393JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
394 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
395
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396TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
397 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
398 tarball.
399
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400JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
401
402JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
403 Bug 1561.
404
405JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
406 output list separator was used.
407
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411TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
412 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
413 return.
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415JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
416 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
417
418JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
419
420TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 421 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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426
427TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
428
429 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
430 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
431 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
432 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
433 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
434 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
435
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436TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
437 utilities have not been installed.
438
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439JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
440 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
441
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442TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
443 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
444
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445TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
446 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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447 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
448 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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450JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
451
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452TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
453 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
454
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455PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
456 not dns_use_dnssec.
457
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458JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
459
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460TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
461 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
462 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
463
8ddef691 464TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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465 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
466 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
467 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
468 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 469 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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471JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
472
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473JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
474 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
475
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476JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
477 failed delivery.
478
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479JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
480
511a6c14 481JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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482
483JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
484 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 485
51c7471d
JH
486JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
487 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
488
3695be34
TL
489TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
490
1e06383a
TL
491JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
492
76146973
JH
493JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
494 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
495
496 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
497 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
498 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
499
8c8b8274
TL
500TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
501 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
502 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
503 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 504
35aba663
JH
505JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
506
8c51eead 507JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
508 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
509 lookup).
8c51eead 510
deae092e
HS
511TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
512 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
513 Schlichting.
35aba663 514
fd3b6a4a 515JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 516 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 517
8d91c6dc
LT
518TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
519 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
520
2b4a568d
JH
521JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
522
d2af03f4
HS
523TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
524 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
525 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
526
9d1c15ef
JH
527JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
528 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
529
44662487
JH
530JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
531 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
532 hosts_request_ocsp.
533
ed3bba5f 534JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 535 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 536 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 537
8ccd00b1
JH
538JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
539
8ded8589
TL
540TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
541 Christian Aistleitner.
542
f2de3a33
JH
543JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
544
6eb02f88
TL
545TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
546 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
547
00bff6f6
JH
548JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
549 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
550
071c51f7
JH
551JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
552 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
553
a6d4c44e
TF
554TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
555 support and error reporting did not work properly.
556
3ae173e7
ACK
557TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
558 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
559
c13d09b8
TL
560TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
561 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
562 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
563
0df4ab80
JH
564JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
565
66be95e0
PP
566PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
567 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
568 Jasper Wallace.
569
1bd0d12b
JH
570JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
571
0de7239e
TL
572TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
573 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
574 CVE-2014-2972
575
fd3b6a4a 576
2c422e6f 577Exim version 4.82
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579
580PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
581
12f69989
PP
582PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
583 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
584
54c90be1
PP
585PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
586 by GnuTLS.
587
1f4a55da
PP
588PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
589 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
590 routines.
591
13363eba 592PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 593
66645890 594PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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595 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
596 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
597 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
598 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 599
a3fb9793 600PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
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601 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
602 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
603 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 604 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 605 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 606
d27f98fe 607TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 608
6822b909
TL
609TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
610
e7568d51
TL
611TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
612 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
613
ae0e32ee 614TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 615 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 616 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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TL
617
618TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 619
e2658fff
TL
620TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
621
83712b39
TL
622TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
623 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
624
976b7e9f
JH
625JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
626
be4a1376
JH
627JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
628
ec4b68e5
PP
629PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
630
d7148a07
NM
631NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
632 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 633
585121e2 634JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 635
2519e60d
TL
636PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
637 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
638 function.
a5f239e4 639
13d08c90
PP
640PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
641 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
642
bef3ea7f
JH
643JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
644 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
645 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 646
846726c5
JH
647JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
648
3a796370
JH
649JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
650
ea722490 651JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
652 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
653
b1b05573
JH
654JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
655 Bugzilla 884.
656
362145b5
JH
657JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
658 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
659
3c0a92dc
JH
660JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
661 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
662
6d7c6175
PP
663PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
664 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 665 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 666
6f123593
JH
667JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
668 authenticators.
669
c8e2fc1e
JH
670JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
671 for control.
672
005ac57f
PP
673PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
674
3f1df0e3
PP
675PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
676 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
677 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
678 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
679
67bd1ab3
TF
680TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
681
682 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
683 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
684 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
685 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
686 the retry rules.
687
688 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
689 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
690 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
691
692 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
693 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
694 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
695 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
696
1ddeb334
TF
697 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
698 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
699 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
700 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
701 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
702 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
703 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
704
705 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
706 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
707
326cdc37
TF
708TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
709
710 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
711
712 Resent-From: f
713
714 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
715 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
716 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
717 username as equal to the username.
718
719 This change corrects that bug.
720
f62514b3
GF
721GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
722 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
723 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
724
eb505532
TF
725TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
726
14c7b357
PP
727PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
728 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
729 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
730 NULL dereference and crash.
731
94eaf700
PP
732JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
733
6f5a440a
PP
734PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
735 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
736 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
737
514ee161
SC
738SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
739
fd98a5c6
JH
740JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
741 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
742 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
743 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
744 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
745 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
746 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
747 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
748 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
749 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
750 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
751
035c7f1e
PP
752PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
753 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
754
ff284120
PP
755PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
756 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
757 Bugzilla 880.
758
26e72755
PP
759PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
760 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
761 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
762 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
763 an empty string is now equivalent.
764
0fbd9bff
PP
765PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
766 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
767 not performing validation itself.
768
700d22f3
PP
769PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
770 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
771
fcc8e047
JH
772JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
773 Bugzilla 321, 823.
774
7142daca
PP
775TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
776
8c020188
PP
777PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
778 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
779 other false fix of the same issue.
780 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
781 Bugzilla 1363.
782
d13cdd30
PP
783PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
784 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
785
e2fbf4a2
PP
786PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
787 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
788 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
789
f4c1088b
PP
790PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
791 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
792 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
793
c5c2182f
PP
794TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
795
73431ca9
JH
796JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
797
2d07a215
TL
798TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
799 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
800
a30a8861
TL
801TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
802 Alexander Miroch.
803
33382dd9
TL
804TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
805 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
806 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
807 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
808 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 809
046172e6
TL
810TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
811 the src/util/ subdirectory.
812
581d7bee 813TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 814 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
815 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
816
817TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
818 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
819 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
820 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
821
237b2cf2
TL
822TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
823
9fc5a352
TL
824TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
825 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
826 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 827
b10e4ec2
TL
828TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
829
e2cebd74
TL
830TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
831 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
832 interaction.
833
834TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
835 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
836
2519e60d
TL
837TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
838 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
839
e78e6ecf 840
4263f395
PP
841Exim version 4.80.1
842-------------------
843
844PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
845 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 846 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 847
ea722490 848
b1770b6e 849Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
850-----------------
851
852PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
853 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
854 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
855
23c7e742
NM
856NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
857
b322aac8
NM
858NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
859 improved.
860
4a891427
NM
861NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
862
c1e794ba 863PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 864
97753960
PP
865PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
866
867PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
868 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
869
df6303fa
PP
870PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
871 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
872
7e6a8985
PP
873PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
874 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
875
f1e05cc7 876PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
877 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
878 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 879
4c287009
PP
880PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
881
b98bb9ac
PP
882PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
883 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
884
4a6a987a
PP
885PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
886
c45dd180 887PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 888
7db8d074
PP
889PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
890 non-compliant senders.
891 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
892
eae0036b 893NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
894 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
895 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
896
dec5017e
PP
897PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
898 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
899 in spool file corruption.
900
c80c5570
PP
901PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
902 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
903 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
904 "Got SSL error 2".
905
076b11e2
PP
906TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
907 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
908 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
909
5407bfff
JH
910JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
911 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
912
9e45c72b
PP
913JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
914
e74376d8
PP
915PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
916 diagnostics.
917 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
918
da3ad30d
PP
919PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
920 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
921 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
922
7be682ca
PP
923PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
924 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
925 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
926 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 927
ef840681
PP
928PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
929 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
930
5bfb4cdf
PP
931PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
932 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
933 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
934 resolver implementation change.
935
c6e95d22
PP
936PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
937 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
938
9cbad13b
PP
939PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
940
9ee44efb
PP
941PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
942
6a6084f8
PP
943PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
944 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
945
12dd53c7
PP
946PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
947 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
948
9e45c72b 949JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
950 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
951
17c76198
PP
952PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
953 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
954 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
955 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 956 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 957
53947857 958PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 959
eae0036b 960PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
961 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
962 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 963
9e45c72b 964JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 965
7390e768
PP
966PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
967 read-only, out of scope).
968 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
969
08488c86
PP
970PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
971 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
972 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
973 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
974
6475bd82
PP
975PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
976
81f91683
PP
977PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
978 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
979 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
980 real issues in debug logging.
981
5779e6aa
PP
982PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
983 assignment on my part. Fixed.
984
3375e053
PP
985PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
986 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
987 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
988
989PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
990 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
991 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
992 problems.
3375e053 993
9d26b8c0
PP
994PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
995 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
996
57eb9e91 997PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
998 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
999 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1000 needs to override this, it can.
1001
16880d1a
PP
1002PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1003 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1004 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1005
a799883d
PP
1006PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1007 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1008 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1009 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1010
3ecab157 1011PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1012
0599f9cf 1013
867fcbf5
PP
1014Exim version 4.77
1015-----------------
1016
1017PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1018 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1019
f1a29782
TF
1020TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1021
ab42bd23
TK
1022TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1023 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1024
0ca0cf52
TF
1025TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1026 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1027
921b12ca
TF
1028TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1029 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1030 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1031
1032 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1033 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1034 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1035 not safe for signals.
1036
1037 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1038 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1039 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1040 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1041 exiwhat.
1042
c99ce5c9
TF
1043TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1044
1045 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1046 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1047 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1048 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1049 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1050
1051 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1052 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1053 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1054 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1055 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1056 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1057
1058 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1059 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1060 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1061 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1062
1063 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1064 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1065 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1066 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1067
1068 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1069 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1070 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1071 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1072 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1073 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1074 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1075 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1076 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1077
1078 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1079 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1080 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1081 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1082
1083 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1084 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1085 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1086 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1087 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1088 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1089 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1090 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1091 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1092 details in the main documentation.
1093
3634fc25
TF
1094TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1095
792e8a19
TF
1096TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1097
5901f0ab
TF
1098TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1099 repository when doing development or release builds.
1100
7f2a2a43
PP
1101PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1102 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1103
061b7ebd
PP
1104PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1105 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1106 Bugzilla 97.
