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1This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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6Exim version 4.94
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9JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
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13JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
14
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15JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
17 option.
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19JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
22
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23JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
24
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25JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
26
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27JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
30
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31JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
34
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35JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
37
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38JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
39 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
40 was taken.
41
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42JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
43 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
44 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
45 should both provide the file and set the option.
46 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
47
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48JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
49 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
50
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51JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
52 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
53 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
54 Authentication-Results: header.
55
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56JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
57 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
58 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
59 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
60
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61JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
62 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
63 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
64 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
65 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
66 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
67 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
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69JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
70 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
71 copies while it is still usable.
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73JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
74 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
75 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
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77JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
78 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
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79e5ebf9 80WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
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81 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
82 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
79e5ebf9 83 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
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84
85JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
86 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
87 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
88 information.
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90JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
91 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
92 - the pipe transport command
481e63ca 93 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
7d99cba1 94 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
ed162055 95 - named-queue names
129a5d13 96 - paths used by single-key lookups
9214d2e4 97 Previously this was permitted.
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99JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
100 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
101 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
102 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
103
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104JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
105 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
106 support larger malloc requests.
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108PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
109 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
110 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
111 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
112
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113JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
114 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
115 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
116 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
117 indeterminate.
118
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119JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
120 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
121 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
122 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
123 data being length-specified.
124
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125JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
126 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
127 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
128 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
129
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130JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
131 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
132 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
133 not being properly tracked.
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135JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
136 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
137 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
138 minute could be seen.
139
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140JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
141 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
142 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
143
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144JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
145 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
146
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147JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
148 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
149 non-pipelined mode.
150
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151JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
152
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153JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
154 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
155
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156JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
157 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
158 filesystem as sufficient validation.
159
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160JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
161 argument is supplied.
162
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163JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
164 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
165 access under Exim's current working directory.
166
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167JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
168 Previously no event was raised.
169
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170JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
171 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
172 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
173 leeway checked.
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175JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
176 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
177 the size of the signature hash.
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179JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
180 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
181
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182JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
183 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
184 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
185 dropped between messages.
186
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187JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
188 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
189 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
190 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
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192JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
193 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
194 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
195 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
196 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
197 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
198 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
199 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
200 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
201
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202JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
203 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
204 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
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210JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
211 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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fc243e94 213JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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214 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
215 its own TCP segment.
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217JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
218 each verb.
219
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220JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
221
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222JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
223
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224JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
225 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
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227JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
228 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
229 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
230 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
231 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
232 suitably configured).
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235 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
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237JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
238 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
239 crash could result.
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241JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
242 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
243
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244JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
245 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
246 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
247 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
248 to this system.
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250JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
251 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
252 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
253
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254JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
255 output.
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257JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
258 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
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3c55eef2 260JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 261 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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262 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
263 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
264 input).
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266HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
267 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
268 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
269 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
270 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
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7d8d08c4 272HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
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273 shared (NFS) environment.
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7d8d08c4 275HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
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276 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
277 affected.
278
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279JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
280 on some platforms for bit 31.
281
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282JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
283 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
284 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
285 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
286 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
287 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
288 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
289 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
290
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291JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
292
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293JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
294 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
295
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296JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
297 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
298 facility.
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300JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
301 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
302 documentation.
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304JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
305 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
306 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
307 not do so.
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310 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
311 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
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313JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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314 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
315 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
316 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
317 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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319JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
320 reject under TFO.
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efad2f41 322JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 323 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
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324 be requested on all coneections.
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326JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
327 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
328
6ee11061 329PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
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331JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
332 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
333 one for these; the option was ignored.
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335JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
336 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
337 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
338 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
339
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340JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
341 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
342 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
343 standards.
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345JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
346 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
347 error ignored was made.
348
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349JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
350
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351JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
352 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
353 values, to catch one form of exploit.
354
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355JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
356 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
357 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
358
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359JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
360 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
361 causing a segfault.
362
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363JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
364 them in our smtp response.
365
9c6881f8 366JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
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367 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
368 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
369 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
370 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
371
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372JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
373 link count into consideration.
374
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375HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
376 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
377
378JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
379 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
380 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
381 surprise.
382
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383HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
384
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385JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
386
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387JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
388
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389JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
390 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
391 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
392 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
393
ab0e957b 394HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
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396JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
397 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
398 active.
399
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400JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
401 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
402 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
403
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404JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
405 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
406 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
407
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408JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
409 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
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410 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
411 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
412 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
413 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
414 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
415 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
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417JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
418 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
419 resulted in an indefinite loop.
420
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421JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
422 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
423 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
424
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429JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
430 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
431
432JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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433 non-signal-safe functions being used.
434
435JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
436 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
437 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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439JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
440 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
441 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
442
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443JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
444 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
445 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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446 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
447 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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448 messed with.
449
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450PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
451 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
452
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453JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
454 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
455 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
456 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
457 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
458 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
459 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
460
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461JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
462 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
463
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464JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
465 legitimate.
466
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467JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
468 Previously this would segfault.
469
7b9822bf
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470JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
471 segfault.
472
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473JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
474 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
475 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
476 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
477 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
478 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
479
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480JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
481
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482JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
483 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
484 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
485 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
486
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487JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
488
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489JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
490 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
491 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
492 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
493
5054c4fd 494JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
611b1961
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495
496JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
5054c4fd 497
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498JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
499 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
500 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
501
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502JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
503 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
504 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
505
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506PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
507
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508JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
509 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
510 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
511 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
512
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513PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
514 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
515 promised '?' replacement.
516
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517PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
518
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519JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
520 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
521 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
522 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
523 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
524
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525JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
526 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
527 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
528
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529JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
530 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
531 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
532
7ea1237c 533JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 534 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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535 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
536
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537JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
538 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
539 hope that is portable enough.
540
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541JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
542 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
543 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
544 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
545
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546JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
547 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
548 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
549
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550JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
551 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
552 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
553 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
554
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555JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
556 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
557
75c121f0 558JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 559 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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560 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
561 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
562
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563JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
564 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
565 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
566
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567JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
568 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
569 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
570 the previous G, M, k.
571
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572JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
573 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
574 it was unset.
575
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576JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
577 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
578 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
579 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
580
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581JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
582 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
583
de6f74f2 584JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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585 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
586 off past the nul-terimation.
587
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588JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
589 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
590 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
591 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
592 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
593
aa6e77af 594JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
aaf3e414 595
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596JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
597 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
598 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
599 actually does fail.
600
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601AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
602 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
603
604JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
605 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
606 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
518b70e9 607
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608JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
609 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
610 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
611
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612JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
613 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
614
9723f966 615
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616Exim version 4.91
617-----------------
459fca58 618
c39c8870 619GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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620 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
621 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
622 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
623 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
624 be defined in redis_servers.
c39c8870 625
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626GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
627 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
628
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629JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
630 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
631 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
632 extant use locations.
633
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634JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
635 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
636
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637JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
638 Previously only the last row was returned.
639
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640JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
641 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
642 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
643 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
644 input.
645
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646JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
647 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
648 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
649 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
650 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
651 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
652 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
653 Main pool for expansions.
654 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
655 active in the testsuite.
656 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
657
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658JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
659 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
660 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
661 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
662 round-robin DNS.
663
5b6f7658
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664JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
665 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
666 failure response.
667
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668JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
669 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
670 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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671
672JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
673 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
674 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 675
ba0e37b1
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676JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
677 rows affected is given instead).
678
96508de1
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679JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
680 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
681
06fdb9f7
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682JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
683 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
684 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
685 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
686 for all multi-message initiating connections.
687
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688JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
689 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
690 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
691
f1fed05b
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692JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
693 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
694 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
695 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
696 separate.
697
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698JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
699 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
700 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
701 fake-reject.
702
cf3cd306
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703HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
704
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705JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
706 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
707
aab9a843 708PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 709 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 710 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 711
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712JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
713 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
714 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
715 and send a quit.
716
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717JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
718 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
719
85e03244
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720JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
721 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
722 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
723
c0635b6d
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724JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
725 for the build is renamed.
726
b808677c
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727JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
728 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
729 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
730
6678c382
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731JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
732 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
733 result replacing the original.
734
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735JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
736 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
737 and the resources needed to be freed.
738
15ae19f9
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739JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
740
e6532c4a
JH
741JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
742 was not propagated.
743
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744JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
745 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
746 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
747 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
748
fc8cd529
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749JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
750 length value. Previously this would segfault.
751
71bb51e0
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752HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
753 newer versions of the scanner.
754
e04bfa34
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755JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
756 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
757 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
758 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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759 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
760 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
761 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 762
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763JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
764 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
765 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
766 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
767 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
768 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
769 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
770 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
771 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
772 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
773
c9cf9ac4
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774JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
775 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
776
b3b37076
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777JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
778
830832c9
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779HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
780 allows proper process termination in container environments.
781
f64e8b5f
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782JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
783 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
784
8f0776b5
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785JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
786 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
787 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
788
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789JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
790 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
791 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 792 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 793
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794JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
795 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
796 would be spooled.
797
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798PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
799 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
800
eb445b04
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801HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
802 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
803 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
804 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
805 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 806
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807JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
808 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
809 lines.
810
a28050f8
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811JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
812 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
813
ddd16464
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814PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
815 suffix list.
816
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817JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
818 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
819 "bare" representation.
820
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821JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
822 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
823 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
824 corrupted the output.
825
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830JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
831 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
832 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
833 pairs of long lines into single ones.
834
856d1e16
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835PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
836 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
837
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838JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
839 This permits better logging.
840
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841JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
842 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
843 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
844 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
845 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 846 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 847
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848JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
849 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
850 "exiwhat" output.
851
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852PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
853 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
854 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
855
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856JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
857 than 255 are no longer allowed.
858
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859JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
860 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
861 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
862 client, there is no benefit for these.
863 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
864 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
865 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
866 is used (3.2.4 +).
867
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868PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
869 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
870
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871JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
872 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
873 erroneously found still-pending ones.
874
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875JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
876 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
877
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878JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
879 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
880 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
881 signature and again for transmission.
882
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883JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
884 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 885 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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887JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
888 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
889 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
890 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
891 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
892 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
893 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
894
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895JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
896 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
897 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 898 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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900PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
901 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
902 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
903 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
904 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
905 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
906 processing options.
907
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908JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
909 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
910 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
911 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
912 connections.
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914PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
915 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
916 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
917 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
918 versions.
919
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920JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
921 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
922 inaccessible.
923
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924JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
925 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
926 banner-time rejection.
927
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928JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
929 callout/hold.
930
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931PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
932 is the name of a transport.
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933 Fixes bug 2140.
934
35a04365
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935HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
936
4226691b
JH
937JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
938 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
939
d185889f
JH
940JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
941 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
942 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
943 during compilation.
944
0a6c178c
JH
945JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
946 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
947 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 948 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 949
fae8970d
JH
950JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
951 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
952 initial verify call returned a defer.
953
ad1a76fe 954JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
14de8063
JH
955 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
956
ad1a76fe
JH
957JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
958 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
959
135e9496
JH
960JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
961 if present. Previously it was ignored.
962
f2ed27cf
JH
963JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
964 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
965
7eb0e5d2
JH
966JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
967 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
968 extensible.
969
4f9f4be4
970PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
971 Patch provided by Jaroslav Škarvada.
972
dc4de9cc
PP
973PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
974 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
975 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
976
ea18931d
JH
977JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
978 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
979 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
980 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
981
0768462d 982HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
2cee425a
HSHR
983 and confused the parent.
984
848214f7
JH
985JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
986 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
987
9e0ed81f
JH
988JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
989 for log purposes.
990
2540f2f8
JH
991JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
992 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
993 out-of-order delivery.
994
e5ab0ba9
JH
995JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
996 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
997 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
998 error for the HELO.
999
e99a3a6c
JH
1000JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1001 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1002 desynchronisation.
1003
18067c75
JH
1004JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1005 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1006 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1007
72934ba7
JH
1008JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1009 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1010 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1011 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1012 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1013 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1014
625667b6
JH
1015JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1016 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
b488395f
JH
1017 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1018
1019HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1020 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1021 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 1022
d21bf202
JH
1023JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1024 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1025 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1026 though a different problem.
1027
acfc18c3 1028
fd047340 1029Exim version 4.89
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4c57a40e 1031
9427e879 1032JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 1033 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 1034
7b283890
JH
1035JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1036
4c57a40e
PP
1037PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1038 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1039
5d036699
JH
1040JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1041 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1042
f4630439
JH
1043JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1044 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1045 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1046 before acknowledging the chunk.
1047
f988ce57
JS
1048PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1049 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1050 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1051
bd8fbe36
JH
1052JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1053 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1054 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1055 should.
1056
1057JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
b895f4b2
JH
1058 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1059 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 1060
bd8fbe36 1061JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
JH
1062 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1063
bd8fbe36
JH
1064JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1065 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1066 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1067 body hash calculated value.
1068
eea19017
JH
1069JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1070 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1071 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1072
44e6651b
JH
1073JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1074
1075JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1076 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1077
1078JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1079 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1080 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1081
1082JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1083 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1084 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1085 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1086 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1087 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1088
1089JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1090 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1091 past that check, despite the cost.
1092
b6040544
JH
1093JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1094 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1095 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1096
f700ea4d
PP
1097PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1098 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1099 TLS library to consume.
