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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
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a3fb9793 27PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 32 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 33
d27f98fe 34TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 35
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36TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
37
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38TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
40
ae0e32ee 41TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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45TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 46
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47TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
48
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49TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
50 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
51
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52JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
53
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54JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
55
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56PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
57
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58NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
59 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 60
585121e2 61JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 62
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63PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
64
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65PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
66 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
67
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68JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
69 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
70 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 71
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72JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
73
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74JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
75
ea722490 76JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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77 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
78
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79JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
80 Bugzilla 884.
81
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82JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
83 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
84
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85JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
86 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
87
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88PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
89 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 90 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 91
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92JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
93 authenticators.
94
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95JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
96 for control.
97
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98PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
99
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100PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
101 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
102 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
103 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
104
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105TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
106
107 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
108 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
109 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
110 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
111 the retry rules.
112
113 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
114 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
115 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
116
117 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
118 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
119 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
120 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
121
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122 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
123 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
124 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
125 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
126 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
127 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
128 delivery, as in LMTP.
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130 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
131 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
132
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133TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
134
135 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
136
137 Resent-From: f
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139 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
140 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
141 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
142 username as equal to the username.
143
144 This change corrects that bug.
145
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146GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
147 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
148 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
149
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150TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
151
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152PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
153 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
154 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
155 NULL dereference and crash.
156
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157JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
158
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159PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
160 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
161 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
162
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163SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
164
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165JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
166 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
167 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
168 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
169 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
170 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
171 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
172 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
173 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
174 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
175 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
176
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177PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
178 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
179
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180PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
181 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
182 Bugzilla 880.
183
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184PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
185 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
186 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
187 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
188 an empty string is now equivalent.
189
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190PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
191 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
192 not performing validation itself.
193
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194PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
195 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
196
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197JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
198 Bugzilla 321, 823.
199
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200TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
201
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202PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
203 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
204 other false fix of the same issue.
205 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
206 Bugzilla 1363.
207
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208PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
209 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
210
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211PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
212 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
213 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
214
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215PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
216 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
217 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
218
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219TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
220
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221JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
222
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223TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
224 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
225
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226TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
227 Alexander Miroch.
228
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229TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
230 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
231 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
232 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
233 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 234
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235TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
236 the src/util/ subdirectory.
237
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238TL/13 Bug 1301 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
239 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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240 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
241
242TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
243 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
244 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
245 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
246
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247TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
248
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249TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
250 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
251 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 252
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253TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
254
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255TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
256 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
257 interaction.
258
259TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
260 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
261
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263Exim version 4.80.1
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265
266PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
267 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 268 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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ea722490 270
b1770b6e 271Exim version 4.80
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273
274PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
275 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
276 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
277
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278NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
279
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280NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
281 improved.
282
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283NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
284
c1e794ba 285PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 286
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287PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
288
289PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
290 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
291
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292PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
293 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
294
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295PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
296 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
297
f1e05cc7 298PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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299 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
300 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 301
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302PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
303
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304PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
305 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
306
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307PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
308
c45dd180 309PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 310
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311PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
312 non-compliant senders.
313 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
314
eae0036b 315NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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316 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
317 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
318
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319PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
320 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
321 in spool file corruption.
322
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323PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
324 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
325 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
326 "Got SSL error 2".
327
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328TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
329 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
330 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
331
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332JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
333 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
334
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335JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
336
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337PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
338 diagnostics.
339 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
340
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341PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
342 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
343 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
344
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345PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
346 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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347 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
348 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 349
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350PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
351 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
352
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353PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
354 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
355 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
356 resolver implementation change.
357
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358PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
359 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
360
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361PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
362
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363PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
364
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365PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
366 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
367
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368PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
369 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
370
9e45c72b 371JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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372 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
373
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374PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
375 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
376 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
377 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 378 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 379
53947857 380PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 381
eae0036b 382PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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383 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
384 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 385
9e45c72b 386JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 387
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388PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
389 read-only, out of scope).
390 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
391
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392PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
393 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
394 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
395 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
396
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397PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
398
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399PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
400 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
401 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
402 real issues in debug logging.