1107
e12f8c32
PP
1108PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1109
9e949f00 1110PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1111 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1112
1113PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1114 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1115
555ae6af 1116PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1117 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1118
1119PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1120 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1121
6f7fe114
PP
1122PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1123 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1124
c566dd90
PP
1125PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1126 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1127 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1128 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1129
d6cc7c78 1130PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1131 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1132 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1133
0d0e4455
PP
1134PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1135
3399bb60 1136PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1137
1138PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1139 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1140
0ca0cf52 1141
10906672
PP
1142Exim version 4.76
1143-----------------
1144
1145PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1146
754a0503
PP
1147PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1148 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1149
c0c7b2da
PP
1150PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1151
e97d1f08
PP
1152PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1153
084c1d8c
PP
1154PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1155 Bugzilla 1098.
1156
4e7ee012
PP
1157PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1158 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1159
c8d52a00
PP
1160TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1161 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1162
54e7ce4a
PP
1163PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1164 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1165
5ee6f336
PP
1166PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1167 Bugzilla 1104.
1168
c8d52a00 1169TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1170 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1171
1172TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1173 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1174 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1175 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1176
1177PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1178 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1179
10906672 1180
aa097c4c
NM
1181Exim version 4.75
1182-----------------
1183
4c9ef03a 1184NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1185 Bugzilla 1073
1186
7f3d9eff
TF
1187TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1188 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1189 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1190
159f52d2
TF
1191TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1192 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1193
0cc9542a
PP
1194PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1195 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1196 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1197
f7274286
PP
1198PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1199 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1200
7b797365
PP
1201PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1202 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1203
caacae52
NM
1204NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1205 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1206
09dcaba9
NM
1207NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1208 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1209
bc19a55b
PP
1210PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1211 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1212
bd4c9759
NM
1213NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1214 Fixes bug 943.
1215
b72aab72
PP
1216PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1217 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1218
2fe76745
PP
1219PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1220 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1221
76aa570c
PP
1222PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1223 SQL string expansion failure details.
1224 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1225
f1e5fef5
PP
1226PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1227 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1228
4d805ee9
PP
1229PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1230 extern declarations in function scope.
1231 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1232
cd59ab18
PP
1233PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1234 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1235 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1236 a kernel bug).
1237
332f5cf3
PP
1238PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1239 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1240
29cfeb94
PP
1241PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1242 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1243
660242ad
PP
1244PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1245 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1246
bc4bc4c5
PP
1247PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1248 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1249
2e64baa9
NM
1250NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1251 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1252 Dennis Davis.
1253
bddd7526
PP
1254PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1255
6bac1a9a
PP
1256PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1257
552193f0
NM
1258NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1259 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1260
1b587e48
TF
1261TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1262 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1263
aa097c4c 1264
8c07b69f
TF
1265Exim version 4.74
1266-----------------
1267
1268TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1269 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1270
c0ea85ab
TF
1271TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1272 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1273
0761d44e
TF
1274TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1275
0a349494
PP
1276DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1277 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1278 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1279
1280PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1281 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1282 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1283
fea24b2e
PP
1284PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1285 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1286 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1287 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1288
6545de78
PP
1289PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1290 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1291 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1292 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1293
1670ef10
PP
1294PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1295 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1296 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1297 arbitrary files.
1298
c0886197
PP
1299PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1300 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1301
b7487bce
PP
1302PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1303 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1304 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1305 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1306 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1307
8c07b69f 1308
97fd1e48 1309Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1310-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1311
1312PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1313 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1314 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1315
6901c596
PP
1316PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1317 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1318
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1319JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1320
77bb000f
PP
1321PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1322
a29e5231
PP
1323PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1324
ec5a0394 1325PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1326
55c75993
PP
1327PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1328
453a6645 1329PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1330 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1331 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1332 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1333
8544e77a
PP
1334PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1335 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1336 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1337 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1338 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1339
83e029d5
PP
1340PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1341
ed7f7860
PP
1342PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1343
7d9f747b
PP
1344PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1345
4b2241d2
PP
1346PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1347
10385c15
PP
1348PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1349
dbc4b90d
PP
1350PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1351
532be449
PP
1352PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1353
6a8de854 1354PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1355 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1356 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1357
5dc43717
JJ
1358JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1359
1360JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1361 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1362
3346ab01
PP
1363PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1364 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1365
491fab4c
PP
1366PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1367 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1368 Notification from John Horne.
1369
13eb9497
PP
1370PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1371 compatible.
1372
1373PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1374 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1375 it normally works.
1376
7f36d675
DW
1377DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1378 access.
1379
c1d94452
DW
1380DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1381 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1382 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1383
e2f5dc15
DW
1384DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1385 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1386 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1387 configuration file.
1388
cd25e41d
DW
1389DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1390 option (effectively making it always true).
1391
261dc43e
DW
1392DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1393 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1394
fa32850b
DW
1395DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1396 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1397
79d4bc3d
PP
1398PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1399 run-time user, instead of root.
1400
43236f35 1401PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1402 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1403
fb08281f
DW
1404DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1405 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1406 arguments.
3346ab01 1407
74935b98
DW
1408DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1409 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1410 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1411
90b6341f
DW
1412DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1413
57730b52
ML
1414NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1415
66581d1e 1416
465e92cf
JJ
1417Exim version 4.72
1418-----------------
1419
453a6645
PP
1420JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1421 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1422 typos
465e92cf 1423
453a6645
PP
1424JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1425 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1426 (Finput)
edae0343 1427
9bd3e22c
NM
1428NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1429 Patch from Alain Williams
1430
bb576ff7
NM
1431NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1432
5a1a5845
NM
1433NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1434 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1435
981a9fad
NM
1436NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1437 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1438
7fc497ee
NM
1439NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1440
1a41defa
JJ
1441JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1442
a466095c 1443NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1444 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1445
94a6bd0b
NM
1446TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1447
1448TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1449
1450MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1451 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1452 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1453
c1b141a8
NM
1454NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1455 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1456
b26eacf1 1457NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1458 Patch by Simon Arlott
1459
179c5980 1460PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1461 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1462
9bd3e22c 1463
7c6d71af
NM
1464Exim version 4.71
1465-----------------
1466
7d9f747b 1467TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1468
f013fb92
NM
1469NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1470
0eb8eedd
NM
1471NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1472
663ee6d9
NM
1473NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1474
177ebd9b
NM
1475NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1476
7c6d71af 1477
210f147e
NM
1478Exim version 4.70
1479-----------------
1480
cdd3bb85 1481TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1482 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1483
1484TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1485 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1486 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1487
1488TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1489 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1490 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1491
1492TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1493 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1494
210f147e
NM
1495NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1496 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1497 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1498 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1499
deafd5b3
NM
1500NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1501 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1502 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1503
089793a4
TF
1504TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1505
5f16ca82
TF
1506TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1507
dae9d94e 1508NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1509 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1510
7d9f747b 1511NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1512
06864c44
TF
1513TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1514 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1515 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1516 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1517
65a7d8c3 1518NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1519 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1520
23510047 1521TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1522
7d9f747b 1523NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1524
7d8eec3a 1525NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1526 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1527
89dec7b6
TF
1528TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1529 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1530
a99de90c
TF
1531TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1532 that they are available at delivery time.
1533
e2803e40
TF
1534TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1535
7199e1ee
TF
1536TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1537 incoming_port log selectors.
1538
e276e04b
TF
1539TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1540 setting expands to an empty string.
1541
ce552449 1542NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1543 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1544
e765a0f1 1545NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1546 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1547
4f054c63 1548NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1549 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1550
7d9f747b
PP
1551NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1552 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1553
7d9f747b
PP
1554NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1555 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1556
b52bc06e 1557NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1558 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1559
447de4b0
NM
1560NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1561
4c69d561 1562NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1563 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1564
d5c39246 1565NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1566 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1567
0b23848a
TK
1568TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1569
8f3414a1 1570NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1571 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1572
fb6f955d
NM
1573NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1574
1575NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1576
7d9f747b
PP
1577NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1578 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1579
7d9f747b
PP
1580NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1581 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1582
7d9f747b
PP
1583NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1584 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1585
7d9f747b
PP
1586NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1587 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1588
7d9f747b
PP
1589NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1590 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1591
7d9f747b
PP
1592NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1593 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1594
7d9f747b
PP
1595NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1596 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1597
7d9f747b 1598NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1599 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1600
7d9f747b 1601NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1602
7d9f747b
PP
1603NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1604 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1605
7d9f747b 1606NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1607
7d9f747b 1608NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1609
7d9f747b 1610NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1611
7d9f747b 1612NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1613
17792b53 1614NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1615 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1616
7d9f747b
PP
1617NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1618 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1619
91576cec 1620NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1621 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1622
7d9f747b
PP
1623NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1624 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1625
7d9f747b 1626NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1627
7d9f747b 1628NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1629
7d9f747b 1630NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1631
7d9f747b 1632NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1633
deafd5b3 1634
47db1125
NM
1635Exim version 4.69
1636-----------------
1637
4b3504d0
TK
1638TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1639 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1640 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1641
1642 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1643 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1644 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1645 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1646 build errors in sieve.c.
1647
81ea09ca
NM
1648NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1649 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1650 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1651
f13cddcb
SC
1652SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1653
7d9f747b 1654NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1655
7d9f747b 1656NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1657
7d9f747b 1658NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1659
1660
eb4c0de6
PH
1661Exim version 4.68
1662-----------------
1663
1664PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1665
6a3bceb1
PH
1666PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1667 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1668 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1669 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1670 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1671 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1672 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1673 for iplsearch lookups.
1674
1675 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1676 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1677 previously such lookups could never work.
1678
1679 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1680 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1681 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1682
2e30fa9d
TK
1683TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1684 version.
1685
0806a9c5
MH
1686MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1687 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1688 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1689 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1690 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1691 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1692
ae276964
TK
1693TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1694 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1695
0f2cbd1b
MH
1696MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1697 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1698 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1699 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1700 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1701 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1702
2b85bce7
PH
1703PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1704 local_scan API.
1705
93655c46
PH
1706PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1707
6c512171
PH
1708PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1709 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1710 encrypted.
1711
1712PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1713 by clients under certain conditions.
1714
aa6dc513
PH
1715PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1716 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1717
a96603a0
PH
1718PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1719
8f240103
PH
1720PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1721 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1722
1723PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1724
d677b2f2
PH
1725PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1726
d52120f2
PH
1727PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1728
64f2600a
PH
1729PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1730 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1731
8669f003
PH
1732PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1733
a4dc33a8
PH
1734PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1735 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1736
d6a60c0f
PH
1737PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1738
8f128379
PH
1739PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1740
8932dffe
PH
1741PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1742 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1743 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1744 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1745
ddea74fa 1746PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1747 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1748 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1749
ddea74fa 1750PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1751 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1752
ddea74fa
PH
1753PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1754
ce9f225c
PH
1755PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1756
19897d52
PH
1757PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1758
bc64a74d
PH
1759PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1760 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1761 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1762
eb4c0de6 1763
b4ed4da0
PH
1764Exim version 4.67
1765-----------------
1766
22ad45c9
MH
1767MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1768 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1769 Jan Srzednicki.