1100
da88acae
PP
1101PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1102
f6ef9370
PP
1103PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1104
90341c71
JH
1105JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1106 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1107 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1108 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1109 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1110 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1111 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1112
1ec2ab36
PP
1113PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1114
1115PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1116
1117PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1118 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1119 should be warning-free.
1120
8b2b9480
PP
1121JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1122
1123HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1124 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1125
d953610f
HSHR
1126HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1127 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1128 general solution here.
1129
7dc5f827
PP
1130PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1131 already-broken messages in the queue.
1132
4bb432cb
PP
1133JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1134
3b1a84c8
PP
1135JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1136
902fbd69 1137
8d042305
JH
1138Exim version 4.88
1139-----------------
4c57a40e 1140
9094b84b
JH
1141JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1142 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 1143
03d5892b
JH
1144JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1145 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1146 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1147
4b0fe319
JH
1148JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1149 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1150 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1151 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1152 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1153 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1154 if one fails this test.
1155 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1156 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1157
789f8a4f
JH
1158JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1159 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1160
23bb6982 1161JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 1162 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 1163
0bd1b1ed 1164JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 1165 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 1166
20b9a2dc
JH
1167JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1168 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1169
05392bbc
JH
1170JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1171 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1172
1a6230a3
JH
1173JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1174
cfab9d68
JH
1175JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1176 certificate).
1177
98c82a3d
JH
1178JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1179 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1180 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1181 connection after a verify cache hit.
1182 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1183
1184JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1185 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1186
ae8386f0
JH
1187JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1188 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1189 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1190 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1191 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1192
0d9fa8c0
JH
1193JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1194 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1195
3581f321
JH
1196JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1197 Previously they were not counted.
1198
ef3a1a30
JH
1199JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1200 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1201 that needed the lookup.
1202
4c04137d 1203JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
27b9e5f4
JH
1204 distinguished as "(=".
1205
1435d4b2
JH
1206JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1207 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1208
eea0defe
JB
1209JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1210
1211JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1212 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 1213
4c04137d 1214JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
TM
1215 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1216
1c788856
JH
1217JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1218 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1219 compatible.
1220
e3b1f624
JH
1221JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1222 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1223 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1224 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1225
a57ce043
JH
1226JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1227
f59aaaaa 1228JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
JH
1229 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1230 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 1231
d1f9fb42
JH
1232JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1233 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1234 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1235 be lost.
1236
92b0827a
JH
1237JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1238 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1239 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1240 itself :(
1241
ddf1b11a
JH
1242JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1243 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1244 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1245
3cc3f762
JH
1246JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1247 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1248 options.
1249
ae5afa61
JH
1250JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1251
317e40ac
PP
1252PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1253 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1254
8b0fb68e
PP
1255PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1256 are not in the system include path.
1257
ad7fc6eb 1258JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 1259 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
JH
1260 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1261 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1262
ee5b1e28
JH
1263JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1264 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1265 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1266
5ddc9771
JH
1267JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1268
8d73599f
JH
1269HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1270 an incoming connection.
1271
446415f5
HSHR
1272HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1273 to rspamd.
1274
8e53a4fc
HSHR
1275HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1276 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1277
87cb4a16 1278JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1279 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
87cb4a16
JH
1280
1281
0d9b78be
JH
1282Exim version 4.87
1283-----------------
4c57a40e 1284
82d14d6a
JH
1285JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1286 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1287 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1288 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1289
6c6d6e48
TF
1290TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1291 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1292
ac881e27
TF
1293TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1294 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1295 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1296 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1297 outgoing I= field.
1298
c8899c20
JH
1299JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1300 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1301 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1302 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1303 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1304 check on the next write.
1305
f1b81d81
HSHR
1306HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1307 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1308 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1309 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1310 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1311
f38917cc
JH
1312JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1313 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1314
895fbaf2
JH
1315JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1316 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1317 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1318
805bb5c3
JH
1319JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1320 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1321 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1322 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1323
56c2a7be
HSHR
1324HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1325 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1326
4c04137d 1327JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
14b3c5bc
JH
1328 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1329
6f6dedcc
JH
1330JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1331 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1332 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1333 distinct.
1334
0f557e90
JH
1335JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1336
1337JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1338
ec0eb1a3
JH
1339JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1340
41e93589
JH
1341JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1342 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1343
98b98887 1344JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
376d2ec0
JH
1345 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1346
98b98887
JH
1347JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1348
858e91c2
JH
1349JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1350 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1351
1352JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1353
6ff55e50
JH
1354JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1355 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1356
3b957582
JB
1357JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1358
23f3dc67
JH
1359JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1360 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1361 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
23f3dc67
JH
1362 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1363 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1364 they will retry in-clear.
1365 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1366 at installation time.
1367
240c288f
JH
1368HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1369 with the $config_file variable.
1370
5ef5dd52
JB
1371JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1372 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1373 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1374 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1375 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1376
e161710d
GF
1377GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1378 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1379 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1380 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1381 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1382
a159f203
JH
1383JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1384
7f06582c
JH
1385JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1386 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1387 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1388 list order is no longer honoured.
1389
4c04137d 1390JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
abe1010c
JH
1391 for DKIM processing.
1392
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1393JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1394 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1395
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1396JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1397 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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1398 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1399 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1400
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1401JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1402 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1403
2d8d625b
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1404JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1405 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1406
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1407JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1408 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1409
f2f2c91b
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1410JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1411
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1412JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1413 cached by the daemon.
1414
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1415JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1416 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1417
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1418JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1419 keys are given for lookup.
1420
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1421JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1422 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1423 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1424 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1425
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1426JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1427 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1428 server-side so match that on older versions.
1429
07c73177 1430JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1431 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1432 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1433
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1434JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1435 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1436
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1437JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1438 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1439 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1440 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1441 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1442 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1443 initial truncated version.
1444
ab9152ff 1445JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1446
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1447JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1448
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1449JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1450 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1451
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1452JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1453
bc3c7bb7 1454HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1455
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1456JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1457 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1458 induced overflows.
1459
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1460JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1461 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1462 stage.
1463
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1464JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1465 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1466
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1467JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1468 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1469 former class.
1470
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1471JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1472 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1473 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1474
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1475JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1476 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1477 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1478 extraction. Accept either.
1479
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4c57a40e 1483
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1484JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1485 expanded.
1486
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1487JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1488
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1489JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1490 it.
1491
01a4a5c5 1492JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1493 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1494 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1495 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1496
cb1d7830 1497JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1498 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1499 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1500
610ff438 1501JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1502 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1503 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1504 TLS connections
610ff438 1505
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1506JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1507 sites use this now.
1508
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1509JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1510 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1511 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1512 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1513 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1514
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1515JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1516 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1517 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1518
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1519JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1520
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1521JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1522 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1523
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1524JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1525 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1526
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1527JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1528 /defer_ok option.
1529
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1530JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1531 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1532
fd4d8871 1533JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1534 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1535 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1536
1537JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1538 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1539 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1540
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1541JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1542 timeout value per server.
1543
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1544JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1545 now have the list separator specified.
1546
8a512ed5 1547JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1548 option values.
8a512ed5 1549
82c0c8ea 1550JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1551 under OpenSSL.
1552
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1553JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1554
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1555JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1556 rather than the verbs used.
1557
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1558JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1559 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1560
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1561JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1562
cfab9d68 1563HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1564 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1565
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1566JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1567 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1568
fd4c285c
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1569HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1570 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1571
4c04137d 1572JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1573
d2a2c69b
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1574JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1575
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1576JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1577 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1578 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1579 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1580
1f12df4d
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1581JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1582
1f155f8e
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1583JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1584 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1585
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1586JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1587 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1588
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1589JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1590
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1591JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1592
7137ca4b
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1593JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1594
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1595JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1596 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1597
2f460950
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1598JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1599 added for tls authenticator.
1600
2f680c0c
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1601HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1602
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1607TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1608 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1609 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1610 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1611 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1612 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1613 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1614
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1615TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1616 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1617 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1618 function when detected.
1619
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1620JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1621 cause callback expansion.
1622
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1623TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1624 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1625 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1626 instead of bool when processing it.
1627
0f06b4f2 1628JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1629 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1630
be36e572
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1631JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1632
ac4ef9bd
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1633JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1634
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1635TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1636
c713ca4b
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1637TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1638 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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1640JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1641 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1642 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1643 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1644 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1645 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1646
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1647JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1648 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1649 exceeded it.
1650
a7fec7a7
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1651JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1652 version 3.3.6 or later.
1653
4c04137d 1654JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1655 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1656 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1657 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1658 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1659 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1660 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1661
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1662TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1663 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1664
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1665JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1666 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1667 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1668 matches.
1669
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1670JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1671 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1672 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1673
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1674JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1675 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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1676
1677JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1678 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1679 syntax errors.
1680
3394b36a 1681JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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1682
1683JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1684 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1685
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1686TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1687 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1688 tarball.
1689
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1690JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1691
4c04137d 1692JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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1693 Bug 1561.
1694
1695JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1696 output list separator was used.
1697
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1701TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1702 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1703 return.
1f0ebb98 1704
a612424f 1705JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1706 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1707
1708JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1709
1710TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1711 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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1716
1717TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1718
1719 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1720 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1721 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1722 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1723 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1724 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1725
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1726TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1727 utilities have not been installed.
1728
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1729JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1730 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1731
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1732TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1733 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1734
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1735TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1736 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1737 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1738 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1739
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1740JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1741
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1742TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1743 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1744
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1745PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1746 not dns_use_dnssec.
1747
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1748JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1749
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1750TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1751 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1752 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1753
8ddef691 1754TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1755 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1756 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1757 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1758 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1759 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1760
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1761JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1762
e45a1c37
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1763JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1764 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1765
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1766JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1767 failed delivery.
1768
b1f8e4f8
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1769JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1770
511a6c14 1771JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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1772
1773JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1774 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1775
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1776JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1777 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1778
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1779TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1780
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1781JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1782
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1783JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1784 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1785
1786 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1787 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1788 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1789
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1790TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1791 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1792 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1793 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1794
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1795JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1796
8c51eead 1797JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1798 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1799 lookup).
8c51eead 1800
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1801TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1802 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1803 Schlichting.
35aba663 1804
fd3b6a4a 1805JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1806 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1807
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1808TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1809 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1810
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1811JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1812
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1813TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1814 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1815 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1816
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1817JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1818 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1819
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1820JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1821 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1822 hosts_request_ocsp.
1823
ed3bba5f 1824JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1825 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1826 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1827
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1828JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1829
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1830TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1831 Christian Aistleitner.
1832
f2de3a33
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1833JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1834
6eb02f88
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1835TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1836 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1837
00bff6f6
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1838JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1839 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1840
071c51f7
JH
1841JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1842 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1843
a6d4c44e
TF
1844TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1845 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1846
3ae173e7
ACK
1847TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1848 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1849
c13d09b8
TL
1850TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1851 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1852 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1853
0df4ab80
JH
1854JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1855
66be95e0
PP
1856PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1857 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1858 Jasper Wallace.
1859
1bd0d12b
JH
1860JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1861
0de7239e
TL
1862TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1863 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1864 CVE-2014-2972
1865
fd3b6a4a 1866
2c422e6f 1867Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1868-----------------
1869
1870PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1871
12f69989
PP
1872PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1873 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1874
54c90be1
PP
1875PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1876 by GnuTLS.
1877
1f4a55da
PP
1878PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1879 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1880 routines.
1881
13363eba 1882PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1883
66645890 1884PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1885 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1886 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1887 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1888 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1889
a3fb9793 1890PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1891 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1892 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1893 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1894 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1895 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1896
d27f98fe 1897TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1898
6822b909
TL
1899TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1900
e7568d51
TL
1901TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1902 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1903
ae0e32ee 1904TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1905 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1906 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1907
1908TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1909
e2658fff
TL
1910TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1911
83712b39
TL
1912TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1913 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1914
976b7e9f
JH
1915JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1916
be4a1376
JH
1917JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1918
ec4b68e5
PP
1919PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1920
d7148a07
NM
1921NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1922 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1923
585121e2 1924JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1925
2519e60d
TL
1926PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1927 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1928 function.
a5f239e4 1929
13d08c90
PP
1930PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1931 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1932
bef3ea7f
JH
1933JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1934 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1935 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1936
846726c5
JH
1937JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1938
3a796370
JH
1939JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1940
ea722490 1941JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1942 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1943
b1b05573
JH
1944JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1945 Bugzilla 884.
1946
362145b5
JH
1947JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1948 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1949
3c0a92dc
JH
1950JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1951 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1952
6d7c6175
PP
1953PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1954 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1955 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1956
6f123593
JH
1957JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1958 authenticators.
1959
c8e2fc1e
JH
1960JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1961 for control.
1962
005ac57f
PP
1963PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1964
3f1df0e3
PP
1965PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1966 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1967 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1968 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1969
67bd1ab3
TF
1970TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1971
1972 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1973 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1974 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1975 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1976 the retry rules.
1977
1978 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1979 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1980 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1981
1982 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1983 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1984 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1985 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1986
1ddeb334
TF
1987 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1988 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1989 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1990 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1991 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1992 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1993 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1994
1995 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1996 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1997
326cdc37
TF
1998TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1999
2000 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2001
2002 Resent-From: f
2003
2004 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2005 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2006 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2007 username as equal to the username.
2008
2009 This change corrects that bug.
2010
f62514b3
GF
2011GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2012 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2013 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2014
eb505532
TF
2015TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2016
14c7b357
PP
2017PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2018 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2019 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2020 NULL dereference and crash.