403
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404PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
405 assignment on my part. Fixed.
406
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407PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
408 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
409 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
410
411PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
412 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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413 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
414 problems.
3375e053 415
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416PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
417 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
418
57eb9e91 419PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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420 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
421 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
422 needs to override this, it can.
423
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424PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
425 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
426 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
427
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428PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
429 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
430 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
431 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
432
3ecab157 433PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
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438
439PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
440 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
441
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442TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
443
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444TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
445 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 446
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447TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
448 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
449
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450TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
451 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
452 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
453
454 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
455 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
456 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
457 not safe for signals.
458
459 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
460 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
461 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
462 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
463 exiwhat.
464
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465TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
466
467 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
468 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
469 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
470 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
471 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
472
473 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
474 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
475 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
476 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
477 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
478 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
479
480 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
481 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
482 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
483 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
484
485 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
486 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
487 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
488 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
489
490 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
491 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
492 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
493 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
494 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
495 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
496 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
497 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
498 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
499
500 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
501 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
502 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
503 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
504
505 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
506 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
507 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
508 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
509 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
510 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
511 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
512 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
513 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
514 details in the main documentation.
515
3634fc25
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516TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
517
792e8a19
TF
518TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
519
5901f0ab
TF
520TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
521 repository when doing development or release builds.
522
7f2a2a43
PP
523PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
524 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 525
061b7ebd
PP
526PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
527 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
528 Bugzilla 97.
529
e12f8c32
PP
530PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
531
9e949f00 532PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
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533 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
534
535PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
536 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 537
555ae6af 538PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
539 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
540
541PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
542 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 543
6f7fe114
PP
544PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
545 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
546
c566dd90
PP
547PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
548 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
549 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
550 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 551
d6cc7c78 552PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
553 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
554 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
555
0d0e4455
PP
556PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
557
3399bb60 558PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
559
560PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
561 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
562
0ca0cf52 563
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564Exim version 4.76
565-----------------
566
567PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
568
754a0503
PP
569PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
570 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
571
c0c7b2da
PP
572PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
573
e97d1f08
PP
574PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
575
084c1d8c
PP
576PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
577 Bugzilla 1098.
578
4e7ee012
PP
579PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
580 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 581
c8d52a00
PP
582TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
583 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
584
54e7ce4a
PP
585PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
586 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
587
5ee6f336
PP
588PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
589 Bugzilla 1104.
590
c8d52a00 591TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
592 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
593
594TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
595 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
596 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
597 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
598
599PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
600 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 601
10906672 602
aa097c4c
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603Exim version 4.75
604-----------------
605
4c9ef03a 606NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
607 Bugzilla 1073
608
7f3d9eff
TF
609TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
610 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
611 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
612
159f52d2
TF
613TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
614 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
615
0cc9542a
PP
616PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
617 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
618 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
619
f7274286
PP
620PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
621 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
622
7b797365
PP
623PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
624 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
625
caacae52
NM
626NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
627 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
628
09dcaba9
NM
629NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
630 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
631
bc19a55b
PP
632PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
633 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 634
bd4c9759
NM
635NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
636 Fixes bug 943.
637
b72aab72
PP
638PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
639 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
640
2fe76745
PP
641PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
642 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
643
76aa570c
PP
644PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
645 SQL string expansion failure details.
646 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
647
f1e5fef5
PP
648PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
649 Patch from Simon Arlott.
650
4d805ee9
PP
651PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
652 extern declarations in function scope.
653 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
654
cd59ab18
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655PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
656 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
657 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
658 a kernel bug).
659
332f5cf3
PP
660PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
661 Patch from Mark Zealey.
662
29cfeb94
PP
663PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
664 Patch from Mark Zealey.
665
660242ad
PP
666PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
667 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
668
bc4bc4c5
PP
669PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
670 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
671
2e64baa9
NM
672NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
673 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
674 Dennis Davis.
675
bddd7526
PP
676PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
677
6bac1a9a
PP
678PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
679
552193f0
NM
680NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
681 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 682
1b587e48
TF
683TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
684 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
685
aa097c4c 686
8c07b69f
TF
687Exim version 4.74
688-----------------
689
690TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
691 consequences so log it to the panic log.