1770
b4ed4da0
PH
1771PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1772 issue a MAIL command.
1773
431b7361
PH
1774PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1775
1776 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1777
1778 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1779 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1780 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1781 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1782 item. This has been fixed.
1783
1784PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1785 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1786
83da1223
PH
1787PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1788 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1789
54fc8428
PH
1790PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1791 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1792 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1793
34c5e8dd
SC
1794SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1795
bbe15da8
PH
1796PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1797 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1798 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1799 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1800 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1801
0e8a9471
MH
1802MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1803 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1804 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1805
f0872424
PH
1806PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1807 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1808 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1809 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1810
b01dd148
PH
1811PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1812
6bf342e1
PH
1813PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1814
273f34d0
PH
1815PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1816 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1817 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1818 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1819 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1820
cf8b11a5
PH
1821PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1822
41c7c167
PH
1823PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1824 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1825 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1826 values).
1827
9c57cbc0
PH
1828PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1829
f3f065bb
PH
1830PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1831
047bdd8c
PH
1832PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1833
0ce9abe6
PH
1834PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1835
0e22dfd1
PH
1836PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1837
4c590bd1
PH
1838PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1839 no_callout_flush is set.
1840
09945f1e
PH
1841PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1842 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1843 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1844 fixed.
1845
c51b8e75
PH
1846PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1847
e28326d8
PH
1848PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1849 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1850 other ACL rejections are.
1851
75b1493f
PH
1852PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1853 with slight modification.
1854
7c5214ec
PH
1855PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1856 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1857
4311097e
PH
1858PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1859 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1860 connection.
1861
29f89cad
PH
1862PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1863 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1864
5e687460
SC
1865SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1866
c3611384
PH
1867PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1868 expansion side effects.
1869
5a11a7b4
PH
1870PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1871 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1872 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1873 be the same.
1874
0e20aff9
MH
1875MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1876 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1877 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1878
ca86f471
PH
1879PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1880 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1881 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1882 were accidentally chopped off.
1883
a14e5636
PH
1884PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1885 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1886 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1887 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1888 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1889 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1890 pipelining has not been advertised.
1891
ec95d1a6
PH
1892PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1893
42855d71
PH
1894PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1895 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1896 This has been fixed.
1897
57c2c631
PH
1898PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1899 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1900 reported on Solaris.
1901
58c01c94
PH
1902PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1903 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1904 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1905 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1906 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1907 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1908 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1909
dee5a20a
PH
1910PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1911 cpus.
1912
d2ee6114
PH
1913PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1914
b2d5182b
PH
1915PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1916
79749a79
PH
1917PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1918 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1919 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1920 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1921 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1922 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1923
c456d9bb
PH
1924PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1925 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1926 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1927 host_all_ignored option.
1928
cd9868ec
PH
1929PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1930 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1931 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1932 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1933 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1934 is what is supposed to happen).
1935
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1936PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1937 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1938 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1939 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1940 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1941 uses the Exim user.
1942
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1943PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1944 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1945 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1946 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1947 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1948 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1949 users.
1950
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1951PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1952
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SC
1953SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1954 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1955 (Jez Hancock).
1956 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1957 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1958
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SC
1959SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1960
a43a27c5
PH
1961PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1962
58eb016e 1963PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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1964 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1965 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1966 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1967 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1968 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1969 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1970 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1971 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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PH
1972 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1973 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1974
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PH
1975PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1976 advertised in response to EHLO.
1977
b4ed4da0 1978
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PH
1979Exim version 4.66
1980-----------------
1981
1982PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1983 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1984
1985 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1986 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1987
1988 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1989 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1990 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1991
1992 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1993 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1994 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1995 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1996 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1997
1998
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1999Exim version 4.65
2000-----------------
2001
2002TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2003 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2004 versions. (#438)
2005
d6066548
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2006MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2007 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2008 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2009
4362ff0d
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2010PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2011 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2012 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2013 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2014 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2015 rather than extend the field.
2016
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2018Exim version 4.64
2019-----------------
aa41d2de 2020
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TK
2021TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2022 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2023 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2024 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2025 these files.
2026
2027TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2028 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2029 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2030
2031TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2032 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2033 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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TF
2034
2035TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2036 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2037 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2038 in the field name.
2039
2b1c6e3a
PH
2040PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2041 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2042 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2043 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2044 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2045 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2046 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2047 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2048 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2049 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2050 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2051
1f872c80
PH
2052PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2053 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2054
2055PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2056 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2057 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2058 ignores EPIPE as well.
2059
d203e649
PH
2060PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2061 (quoted-printable decoding).
2062
cc2ed8f7 2063PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2064 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2065
ddfcd446
PH
2066PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2067
d45b1de8
PH
2068PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2069
2070PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2071
38a0a95f 2072PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2073 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2074
a2405d83
JJ
2075JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2076 in 4.64-PH/09.
2077
2078JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2079 miscellaneous code fixes
2080
6ea85e9a
PH
2081PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2082 rejections.
2083
26da7e20
PH
2084PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2085 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2086 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2087 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2088 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2089 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2090 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2091 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2092
14aa5a05 2093PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2094 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2095 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2096 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2097 function.
2098 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2099 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2100 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2101 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2102 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2103 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2104 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2105 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2106 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2107
ff75a1f7
PH
2108PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2109 decoding.
2110
e6f6568e
PH
2111PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2112 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2113 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2114 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2115 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2116 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2117 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2118 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2119
d6f6e0dc
PH
2120PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2121 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2122 list.
2123
322050c2
PH
2124PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2125 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2126 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2127 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2128 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2129 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2130 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2131 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2132 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2133 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2134 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2135 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2136 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2137
08955dd3
PH
2138PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2139 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2140 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2141 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2142 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2143 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2144 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2145
1eccaa59
PH
2146PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2147 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2148 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2149 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2150 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2151 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2152 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2153 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2154 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2155 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2156
602e59e5
PH
2157PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2158 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2159 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2160 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2161 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2162
411ef850
PH
2163PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2164 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2165 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2166 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2167 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2168 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2169 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2170
7befa435
PH
2171PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2172 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2173 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2174 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2175 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2176 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2177 been verified.
2178
48da4259 2179PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
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PH
2180 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2181 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2182 and authorization.)
2183
48da4259
PH
2184PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2185 if any retry times were supplied.
2186
d1d5595c
PH
2187PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2188 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2189 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2190
0ef732d9
PH
2191PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2192
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PH
2193PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2194
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PH
2195PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2196 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2197 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2198 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2199 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2200 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2201
8dce1a6f
PH
2202PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2203 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2204
17af4a17
PH
2205PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2206 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2207 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2208
2209PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2210 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2211 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2212 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2213 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2214 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2215 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2216 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2217 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2218
2219 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2220 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2221 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2222 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2223 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2224 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2225 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2226 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2227 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2228
2229 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2230 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2231 hammering the server.
2232
c1114884
PH
2233PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2234 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2235
7a0743eb
PH
2236PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2237
0d85fa3f
PH
2238PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2239 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2240 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2241
1bf43b78
PH
2242PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2243 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2244 one case where this was not true.
2245
520de300
PH
2246PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2247 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2248 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2249 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2250 fails.
2251
48c7f9e2
PH
2252PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2253 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2254 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2255 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2256 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2257 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2258 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2259 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2260 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2261 smtp transport.
2262
99ea1c86
PH
2263PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2264 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2265 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2266 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2267
a2042e78
PH
2268PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2269 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2270
4fbcfc2e
PH
2271PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2272 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2273 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2274
aa41d2de
PH
2275PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2276
af561417
PH
2277PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2278
3cc66b45
PH
2279PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2280
194cc0e4
PH
2281PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2282 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2283 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2284 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2285
a401ddaa
PH
2286PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2287 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2288
4e88a19f
PH
2289PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2290 be meaningful with "accept".
2291
d7d7b289
SC
2292SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2293 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2294
2295SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2296 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2297 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2298
2299SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2300 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2301 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2302 there is data to show.
2303 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2304
2305SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2306 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2307 as well as the number of messages.
2308
2309SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2310 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2311 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2312
2313SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2314 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2315 have a flag are now skipped.
2316
2317SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2318 Added the -emptyok flag.
2319
2320SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2321 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2322
0ea2a468
JJ
2323JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2324 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2325 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2326
2327JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2328 match 4.64-PH/13
2329
2330JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2331 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2332
2333JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2334
2335JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2336 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2337
8a10f5a4
PH
2338PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2339
30e18802
PH
2340PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2341 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2342 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2343 contravention of the specifications.
2344
55728a4f
PH
2345PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2346 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2347 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2348
d7837193
PH
2349PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2350 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2351 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2352
87054a31
PH
2353PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2354
ea2c01d2
MH
2355MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2356 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2357 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2358 some point in the past.
2359
e4fa6968
PH
2360PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2361 transport during callout processing was broken.
2362
56f5d9bd
PH
2363PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2364 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2365
922e1c28
PH
2366PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2367 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2368
21eb6e72
PH
2369PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2370 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2371
a0540757
PH
2372PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2373
944e9e9c 2374
478be7b0
SC
2375Exim version 4.63
2376-----------------
2377
2378SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2379 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2380
2381SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2382 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2383 there is data to show.
2384 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2385
2386SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2387 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2388
2b965a65
TF
2389TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2390 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2391
45b91596
PH
2392TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2393 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2394
c59f5781
TF
2395TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2396 submissions from trusted users.
2397
90fc3069
TF
2398TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2399 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2400
6083aca0
TF
2401TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2402 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2403 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2404 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2405 there is now a framework to start from.
2406
765b530f
PH
2407PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2408 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2409 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2410
4e167a8c
PH
2411PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2412
4608d683
PH
2413PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2414
b8dc3e4a
PH
2415PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2416
5418e93b
PH
2417PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2418 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2419 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2420
b4a9bda2
PH
2421PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2422 libradius.
2423
45b91596
PH
2424PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2425 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2426 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2427
5547e2c5
PH
2428PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2429 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2430 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2431 its arguments.
2432
dbcef0ea
PH
2433PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2434 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2435 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2436 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2437 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2438
25257489
PH
2439PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2440 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2441
c816d124
PH
2442PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2443
a9ccd69a
PH
2444PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2445 operations in malware.c.