2021
94eaf700
PP
2022JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2023
6f5a440a
PP
2024PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2025 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2026 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2027
514ee161
SC
2028SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2029
fd98a5c6
JH
2030JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2031 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2032 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2033 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2034 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2035 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2036 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 2037 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
2038 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2039 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2040 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2041
035c7f1e
PP
2042PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2043 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2044
ff284120
PP
2045PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2046 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2047 Bugzilla 880.
2048
26e72755
PP
2049PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2050 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2051 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2052 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2053 an empty string is now equivalent.
2054
0fbd9bff
PP
2055PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2056 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2057 not performing validation itself.
2058
700d22f3
PP
2059PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2060 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2061
fcc8e047
JH
2062JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2063 Bugzilla 321, 823.
2064
4c04137d 2065TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 2066
8c020188
PP
2067PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2068 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2069 other false fix of the same issue.
2070 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2071 Bugzilla 1363.
2072
d13cdd30
PP
2073PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2074 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2075
e2fbf4a2
PP
2076PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2077 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2078 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2079
f4c1088b
PP
2080PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2081 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2082 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2083
c5c2182f
PP
2084TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2085
73431ca9
JH
2086JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2087
2d07a215
TL
2088TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2089 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2090
a30a8861
TL
2091TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2092 Alexander Miroch.
2093
33382dd9
TL
2094TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2095 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2096 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2097 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2098 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 2099
046172e6
TL
2100TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2101 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2102
581d7bee 2103TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 2104 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
2105 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
2106
2107TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2108 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2109 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2110 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2111
237b2cf2
TL
2112TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2113
9fc5a352
TL
2114TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2115 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2116 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 2117
b10e4ec2
TL
2118TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2119
e2cebd74
TL
2120TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2121 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2122 interaction.
2123
2124TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2125 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2126
2519e60d
TL
2127TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2128 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2129
e78e6ecf 2130
4263f395
PP
2131Exim version 4.80.1
2132-------------------
2133
2134PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2135 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 2136 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 2137
ea722490 2138
b1770b6e 2139Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
2140-----------------
2141
2142PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2143 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2144 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2145
23c7e742
NM
2146NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2147
b322aac8
NM
2148NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2149 improved.
2150
4a891427
NM
2151NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2152
c1e794ba 2153PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 2154
97753960
PP
2155PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2156
2157PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2158 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2159
df6303fa
PP
2160PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2161 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2162
7e6a8985
PP
2163PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2164 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2165
f1e05cc7 2166PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
2167 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2168 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 2169
4c287009
PP
2170PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2171
b98bb9ac
PP
2172PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2173 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2174
4a6a987a
PP
2175PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2176
c45dd180 2177PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 2178
7db8d074
PP
2179PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2180 non-compliant senders.
2181 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2182
eae0036b 2183NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 2184 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
2185 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2186
dec5017e
PP
2187PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2188 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2189 in spool file corruption.
2190
c80c5570
PP
2191PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2192 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2193 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2194 "Got SSL error 2".
2195
076b11e2
PP
2196TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2197 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2198 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2199
5407bfff
JH
2200JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2201 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2202
9e45c72b
PP
2203JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2204
e74376d8
PP
2205PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2206 diagnostics.
2207 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2208
4c04137d 2209PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
2210 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2211 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2212
7be682ca
PP
2213PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2214 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
2215 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2216 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 2217
ef840681
PP
2218PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2219 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2220
5bfb4cdf
PP
2221PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2222 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2223 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2224 resolver implementation change.
2225
c6e95d22
PP
2226PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2227 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2228
9cbad13b
PP
2229PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2230
9ee44efb
PP
2231PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2232
6a6084f8
PP
2233PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2234 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2235
12dd53c7
PP
2236PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2237 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2238
9e45c72b 2239JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
2240 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2241
17c76198
PP
2242PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2243 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2244 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2245 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 2246 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 2247
53947857 2248PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 2249
eae0036b 2250PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
2251 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2252 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 2253
9e45c72b 2254JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 2255
7390e768
PP
2256PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2257 read-only, out of scope).
2258 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2259
08488c86
PP
2260PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2261 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2262 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2263 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2264
6475bd82
PP
2265PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2266
81f91683
PP
2267PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2268 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2269 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2270 real issues in debug logging.
2271
5779e6aa
PP
2272PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2273 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2274
3375e053
PP
2275PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2276 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2277 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2278
2279PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2280 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2281 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2282 problems.
3375e053 2283
9d26b8c0
PP
2284PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2285 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2286
57eb9e91 2287PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2288 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2289 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2290 needs to override this, it can.
2291
16880d1a
PP
2292PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2293 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2294 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2295
a799883d
PP
2296PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2297 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2298 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2299 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2300
3ecab157 2301PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2302
0599f9cf 2303
867fcbf5
PP
2304Exim version 4.77
2305-----------------
2306
2307PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2308 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2309
f1a29782
TF
2310TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2311
ab42bd23
TK
2312TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2313 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2314
0ca0cf52
TF
2315TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2316 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2317
921b12ca
TF
2318TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2319 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2320 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2321
2322 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2323 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2324 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2325 not safe for signals.
2326
2327 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2328 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2329 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2330 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2331 exiwhat.
2332
c99ce5c9
TF
2333TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2334
2335 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2336 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2337 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2338 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2339 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2340
2341 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2342 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2343 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2344 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2345 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2346 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2347
2348 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2349 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2350 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2351 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2352
2353 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2354 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2355 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2356 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2357
2358 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2359 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2360 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2361 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2362 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2363 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2364 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2365 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2366 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2367
2368 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2369 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2370 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2371 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2372
2373 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2374 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2375 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2376 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2377 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2378 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2379 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2380 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2381 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2382 details in the main documentation.
2383
3634fc25
TF
2384TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2385
792e8a19
TF
2386TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2387
5901f0ab
TF
2388TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2389 repository when doing development or release builds.
2390
7f2a2a43
PP
2391PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2392 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2393
061b7ebd
PP
2394PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2395 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2396 Bugzilla 97.
2397
e12f8c32
PP
2398PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2399
9e949f00 2400PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2401 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2402
2403PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2404 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2405
555ae6af 2406PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2407 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2408
2409PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2410 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2411
6f7fe114
PP
2412PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2413 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2414
c566dd90
PP
2415PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2416 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2417 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2418 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2419
d6cc7c78 2420PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2421 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2422 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2423
0d0e4455
PP
2424PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2425
3399bb60 2426PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2427
2428PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2429 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2430
0ca0cf52 2431
10906672
PP
2432Exim version 4.76
2433-----------------
2434
2435PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2436
754a0503
PP
2437PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2438 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2439
c0c7b2da
PP
2440PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2441
e97d1f08
PP
2442PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2443
084c1d8c
PP
2444PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2445 Bugzilla 1098.
2446
4e7ee012
PP
2447PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2448 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2449
c8d52a00
PP
2450TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2451 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2452
54e7ce4a
PP
2453PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2454 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2455
5ee6f336
PP
2456PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2457 Bugzilla 1104.
2458
c8d52a00 2459TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2460 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2461
2462TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2463 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2464 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2465 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2466
2467PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2468 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2469
10906672 2470
aa097c4c
NM
2471Exim version 4.75
2472-----------------
2473
4c04137d 2474NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2475 Bugzilla 1073
2476
7f3d9eff
TF
2477TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2478 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2479 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2480
159f52d2
TF
2481TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2482 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2483
0cc9542a
PP
2484PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2485 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2486 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2487
f7274286
PP
2488PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2489 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2490
7b797365
PP
2491PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2492 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2493
caacae52
NM
2494NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2495 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2496
09dcaba9
NM
2497NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2498 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2499
bc19a55b
PP
2500PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2501 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2502
bd4c9759
NM
2503NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2504 Fixes bug 943.
2505
b72aab72
PP
2506PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2507 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2508
2fe76745
PP
2509PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2510 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2511
76aa570c
PP
2512PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2513 SQL string expansion failure details.
2514 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2515
f1e5fef5
PP
2516PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2517 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2518
4d805ee9
PP
2519PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2520 extern declarations in function scope.
2521 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2522
cd59ab18
PP
2523PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2524 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2525 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2526 a kernel bug).
2527
332f5cf3
PP
2528PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2529 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2530
29cfeb94
PP
2531PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2532 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2533
660242ad
PP
2534PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2535 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2536
bc4bc4c5
PP
2537PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2538 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2539
2e64baa9
NM
2540NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2541 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2542 Dennis Davis.
2543
4c04137d 2544PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2545
6bac1a9a
PP
2546PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2547
552193f0
NM
2548NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2549 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2550
1b587e48
TF
2551TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2552 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2553
aa097c4c 2554
8c07b69f
TF
2555Exim version 4.74
2556-----------------
2557
2558TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2559 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2560
c0ea85ab
TF
2561TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2562 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2563
0761d44e
TF
2564TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2565
0a349494
PP
2566DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2567 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2568 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2569
2570PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2571 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2572 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2573
fea24b2e
PP
2574PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2575 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2576 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2577 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2578
6545de78
PP
2579PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2580 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2581 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2582 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2583
1670ef10
PP
2584PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2585 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2586 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2587 arbitrary files.
2588
c0886197
PP
2589PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2590 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2591
b7487bce
PP
2592PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2593 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2594 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2595 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2596 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2597
8c07b69f 2598
97fd1e48 2599Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2600-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2601
2602PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2603 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2604 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2605
6901c596
PP
2606PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2607 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2608
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2609JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2610
77bb000f
PP
2611PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2612
a29e5231
PP
2613PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2614
ec5a0394 2615PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2616
55c75993
PP
2617PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2618
453a6645 2619PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2620 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2621 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2622 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2623
8544e77a
PP
2624PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2625 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2626 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2627 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2628 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2629
83e029d5
PP
2630PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2631
ed7f7860
PP
2632PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2633
7d9f747b
PP
2634PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2635
4b2241d2
PP
2636PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2637
10385c15
PP
2638PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2639
dbc4b90d
PP
2640PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2641
532be449
PP
2642PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2643
6a8de854 2644PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2645 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2646 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2647
5dc43717
JJ
2648JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2649
2650JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2651 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2652
3346ab01
PP
2653PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2654 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2655
491fab4c
PP
2656PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2657 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2658 Notification from John Horne.
2659
13eb9497
PP
2660PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2661 compatible.
2662
2663PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2664 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2665 it normally works.
2666
7f36d675
DW
2667DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2668 access.
2669
c1d94452
DW
2670DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2671 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2672 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2673
e2f5dc15
DW
2674DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2675 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2676 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2677 configuration file.
2678
cd25e41d
DW
2679DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2680 option (effectively making it always true).
2681
261dc43e
DW
2682DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2683 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2684
fa32850b
DW
2685DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2686 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2687
79d4bc3d
PP
2688PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2689 run-time user, instead of root.
2690
43236f35 2691PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2692 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2693
fb08281f
DW
2694DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2695 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2696 arguments.
3346ab01 2697
74935b98
DW
2698DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2699 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2700 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2701
90b6341f
DW
2702DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2703
57730b52
ML
2704NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2705
66581d1e 2706
465e92cf
JJ
2707Exim version 4.72
2708-----------------
2709
453a6645
PP
2710JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2711 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2712 typos
465e92cf 2713
453a6645
PP
2714JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2715 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2716 (Finput)
edae0343 2717
9bd3e22c
NM
2718NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2719 Patch from Alain Williams
2720
bb576ff7
NM
2721NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2722
5a1a5845
NM
2723NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2724 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2725
981a9fad
NM
2726NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2727 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2728
7fc497ee
NM
2729NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2730
1a41defa
JJ
2731JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2732
a466095c 2733NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2734 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2735
94a6bd0b
NM
2736TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2737
2738TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2739
2740MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2741 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2742 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2743
c1b141a8
NM
2744NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2745 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2746
b26eacf1 2747NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2748 Patch by Simon Arlott
2749
179c5980 2750PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2751 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2752
9bd3e22c 2753
7c6d71af
NM
2754Exim version 4.71
2755-----------------
2756
7d9f747b 2757TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2758
f013fb92
NM
2759NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2760
0eb8eedd
NM
2761NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2762
663ee6d9
NM
2763NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2764
177ebd9b
NM
2765NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2766
7c6d71af 2767
210f147e
NM
2768Exim version 4.70
2769-----------------
2770
cdd3bb85 2771TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2772 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2773
2774TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2775 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2776 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2777
2778TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2779 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2780 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2781
2782TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2783 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2784
210f147e
NM
2785NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2786 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2787 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2788 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2789
deafd5b3
NM
2790NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2791 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2792 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2793
089793a4
TF
2794TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2795
5f16ca82
TF
2796TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2797
dae9d94e 2798NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2799 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2800
7d9f747b 2801NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2802
06864c44
TF
2803TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2804 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2805 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2806 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2807
65a7d8c3 2808NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2809 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2810
23510047 2811TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2812
7d9f747b 2813NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2814
7d8eec3a 2815NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2816 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2817
89dec7b6
TF
2818TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2819 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2820
a99de90c
TF
2821TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2822 that they are available at delivery time.
2823
e2803e40
TF
2824TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2825
7199e1ee
TF
2826TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2827 incoming_port log selectors.
2828
e276e04b
TF
2829TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2830 setting expands to an empty string.