692
c0ea85ab
TF
693TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
694 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
695
0761d44e
TF
696TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
697
0a349494
PP
698DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
699 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
700 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
701
702PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
703 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
704 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
705
fea24b2e
PP
706PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
707 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
708 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
709 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
710
6545de78
PP
711PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
712 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
713 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
714 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
715
1670ef10
PP
716PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
717 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
718 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
719 arbitrary files.
720
c0886197
PP
721PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
722 (Wolfgang Breyha)
723
b7487bce
PP
724PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
725 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
726 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
727 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
728 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
729
8c07b69f 730
97fd1e48 731Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 732-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
733
734PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
735 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
736 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
737
6901c596
PP
738PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
739 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
740
a8c8d6b5
JJ
741JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
742
77bb000f
PP
743PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
744
a29e5231
PP
745PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
746
ec5a0394 747PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 748
55c75993
PP
749PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
750
453a6645 751PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
752 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
753 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
754 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
755
8544e77a
PP
756PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
757 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
758 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
759 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
760 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 761
83e029d5
PP
762PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
763
ed7f7860
PP
764PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
765
7d9f747b
PP
766PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
767
4b2241d2
PP
768PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
769
10385c15
PP
770PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
771
dbc4b90d
PP
772PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
773
532be449
PP
774PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
775
6a8de854 776PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
777 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
778 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 779
5dc43717
JJ
780JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
781
782JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
783 "exim" to be used
55c75993 784
3346ab01
PP
785PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
786 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
787
491fab4c
PP
788PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
789 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
790 Notification from John Horne.
791
13eb9497
PP
792PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
793 compatible.
794
795PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
796 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
797 it normally works.
798
7f36d675
DW
799DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
800 access.
801
c1d94452
DW
802DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
803 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
804 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
805
e2f5dc15
DW
806DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
807 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
808 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
809 configuration file.
810
cd25e41d
DW
811DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
812 option (effectively making it always true).
813
261dc43e
DW
814DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
815 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
816
fa32850b
DW
817DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
818 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
819
79d4bc3d
PP
820PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
821 run-time user, instead of root.
822
43236f35 823PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
824 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
825
fb08281f
DW
826DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
827 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
828 arguments.
3346ab01 829
74935b98
DW
830DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
831 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
832 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
833
90b6341f
DW
834DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
835
57730b52
ML
836NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
837
66581d1e 838
465e92cf
JJ
839Exim version 4.72
840-----------------
841
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842JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
843 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
844 typos
465e92cf 845
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846JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
847 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
848 (Finput)
edae0343 849
9bd3e22c
NM
850NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
851 Patch from Alain Williams
852
bb576ff7
NM
853NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
854
5a1a5845
NM
855NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
856 Patch from Andreas Metzler
857
981a9fad
NM
858NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
859 Patch from Kirill Miazine
860
7fc497ee
NM
861NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
862
1a41defa
JJ
863JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
864
a466095c 865NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 866 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 867
94a6bd0b
NM
868TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
869
870TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
871
872MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
873 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
874 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
875
c1b141a8
NM
876NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
877 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 878
b26eacf1 879NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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880 Patch by Simon Arlott
881
179c5980 882PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 883 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 884
9bd3e22c 885
7c6d71af
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886Exim version 4.71
887-----------------
888
7d9f747b 889TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 890
f013fb92
NM
891NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
892
0eb8eedd
NM
893NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
894
663ee6d9
NM
895NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
896
177ebd9b
NM
897NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
898
7c6d71af 899
210f147e
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900Exim version 4.70
901-----------------
902
cdd3bb85 903TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 904 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
905
906TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
907 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 908 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
909
910TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
911 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 912 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
913
914TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
915 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
916
210f147e
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917NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
918 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
919 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
920 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
921
deafd5b3
NM
922NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
923 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 924 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 925
089793a4
TF
926TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
927
5f16ca82
TF
928TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
929
dae9d94e 930NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 931 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 932
7d9f747b 933NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 934
06864c44
TF
935TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
936 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
937 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
938 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
939
65a7d8c3 940NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 941 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 942
23510047 943TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 944
7d9f747b 945NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 946
7d8eec3a 947NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 948 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 949
89dec7b6
TF
950TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
951 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 952
a99de90c
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953TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
954 that they are available at delivery time.