2446
75fa1910
PH
2447PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2448 signatures.
2449
a7d7aa58
PH
2450PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2451 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2452 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2453 all.
2454
42119b09
PH
2455PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2456 statements to "add_header".
2457
41609df5
PH
2458PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2459 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2460
a5bd321b
PH
2461PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2462 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2463 latter.
2464
e85a7ad5 2465PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2466 so that it is now:
2467
e85a7ad5
PH
2468 ${if or { \
2469 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2470 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2471 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2472 }{no}{yes}}
2473
e85a7ad5
PH
2474 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2475 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2476
d8fe1c03
PH
2477PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2478 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2479
16282d2b
PH
2480PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2481 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2482 any possible encoding problems.
2483
35d40a98
PH
2484PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2485 but not after initializing Perl.
2486
034d99ab
PH
2487PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2488 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2489 apparently, which is not desirable.
2490
6ec97b1b
PH
2491PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2492 queries.
2493
e22ca4ac
JJ
2494JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2495 --not options
2496
2497JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2498
33d73e3b
PH
2499PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2500 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2501 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2502 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2503
9ecb03f3
PH
2504PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2505 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2506 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2507
084efe8d
PH
2508PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2509 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2510 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2511 0.12.
2512
366fc9f0
PH
2513PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2514 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2515 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2516 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2517 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2518
c59f5781 2519
c887c79e
TF
2520Exim version 4.62
2521-----------------
2522
2523TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2524 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2525
1cce3af8
PH
2526PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2527 patch).
2528
afb3eaaf
PH
2529PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2530 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2531 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2532 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2533 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2534 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2535 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2536 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2537 451 error is used.
2538
e173618b
PH
2539PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2540
dd16e114
PH
2541PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2542 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2543 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2544
f7fd3850
PH
2545PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2546 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2547 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2548 odd errors.
2549
d87df92c
PH
2550PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2551 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2552
7e9f683d
PH
2553PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2554 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2555 option (which defaults to 0600).
2556
bfad5236
PH
2557PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2558
01c490df
PH
2559PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2560 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2561 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2562 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2563 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2564 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2565 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2566
d6629cdc
PH
2567PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2568
1cce3af8 2569
214e2000
PH
2570Exim version 4.61
2571-----------------
2572
2573PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2574 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2575 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2576 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2577 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2578 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2579 addresses as local.
2580
f9daeae0
PH
2581PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2582 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2583
7e66e54d
PH
2584PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2585
c8ea1597
PH
2586PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2587 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2588 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2589 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2590 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2591 grumble.
2592
911f6fde
PH
2593PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2594 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2595
47ca6d6c
PH
2596PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2597 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2598 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2599 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2600 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2601
ed0e9820
PH
2602PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2603 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2604 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2605 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2606
eff37e47
PH
2607PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2608 be the same on different OS.
2609
1921d2ea
PH
2610PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2611 testing.
2612
b3f69ca8
JJ
2613JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2614 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2615
2616JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2617 in 4.61-PH/06
2618
424a1c63
PH
2619PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2620 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2621 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2622 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2623 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2624 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2625 bounce message.
2626
7a100415
PH
2627PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2628 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2629 when Exim was called.
2630
19b9dc85
PH
2631PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2632 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2633
309bd837
PH
2634PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2635 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2636 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2637 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2638
59e82a2a
PH
2639PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2640 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2641 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2642 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2643 changes:
2644
2645 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2646 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2647 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2648
2649 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2650 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2651 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2652
9edc04ce
PH
2653PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2654 feature).
2655
1349e1e5
PH
2656PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2657 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2658 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2659 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2660 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2661 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2662 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2663 values from the SRV records were lost.
2664
ea49d0e1
PH
2665PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2666 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2667 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2668
064a94c9
PH
2669PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2670 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2671 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2672
727071f8
PH
2673PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2674 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2675 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2676 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2677 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2678 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2679 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2680 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2681 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2682 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2683
f78eb7c6
PH
2684PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2685 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2686 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2687
21c28500
PH
2688PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2689 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2690
2691PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2692 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2693 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2694 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2695 is given.
2696
1688f43b
PH
2697PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2698 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2699 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2700
2701PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2702 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2703 PH/23 above applies.
2704
9675b384
PH
2705PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2706 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2707 (for which there is an explicit test).
2708
6a3f1455
PH
2709PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2710
dac79d3e
PH
2711PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2712 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2713 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2714 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2715 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2716
5977a0b3
PH
2717PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2718 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2719 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2720 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2721
c91535f3
PH
2722PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2723 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2724 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2725
0d46a8c8
PH
2726PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2727
278c6e6c
PH
2728PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2729
2cbb4081
PH
2730PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2731 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2732 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2733
3eef829e
PH
2734PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2735 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2736 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2737 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2738 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2739
1ab95fa6
PH
2740PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2741 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2742 the message gets confusing).
2743
230205fc
PH
2744PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2745 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2746 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2747 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2748
75e0e026
PH
2749PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2750 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2751 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2752 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2753 same order.
2754
2755PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2756 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2757 the different processes.
2758
145396a6
PH
2759PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2760
3cd34f13
PH
2761PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2762
11121d3d
JJ
2763JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2764 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2765
2766JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2767 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2768
2769JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2770 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2771 messages matching specified criteria.
2772
8def5aaf
PH
2773PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2774
929ba01c
PH
2775PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2776 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2777
2632889e
PH
2778PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2779 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2780 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2781 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2782 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2783 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2784 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2785 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2786 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2787 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2788
944a9c55
PH
2789PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2790 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2791 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2792
4a23603b
PH
2793PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2794
4730f942
PH
2795PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2796 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2797 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2798 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2799 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2800 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2801 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2802 the variable.
2803
30dba1e6
PH
2804PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2805 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2806
382afc6b
PH
2807PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2808
a86229cf
PH
2809PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2810
50c99ba6
PH
2811PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2812
d35e429d
PH
2813PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2814 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2815 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2816 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2817 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2818 size of the count of files.
2819
f90d018c
PH
2820PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2821
75def545
PH
2822PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2823 used in LMTP mode:
2824
2825 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2826 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2827 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2828 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2829
2830 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2831 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2832 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2833
2834PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2835 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2836 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2837 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2838 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2839
c46782ef
PH
2840PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2841 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2842
71fafd95
PH
2843PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2844 will now be deprecated.
2845
2c5db4fd
PH
2846PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2847
9cf6b11a
JJ
2848JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2849 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2850 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2851
2852JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2853 with very large, slow to parse queues
2854
2855JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2856
2857JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2858
898d150f
PH
2859PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2860 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2861 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2862 SMTP output lines.
2863
46218253
PH
2864PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2865 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2866 Sieve code now uses this.
2867
e97957bc
PH
2868PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2869 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2870
81e509d7
PH
2871PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2872 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2873
3d240ff7
PH
2874PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2875
b37c4101
PH
2876PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2877 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2878 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2879 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2880 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2881
79378e0f
PH
2882PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2883 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2884 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2885 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2886
e49c7bb4
PH
2887PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2888
d114ec46
PH
2889PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2890
f3d7df6c
PH
2891PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2892 is preferred over IPv4.
2893
715ab376
PH
2894PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2895 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2896 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2897 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2898 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2899 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2900 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2901
6b31b150
PH
2902PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2903 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2904 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2905
2906PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2907
d515a917
PH
2908PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2909 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2910 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2911 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2912 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2913 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2914 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2915 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2916 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2917 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2918 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2919
9b8fadde
PH
2920PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2921 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2922 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2923
214e2000 2924
5de37277
PH
2925Exim version 4.60
2926-----------------
2927
cc38ddbf
PH
2928PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2929
2930 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2931 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2932
2933 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2934 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2935 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2936
72fdd6ae
PH
2937PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2938
2939 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2940 not a single digit.
2941
2942 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2943 string.
2944
2945 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2946 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2947 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2948 silly things.
2949
2950 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2951 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2952
2953 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2954 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2955
cb741023
PH
2956PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2957 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2958 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2959
f174f16e
PH
2960PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2961 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2962
c25242d7
PH
2963PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2964 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2965
2966 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2967
2968 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2969 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2970 this:
2971
2972 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2973
82c19f95
PH
2974PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2975 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2976 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2977 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2978 identical. For example:
2979
2980 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2981
2982 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2983 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2984 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2985
d7ffbc12
PH
2986PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2987 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2988 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2989 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2990
9f526266
PH
2991PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2992 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2993 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2994 message.
2995
87fcc8b9
PH
2996PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2997
2998 o fixes some comments
2999 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3000 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3001 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3002 and documents the missing references header update
3003
3004 and most important:
3005
3006 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3007 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3008 result)
3009
456682f5
PH
3010PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3011 Electronic Mail") by including:
3012
3013 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3014
3015 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3016 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3017 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3018 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3019 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3020
3021 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3022
3023 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3024
3025 The auto-replied keyword:
3026
3027 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3028 message by an automatic process,
3029
3030 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3031
3032 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3033 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3034
3035 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3036 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3037 other messages.
3038
3e46c1aa
PH
3039PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3040 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3041
49826d12
PH
3042PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3043
eba0c039
PH
3044PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3045 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3046 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3047
a0d6ba8a
PH
3048PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3049 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3050 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3051
f0917727
PH
3052PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3053 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3054 and treats the condition as false.
3055
096fee00
PH
3056PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3057
024bd3c2
PH
3058PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3059 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3060 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3061 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3062 not changing the active code.
3063
3064 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3065 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3066
3067 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3068 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3069
df199fec
PH
3070PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3071 (Bugzilla #53).
3072
d27f1df3
PH
3073PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3074 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3075 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3076 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3077 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3078 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3079 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3080 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3081 the text comparison.
3082
96776534
PH
3083PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3084 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3085 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3086 The same fix has been applied.
3087
5de37277 3088
9a799bc0
PH
3089Exim version 4.54
3090-----------------
3091
3092PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3093 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3094 It now does.
3095
99a4b039
PH
3096PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3097 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3098
3099PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3100
4b233853
PH
3101PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3102 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3103 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3104 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3105 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3106
8857ccfd
PH
3107TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3108 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3109 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3110 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3111 or /domain=).
3112
433a2980
PH
3113PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3114 testing suite.
3115
3e46c1aa 3116
9a799bc0 3117
e3a311ba
TK
3118Exim version 4.53
3119-----------------
3120
3121TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3122 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3123
13b685f9
PH
3124PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3125
395ff96d
PH
3126PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3127
5b68f6e4
PH
3128PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3129 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3130 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3131
1ab52c69
PH
3132PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3133 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3134 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3135
b07e6aa3
PH
3136PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3137 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3138 operating systems.