2831
ce552449 2832NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2833 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2834
e765a0f1 2835NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2836 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2837
4f054c63 2838NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2839 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2840
7d9f747b
PP
2841NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2842 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2843
7d9f747b
PP
2844NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2845 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2846
b52bc06e 2847NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2848 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2849
447de4b0
NM
2850NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2851
4c69d561 2852NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2853 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2854
d5c39246 2855NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2856 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2857
0b23848a
TK
2858TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2859
8f3414a1 2860NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2861 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2862
fb6f955d
NM
2863NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2864
2865NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2866
7d9f747b
PP
2867NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2868 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2869
7d9f747b
PP
2870NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2871 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2872
7d9f747b
PP
2873NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2874 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2875
7d9f747b
PP
2876NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2877 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2878
7d9f747b
PP
2879NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2880 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2881
7d9f747b
PP
2882NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2883 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2884
7d9f747b
PP
2885NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2886 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2887
7d9f747b 2888NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2889 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2890
7d9f747b 2891NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2892
7d9f747b
PP
2893NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2894 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2895
7d9f747b 2896NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2897
7d9f747b 2898NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2899
7d9f747b 2900NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2901
7d9f747b 2902NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2903
17792b53 2904NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2905 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2906
7d9f747b
PP
2907NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2908 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2909
91576cec 2910NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2911 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2912
7d9f747b
PP
2913NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2914 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2915
7d9f747b 2916NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2917
7d9f747b 2918NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2919
7d9f747b 2920NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2921
7d9f747b 2922NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2923
deafd5b3 2924
47db1125
NM
2925Exim version 4.69
2926-----------------
2927
4b3504d0
TK
2928TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2929 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2930 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2931
2932 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2933 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2934 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2935 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2936 build errors in sieve.c.
2937
81ea09ca
NM
2938NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2939 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2940 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2941
f13cddcb
SC
2942SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2943
7d9f747b 2944NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2945
7d9f747b 2946NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2947
7d9f747b 2948NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2949
2950
eb4c0de6
PH
2951Exim version 4.68
2952-----------------
2953
2954PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2955
6a3bceb1
PH
2956PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2957 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2958 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2959 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2960 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2961 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2962 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2963 for iplsearch lookups.
2964
2965 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2966 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2967 previously such lookups could never work.
2968
4c04137d 2969 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2970 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2971 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2972
2e30fa9d
TK
2973TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2974 version.
2975
0806a9c5
MH
2976MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2977 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2978 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2979 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2980 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2981 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2982
ae276964
TK
2983TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2984 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2985
0f2cbd1b
MH
2986MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2987 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2988 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2989 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2990 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2991 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2992
2b85bce7
PH
2993PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2994 local_scan API.
2995
93655c46
PH
2996PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2997
6c512171
PH
2998PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2999 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3000 encrypted.
3001
3002PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3003 by clients under certain conditions.
3004
aa6dc513
PH
3005PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3006 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3007
a96603a0
PH
3008PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3009
8f240103
PH
3010PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3011 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3012
3013PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3014
d677b2f2
PH
3015PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3016
d52120f2
PH
3017PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3018
64f2600a
PH
3019PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3020 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3021
8669f003
PH
3022PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3023
a4dc33a8
PH
3024PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3025 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3026
d6a60c0f
PH
3027PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3028
8f128379
PH
3029PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3030
8932dffe
PH
3031PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3032 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3033 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3034 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 3035
ddea74fa 3036PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
3037 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3038 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3039
ddea74fa 3040PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
3041 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3042
ddea74fa
PH
3043PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3044
ce9f225c
PH
3045PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3046
19897d52
PH
3047PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3048
bc64a74d
PH
3049PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3050 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3051 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3052
eb4c0de6 3053
b4ed4da0
PH
3054Exim version 4.67
3055-----------------
3056
22ad45c9
MH
3057MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3058 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3059 Jan Srzednicki.
3060
b4ed4da0
PH
3061PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3062 issue a MAIL command.
3063
431b7361
PH
3064PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3065
3066 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3067
3068 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3069 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3070 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3071 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3072 item. This has been fixed.
3073
3074PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3075 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3076
83da1223
PH
3077PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3078 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3079
54fc8428
PH
3080PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3081 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3082 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3083
34c5e8dd
SC
3084SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3085
bbe15da8
PH
3086PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3087 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3088 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3089 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3090 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3091
0e8a9471
MH
3092MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3093 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3094 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3095
f0872424
PH
3096PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3097 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3098 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3099 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3100
b01dd148
PH
3101PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3102
6bf342e1
PH
3103PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3104
273f34d0
PH
3105PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3106 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3107 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3108 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3109 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3110
cf8b11a5
PH
3111PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3112
41c7c167
PH
3113PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3114 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3115 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3116 values).
3117
9c57cbc0
PH
3118PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3119
f3f065bb
PH
3120PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3121
047bdd8c
PH
3122PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3123
0ce9abe6
PH
3124PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3125
0e22dfd1
PH
3126PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3127
4c590bd1
PH
3128PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3129 no_callout_flush is set.
3130
09945f1e
PH
3131PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3132 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3133 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3134 fixed.
3135
c51b8e75
PH
3136PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3137
e28326d8 3138PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 3139 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
3140 other ACL rejections are.
3141
75b1493f
PH
3142PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3143 with slight modification.
3144
7c5214ec
PH
3145PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3146 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3147
4311097e
PH
3148PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3149 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3150 connection.
3151
29f89cad
PH
3152PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3153 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3154
5e687460
SC
3155SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3156
c3611384
PH
3157PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3158 expansion side effects.
3159
5a11a7b4
PH
3160PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3161 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3162 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3163 be the same.
3164
0e20aff9
MH
3165MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3166 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3167 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3168
ca86f471
PH
3169PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3170 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3171 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3172 were accidentally chopped off.
3173
a14e5636
PH
3174PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3175 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3176 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3177 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3178 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3179 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3180 pipelining has not been advertised.
3181
ec95d1a6
PH
3182PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3183
42855d71
PH
3184PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3185 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3186 This has been fixed.
3187
57c2c631
PH
3188PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3189 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3190 reported on Solaris.
3191
58c01c94
PH
3192PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3193 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3194 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3195 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3196 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3197 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3198 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3199
dee5a20a
PH
3200PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3201 cpus.
3202
d2ee6114
PH
3203PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3204
b2d5182b
PH
3205PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3206
79749a79
PH
3207PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3208 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
3209 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3210 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3211 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3212 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 3213
c456d9bb
PH
3214PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3215 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3216 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3217 host_all_ignored option.
3218
cd9868ec
PH
3219PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3220 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3221 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3222 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3223 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3224 is what is supposed to happen).
3225
ebeaf996
PH
3226PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3227 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3228 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3229 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3230 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3231 uses the Exim user.
3232
2679d413
PH
3233PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3234 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3235 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3236 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3237 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3238 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3239 users.
3240
84024b72
PH
3241PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3242
8005d38e
SC
3243SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3244 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3245 (Jez Hancock).
3246 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3247 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3248
3298c6c6
SC
3249SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3250
a43a27c5
PH
3251PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3252
58eb016e 3253PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
3254 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3255 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3256 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3257 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3258 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3259 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3260 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3261 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3262 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3263 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3264
b43a74ea
PH
3265PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3266 advertised in response to EHLO.
3267
b4ed4da0 3268
5dd1517f
PH
3269Exim version 4.66
3270-----------------
3271
3272PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3273 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3274
3275 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3276 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3277
3278 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3279 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3280 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3281
3282 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3283 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3284 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3285 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3286 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3287
3288
93cfa765
TK
3289Exim version 4.65
3290-----------------
3291
3292TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3293 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3294 versions. (#438)
3295
d6066548
MH
3296MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3297 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3298 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3299
4362ff0d
PH
3300PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3301 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3302 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3303 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3304 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3305 rather than extend the field.
3306
93cfa765 3307
944e9e9c
TF
3308Exim version 4.64
3309-----------------
aa41d2de 3310
21d74bd9
TK
3311TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3312 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3313 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3314 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3315 these files.
3316
3317TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3318 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3319 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3320
3321TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3322 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3323 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3324
3325TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3326 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3327 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3328 in the field name.
3329
2b1c6e3a
PH
3330PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3331 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3332 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3333 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3334 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3335 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3336 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3337 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3338 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3339 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3340 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3341
1f872c80
PH
3342PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3343 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3344
3345PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3346 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3347 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3348 ignores EPIPE as well.
3349
d203e649
PH
3350PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3351 (quoted-printable decoding).
3352
cc2ed8f7 3353PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3354 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3355
ddfcd446
PH
3356PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3357
d45b1de8
PH
3358PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3359
3360PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3361
38a0a95f 3362PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3363 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3364
a2405d83
JJ
3365JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3366 in 4.64-PH/09.
3367
3368JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3369 miscellaneous code fixes
3370
6ea85e9a
PH
3371PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3372 rejections.
3373
26da7e20
PH
3374PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3375 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3376 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3377 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3378 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3379 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3380 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3381 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3382
14aa5a05 3383PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3384 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3385 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3386 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3387 function.
3388 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3389 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3390 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3391 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3392 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3393 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3394 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3395 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3396 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3397
ff75a1f7
PH
3398PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3399 decoding.
3400
e6f6568e
PH
3401PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3402 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3403 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3404 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3405 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3406 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3407 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3408 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3409
d6f6e0dc
PH
3410PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3411 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3412 list.
3413
322050c2
PH
3414PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3415 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3416 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3417 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3418 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3419 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3420 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3421 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3422 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3423 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3424 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3425 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3426 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3427
08955dd3
PH
3428PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3429 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3430 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3431 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3432 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3433 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3434 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3435
1eccaa59
PH
3436PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3437 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3438 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3439 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3440 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3441 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3442 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3443 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3444 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3445 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3446
602e59e5
PH
3447PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3448 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3449 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3450 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3451 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3452
411ef850
PH
3453PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3454 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3455 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3456 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3457 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3458 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3459 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3460
7befa435
PH
3461PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3462 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3463 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3464 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3465 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3466 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3467 been verified.
3468
48da4259 3469PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3470 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3471 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3472 and authorization.)
3473
48da4259
PH
3474PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3475 if any retry times were supplied.
3476
d1d5595c
PH
3477PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3478 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3479 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3480
0ef732d9
PH
3481PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3482
328895cc
PH
3483PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3484
fd700877
PH
3485PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3486 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3487 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3488 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3489 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3490 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3491
8dce1a6f
PH
3492PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3493 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3494
17af4a17
PH
3495PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3496 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3497 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3498
3499PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3500 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3501 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3502 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3503 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3504 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3505 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3506 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3507 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3508
3509 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3510 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3511 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3512 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3513 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3514 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3515 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3516 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3517 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3518
3519 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3520 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3521 hammering the server.
3522
c1114884
PH
3523PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3524 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3525
7a0743eb
PH
3526PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3527
0d85fa3f
PH
3528PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3529 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3530 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3531
1bf43b78
PH
3532PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3533 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3534 one case where this was not true.
3535
520de300
PH
3536PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3537 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3538 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3539 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3540 fails.
3541
48c7f9e2
PH
3542PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3543 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3544 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3545 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3546 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3547 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3548 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3549 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3550 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3551 smtp transport.
3552
99ea1c86
PH
3553PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3554 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3555 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3556 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3557
a2042e78
PH
3558PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3559 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3560
4fbcfc2e
PH
3561PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3562 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3563 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3564
aa41d2de
PH
3565PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3566
af561417
PH
3567PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3568
3cc66b45
PH
3569PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3570
194cc0e4
PH
3571PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3572 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3573 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3574 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3575
a401ddaa
PH
3576PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3577 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3578
4e88a19f
PH
3579PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3580 be meaningful with "accept".
3581
d7d7b289
SC
3582SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3583 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3584
3585SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3586 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3587 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3588
3589SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3590 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3591 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3592 there is data to show.
3593 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3594
3595SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3596 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3597 as well as the number of messages.
3598
3599SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3600 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3601 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3602
3603SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3604 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3605 have a flag are now skipped.
3606
3607SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3608 Added the -emptyok flag.
3609
3610SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3611 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3612
0ea2a468
JJ
3613JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3614 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3615 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3616
3617JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3618 match 4.64-PH/13
3619
3620JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3621 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3622
3623JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3624
3625JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3626 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3627
8a10f5a4
PH
3628PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3629
30e18802
PH
3630PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3631 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3632 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3633 contravention of the specifications.
3634
55728a4f
PH
3635PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3636 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3637 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3638
d7837193
PH
3639PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3640 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3641 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3642
87054a31
PH
3643PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3644
ea2c01d2
MH
3645MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3646 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3647 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3648 some point in the past.
3649
e4fa6968
PH
3650PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3651 transport during callout processing was broken.
3652
56f5d9bd
PH
3653PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3654 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3655
922e1c28
PH
3656PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3657 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3658
21eb6e72
PH
3659PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3660 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3661
a0540757
PH
3662PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3663
944e9e9c 3664
478be7b0
SC
3665Exim version 4.63
3666-----------------
3667
3668SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3669 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3670
3671SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3672 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3673 there is data to show.
3674 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3675
3676SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3677 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3678
2b965a65
TF
3679TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3680 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3681
45b91596
PH
3682TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3683 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3684
c59f5781
TF
3685TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3686 submissions from trusted users.
3687
90fc3069
TF
3688TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3689 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3690
6083aca0
TF
3691TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3692 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3693 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3694 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3695 there is now a framework to start from.