955
e2803e40
TF
956TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
957
7199e1ee
TF
958TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
959 incoming_port log selectors.
960
e276e04b
TF
961TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
962 setting expands to an empty string.
963
ce552449 964NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 965 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 966
e765a0f1 967NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 968 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 969
4f054c63 970NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 971 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 972
7d9f747b
PP
973NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
974 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 975
7d9f747b
PP
976NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
977 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 978
b52bc06e 979NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 980 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 981
447de4b0
NM
982NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
983
4c69d561 984NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 985 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 986
d5c39246 987NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 988 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 989
0b23848a
TK
990TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
991
8f3414a1 992NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 993 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 994
fb6f955d
NM
995NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
996
997NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 998
7d9f747b
PP
999NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1000 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1001
7d9f747b
PP
1002NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1003 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1004
7d9f747b
PP
1005NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1006 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1007
7d9f747b
PP
1008NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1009 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1010
7d9f747b
PP
1011NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1012 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1013
7d9f747b
PP
1014NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1015 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1016
7d9f747b
PP
1017NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1018 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1019
7d9f747b 1020NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1021 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1022
7d9f747b 1023NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1024
7d9f747b
PP
1025NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1026 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1027
7d9f747b 1028NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1029
7d9f747b 1030NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1031
7d9f747b 1032NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1033
7d9f747b 1034NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1035
17792b53 1036NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1037 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1038
7d9f747b
PP
1039NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1040 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1041
91576cec 1042NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1043 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1044
7d9f747b
PP
1045NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1046 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1047
7d9f747b 1048NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1049
7d9f747b 1050NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1051
7d9f747b 1052NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1053
7d9f747b 1054NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1055
deafd5b3 1056
47db1125
NM
1057Exim version 4.69
1058-----------------
1059
4b3504d0
TK
1060TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1061 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1062 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1063
1064 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1065 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1066 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1067 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1068 build errors in sieve.c.
1069
81ea09ca
NM
1070NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1071 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1072 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1073
f13cddcb
SC
1074SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1075
7d9f747b 1076NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1077
7d9f747b 1078NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1079
7d9f747b 1080NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1081
1082
eb4c0de6
PH
1083Exim version 4.68
1084-----------------
1085
1086PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1087
6a3bceb1
PH
1088PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1089 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1090 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1091 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1092 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1093 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1094 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1095 for iplsearch lookups.
1096
1097 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1098 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1099 previously such lookups could never work.
1100
1101 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1102 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1103 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1104
2e30fa9d
TK
1105TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1106 version.
1107
0806a9c5
MH
1108MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1109 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1110 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1111 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1112 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1113 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1114
ae276964
TK
1115TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1116 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1117
0f2cbd1b
MH
1118MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1119 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1120 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1121 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1122 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1123 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1124
2b85bce7
PH
1125PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1126 local_scan API.
1127
93655c46
PH
1128PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1129
6c512171
PH
1130PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1131 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1132 encrypted.
1133
1134PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1135 by clients under certain conditions.
1136
aa6dc513
PH
1137PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1138 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1139
a96603a0
PH
1140PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1141
8f240103
PH
1142PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1143 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1144
1145PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1146
d677b2f2
PH
1147PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1148
d52120f2
PH
1149PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1150
64f2600a
PH
1151PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1152 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1153
8669f003
PH
1154PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1155
a4dc33a8
PH
1156PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1157 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1158
d6a60c0f
PH
1159PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1160
8f128379
PH
1161PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1162
8932dffe
PH
1163PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1164 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1165 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1166 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1167
ddea74fa 1168PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1169 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1170 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1171
ddea74fa 1172PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1173 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1174
ddea74fa
PH
1175PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1176
ce9f225c
PH
1177PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1178
19897d52
PH
1179PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1180
bc64a74d
PH
1181PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1182 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1183 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1184
eb4c0de6 1185
b4ed4da0
PH
1186Exim version 4.67
1187-----------------
1188
22ad45c9
MH
1189MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1190 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1191 Jan Srzednicki.