3139
254e032f
PH
3140PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3141 ${stat: expansion item.
3142
3af76a81
PH
3143PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3144 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3145
2548ba04
PH
3146PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3147 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3148 file for comments.
3149
b6c6011d
PH
3150PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3151
cf39cf57
PH
3152PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3153 setting.
3154
f1513293
PH
3155PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3156 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3157
727549a4
PH
3158TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3159
af46795e
PH
3160PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3161 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3162 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3163 the end of the subprocess.
3164
d7b47fd0
PH
3165PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3166 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3167 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3168 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3169 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3170
ee744174
JJ
3171JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3172
b582ab87
PH
3173TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3174
41a13e0a
PH
3175PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3176 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3177
f625cc5a
PH
3178PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3179
3180PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3181
21f7af35
PH
3182PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3183 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3184 HP-UX compiler.
3185
31480e42
PH
3186PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3187
2d280592
PH
3188PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3189 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3190 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3191
7cd1141b
PH
3192PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3193 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3194
3195PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3196 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3197
750af86e
PH
3198PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3199 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3200
3201 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3202 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3203
3204 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3205 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3206 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3207 contributed by a Radius user.
3208
3209PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3210 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3211
4304270b
TK
3212TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3213 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3214
750af86e
PH
3215PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3216 available.
3217
64ffc24f
PH
3218PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3219 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3220 received.
3221
5dd9625b
PH
3222PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3223 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3224 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3225 header lines when this was not necessary.
3226
5591031b
PH
3227PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3228
ba18e66a
PH
3229PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3230 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3231 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3232 exists".
3233
9cec981f
PH
3234PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3235 -bV or -d is used.
3236
aa2b5c79
PH
3237PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3238 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3239 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3240 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3241
48a53b7f
PH
3242PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3243
1c59d63b
PH
3244PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3245
671012da
TK
3246TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3247
1509d3a8
PH
3248PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3249
3250PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3251 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3252 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3253 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3254 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3255 settings.
3256
3257PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3258
2fe1a124
PH
3259PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3260 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3261 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3262 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3263 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3264 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3265 which is clearly wrong.
3266
8800895a
PH
3267PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3268
ccfdb010
PH
3269PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3270 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3271 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3272 subsequently added.
3273
1130bfb0
PH
3274PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3275 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3276
ebcb507f
PH
3277PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3278
c35e155c
PH
3279PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3280 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3281
95d1f782
PH
3282PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3283 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3284
fd6de02e
PH
3285PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3286 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3287
58de37c5
PH
3288PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3289 recipients, not senders.
3290
261cf466
TF
3291TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3292 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3293
3ee512ff
PH
3294PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3295
e08c430f
PH
3296PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3297
bef5a11f
PH
3298PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3299 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3300 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3301 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3302
7546de58
TF
3303TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3304
e5d5a95f
TF
3305TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3306 clock is set back in time.
3307
2e88a017
TF
3308TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3309 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3310
a5f65aa4
TF
3311TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3312 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3313
e7726cbf
PH
3314PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3315 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3316 (see PH/47 above).
3317
a7fdad5b
TF
3318TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3319 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3320 header rewrites.
3321
6af56900
PH
3322PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3323 type ("H").
3324
0925ede6
PH
3325PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3326
66afa403
TF
3327TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3328 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3329 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3330
0154e85a
TF
3331TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3332 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3333 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3334 helo verification defer as a failure.
3335
16f12c76
PH
3336PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3337 actual error message.
3338
bbe902f0 3339
e5a9dba6
PH
3340Exim version 4.52
3341-----------------
3342
3343TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3344
22c3b60b
PH
3345PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3346 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3347 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3348 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3349
06a9b4b5
PH
3350TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3351
c1ac6996
PH
3352PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3353 can still be requested.
3354
9c7a242c
PH
3355PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3356 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3357 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3358 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3359
87ba3f5f
PH
3360TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3361 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3362 circumstances, but probably never did.
3363
3364PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3365 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3366 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3367 in the header line.
3368
29aba418
TF
3369TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3370
fe0dab11
TF
3371TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3372 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3373
11d337a4
TK
3374TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3375
3376TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3377
415c8f3b
PH
3378PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3379 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3380 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3381 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3382 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3383 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3384
958541e9
PH
3385PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3386 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3387 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3388 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3389 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3390 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3391
c206415f
TK
3392TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3393 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3394
2a4be8f9
PH
3395PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3396 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3397
1cba11c5
SC
3398SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3399 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3400
3401SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3402
3403SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3404
3405SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3406
3407SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3408
3409SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3410
3411SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3412
1005d00e
TK
3413TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3414
3415TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3416 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3417 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3418
3419TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3420 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3421 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3422 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3423
9b4768fa
PH
3424PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3425 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3426 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3427
3428PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3429 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3430 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3431 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3432
0d7eb84a
PH
3433PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3434 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3435 to be made).
3436
3437PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3438 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3439 should work with maildirs and everything.
3440
40727bee
TK
3441TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3442 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3443
554d2369
TF
3444TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3445 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3446
1f922db1
PH
3447PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3448 function for BDB 4.3.
3449
ef213c3b
PH
3450PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3451
8ac170f3
PH
3452PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3453 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3454 involved.
3455
b1c749bb
PH
3456PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3457 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3458 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3459 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3460 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3461 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3462
4aac9b49
PH
3463PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3464 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3465 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3466 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3467 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3468 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3469 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3470 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3471
294520c8
TK
3472TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3473 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3474 details.
3475
5bd022fe
PH
3476PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3477 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3478
90e9ce59
PH
3479PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3480 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3481 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3482 test. It is now used for both.
3483
5ea81592
PH
3484PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3485 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3486 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3487 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3488 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3489 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3490
c6c2dc1d
PH
3491PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3492 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3493 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3494 string_vformat().
3495
fffffe4c
PH
3496PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3497 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3498 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3499
9a26b6b2
PH
3500PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3501 experimental DomainKeys support:
3502
3503 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3504 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3505 the control was given.
3506
3507 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3508
4aee0225
PH
3509PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3510
32d668a5
PH
3511PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3512
8187c3f3
PH
3513PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3514 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3515 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3516 db.h files).
3517
ff790e47 3518PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3519 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3520 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3521 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3522 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3523 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3524 course.
ff790e47 3525
5417f6d1
PH
3526PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3527 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3528 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3529 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3530 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3531 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3532
59cf8544
PH
3533PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3534 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3535 do -d+all out of habit.
3536
e7ad8a65
PH
3537PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3538 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3539 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3540
ade42478
PH
3541PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3542 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3543 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3544 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3545 record types that Exim uses.
3546
182ad5cf
PH
3547PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3548 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3549 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3550 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3551 non-existent file that was broken.
3552
b0d9fc80
TK
3553TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3554 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3555
3556TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3557 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3558 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3559
3560TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3561
47c7a64a
PH
3562PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3563 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3564 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3565 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3566 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3567 same time.
3568
a388bce4
SC
3569SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3570 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3571 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3572 at a slight CPU cost.
3573
3574SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3575 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3576
3577SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3578 by Marc Sherman.
3579
0793e4ed
SC
3580SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3581
c58b88df
PH
3582PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3583 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3584
e7ad8a65 3585
7982096b
PH
3586Exim version 4.51
3587-----------------
3588
1a46a8c5
PH
3589TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3590 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3591
2f079f46 3592TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3593
3594TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3595
3596PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3597 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3598
3599PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3600 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3601 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3602 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3603 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3604 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3605 file.
3606
3607PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3608 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3609 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3610 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3611 these two options.
3612
3613PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3614 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3615 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3616 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3617 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3618 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3619 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3620 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3621
3622PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3623 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3624
3625PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3626 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3627 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3628 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3629 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3630 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3631
3632PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3633 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3634 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3635 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3636
3637PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3638 Finch).
3639
3640PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3641 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3642
49c2d5ea
PH
3643PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3644 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3645 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3646 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3647 message.
49c2d5ea 3648
bf759a8b
PH
3649PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3650
83364d30
PH
3651PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3652 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3653
7999bbd7
PH
3654PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3655 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3656 to what was transported.)
3657
7dbf77c9
PH
3658TF/01 Added $received_time.
3659
74e0617f
PH
3660PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3661 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3662 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3663 spamd_address settings.
3664
2f079f46
PH
3665PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3666 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3667 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3668 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3669 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3670
8c841523
PH
3671PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3672
7766a4f0
PH
3673PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3674 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3675 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3676 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3677 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3678
8b417f2c
PH
3679PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3680 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3681
901f42cb
PH
3682PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3683 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3684 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3685 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3686 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3687 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3688 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3689 for failure.
3690
f9b9210e
PH
3691PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3692 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3693 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3694 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3695 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3696 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3697 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3698 "input=".
3699
54cdb463
PH
3700PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3701
cf00dad6
PH
3702PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3703 driver and ACL definitions.
3704
acb1b346
PH
3705PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3706 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3707
c5ddb310
PH
3708PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3709 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3710 understands it better than I do:
3711
3712 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3713 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3714
3715 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3716 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3717 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3718 => three warnings about OTP not working
3719 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3720
3721 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3722 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3723 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3724 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3725 for each call.)
3726 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3727 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3728
3729 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3730 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3731 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3732
31619da6
PH
3733PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3734 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3735 specified.
3736
bebaf0fc
PH
3737PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3738 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3739 "Linux".
3740
475fe28a
PH
3741PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3742 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3743 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3744
3745 warn !verify = sender
3746 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3747
3748 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3749 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3750
7e8bec7a
PH
3751PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3752
3753 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3754 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3755
3756 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3757 nomenclature these days.)
3758
e4a89c47
PH
3759PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3760 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3761
5ca2a9a1
PH
3762PH/30 In these circumstances:
3763 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3764 . First host does not offer TLS;
3765 . First host accepts first address;
3766 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3767 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3768 . Second host accepts second address.
3769 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3770 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3771 address.
7e8bec7a 3772
c688b954
PH
3773PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3774 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3775 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3776 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3777 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3778
fed77020
PH
3779PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3780 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3781
7fe1560f
PH
3782PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3783 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3784
ebb6e6d5
PH
3785PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3786 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3787 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3788
9c4e8f60
PH
3789PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3790 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3791 overlooked.
3792
3793PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3794
d7174846
PH
3795PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3796 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3797 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3798 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3799 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3800 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3801 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3802
3803 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3804 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3805 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3806 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3807 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3808
3809 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3810 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3811 routed further.