3696
765b530f
PH
3697PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3698 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3699 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3700
4e167a8c
PH
3701PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3702
4608d683
PH
3703PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3704
b8dc3e4a
PH
3705PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3706
5418e93b
PH
3707PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3708 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3709 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3710
b4a9bda2
PH
3711PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3712 libradius.
3713
45b91596
PH
3714PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3715 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3716 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3717
5547e2c5
PH
3718PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3719 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3720 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3721 its arguments.
3722
dbcef0ea
PH
3723PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3724 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3725 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3726 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3727 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3728
25257489
PH
3729PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3730 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3731
c816d124
PH
3732PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3733
a9ccd69a
PH
3734PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3735 operations in malware.c.
3736
75fa1910
PH
3737PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3738 signatures.
3739
a7d7aa58
PH
3740PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3741 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3742 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3743 all.
3744
42119b09
PH
3745PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3746 statements to "add_header".
3747
41609df5
PH
3748PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3749 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3750
a5bd321b
PH
3751PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3752 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3753 latter.
3754
e85a7ad5 3755PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3756 so that it is now:
3757
e85a7ad5
PH
3758 ${if or { \
3759 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3760 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3761 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3762 }{no}{yes}}
3763
e85a7ad5
PH
3764 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3765 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3766
d8fe1c03
PH
3767PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3768 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3769
16282d2b
PH
3770PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3771 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3772 any possible encoding problems.
3773
35d40a98
PH
3774PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3775 but not after initializing Perl.
3776
034d99ab
PH
3777PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3778 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3779 apparently, which is not desirable.
3780
6ec97b1b
PH
3781PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3782 queries.
3783
e22ca4ac
JJ
3784JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3785 --not options
3786
3787JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3788
33d73e3b
PH
3789PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3790 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3791 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3792 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3793
9ecb03f3
PH
3794PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3795 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3796 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3797
084efe8d
PH
3798PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3799 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3800 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3801 0.12.
3802
366fc9f0
PH
3803PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3804 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3805 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3806 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3807 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3808
c59f5781 3809
c887c79e
TF
3810Exim version 4.62
3811-----------------
3812
3813TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3814 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3815
1cce3af8
PH
3816PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3817 patch).
3818
afb3eaaf
PH
3819PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3820 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3821 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3822 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3823 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3824 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3825 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3826 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3827 451 error is used.
3828
e173618b
PH
3829PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3830
dd16e114
PH
3831PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3832 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3833 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3834
f7fd3850
PH
3835PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3836 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3837 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3838 odd errors.
3839
d87df92c
PH
3840PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3841 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3842
7e9f683d
PH
3843PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3844 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3845 option (which defaults to 0600).
3846
bfad5236
PH
3847PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3848
01c490df
PH
3849PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3850 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3851 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3852 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3853 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3854 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3855 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3856
d6629cdc
PH
3857PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3858
1cce3af8 3859
214e2000
PH
3860Exim version 4.61
3861-----------------
3862
3863PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3864 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3865 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3866 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3867 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3868 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3869 addresses as local.
3870
f9daeae0
PH
3871PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3872 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3873
7e66e54d
PH
3874PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3875
c8ea1597
PH
3876PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3877 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3878 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3879 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3880 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3881 grumble.
3882
911f6fde
PH
3883PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3884 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3885
47ca6d6c
PH
3886PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3887 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3888 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3889 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3890 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3891
ed0e9820
PH
3892PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3893 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3894 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3895 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3896
eff37e47
PH
3897PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3898 be the same on different OS.
3899
1921d2ea
PH
3900PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3901 testing.
3902
b3f69ca8
JJ
3903JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3904 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3905
3906JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3907 in 4.61-PH/06
3908
424a1c63
PH
3909PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3910 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3911 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3912 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3913 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3914 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3915 bounce message.
3916
7a100415
PH
3917PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3918 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3919 when Exim was called.
3920
19b9dc85
PH
3921PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3922 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3923
309bd837
PH
3924PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3925 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3926 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3927 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3928
59e82a2a
PH
3929PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3930 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3931 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3932 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3933 changes:
3934
3935 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3936 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3937 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3938
3939 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3940 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3941 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3942
9edc04ce
PH
3943PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3944 feature).
3945
1349e1e5
PH
3946PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3947 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3948 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3949 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3950 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3951 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3952 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3953 values from the SRV records were lost.
3954
ea49d0e1
PH
3955PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3956 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3957 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3958
064a94c9
PH
3959PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3960 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3961 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3962
727071f8
PH
3963PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3964 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3965 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3966 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3967 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3968 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3969 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3970 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3971 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3972 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3973
f78eb7c6
PH
3974PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3975 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3976 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3977
21c28500
PH
3978PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3979 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3980
3981PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3982 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3983 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3984 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3985 is given.
3986
1688f43b
PH
3987PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3988 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3989 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3990
3991PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3992 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3993 PH/23 above applies.
3994
9675b384
PH
3995PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3996 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3997 (for which there is an explicit test).
3998
6a3f1455
PH
3999PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4000
dac79d3e
PH
4001PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4002 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4003 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4004 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4005 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 4006
5977a0b3
PH
4007PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4008 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4009 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4010 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4011
c91535f3
PH
4012PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4013 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4014 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4015
0d46a8c8
PH
4016PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4017
278c6e6c
PH
4018PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4019
2cbb4081
PH
4020PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4021 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4022 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4023
3eef829e
PH
4024PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4025 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4026 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4027 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4028 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4029
1ab95fa6
PH
4030PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4031 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4032 the message gets confusing).
4033
230205fc
PH
4034PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4035 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4036 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4037 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4038
75e0e026
PH
4039PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4040 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4041 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4042 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4043 same order.
4044
4045PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4046 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4047 the different processes.
4048
145396a6
PH
4049PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4050
3cd34f13
PH
4051PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4052
11121d3d
JJ
4053JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4054 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4055
4056JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4057 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4058
4059JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4060 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4061 messages matching specified criteria.
4062
8def5aaf
PH
4063PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4064
929ba01c
PH
4065PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4066 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4067
2632889e
PH
4068PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4069 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4070 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4071 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4072 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4073 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4074 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4075 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4076 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4077 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4078
944a9c55
PH
4079PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4080 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4081 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4082
4a23603b
PH
4083PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4084
4730f942
PH
4085PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4086 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4087 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4088 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4089 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4090 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4091 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4092 the variable.
4093
30dba1e6
PH
4094PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4095 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4096
382afc6b
PH
4097PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4098
a86229cf
PH
4099PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4100
50c99ba6
PH
4101PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4102
d35e429d
PH
4103PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4104 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4105 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4106 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4107 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4108 size of the count of files.
4109
f90d018c
PH
4110PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4111
75def545
PH
4112PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4113 used in LMTP mode:
4114
4115 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4116 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4117 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4118 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4119
4120 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4121 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4122 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4123
4124PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4125 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4126 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4127 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4128 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4129
c46782ef
PH
4130PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4131 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4132
71fafd95
PH
4133PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4134 will now be deprecated.
4135
2c5db4fd
PH
4136PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4137
9cf6b11a
JJ
4138JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4139 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4140 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4141
4142JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4143 with very large, slow to parse queues
4144
4145JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4146
4147JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4148
898d150f
PH
4149PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4150 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4151 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4152 SMTP output lines.
4153
46218253
PH
4154PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4155 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4156 Sieve code now uses this.
4157
e97957bc
PH
4158PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4159 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4160
81e509d7
PH
4161PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4162 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4163
3d240ff7
PH
4164PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4165
b37c4101
PH
4166PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4167 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4168 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4169 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4170 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4171
79378e0f
PH
4172PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4173 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4174 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4175 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4176
e49c7bb4
PH
4177PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4178
d114ec46
PH
4179PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4180
f3d7df6c
PH
4181PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4182 is preferred over IPv4.
4183
715ab376
PH
4184PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4185 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4186 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4187 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4188 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4189 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4190 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4191
6b31b150
PH
4192PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4193 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4194 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4195
4196PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4197
d515a917
PH
4198PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4199 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4200 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4201 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4202 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4203 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4204 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4205 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4206 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4207 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4208 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4209
9b8fadde
PH
4210PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4211 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4212 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4213
214e2000 4214
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PH
4215Exim version 4.60
4216-----------------
4217
cc38ddbf
PH
4218PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4219
4220 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4221 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4222
4223 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4224 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4225 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 4226
72fdd6ae
PH
4227PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4228
4229 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4230 not a single digit.
4231
4232 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4233 string.
4234
4235 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4236 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4237 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4238 silly things.
4239
4240 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4241 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4242
4243 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4244 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 4245
cb741023
PH
4246PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4247 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4248 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4249
f174f16e
PH
4250PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4251 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 4252
c25242d7
PH
4253PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4254 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4255
4256 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4257
4258 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4259 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4260 this:
4261
4262 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4263
82c19f95
PH
4264PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4265 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4266 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4267 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4268 identical. For example:
4269
4270 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4271
4272 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4273 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4274 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4275
d7ffbc12
PH
4276PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4277 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4278 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4279 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4280
9f526266
PH
4281PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4282 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4283 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4284 message.
4285
87fcc8b9
PH
4286PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4287
4288 o fixes some comments
4289 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4290 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4291 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4292 and documents the missing references header update
4293
4294 and most important:
4295
4296 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4297 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4298 result)
4299
456682f5
PH
4300PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4301 Electronic Mail") by including:
4302
4303 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4304
4305 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4306 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4307 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4308 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4309 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4310
4311 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4312
4313 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4314
4315 The auto-replied keyword:
4316
4317 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4318 message by an automatic process,
4319
4320 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4321
4322 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4323 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4324
4325 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4326 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4327 other messages.
4328
3e46c1aa
PH
4329PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4330 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4331
49826d12
PH
4332PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4333
eba0c039
PH
4334PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4335 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4336 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4337
a0d6ba8a
PH
4338PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4339 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4340 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4341
f0917727
PH
4342PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4343 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4344 and treats the condition as false.
4345
096fee00
PH
4346PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4347
024bd3c2
PH
4348PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4349 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4350 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4351 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4352 not changing the active code.
4353
4354 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4355 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4356
4357 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4358 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4359
df199fec
PH
4360PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4361 (Bugzilla #53).
4362
d27f1df3
PH
4363PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4364 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4365 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4366 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4367 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4368 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4369 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4370 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4371 the text comparison.
4372
96776534
PH
4373PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4374 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4375 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4376 The same fix has been applied.
4377
5de37277 4378
9a799bc0
PH
4379Exim version 4.54
4380-----------------
4381
4382PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4383 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4384 It now does.
4385
99a4b039
PH
4386PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4387 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4388
4389PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4390
4b233853
PH
4391PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4392 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4393 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4394 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4395 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4396
8857ccfd
PH
4397TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4398 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4399 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4400 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4401 or /domain=).
4402
433a2980
PH
4403PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4404 testing suite.
4405
3e46c1aa 4406
9a799bc0 4407
e3a311ba
TK
4408Exim version 4.53
4409-----------------
4410
4411TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4412 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4413
13b685f9
PH
4414PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4415
395ff96d
PH
4416PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4417
5b68f6e4
PH
4418PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4419 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4420 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4421
1ab52c69
PH
4422PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4423 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4424 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4425
b07e6aa3
PH
4426PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4427 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4428 operating systems.
4429
254e032f
PH
4430PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4431 ${stat: expansion item.
4432
3af76a81
PH
4433PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4434 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4435
2548ba04
PH
4436PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4437 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4438 file for comments.
4439
b6c6011d
PH
4440PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4441
cf39cf57
PH
4442PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4443 setting.
4444
f1513293
PH
4445PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4446 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4447
727549a4
PH
4448TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4449
af46795e
PH
4450PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4451 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4452 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4453 the end of the subprocess.
4454
d7b47fd0
PH
4455PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4456 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4457 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4458 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4459 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4460
ee744174
JJ
4461JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4462
b582ab87
PH
4463TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4464
41a13e0a
PH
4465PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4466 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4467
f625cc5a
PH
4468PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4469
4470PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4471
21f7af35
PH
4472PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4473 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4474 HP-UX compiler.
4475
31480e42
PH
4476PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4477
2d280592
PH
4478PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4479 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4480 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4481
7cd1141b
PH
4482PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4483 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4484
4485PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4486 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4487
750af86e
PH
4488PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4489 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4490
4491 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4492 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4493
4494 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4495 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4496 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4497 contributed by a Radius user.
4498
4499PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4500 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4501
4304270b
TK
4502TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4503 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4504
750af86e
PH
4505PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4506 available.
4507
64ffc24f
PH
4508PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4509 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4510 received.
4511
5dd9625b
PH
4512PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4513 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4514 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4515 header lines when this was not necessary.
4516
5591031b
PH
4517PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4518
ba18e66a
PH
4519PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4520 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4521 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4522 exists".
4523
9cec981f
PH
4524PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4525 -bV or -d is used.
4526
aa2b5c79
PH
4527PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4528 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4529 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4530 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4531
48a53b7f
PH
4532PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4533
1c59d63b
PH
4534PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4535
671012da
TK
4536TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4537
1509d3a8
PH
4538PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4539
4540PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4541 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4542 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4543 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4544 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4545 settings.
4546
4547PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4548
2fe1a124
PH
4549PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4550 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4551 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4552 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4553 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4554 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4555 which is clearly wrong.