3812
cfe75fc3
PH
3813PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3814 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3815 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3816 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3817 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3818 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3819
be22d70e
PH
3820PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3821
0612b098
PH
3822PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3823 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3824 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3825 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3826 printable escape sequences.
3827
2e0c1448
PH
3828PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3829 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3830 body only.
3831
447d236c
PH
3832PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3833 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3834 are as follows:
3835
3836 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3837 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3838 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3839 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3840 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3841
3842 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3843 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3844 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3845
d20976dc
PH
3846PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3847
f656d135
PH
3848PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3849 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3850 play with."
3851
2e2a30b4
PH
3852PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3853 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3854 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3855 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3856 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3857 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3858 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3859 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3860 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3861 the log output.
3862
9176e9f0
PH
3863PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3864 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3865 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3866 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3867 "make".
3868
7982096b 3869
bbe902f0
PH
3870A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3871----------------------------------------
3872
3873Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3874changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3875needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3876in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3877that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3878release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3879from 4.43.
3880
3881I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
38824.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3883those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3884historical information.
3885
3886
f7b63901 3887Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3888-----------------
3889
5fe762f6
PH
3890 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3891
139059f6 3892 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3893 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3894
7086e875
PH
3895 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3896 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3897 place.
3898
35af9f61
PH
3899 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3900 filter fails to execute.
3901
b668c215
PH
3902 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3903 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3904 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3905 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3906 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3907
a494b1e1
PH
3908 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3909
3910 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3911 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3912 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3913 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3914
c5fcb476
PH
3915 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3916 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3917 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3918 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3919 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3920
69358f02
PH
3921 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3922
5be20824
PH
392310. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3924
eb2c0248
PH
392511. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3926 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3927 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3928 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3929
2a3eea10
PH
393012. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3931 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3932 sender verification.
3933
393413. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3935 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3936
23c7ff99
PH
393714. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3938
4deaf07d
PH
393915. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3940 connection timeout.
3941
926e1192
PH
394216. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3943 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3944
650edc6f
PH
394517. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3946 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3947
2c7db3f5
PH
394818. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3949 information about exactly what failed.
3950
3d235903
PH
395119. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3952
7c7ad977
PH
395320. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3954 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3955 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3956
981756db
PH
395721. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3958 It is now set to "smtps".
3959
d4eb88df
PH
396022. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3961 ignore_target_hosts.
3962
396323. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3964 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3965 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3966 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3967 "[x.x.x.x]".
3968
7d468ab8
PH
396924. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3970 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3971 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3972
397325. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3974 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3975 wake it up if nothing else does.
3976
62c0818f
PH
397726. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3978 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3979 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3980 end up negative.
3981
26034054
PH
398227. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3983 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3984
af66f652
PH
398528. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3986
90af77f4
PH
398729. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3988 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3989 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3990 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3991 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3992 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3993 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3994 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3995
d8ef3577
PH
399630. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3997 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3998 than one IP address.
3999
5cb8cbc6
PH
400031. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4001 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4002 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4003 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4004
14702f5b
PH
400532. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4006 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4007 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4008 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4009 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4010 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4011
063b1e99
PH
401233. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4013 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4014 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4015 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4016
652e1b65
PH
401734. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4018 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4019 respected.
4020
6f0c9a4f
PH
402135. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4022 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4023 $sender_host_address.
4024
33397d19
PH
402536. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4026 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4027 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4028 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4029 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4030 very small.
4031
7bb56e1f
PH
403237. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4033
4034 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4035 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4036
ea3bc19b
PH
4037 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4038 just the host names, not the priorities.
4039
4040 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4041 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4042 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4043
ea3bc19b 4044 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4045 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4046
0bcb2a0e
PH
404738. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4048 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4049 domain.
4050
2ac0e484
PH
405139. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4052
4e1fde53
PH
405340. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4054 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4055
de365ded
PH
405641. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4057 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4058 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4059
f05da2e8
PH
406042. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4061
d6453af2
PH
406243. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4063
f7b63901
PH
406444. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4065
406645. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4067 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4068 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4069 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4070 because the tests only now provoked it.
4071
a444213a
PH
407246. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4073 (this can affect the format of dates).
4074
0ec020ea
PH
407547. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4076 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4077 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4078 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4079
b1206957
PH
408048. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4081
408249. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4083 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4084 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4085 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4086
26dd5a95
PH
408750. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4088 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4089 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4090
343b2385
PH
409151. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4092 autoreply.
4093
1c5466b9
PH
409452. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4095 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4096 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4097 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4098 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4099 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4100 is going on).
4101
55ee9ee3
PH
410253. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4103 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4104 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4105 the line.
4106
d38f8232
PH
410754. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4108 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4109 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4110
4111 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4112 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4113 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4114 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4115 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4116 so I produce this patch..."
4117
3295e65b
PH
4118 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4119 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4120 is not defined.
4121
7102e136
PH
412255. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4123 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4124 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4125 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4126 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4127
3ca0ba97
PH
412856. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4129
c2bcbe20
PH
413057. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4131 long debug lines gets shown.
4132
18ce445d
PH
413358. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4134 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4135
1f5b4c3d
PH
413659. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4137
4138 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4139 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4140 of $primary_hostname.
4141
b975ba52
PH
414260. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4143 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4144 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4145 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4146 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4147 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4148 by change 4.50/55 above.
4149
4150 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4151 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4152 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4153 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4154 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4155 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4156 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4157
415861. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4159 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4160 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4161 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4162
17ffcae7
PH
416362. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4164 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4165
d95f9fdb
PH
416663. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4167 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4168 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4169 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4170 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4171
86b8287f
PH
417264. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4173 This has been fixed.
4174
60dc5e56
PH
417565. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4176 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4177 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4178 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4179 the caching.)
4180
533244af
PH
418166. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4182
a5a28604
PH
418367. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4184 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4185 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4186 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4187
7e634d24
PH
418868. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4189 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4190
3e11c26b
PH
419169. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4192 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4193 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4194
6729cf78
PH
419570. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4196 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4197 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4198 message there.
4199
00f00ca5
PH
420071. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4201 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4202 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4203
c9bdd01c
PH
420472. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4205 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4206 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4207 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4208
d43194df
PH
420973. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4210 during host lookups.
4211
fe5b5d0b
PH
421274. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4213 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4214
4215 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4216
76a2d7ba
PH
421775. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4218 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4219 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4220 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4221 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4222 background.
4223
422476. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4225 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4226
04f7d5b9
PH
422777. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4228 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4229 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4230
bc60667e
PH
423178. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4232
bb6e88ff
PH
423379. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4234 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4235 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4236 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4237 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4238 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4239 process earlier.
4240
1e70f85b
PH
424180. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4242 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4243 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4244 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4245 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4246
424781. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4248 tables).
4249
4e01f9d6
PH
425082. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4251
1ee1cef2
PH
425283. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4253 "vacation" handling.
4254
6e2b4ccc
PH
425584. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4256 OS variants using glibc.
4257
8e669ac1
PH
425885. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4259
495ae4b0 4260
bbe902f0
PH
4261----------------------------------------------------
4262See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4263----------------------------------------------------
4264
4265
4266Exim version 4.44
4267-----------------
4268
4269 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4270 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4271 transport
4272
4273 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4274 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4275 place.
4276
4277 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4278 filter fails to execute.
4279
4280 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4281 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4282 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4283 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4284 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4285
4286 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4287 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4288 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4289 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4290
4291 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4292 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4293 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4294 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4295 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4296
4297 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4298
4299 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4300 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4301 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4302 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4303
4304 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4305 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4306 sender verification.
4307
430810. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4309 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4310
431111. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4312 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4313
431412. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4315 ignore_target_hosts.
4316
431713. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4318 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4319 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4320 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4321 "[x.x.x.x]".
4322
432314. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4324 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4325 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4326
432715. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4328 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4329 wake it up if nothing else does.
4330
433116. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4332 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4333 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4334 end up negative.
4335
433617. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4337 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4338
ea3a6f44 433918. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4340
434119. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4342 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4343 empty pattern.
4344
434520. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4346 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4347 one IP address.
4348
ea3a6f44
NM
434921. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4350 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4351 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4352 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4353 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4354 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4355
ea3a6f44
NM
435622. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4357 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4358 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4359
436023. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4361 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4362 $sender_host_address.
4363
436424. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4365
ea3a6f44
NM
436625. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4367 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4368 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4369
437026. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4371 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4372
ea3a6f44
NM
437327. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4374 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4375
ea3a6f44
NM
437628. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4377 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4378 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4379 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4380
438129. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4382 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4383 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4384
ea3a6f44
NM
438530. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4386 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4387 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4388 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4389
ea3a6f44
NM
439031. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4391 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4392 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4393
ea3a6f44
NM
439431. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4395 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4396
ea3a6f44
NM
439732. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4398 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4399 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4400 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4401 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4402 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4403 is going on).
bbe902f0 4404
ea3a6f44
NM
440533. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4406 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4407 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4408 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4409 CAN-2005-0021
4410
ea3a6f44
NM
441134. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4412 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4413 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4414 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4415 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4416 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4417 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4418
4419 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4420 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4421 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4422 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4423 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4424 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4425 CAN-2005-0021
4426
ea3a6f44
NM
442735. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4428 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4429 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4430 CAN-2005-0022
4431
ea3a6f44
NM
443236. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4433 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4434 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4435 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4436 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4437
ea3a6f44
NM
443837. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4439 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4440 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4441 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4442 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4443
ea3a6f44
NM
444438. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4445 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4446 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4447 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4448 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4449
4450
495ae4b0
PH
4451Exim version 4.43
4452-----------------
4453
4454 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4455 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4456 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4457 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4458 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4459 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4460 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4461
4462 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4463 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4464 the delivery.
4465
4466 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4467
4468 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4469
4470 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4471 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4472 to local_scan().
4473
4474 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4475 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4476 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4477 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4478 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4479
4480 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4481 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4482
4483 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4484
4485 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4486
448710. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4488 header_sender only.
4489
449011. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4491 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4492
449312. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4494 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4495 affecting debugging statements).
4496
449713. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4498
449914. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4500 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4501 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4502 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4503 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4504 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4505 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4506 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4507 after the received time, and all would be well.
4508
450915. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4510 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4511 condition in an expansion string.
4512
451316. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4514
451517. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4516 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4517 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4518 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4519 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4520 job under whatever limits there are.
4521
452218. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4523
452419. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4525 space).
4526
452720. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4528 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4529 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4530 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4531 return path is set.
4532
453321. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4534 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4535 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4536 binary data in such strings.
4537
453822. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4539
454023. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4541 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4542 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4543 failure, which is pointless.
4544
454524. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4546
454725. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4548
454926. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4550 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4551 Sender: header lines.