4556
8800895a
PH
4557PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4558
ccfdb010
PH
4559PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4560 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4561 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4562 subsequently added.
4563
1130bfb0
PH
4564PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4565 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4566
ebcb507f
PH
4567PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4568
c35e155c
PH
4569PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4570 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4571
95d1f782
PH
4572PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4573 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4574
fd6de02e
PH
4575PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4576 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4577
58de37c5
PH
4578PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4579 recipients, not senders.
4580
261cf466
TF
4581TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4582 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4583
3ee512ff
PH
4584PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4585
e08c430f
PH
4586PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4587
bef5a11f
PH
4588PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4589 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4590 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4591 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4592
7546de58
TF
4593TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4594
e5d5a95f
TF
4595TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4596 clock is set back in time.
4597
2e88a017
TF
4598TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4599 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4600
a5f65aa4
TF
4601TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4602 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4603
e7726cbf
PH
4604PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4605 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4606 (see PH/47 above).
4607
a7fdad5b
TF
4608TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4609 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4610 header rewrites.
4611
6af56900
PH
4612PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4613 type ("H").
4614
0925ede6
PH
4615PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4616
66afa403
TF
4617TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4618 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4619 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4620
0154e85a
TF
4621TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4622 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4623 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4624 helo verification defer as a failure.
4625
16f12c76
PH
4626PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4627 actual error message.
4628
bbe902f0 4629
e5a9dba6
PH
4630Exim version 4.52
4631-----------------
4632
4633TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4634
22c3b60b
PH
4635PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4636 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4637 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4638 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4639
06a9b4b5
PH
4640TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4641
c1ac6996
PH
4642PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4643 can still be requested.
4644
9c7a242c
PH
4645PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4646 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4647 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4648 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4649
87ba3f5f
PH
4650TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4651 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4652 circumstances, but probably never did.
4653
4654PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4655 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4656 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4657 in the header line.
4658
29aba418
TF
4659TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4660
fe0dab11
TF
4661TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4662 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4663
11d337a4
TK
4664TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4665
4666TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4667
415c8f3b
PH
4668PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4669 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4670 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4671 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4672 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4673 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4674
958541e9
PH
4675PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4676 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4677 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4678 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4679 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4680 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4681
c206415f
TK
4682TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4683 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4684
2a4be8f9
PH
4685PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4686 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4687
1cba11c5
SC
4688SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4689 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4690
4c04137d 4691SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4692
4693SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4694
4695SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4696
4697SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4698
4699SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4700
4701SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4702
1005d00e
TK
4703TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4704
4705TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4706 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4707 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4708
4709TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4710 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4711 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4712 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4713
9b4768fa
PH
4714PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4715 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4716 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4717
4718PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4719 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4720 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4721 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4722
0d7eb84a
PH
4723PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4724 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4725 to be made).
4726
4727PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4728 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4729 should work with maildirs and everything.
4730
40727bee
TK
4731TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4732 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4733
554d2369
TF
4734TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4735 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4736
1f922db1
PH
4737PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4738 function for BDB 4.3.
4739
ef213c3b
PH
4740PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4741
8ac170f3
PH
4742PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4743 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4744 involved.
4745
b1c749bb
PH
4746PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4747 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4748 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4749 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4750 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4751 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4752
4aac9b49
PH
4753PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4754 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4755 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4756 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4757 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4758 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4759 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4760 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4761
294520c8
TK
4762TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4763 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4764 details.
4765
5bd022fe
PH
4766PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4767 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4768
90e9ce59
PH
4769PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4770 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4771 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4772 test. It is now used for both.
4773
5ea81592
PH
4774PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4775 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4776 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4777 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4778 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4779 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4780
c6c2dc1d
PH
4781PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4782 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4783 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4784 string_vformat().
4785
fffffe4c
PH
4786PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4787 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4788 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4789
9a26b6b2
PH
4790PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4791 experimental DomainKeys support:
4792
4793 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4794 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4795 the control was given.
4796
4797 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4798
4aee0225
PH
4799PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4800
32d668a5
PH
4801PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4802
8187c3f3
PH
4803PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4804 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4805 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4806 db.h files).
4807
ff790e47 4808PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4809 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4810 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4811 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4812 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4813 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4814 course.
ff790e47 4815
5417f6d1
PH
4816PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4817 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4818 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4819 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4820 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4821 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4822
59cf8544
PH
4823PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4824 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4825 do -d+all out of habit.
4826
e7ad8a65
PH
4827PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4828 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4829 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4830
ade42478
PH
4831PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4832 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4833 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4834 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4835 record types that Exim uses.
4836
182ad5cf
PH
4837PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4838 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4839 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4840 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4841 non-existent file that was broken.
4842
b0d9fc80
TK
4843TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4844 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4845
4846TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4847 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4848 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4849
4850TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4851
47c7a64a
PH
4852PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4853 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4854 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4855 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4856 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4857 same time.
4858
a388bce4
SC
4859SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4860 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4861 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4862 at a slight CPU cost.
4863
4864SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4865 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4866
4867SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4868 by Marc Sherman.
4869
0793e4ed
SC
4870SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4871
c58b88df
PH
4872PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4873 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4874
e7ad8a65 4875
7982096b
PH
4876Exim version 4.51
4877-----------------
4878
1a46a8c5
PH
4879TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4880 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4881
2f079f46 4882TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4883
4884TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4885
4886PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4887 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4888
4889PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4890 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4891 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4892 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4893 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4894 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4895 file.
4896
4897PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4898 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4899 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4900 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4901 these two options.
4902
4903PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4904 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4905 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4906 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4907 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4908 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4909 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4910 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4911
4912PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4913 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4914
4915PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4916 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4917 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4918 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4919 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4920 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4921
4922PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4923 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4924 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4925 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4926
4927PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4928 Finch).
4929
4930PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4931 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4932
49c2d5ea
PH
4933PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4934 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4935 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4936 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4937 message.
49c2d5ea 4938
bf759a8b
PH
4939PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4940
83364d30
PH
4941PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4942 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4943
7999bbd7
PH
4944PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4945 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4946 to what was transported.)
4947
7dbf77c9
PH
4948TF/01 Added $received_time.
4949
74e0617f
PH
4950PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4951 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4952 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4953 spamd_address settings.
4954
2f079f46
PH
4955PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4956 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4957 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4958 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4959 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4960
8c841523
PH
4961PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4962
7766a4f0
PH
4963PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4964 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4965 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4966 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4967 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4968
8b417f2c
PH
4969PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4970 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4971
901f42cb
PH
4972PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4973 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4974 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4975 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4976 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4977 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4978 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4979 for failure.
4980
f9b9210e
PH
4981PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4982 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4983 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4984 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4985 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4986 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4987 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4988 "input=".
4989
54cdb463
PH
4990PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4991
cf00dad6
PH
4992PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4993 driver and ACL definitions.
4994
acb1b346
PH
4995PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4996 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4997
c5ddb310
PH
4998PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4999 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5000 understands it better than I do:
5001
5002 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5003 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5004
5005 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5006 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5007 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5008 => three warnings about OTP not working
5009 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5010
5011 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5012 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5013 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5014 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5015 for each call.)
5016 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5017 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5018
5019 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5020 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5021 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5022
31619da6
PH
5023PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5024 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5025 specified.
5026
bebaf0fc
PH
5027PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5028 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5029 "Linux".
5030
475fe28a
PH
5031PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5032 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5033 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5034
5035 warn !verify = sender
5036 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5037
5038 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5039 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5040
7e8bec7a
PH
5041PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5042
5043 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5044 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5045
5046 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5047 nomenclature these days.)
5048
e4a89c47
PH
5049PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5050 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5051
5ca2a9a1
PH
5052PH/30 In these circumstances:
5053 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5054 . First host does not offer TLS;
5055 . First host accepts first address;
5056 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5057 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5058 . Second host accepts second address.
5059 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5060 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5061 address.
7e8bec7a 5062
c688b954
PH
5063PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5064 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5065 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5066 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5067 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5068
fed77020
PH
5069PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5070 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5071
7fe1560f
PH
5072PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5073 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 5074
ebb6e6d5
PH
5075PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5076 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5077 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5078
9c4e8f60
PH
5079PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5080 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5081 overlooked.
5082
5083PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5084
d7174846
PH
5085PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5086 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5087 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5088 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5089 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5090 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5091 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5092
5093 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5094 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5095 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5096 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5097 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5098
5099 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5100 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5101 routed further.
5102
cfe75fc3
PH
5103PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5104 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5105 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5106 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5107 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5108 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5109
be22d70e
PH
5110PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5111
0612b098
PH
5112PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5113 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5114 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5115 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5116 printable escape sequences.
5117
2e0c1448
PH
5118PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5119 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5120 body only.
5121
447d236c
PH
5122PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5123 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5124 are as follows:
5125
5126 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5127 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5128 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5129 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5130 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5131
5132 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5133 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5134 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5135
d20976dc
PH
5136PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5137
f656d135
PH
5138PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5139 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5140 play with."
5141
2e2a30b4
PH
5142PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5143 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5144 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5145 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5146 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5147 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5148 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5149 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5150 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5151 the log output.
5152
9176e9f0
PH
5153PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5154 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5155 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5156 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5157 "make".
5158
7982096b 5159
bbe902f0
PH
5160A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5161----------------------------------------
5162
5163Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5164changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5165needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5166in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5167that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5168release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5169from 4.43.
5170
5171I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
51724.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5173those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5174historical information.
5175
5176
f7b63901 5177Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
5178-----------------
5179
5fe762f6
PH
5180 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5181
139059f6 5182 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 5183 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 5184
7086e875
PH
5185 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5186 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5187 place.
5188
35af9f61
PH
5189 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5190 filter fails to execute.
5191
b668c215
PH
5192 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5193 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5194 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5195 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5196 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5197
a494b1e1
PH
5198 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5199
5200 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5201 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5202 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5203 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 5204
c5fcb476
PH
5205 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5206 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5207 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5208 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5209 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5210
69358f02
PH
5211 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5212
5be20824
PH
521310. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5214
eb2c0248
PH
521511. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5216 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5217 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5218 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5219
2a3eea10
PH
522012. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5221 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5222 sender verification.
5223
522413. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5225 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5226
23c7ff99
PH
522714. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5228
4deaf07d
PH
522915. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5230 connection timeout.
5231
926e1192
PH
523216. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5233 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5234
650edc6f
PH
523517. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5236 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5237
2c7db3f5
PH
523818. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5239 information about exactly what failed.
5240
3d235903
PH
524119. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5242
7c7ad977
PH
524320. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5244 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5245 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5246
981756db
PH
524721. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5248 It is now set to "smtps".
5249
d4eb88df
PH
525022. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5251 ignore_target_hosts.
5252
525323. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5254 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5255 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5256 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5257 "[x.x.x.x]".
5258
7d468ab8
PH
525924. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5260 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5261 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5262
526325. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5264 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5265 wake it up if nothing else does.
5266
62c0818f
PH
526726. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5268 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5269 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5270 end up negative.
5271
26034054
PH
527227. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5273 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5274
af66f652
PH
527528. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5276
90af77f4
PH
527729. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5278 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5279 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5280 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5281 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5282 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5283 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5284 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5285
d8ef3577
PH
528630. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5287 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5288 than one IP address.
5289
5cb8cbc6
PH
529031. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5291 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5292 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5293 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5294
14702f5b
PH
529532. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5296 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5297 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5298 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5299 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5300 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5301
063b1e99
PH
530233. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5303 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5304 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5305 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5306
652e1b65
PH
530734. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5308 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5309 respected.
5310
6f0c9a4f
PH
531135. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5312 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5313 $sender_host_address.
5314
33397d19
PH
531536. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5316 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5317 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5318 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5319 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5320 very small.
5321
7bb56e1f
PH
532237. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5323
5324 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5325 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5326
ea3bc19b
PH
5327 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5328 just the host names, not the priorities.
5329
5330 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5331 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5332 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5333
ea3bc19b 5334 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5335 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5336
0bcb2a0e
PH
533738. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5338 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5339 domain.
5340
2ac0e484
PH
534139. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5342
4e1fde53
PH
534340. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5344 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5345
de365ded
PH
534641. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5347 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5348 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5349
f05da2e8
PH
535042. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5351
d6453af2
PH
535243. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5353
f7b63901
PH
535444. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5355
535645. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5357 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5358 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5359 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5360 because the tests only now provoked it.
5361
a444213a
PH
536246. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5363 (this can affect the format of dates).
5364
0ec020ea
PH
536547. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5366 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5367 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5368 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5369
b1206957
PH
537048. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5371
537249. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5373 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5374 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5375 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5376
26dd5a95
PH
537750. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5378 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5379 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5380
343b2385
PH
538151. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5382 autoreply.
5383
1c5466b9
PH
538452. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5385 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5386 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5387 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5388 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5389 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5390 is going on).
5391
55ee9ee3
PH
539253. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5393 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5394 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5395 the line.
5396
d38f8232
PH
539754. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5398 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5399 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5400
5401 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5402 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5403 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5404 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5405 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5406 so I produce this patch..."
5407
3295e65b
PH
5408 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5409 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5410 is not defined.
5411
7102e136
PH
541255. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5413 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5414 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5415 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5416 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5417
3ca0ba97
PH
541856. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5419
c2bcbe20
PH
542057. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5421 long debug lines gets shown.
5422
18ce445d
PH
542358. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5424 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5425
1f5b4c3d
PH
542659. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5427
5428 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5429 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5430 of $primary_hostname.
5431
b975ba52
PH
543260. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5433 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5434 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5435 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5436 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5437 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5438 by change 4.50/55 above.
5439
5440 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5441 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5442 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5443 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5444 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5445 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5446 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5447
544861. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5449 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5450 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5451 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5452
17ffcae7
PH
545362. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5454 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5455
d95f9fdb
PH
545663. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5457 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5458 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5459 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5460 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5461
86b8287f
PH
546264. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5463 This has been fixed.
5464
60dc5e56
PH
546565. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5466 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5467 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5468 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5469 the caching.)
5470
533244af
PH
547166. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5472
a5a28604
PH
547367. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5474 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5475 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5476 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5477
7e634d24
PH
547868. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5479 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5480
3e11c26b
PH
548169. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5482 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5483 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5484
6729cf78
PH
548570. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5486 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5487 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5488 message there.
5489
00f00ca5
PH
549071. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5491 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5492 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5493
c9bdd01c
PH
549472. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5495 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5496 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5497 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5498
d43194df
PH
549973. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5500 during host lookups.
5501
fe5b5d0b
PH
550274. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5503 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5504
5505 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5506
76a2d7ba
PH
550775. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5508 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5509 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5510 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5511 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5512 background.
5513
551476. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5515 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5516
04f7d5b9
PH
551777. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5518 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5519 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5520
bc60667e
PH
552178. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5522
bb6e88ff
PH
552379. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5524 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5525 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5526 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5527 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5528 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5529 process earlier.
5530
1e70f85b
PH
553180. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5532 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5533 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5534 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5535 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5536
553781. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5538 tables).
5539
4e01f9d6
PH
554082. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5541
1ee1cef2
PH
554283. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5543 "vacation" handling.
5544
6e2b4ccc
PH
554584. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5546 OS variants using glibc.
5547
8e669ac1
PH
554885. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5549
495ae4b0 5550
bbe902f0
PH
5551----------------------------------------------------
5552See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5553----------------------------------------------------
5554
5555
5556Exim version 4.44
5557-----------------
5558
5559 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5560 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5561 transport
5562
5563 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5564 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5565 place.
5566
5567 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5568 filter fails to execute.
5569
5570 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5571 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5572 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5573 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5574 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5575
5576 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5577 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5578 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5579 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5580
5581 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5582 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5583 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5584 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5585 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5586
5587 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5588
5589 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5590 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5591 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5592 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5593
5594 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5595 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5596 sender verification.
5597
559810. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5599 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5600
560111. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5602 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5603
560412. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5605 ignore_target_hosts.
5606
560713. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5608 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5609 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5610 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5611 "[x.x.x.x]".
5612
561314. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5614 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5615 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5616
561715. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5618 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5619 wake it up if nothing else does.
5620
562116. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5622 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5623 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5624 end up negative.
5625
562617. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5627 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5628
ea3a6f44 562918. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5630
563119. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5632 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5633 empty pattern.
5634
563520. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5636 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5637 one IP address.
5638
ea3a6f44
NM
563921. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5640 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5641 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5642 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5643 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5644 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5645
ea3a6f44
NM
564622. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5647 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5648 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5649
565023. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5651 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5652 $sender_host_address.
5653
565424. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5655
ea3a6f44
NM
565625. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5657 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5658 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5659
566026. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5661 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5662
ea3a6f44
NM
566327. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5664 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5665
ea3a6f44
NM
566628. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5667 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5668 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5669 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5670
567129. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5672 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5673 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5674
ea3a6f44
NM
567530. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5676 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5677 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5678 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5679
ea3a6f44
NM
568031. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5681 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5682 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5683
ea3a6f44
NM
568431. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5685 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5686
ea3a6f44
NM
568732. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5688 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5689 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5690 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5691 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5692 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5693 is going on).
bbe902f0 5694
ea3a6f44
NM
569533. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5696 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5697 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5698 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5699 CAN-2005-0021
5700
ea3a6f44
NM
570134. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5702 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5703 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5704 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5705 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5706 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5707 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5708
5709 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5710 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5711 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5712 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5713 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5714 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5715 CAN-2005-0021
5716
ea3a6f44
NM
571735. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5718 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5719 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5720 CAN-2005-0022
5721
ea3a6f44
NM
572236. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5723 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5724 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5725 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5726 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5727
ea3a6f44
NM
572837. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5729 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5730 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5731 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5732 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5733
ea3a6f44
NM
573438. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5735 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5736 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5737 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5738 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5739
5740
495ae4b0
PH
5741Exim version 4.43
5742-----------------
5743
5744 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5745 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5746 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5747 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5748 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5749 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5750 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5751
5752 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5753 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5754 the delivery.
5755
5756 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5757
5758 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5759
5760 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5761 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5762 to local_scan().
5763
5764 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5765 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5766 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5767 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5768 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5769
5770 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5771 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5772
5773 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5774
5775 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5776
577710. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5778 header_sender only.
5779
578011. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5781 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5782
578312. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5784 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5785 affecting debugging statements).
5786
578713. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5788
578914. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5790 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5791 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5792 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5793 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5794 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5795 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5796 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5797 after the received time, and all would be well.
5798
579915. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5800 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5801 condition in an expansion string.
5802
580316. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5804
580517. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5806 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5807 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5808 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5809 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5810 job under whatever limits there are.
5811
581218. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5813
581419. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5815 space).
5816
581720. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5818 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5819 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5820 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5821 return path is set.
5822
582321. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5824 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5825 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5826 binary data in such strings.
5827
582822. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5829
583023. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5831 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5832 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5833 failure, which is pointless.
5834
583524. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5836
583725. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5838
583926. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5840 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5841 Sender: header lines.
5842
584327. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5844 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5845 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5846
584728. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5848 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5849 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5850 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5851 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5852 happens.
5853
585429. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5855 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5856 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5857 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5858 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5859
586030. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5861 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5862 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5863 1024.
5864
586531. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5866 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5867
586832. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5869 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5870
587133. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5872
587332. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5874
587533. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5876
587734. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5878 syntax error.
5879
588035. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5881
588236. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5883
588437. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5885 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5886 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5887 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5888
588938. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5890 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5891
5892
5893Exim version 4.42
5894-----------------
5895
5896 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5897 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5898 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5899 it was not quoted.
5900 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5901 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5902 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5903 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5904 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5905 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5906
5907 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5908 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5909 verification failure".
5910
5911 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5912 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5913 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5914 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5915
5916 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5917 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5918 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5919 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5920 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5921 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5922 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5923 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5924 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5925 treated as a timeout.
5926
5927 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5928 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5929 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5930 not set for Exim filters).
5931
5932 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5933 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5934 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5935
5936 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5937
5938 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5939 try to make them clearer.
5940
5941 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5942 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5943
5944 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5945
5946 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5947
594810. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5949 only the Cygwin environment.
5950
595111. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5952 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5953 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5954 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5955 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5956
595712. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5958 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5959 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5960 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5961 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5962 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5963 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5964
596513. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5966 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5967
596814. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5969
5970 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5971 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5972 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5973
5974 To: susanne@some.where
5975
5976 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5977 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5978 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5979 of addresses in From: header lines).
5980
5981 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5982 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5983 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5984
5985 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5986 treated as non-personal.
5987
5988 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5989 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5990
599115. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5992
599316. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5994
599517. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5996 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5997 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5998
599918. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6000 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6001
600219. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6003 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6004 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6005 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6006 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6007 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6008
600920. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6010 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6011 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6012 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6013 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6014 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6015 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6016 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6017
6018 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6019
602021. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6021 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6022
602322. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6024 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6025 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6026
602723. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6028 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6029
603024. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6031 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6032 rather than long int.
6033
603425. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6035
603626. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6037
6038
6039Exim version 4.41
6040-----------------
6041
6042 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6043 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6044 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6045 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6046 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6047 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6048
6049
6050Exim version 4.40
6051-----------------
6052
6053 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6054 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6055
6056 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6057 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6058 socklen_t is defined.
6059
6060 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6061 always exist.
6062
6063 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6064 configured.
6065
6066 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6067 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6068 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6069 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6070 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6071
6072 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6073 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6074 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6075 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6076
6077 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6078 of flapping under certain conditions.
6079
6080 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6081 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6082 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6083
6084 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6085
608610. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6087
608811. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6089 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6090 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6091 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6092
609312. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6094 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6095 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6096 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6097 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6098 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6099 preserved with the message after it was received.
6100
610113. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6102 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6103 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6104 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6105 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6106 test suite worked just fine.
6107
610814. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6109 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6110 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6111
611215. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6113 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6114 string.
6115
611616. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6117 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6118 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6119 does not fully solve it.
6120
612117. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6122 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6123 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6124 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6125 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6126
612718. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6128 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6129 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6130
613119. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6132 string, for example:
6133
6134 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6135
6136 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6137 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6138 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6139 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6140 the routers could not see them.
6141
614220. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6143 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6144
614521. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6146 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6147 output).
6148
614922. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6150 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6151 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6152 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6153 that needed quoting.
6154
615523. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6156 was not being matched caselessly.
6157
615824. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6159 backslashes.
6160
616125. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6162 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6163 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6164 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6165 when use_sender is false.
6166
616726. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6168
616927. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6170
617128. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6172
617329. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6174 the configuration file.
6175
617630. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6177 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6178
617931. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6180
618132. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6182 bytes in the message body.
6183
618433. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6185 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6186 delivery.
6187
618834. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6189
619035. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6191
619236. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6193 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6194 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6195 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6196 another IP address.
6197
6198
6199Exim version 4.34
6200-----------------
6201
6202 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6203 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6204
6205 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6206 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6207 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6208 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6209 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6210
6211 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6212 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6213
6214 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6215 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6216 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6217
6218 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6219 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6220 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6221
6222 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6223 for routers.
6224
6225 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6226 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6227 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6228 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6229 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6230 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6231 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6232
6233
6234Exim version 4.33
6235-----------------
6236
6237 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6238 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6239 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6240 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6241 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6242 default (and expected) setting.
6243
6244 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6245 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6246 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6247 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6248
6249 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6250 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6251
6252 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6253 in domain lists.
6254
6255 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6256 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6257 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6258 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6259 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6260 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6261
6262 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6263 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6264 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6265
6266 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6267 part (NOT match_host).
6268
6269 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6270
6271 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6272 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6273 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6274 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6275 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6276 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6277 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6278 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6279 the same named file.
6280
628110. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6282 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6283 when Exim is built.
6284
628511. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6286 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6287 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6288 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6289 a host name.
6290
629112. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6292 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6293 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6294
629513. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6296
629714. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6298
629915. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6300
630116. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6302 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6303
630417. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6305 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6306 before starting the TLS session.
6307
630818. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6309
631019. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6311 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6312
631320. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6314 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6315 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6316 colon in the middle).
6317
6318
6319Exim version 4.32
6320-----------------
6321
6322 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6323 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6324 multiple configurations are in use.
6325
6326 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6327 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6328 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6329 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6330 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6331 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6332
6333 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6334 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6335
6336 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6337 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6338 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6339
6340 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6341 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6342 occurs.
6343
6344 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6345 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6346
6347 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6348
6349 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6350 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6351
6352 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6353
6354 -prval:sval
6355
6356 is equivalent to
6357
6358 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6359
6360 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6361 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6362 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6363 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6364 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6365
636610. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6367 Exim's behaviour:
6368
6369 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6370 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6371 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6372 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6373 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6374 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6375
6376 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6377 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6378 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6379 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6380 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6381 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6382 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6383 string.
6384
6385 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6386 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6387 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6388 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6389 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6390
639111. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6392
639312. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6394 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6395 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6396
639713. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6398
639914. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6400 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6401 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6402 information.
6403
640415. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6405 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6406
640716. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6408 Three changes have been made:
6409
6410 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6411 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6412 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6413 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6414 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6415
6416 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6417 been restored.
6418
6419 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6420 the modified behaviour.
6421
6422
6423Exim version 4.31
6424-----------------
6425
6426 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6427 Larry Rosenman.
6428
6429 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6430 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6431
6432 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6433 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6434 try to track down a specific problem.
6435
6436 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6437 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6438 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6439
6440 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6441 warning.
6442
6443 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6444 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6445 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6446 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6447 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6448 some earlier ones do not.
6449
6450 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6451
6452 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6453 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6454 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6455 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6456 address literals are enabled, of course).
6457
6458 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6459
646010. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6461 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6462 by a command such as
6463
6464 exim -f "" ...
6465
6466 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6467
646811. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6469
647012. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6471 remained set. It is now erased.
6472
647313. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6474 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6475
647614. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6477 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6478 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6479 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6480 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6481 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6482 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6483 appropriate error code.
6484
648515. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6486 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6487 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6488 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6489 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6490 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6491
649216. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6493 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6494 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6495
649617. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6497 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6498 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6499 terminate the header.
6500
650118. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6502 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6503 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6504
650519. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6506 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6507 (4.30/29). In particular:
6508
6509 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6510 imposed.
6511
6512 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6513 to write a maildirsize file.
6514
6515 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6516 the transport, the new value overrides.
6517
6518 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6519 count.
6520
652120. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6522 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6523 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6524 space or a tab.
6525
652621. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6527 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6528 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6529 the fallback hosts.
6530
653122. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6532 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6533 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6534
653523. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6536 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6537 using a union.
6538
653924. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6540 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6541 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6542
654325. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6544
654526. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6546
654727. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6548
654928. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6550 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6551 become corrupted.