4552
455327. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4554 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4555 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4556
455728. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4558 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4559 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4560 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4561 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4562 happens.
4563
456429. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4565 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4566 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4567 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4568 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4569
457030. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4571 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4572 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4573 1024.
4574
457531. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4576 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4577
457832. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4579 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4580
458133. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4582
458332. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4584
458533. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4586
458734. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4588 syntax error.
4589
459035. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4591
459236. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4593
459437. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4595 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4596 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4597 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4598
459938. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4600 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4601
4602
4603Exim version 4.42
4604-----------------
4605
4606 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4607 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4608 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4609 it was not quoted.
4610 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4611 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4612 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4613 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4614 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4615 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4616
4617 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4618 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4619 verification failure".
4620
4621 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4622 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4623 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4624 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4625
4626 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4627 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4628 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4629 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4630 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4631 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4632 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4633 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4634 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4635 treated as a timeout.
4636
4637 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4638 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4639 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4640 not set for Exim filters).
4641
4642 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4643 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4644 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4645
4646 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4647
4648 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4649 try to make them clearer.
4650
4651 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4652 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4653
4654 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4655
4656 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4657
465810. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4659 only the Cygwin environment.
4660
466111. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4662 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4663 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4664 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4665 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4666
466712. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4668 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4669 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4670 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4671 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4672 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4673 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4674
467513. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4676 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4677
467814. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4679
4680 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4681 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4682 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4683
4684 To: susanne@some.where
4685
4686 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4687 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4688 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4689 of addresses in From: header lines).
4690
4691 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4692 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4693 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4694
4695 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4696 treated as non-personal.
4697
4698 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4699 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4700
470115. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4702
470316. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4704
470517. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4706 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4707 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4708
470918. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4710 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4711
471219. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4713 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4714 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4715 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4716 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4717 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4718
471920. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4720 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4721 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4722 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4723 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4724 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4725 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4726 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4727
4728 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4729
473021. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4731 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4732
473322. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4734 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4735 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4736
473723. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4738 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4739
474024. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4741 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4742 rather than long int.
4743
474425. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4745
474626. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4747
4748
4749Exim version 4.41
4750-----------------
4751
4752 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4753 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4754 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4755 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4756 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4757 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4758
4759
4760Exim version 4.40
4761-----------------
4762
4763 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4764 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4765
4766 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4767 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4768 socklen_t is defined.
4769
4770 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4771 always exist.
4772
4773 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4774 configured.
4775
4776 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4777 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4778 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4779 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4780 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4781
4782 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4783 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4784 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4785 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4786
4787 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4788 of flapping under certain conditions.
4789
4790 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4791 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4792 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4793
4794 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4795
479610. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4797
479811. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4799 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4800 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4801 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4802
480312. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4804 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4805 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4806 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4807 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4808 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4809 preserved with the message after it was received.
4810
481113. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4812 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4813 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4814 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4815 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4816 test suite worked just fine.
4817
481814. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4819 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4820 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4821
482215. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4823 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4824 string.
4825
482616. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4827 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4828 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4829 does not fully solve it.
4830
483117. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4832 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4833 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4834 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4835 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4836
483718. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4838 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4839 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4840
484119. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4842 string, for example:
4843
4844 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4845
4846 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4847 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4848 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4849 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4850 the routers could not see them.
4851
485220. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4853 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4854
485521. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4856 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4857 output).
4858
485922. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4860 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4861 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4862 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4863 that needed quoting.
4864
486523. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4866 was not being matched caselessly.
4867
486824. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4869 backslashes.
4870
487125. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4872 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4873 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4874 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4875 when use_sender is false.
4876
487726. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4878
487927. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4880
488128. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4882
488329. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4884 the configuration file.
4885
488630. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4887 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4888
488931. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4890
489132. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4892 bytes in the message body.
4893
489433. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4895 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4896 delivery.
4897
489834. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4899
490035. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4901
490236. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4903 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4904 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4905 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4906 another IP address.
4907
4908
4909Exim version 4.34
4910-----------------
4911
4912 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4913 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4914
4915 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4916 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4917 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4918 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4919 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4920
4921 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4922 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4923
4924 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4925 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4926 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4927
4928 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4929 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4930 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4931
4932 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4933 for routers.
4934
4935 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4936 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4937 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4938 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4939 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4940 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4941 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4942
4943
4944Exim version 4.33
4945-----------------
4946
4947 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4948 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4949 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4950 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4951 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4952 default (and expected) setting.
4953
4954 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4955 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4956 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4957 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4958
4959 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4960 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4961
4962 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4963 in domain lists.
4964
4965 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4966 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4967 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4968 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4969 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4970 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4971
4972 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4973 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4974 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4975
4976 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4977 part (NOT match_host).
4978
4979 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4980
4981 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4982 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4983 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4984 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4985 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4986 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4987 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4988 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4989 the same named file.
4990
499110. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4992 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4993 when Exim is built.
4994
499511. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4996 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4997 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4998 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4999 a host name.
5000
500112. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5002 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5003 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5004
500513. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5006
500714. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5008
500915. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5010
501116. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5012 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5013
501417. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5015 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5016 before starting the TLS session.
5017
501818. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5019
502019. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5021 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5022
502320. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5024 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5025 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5026 colon in the middle).
5027
5028
5029Exim version 4.32
5030-----------------
5031
5032 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5033 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5034 multiple configurations are in use.
5035
5036 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5037 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5038 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5039 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5040 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5041 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5042
5043 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5044 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5045
5046 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5047 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5048 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5049
5050 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5051 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5052 occurs.
5053
5054 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5055 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5056
5057 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5058
5059 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5060 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5061
5062 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5063
5064 -prval:sval
5065
5066 is equivalent to
5067
5068 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5069
5070 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5071 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5072 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5073 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5074 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5075
507610. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5077 Exim's behaviour:
5078
5079 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5080 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5081 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5082 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5083 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5084 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5085
5086 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5087 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5088 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5089 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5090 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5091 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5092 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5093 string.
5094
5095 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5096 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5097 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5098 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5099 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5100
510111. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5102
510312. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5104 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5105 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5106
510713. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5108
510914. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5110 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5111 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5112 information.
5113
511415. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5115 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5116
511716. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5118 Three changes have been made:
5119
5120 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5121 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5122 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5123 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5124 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5125
5126 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5127 been restored.
5128
5129 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5130 the modified behaviour.
5131
5132
5133Exim version 4.31
5134-----------------
5135
5136 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5137 Larry Rosenman.
5138
5139 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5140 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5141
5142 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5143 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5144 try to track down a specific problem.
5145
5146 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5147 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5148 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5149
5150 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5151 warning.
5152
5153 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5154 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5155 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5156 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5157 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5158 some earlier ones do not.
5159
5160 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5161
5162 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5163 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5164 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5165 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5166 address literals are enabled, of course).
5167
5168 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5169
517010. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5171 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5172 by a command such as
5173
5174 exim -f "" ...
5175
5176 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5177
517811. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5179
518012. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5181 remained set. It is now erased.
5182
518313. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5184 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5185
518614. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5187 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5188 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5189 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5190 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5191 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5192 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5193 appropriate error code.
5194
519515. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5196 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5197 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5198 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5199 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5200 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5201
520216. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5203 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5204 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5205
520617. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5207 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5208 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5209 terminate the header.
5210
521118. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5212 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5213 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5214
521519. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5216 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5217 (4.30/29). In particular:
5218
5219 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5220 imposed.
5221
5222 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5223 to write a maildirsize file.
5224
5225 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5226 the transport, the new value overrides.
5227
5228 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5229 count.
5230
523120. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5232 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5233 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5234 space or a tab.
5235
523621. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5237 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5238 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5239 the fallback hosts.
5240
524122. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5242 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5243 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5244
524523. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5246 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5247 using a union.
5248
524924. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5250 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5251 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5252
525325. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5254
525526. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5256
525727. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5258
525928. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5260 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5261 become corrupted.
5262
526329. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5264 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5265 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5266 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5267 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5268 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5269 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5270 too great.
5271
527230. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5273 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5274 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5275 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5276 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5277 incorrectly.
5278
527931. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5280 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5281 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5282 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5283 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5284 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5285 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5286 cached value only when the same options are set.
5287
528832. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5289
529033. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5291 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5292 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5293 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5294 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5295
529634: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5297 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5298 it is clearly obsolete.
5299
530035. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5301 transport.
5302
530336. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5304 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5305 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5306 times.
5307
530837. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5309 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5310 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5311 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5312 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5313
531438. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5315 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5316 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5317 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5318
531939. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5320
5321 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5322
5323 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5324 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5325 2^31.
5326
532740. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5328 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5329 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5330 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5331 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5332 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5333 $localpart_data.
5334
533541. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5336 with the -f command-line option.
5337
533842. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5339 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5340 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5341 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5342 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5343 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5344
534543. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5346 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5347 line.
5348
534944. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5350 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5351 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5352 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5353 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5354 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5355 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5356 buffer is too small.
5357
535845. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5359 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5360
536146. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5362 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5363 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5364 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5365 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5366 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5367 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5368 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5369 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5370
537147. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5372 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5373 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5374
537548. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5376 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5377 ACL").
5378
537949. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5380 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5381 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5382 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5383 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5384
538550. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5386 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5387 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5388 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5389 is set.
5390
539151. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5392
539352. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5394
539553. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5396 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5397
539854. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5399 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5400 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5401
540255. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5403 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5404 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5405 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5406 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5407
540856. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5409 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5410 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5411 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5412 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5413 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5414 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5415
541657. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5417 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5418 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5419 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5420 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5421 the test of how many are available.
5422
542358. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5424 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5425 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5426 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5427 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5428 new message is started.
5429
543059. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5431 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5432
543360. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5434 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5435
543661. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5437 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5438 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5439 is no long logged.
5440
544162. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5442 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5443 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5444 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5445 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5446 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5447 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5448
544963. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5450 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5451 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5452 interpreted as octal.
5453
545464. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5455 setting.
5456
545765. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5458 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5459 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5460 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5461 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5462 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5463
546466. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5465 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5466 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5467 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5468
5469 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5470 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5471 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5472 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5473
5474 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5475 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5476 is a bug fix.
5477
5478 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5479 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5480
548167. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5482
548368. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5484 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5485 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5486 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5487
548869. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5489 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5490 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5491 supplied", which is not helpful.
5492
549370. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5494 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5495 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5496
549771. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5498 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5499 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5500 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5501 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5502 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5503 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5504 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5505
550672. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5507 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5508 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5509 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5510 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5511
551273. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5513 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5514 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5515 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5516 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5517 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5518
551974. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5520 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5521 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5522
552375. Added write_rejectlog option.
5524
552576. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5526 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5527 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5528 variables.