6552
655329. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6554 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6555 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6556 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6557 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6558 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6559 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6560 too great.
6561
656230. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6563 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6564 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6565 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6566 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6567 incorrectly.
6568
656931. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6570 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6571 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6572 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6573 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6574 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6575 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6576 cached value only when the same options are set.
6577
657832. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6579
658033. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6581 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6582 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6583 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6584 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6585
658634: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6587 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6588 it is clearly obsolete.
6589
659035. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6591 transport.
6592
659336. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6594 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6595 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6596 times.
6597
659837. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6599 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6600 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6601 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6602 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6603
660438. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6605 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6606 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6607 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6608
660939. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6610
6611 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6612
6613 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6614 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6615 2^31.
6616
661740. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6618 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6619 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6620 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6621 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6622 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6623 $localpart_data.
6624
662541. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6626 with the -f command-line option.
6627
662842. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6629 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6630 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6631 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6632 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6633 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6634
663543. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6636 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6637 line.
6638
663944. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6640 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6641 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6642 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6643 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6644 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6645 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6646 buffer is too small.
6647
664845. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6649 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6650
665146. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6652 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6653 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6654 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6655 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6656 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6657 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6658 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6659 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6660
666147. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6662 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6663 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6664
666548. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6666 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6667 ACL").
6668
666949. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6670 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6671 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6672 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6673 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6674
667550. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6676 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6677 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6678 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6679 is set.
6680
668151. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6682
668352. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6684
668553. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6686 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6687
668854. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6689 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6690 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6691
669255. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6693 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6694 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6695 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6696 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6697
669856. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6699 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6700 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6701 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6702 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6703 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6704 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6705
670657. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6707 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6708 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6709 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6710 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6711 the test of how many are available.
6712
671358. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6714 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6715 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6716 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
6717 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6718 new message is started.
6719
672059. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6721 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6722
672360. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6724 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6725
672661. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6727 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6728 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6729 is no long logged.
6730
673162. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6732 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6733 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6734 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6735 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6736 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6737 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6738
673963. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6740 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6741 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6742 interpreted as octal.
6743
674464. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6745 setting.
6746
674765. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6748 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6749 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6750 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6751 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6752 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6753
675466. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6755 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6756 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6757 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6758
6759 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6760 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6761 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6762 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6763
6764 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6765 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6766 is a bug fix.
6767
6768 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6769 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6770
677167. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6772
677368. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6774 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6775 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6776 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6777
677869. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6779 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6780 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6781 supplied", which is not helpful.
6782
678370. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6784 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6785 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6786
678771. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6788 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6789 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6790 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6791 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6792 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6793 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6794 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6795
679672. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6797 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6798 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6799 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6800 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6801
680273. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6803 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6804 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6805 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6806 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6807 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6808
680974. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6810 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6811 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6812
681375. Added write_rejectlog option.
6814
681576. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6816 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6817 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6818 variables.
6819
682077. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6821
682278. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6823 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6824 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6825 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6826 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6827 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6828 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6829 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6830
683179. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6832 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6833 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6834 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6835 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6836
683780. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6838 Haardt.
6839
684081. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6841 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6842 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6843 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6844 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6845 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6846 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6847 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6848 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6849
6850
6851Exim version 4.30
6852-----------------
6853
6854 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6855 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6856 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6857
6858 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6859 fixed.
6860
6861 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6862 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6863 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6864
6865 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6866 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6867 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6868 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6869 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6870 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6872 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6873 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6874 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6875 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6876 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6877 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6878 the Exim test suite.
6879
6880 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6881 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6882 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6883 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6884
6885 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6886 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6887 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6888 specify it in this variable.
6889
6890 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6891 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6892 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6893 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6894
6895 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6896 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6897 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6898 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6899
6900 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6901 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6902 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6903 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6904 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6905
6906 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6907
690810. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6909 they are logged.
6910
691111. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6912 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6913 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6914 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6915 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6916
691712. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6918 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6919
692013. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6921 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6922 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6923 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6924 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6925
692614. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6927 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6928
692915. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6930 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6931 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6932
693316. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6934 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6935
693617. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6937 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6938
693918. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6940 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6941 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6942
694319. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6944 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6945
694620. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6947 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6948 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6949 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6950
695121. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6952
695322. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6954 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6955 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6956 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6957
695823. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6959
696024. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6961 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6962
696325. Added .include_if_exists.
6964
696526. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6966 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6967 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6968 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6969 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6970 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6971
697227. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6973
697428. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6975 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6976 this.
6977
697829. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6979
698030. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6981 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6982
6983 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6984 550 Sender verify failed
6985
6986 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6987 the final line of the response.
6988
698931. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6990 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6991 all other user lookups.
6992
699332. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6994 delivery time.
6995
699633. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6997 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6998 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6999 result into an int without checking.
7000
700134. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7002 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 7003 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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7004
700535. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7006 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7007 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7008 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7009
701036. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7011 correctly.
7012
701337. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7014 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7015
701638. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7017 to the empty sender.
7018
701939. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7020 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7021 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7022 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7023 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7024 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7025 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7026 panic log.
7027
702840. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7029 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7030 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7031 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7032 used.
7033
703441. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7035 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7036
703742. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7038 timestamps.
7039
704043. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7041 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7042
704344. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7044
704545. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7046 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7047 logs.
7048
704946. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7050 as soon as it is encountered.
7051
705247. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7053
705448. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7055 rewritten to "<>".
7056
705749. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7058 recognizes a tab character.
7059
706050. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7061 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7062 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7063 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7064
706551. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7066
706752. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7068 crash.
7069
707053. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7071
707254. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7073
707455. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7075 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7076 2822.
7077
707856. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7079 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7080 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7081 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7082 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7083
708457. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7085 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7086
708758. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7088 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7089 list (.included file names were always shown).
7090
709159. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7092 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7093 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7094 root at that time.
7095
709660. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7097 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7098
709961. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7100
710162. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7102
710363. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7104
710564. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7106 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7107 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7108 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7109 failures to open the logs.
7110
711165. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7112 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7113 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7114 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7115 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7116 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7117 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7118
7119
7120Exim version 4.24
7121-----------------
7122
7123 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7124 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7125 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7126 change 4.23/1.
7127
7128 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7129 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7130 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7131
7132 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7133 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7134 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7135
7136 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7137 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7138 causing some misleading effects.
7139
7140 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7141 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7142 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7143
7144 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7145 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7146 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7147 queue-runner function directly.
7148
7149
7150Exim version 4.23
7151-----------------
7152
7153 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7154 HEADERS_CHARSET.
7155
7156 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7157 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7158 was always written to the default place.
7159
7160 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7161 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7162 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7163
7164 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7165
7166 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7167
7168 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7169 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7170 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7171
7172 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7173 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7174 must start.
7175
7176 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7177 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7178 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7179
7180 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7181 command line option is disabled.
7182
7183 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7184 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7185
7186 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7187
7188 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7189
7190 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7191 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7192
719310. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7194
719511. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7196 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7197 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7198 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7199 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7200 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7201
720212. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7203 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7204 timeout.
7205
720613. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7207 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7208
720914. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7210 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7211
721215. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7213 received was valid base64.
7214
721516. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7216 name of the variable that was being set.
7217
721817. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7219
722018. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7221 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7222 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7223 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7224 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7225 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7226
722719. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7228
722920. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7230 nor realm was specified.
7231
723221. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7233 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7234 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7235 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7236
723722. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7238 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7239 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7240
724123. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7242 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7243 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7244
724524. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7246 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7247 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7248 some systems use these upper case variants.
7249
725025. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7251 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7252 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7253 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7254
725526. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7256
725727. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7258 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7259
726028. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7261 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7262 expansion variable.
7263
726429. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7265
726630. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7267 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7268 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7269 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7270
727131. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7272 using it.
7273
727432. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7275 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7276 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7277
727833. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7279 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7280
728134. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7282 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7283 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7284 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7285
728635. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7287 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7288 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7289
729036. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7291
729237. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7293 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7294 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7295 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7296 aborted.
7297
729838. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7299 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7300 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7301
730239. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7303
730440. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7305 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7306
730741. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7308 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7309
731042. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7311 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7312 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7313 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7314 when emails are that large.
7315
7316
7317
7318Exim version 4.22
7319-----------------
7320
7321 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7322 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7323
7324 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7325 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7326 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7327
7328 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7329 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7330 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7331
7332 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7333 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7334 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7335 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7336 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7337
7338 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7339 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7340 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7341 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7342 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7343 ever.
7344
7345 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7346 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7347 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7348 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7349 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7350 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7351 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7352 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7353 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7354 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7355 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7356 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7357 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7358 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7359
7360 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7361 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7362 parameterised it.
7363
7364 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7365 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7366 error should be diagnosed.
7367
7368 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7369 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7370 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7371 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7372 appeared instead of "NULL".
7373
737410. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7375 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7376 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7377 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7378 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7379 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7380 proceeds).
7381
7382 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7383 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7384 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7385
7386
7387Exim version 4.21
7388-----------------
7389
7390 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7391 or receiver verification errors.
7392
7393 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7394 name.
7395
7396 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7397 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7398 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7399 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7400
7401 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7402 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7403 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7404 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7405 shouldn't happen again.
7406
7407 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7408 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7409 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7410
7411 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7412 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7413
7414 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7415
7416 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7417 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7418
7419 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7420 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7421 RFC.
7422
742310. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7424 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7425 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7426
742711. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7428 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7429 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7430 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7431
743212. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7433 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7434 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7435 to define what should happen).
7436
743713. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7438 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7439 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7440
744114. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7442
744315. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7444
744516. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7446 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7447
4c04137d 744817. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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7449 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7450 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7451 structure in all cases.
7452
7453 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7454 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7455 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7456 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7457
745818. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7459 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7460 domain name.
7461
746219. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7463 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7464
746520. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7466 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7467
746821. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7469 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7470 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7471
747222. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7473 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7474 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7475
747623. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7477 the book and for uniformity.
7478
747924. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7480
748125. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7482 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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7483 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7484 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7485 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7486 non-existent command as the problem.
7487
748826. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7489 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7490 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7491
749227. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7493
749428. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7495 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7496 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7497
749829. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7499 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7500 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7501 timestamps using strftime().
7502
750330. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7504 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7505
750632. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7507 transport-time rewrites.
7508
750933. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7510 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7511 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7512 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7513
751434. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7515 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7516
751735. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7518 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7519 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7520 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7521 comma and a space.
7522
752336. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7524 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7525 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7526 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7527 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7528 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7529 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7530
753137. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7532 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7533 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7534 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7535 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7536
753738. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7538 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7539 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7540 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7541 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7542 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7543 remaining text gets split now.
7544
754539. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7546 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7547 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7548 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7549
755040. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7551 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7552 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7553 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7554 $return_path.
7555
755641. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7557 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7558 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7559 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7560 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7561 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7562 passed through if needed.
7563
756442. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7565 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7566 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7567 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7568 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7569 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7570
757143. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7572 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7573 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7574 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7575 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7576
757744. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7578 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7579 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7580 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7581 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7582
758345. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7584 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7585 noticed.
7586
758746. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7588 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7589 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7590 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7591 mayhem of various kinds.
7592
759347. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7594 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7595 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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7596 the right test for positive values.
7597
759848. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7599 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7600 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7601 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7602 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7603 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7604 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7605 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7606 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7607 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7608 envelope.
7609
761049. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7611 module.
7612
761350. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7614 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7615 forbidding it.
7616
761751. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7618 the existing equality matching.
7619
762052. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7621 dealing with inode numbers.
7622
762353. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7624 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7625 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7626
762754. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7628 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7629 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7630 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7631 local_scan().
7632
763355. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7634 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7635 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7636 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7637 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7638 relay addresses has also been removed.
7639
764056. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7641
764257. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7643 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7644 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7645
764658. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7647 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7648 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7649 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7650 processing applies to CR:
7651
7652 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7653 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7654
7655 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7656 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7657 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7658 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7659
766059. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7661 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7662 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7663
766460. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7665 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7666 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7667 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7668 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7669 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7670 arisen.
7671
767261. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7673 program routers.
7674
767562. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7676 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7677 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7678 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7679 adds:
7680
7681 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7682
7683 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7684
7685 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7686
768763. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7688 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7689 not considered personal.
7690
769164. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7692
769365. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7694
769566. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7696
769767. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7698 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7699 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7700 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7701 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7702 header lines, and spool format errors.
7703
770468. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7705 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7706 for more flexibility.
7707
770869. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7709 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7710 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7711
771270. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7713 Sabourenkov.
7714
771571. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7716 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7717 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7718 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7719 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7720 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7721 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7722 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7723 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7724
772572. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7726 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7727 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7728 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7729 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7730 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7731 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7732
773373. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7734 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7735 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7736
773774. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7738 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7739 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7740 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7741 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7742 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7743 instead of killing the process with assert().
7744
774575. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7746 than Unicode encoding.
7747
774876. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7749 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7750 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7751 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7752
775377. Added process_log_path.
7754
775578. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7756 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7757
775879. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7759 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7760
776180. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7762 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7763 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7764
776581. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7766 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7767 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7768 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7769 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7770 were applied:
7771
7772 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7773 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7774 as invalid.
7775
777682. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7777 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7778 they will be used during message reception.
7779
7780
7781Exim version 4.20
7782-----------------
7783
7784The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7785
7786****