5529
553077. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5531
553278. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5533 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5534 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5535 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5536 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5537 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5538 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5539 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5540
554179. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5542 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5543 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5544 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5545 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5546
554780. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5548 Haardt.
5549
555081. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5551 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5552 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5553 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5554 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5555 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5556 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5557 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5558 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5559
5560
5561Exim version 4.30
5562-----------------
5563
5564 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5565 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5566 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5567
5568 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5569 fixed.
5570
5571 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5572 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5573 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5574
5575 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5576 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5577 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5578 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5579 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5580 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5581
5582 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5583 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5584 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5585 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5586 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5587 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5588 the Exim test suite.
5589
5590 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5591 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5592 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5593 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5594
5595 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5596 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5597 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5598 specify it in this variable.
5599
5600 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5601 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5602 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5603 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5604
5605 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5606 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5607 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5608 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5609
5610 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5611 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5612 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5613 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5614 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5615
5616 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5617
561810. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5619 they are logged.
5620
562111. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5622 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5623 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5624 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5625 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5626
562712. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5628 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5629
563013. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5631 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5632 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5633 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5634 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5635
563614. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5637 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5638
563915. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5640 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5641 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5642
564316. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5644 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5645
564617. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5647 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5648
564918. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5650 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5651 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5652
565319. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5654 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5655
565620. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5657 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5658 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5659 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5660
566121. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5662
566322. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5664 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5665 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5666 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5667
566823. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5669
567024. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5671 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5672
567325. Added .include_if_exists.
5674
567526. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5676 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5677 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5678 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5679 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5680 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5681
568227. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5683
568428. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5685 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5686 this.
5687
568829. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5689
569030. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5691 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5692
5693 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5694 550 Sender verify failed
5695
5696 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5697 the final line of the response.
5698
569931. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5700 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5701 all other user lookups.
5702
570332. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5704 delivery time.
5705
570633. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5707 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5708 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5709 result into an int without checking.
5710
571134. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5712 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5713 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5714
571535. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5716 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5717 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5718 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5719
572036. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5721 correctly.
5722
572337. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5724 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5725
572638. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5727 to the empty sender.
5728
572939. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5730 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5731 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5732 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5733 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5734 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5735 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5736 panic log.
5737
573840. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5739 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5740 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5741 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5742 used.
5743
574441. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5745 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5746
574742. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5748 timestamps.
5749
575043. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5751 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5752
575344. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5754
575545. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5756 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5757 logs.
5758
575946. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5760 as soon as it is encountered.
5761
576247. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5763
576448. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5765 rewritten to "<>".
5766
576749. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5768 recognizes a tab character.
5769
577050. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5771 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5772 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5773 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5774
577551. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5776
577752. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5778 crash.
5779
578053. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5781
578254. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5783
578455. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5785 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5786 2822.
5787
578856. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5789 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5790 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5791 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5792 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5793
579457. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5795 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5796
579758. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5798 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5799 list (.included file names were always shown).
5800
580159. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5802 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5803 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5804 root at that time.
5805
580660. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5807 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5808
580961. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5810
581162. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5812
581363. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5814
581564. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5816 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5817 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5818 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5819 failures to open the logs.
5820
582165. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5822 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5823 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5824 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5825 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5826 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5827 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5828
5829
5830Exim version 4.24
5831-----------------
5832
5833 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5834 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5835 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5836 change 4.23/1.
5837
5838 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5839 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5840 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5841
5842 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5843 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5844 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5845
5846 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5847 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5848 causing some misleading effects.
5849
5850 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5851 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5852 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5853
5854 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5855 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5856 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5857 queue-runner function directly.
5858
5859
5860Exim version 4.23
5861-----------------
5862
5863 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5864 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5865
5866 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5867 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5868 was always written to the default place.
5869
5870 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5871 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5872 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5873
5874 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5875
5876 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5877
5878 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5879 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5880 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5881
5882 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5883 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5884 must start.
5885
5886 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5887 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5888 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5889
5890 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5891 command line option is disabled.
5892
5893 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5894 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5895
5896 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5897
5898 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5899
5900 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5901 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5902
590310. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5904
590511. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5906 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5907 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5908 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5909 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5910 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5911
591212. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5913 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5914 timeout.
5915
591613. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5917 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5918
591914. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5920 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5921
592215. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5923 received was valid base64.
5924
592516. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5926 name of the variable that was being set.
5927
592817. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5929
593018. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5931 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5932 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5933 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5934 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5935 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5936
593719. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5938
593920. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5940 nor realm was specified.
5941
594221. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5943 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5944 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5945 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5946
594722. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5948 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5949 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5950
595123. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5952 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5953 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5954
595524. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5956 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5957 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5958 some systems use these upper case variants.
5959
596025. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5961 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5962 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5963 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5964
596526. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5966
596727. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5968 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5969
597028. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5971 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5972 expansion variable.
5973
597429. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5975
597630. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5977 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5978 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5979 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5980
598131. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5982 using it.
5983
598432. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5985 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5986 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5987
598833. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5989 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5990
599134. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5992 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5993 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5994 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5995
599635. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5997 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5998 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5999
600036. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6001
600237. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6003 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6004 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6005 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6006 aborted.
6007
600838. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6009 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6010 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6011
601239. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6013
601440. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6015 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6016
601741. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6018 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6019
602042. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6021 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6022 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6023 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6024 when emails are that large.
6025
6026
6027
6028Exim version 4.22
6029-----------------
6030
6031 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6032 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6033
6034 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6035 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6036 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6037
6038 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6039 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6040 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6041
6042 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6043 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6044 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6045 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6046 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6047
6048 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6049 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6050 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6051 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6052 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6053 ever.
6054
6055 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6056 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6057 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6058 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6059 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6060 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6061 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6062 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6063 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6064 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6065 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6066 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6067 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6068 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6069
6070 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6071 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6072 parameterised it.
6073
6074 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6075 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6076 error should be diagnosed.
6077
6078 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6079 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6080 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6081 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6082 appeared instead of "NULL".
6083
608410. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6085 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6086 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6087 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6088 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6089 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6090 proceeds).
6091
6092 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6093 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6094 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6095
6096
6097Exim version 4.21
6098-----------------
6099
6100 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6101 or receiver verification errors.
6102
6103 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6104 name.
6105
6106 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6107 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6108 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6109 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6110
6111 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6112 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6113 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6114 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6115 shouldn't happen again.
6116
6117 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6118 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6119 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6120
6121 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6122 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6123
6124 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6125
6126 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6127 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6128
6129 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6130 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6131 RFC.
6132
613310. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6134 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6135 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6136
613711. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6138 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6139 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6140 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6141
614212. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6143 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6144 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6145 to define what should happen).
6146
614713. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6148 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6149 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6150
615114. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6152
615315. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6154
615516. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6156 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6157
615817. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6159 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6160 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6161 structure in all cases.
6162
6163 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6164 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6165 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6166 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6167
616818. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6169 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6170 domain name.
6171
617219. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6173 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6174
617520. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6176 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6177
617821. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6179 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6180 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6181
618222. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6183 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6184 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6185
618623. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6187 the book and for uniformity.
6188
618924. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6190
619125. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6192 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6193 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6194 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6195 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6196 non-existent command as the problem.
6197
619826. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6199 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6200 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6201
620227. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6203
620428. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6205 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6206 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6207
620829. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6209 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6210 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6211 timestamps using strftime().
6212
621330. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6214 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6215
621632. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6217 transport-time rewrites.
6218
621933. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6220 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6221 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6222 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6223
622434. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6225 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6226
622735. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6228 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6229 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6230 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6231 comma and a space.
6232
623336. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6234 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6235 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6236 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6237 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6238 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6239 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6240
624137. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6242 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6243 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6244 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6245 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6246
624738. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6248 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6249 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6250 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6251 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6252 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6253 remaining text gets split now.
6254
625539. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6256 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6257 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6258 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6259
626040. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6261 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6262 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6263 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6264 $return_path.
6265
626641. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6267 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6268 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6269 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6270 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6271 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6272 passed through if needed.
6273
627442. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6275 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6276 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6277 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6278 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6279 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6280
628143. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6282 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6283 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6284 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6285 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6286
628744. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6288 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6289 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6290 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6291 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6292
629345. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6294 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6295 noticed.
6296
629746. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6298 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6299 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6300 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6301 mayhem of various kinds.
6302
630347. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6304 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6305 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6306 the right test for positive values.
6307
630848. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6309 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6310 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6311 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6312 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6313 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6314 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6315 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6316 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6317 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6318 envelope.
6319
632049. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6321 module.
6322
632350. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6324 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6325 forbidding it.
6326
632751. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6328 the existing equality matching.
6329
633052. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6331 dealing with inode numbers.
6332
633353. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6334 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6335 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6336
633754. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6338 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6339 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6340 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6341 local_scan().
6342
634355. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6344 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6345 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6346 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6347 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6348 relay addresses has also been removed.
6349
635056. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6351
635257. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6353 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6354 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6355
635658. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6357 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6358 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6359 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6360 processing applies to CR:
6361
6362 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6363 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6364
6365 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6366 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6367 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6368 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6369
637059. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6371 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6372 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6373
637460. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6375 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6376 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6377 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6378 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6379 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6380 arisen.
6381
638261. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6383 program routers.
6384
638562. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6386 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6387 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6388 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6389 adds:
6390
6391 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6392
6393 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6394
6395 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6396
639763. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6398 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6399 not considered personal.
6400
640164. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6402
640365. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6404
640566. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6406
640767. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6408 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6409 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6410 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6411 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6412 header lines, and spool format errors.
6413
641468. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6415 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6416 for more flexibility.
6417
641869. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6419 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6420 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6421
642270. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6423 Sabourenkov.
6424
642571. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6426 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6427 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6428 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6429 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6430 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6431 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6432 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6433 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6434
643572. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6436 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6437 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6438 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6439 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6440 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6441 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6442
644373. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6444 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6445 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6446
644774. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6448 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6449 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6450 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6451 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6452 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6453 instead of killing the process with assert().
6454
645575. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6456 than Unicode encoding.
6457
645876. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6459 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6460 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6461 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6462
646377. Added process_log_path.
6464
646578. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6466 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6467
646879. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6469 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6470
647180. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6472 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6473 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6474
647581. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6476 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6477 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6478 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6479 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6480 were applied:
6481
6482 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6483 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6484 as invalid.
6485
648682. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6487 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6488 they will be used during message reception.
6489
6490
6491Exim version 4.20
6492-----------------
6493
6494The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6495
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