1192
b4ed4da0
PH
1193PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1194 issue a MAIL command.
1195
431b7361
PH
1196PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1197
1198 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1199
1200 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1201 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1202 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1203 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1204 item. This has been fixed.
1205
1206PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1207 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1208
83da1223
PH
1209PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1210 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1211
54fc8428
PH
1212PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1213 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1214 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1215
34c5e8dd
SC
1216SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1217
bbe15da8
PH
1218PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1219 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1220 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1221 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1222 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1223
0e8a9471
MH
1224MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1225 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1226 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1227
f0872424
PH
1228PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1229 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1230 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1231 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1232
b01dd148
PH
1233PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1234
6bf342e1
PH
1235PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1236
273f34d0
PH
1237PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1238 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1239 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1240 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1241 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1242
cf8b11a5
PH
1243PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1244
41c7c167
PH
1245PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1246 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1247 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1248 values).
1249
9c57cbc0
PH
1250PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1251
f3f065bb
PH
1252PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1253
047bdd8c
PH
1254PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1255
0ce9abe6
PH
1256PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1257
0e22dfd1
PH
1258PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1259
4c590bd1
PH
1260PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1261 no_callout_flush is set.
1262
09945f1e
PH
1263PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1264 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1265 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1266 fixed.
1267
c51b8e75
PH
1268PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1269
e28326d8
PH
1270PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1271 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1272 other ACL rejections are.
1273
75b1493f
PH
1274PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1275 with slight modification.
1276
7c5214ec
PH
1277PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1278 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1279
4311097e
PH
1280PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1281 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1282 connection.
1283
29f89cad
PH
1284PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1285 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1286
5e687460
SC
1287SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1288
c3611384
PH
1289PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1290 expansion side effects.
1291
5a11a7b4
PH
1292PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1293 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1294 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1295 be the same.
1296
0e20aff9
MH
1297MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1298 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1299 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1300
ca86f471
PH
1301PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1302 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1303 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1304 were accidentally chopped off.
1305
a14e5636
PH
1306PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1307 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1308 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1309 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1310 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1311 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1312 pipelining has not been advertised.
1313
ec95d1a6
PH
1314PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1315
42855d71
PH
1316PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1317 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1318 This has been fixed.
1319
57c2c631
PH
1320PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1321 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1322 reported on Solaris.
1323
58c01c94
PH
1324PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1325 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1326 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1327 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1328 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1329 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1330 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1331
dee5a20a
PH
1332PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1333 cpus.
1334
d2ee6114
PH
1335PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1336
b2d5182b
PH
1337PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1338
79749a79
PH
1339PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1340 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1341 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1342 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1343 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1344 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1345
c456d9bb
PH
1346PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1347 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1348 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1349 host_all_ignored option.
1350
cd9868ec
PH
1351PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1352 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1353 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1354 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1355 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1356 is what is supposed to happen).
1357
ebeaf996
PH
1358PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1359 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1360 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1361 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1362 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1363 uses the Exim user.
1364
2679d413
PH
1365PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1366 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1367 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1368 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1369 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1370 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1371 users.
1372
84024b72
PH
1373PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1374
8005d38e
SC
1375SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1376 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1377 (Jez Hancock).
1378 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1379 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1380
3298c6c6
SC
1381SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1382
a43a27c5
PH
1383PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1384
58eb016e 1385PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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PH
1386 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1387 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1388 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1389 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1390 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1391 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1392 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1393 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1394 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1395 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1396
b43a74ea
PH
1397PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1398 advertised in response to EHLO.
1399
b4ed4da0 1400
5dd1517f
PH
1401Exim version 4.66
1402-----------------
1403
1404PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1405 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1406
1407 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1408 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1409
1410 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1411 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1412 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1413
1414 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1415 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1416 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1417 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1418 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1419
1420
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1421Exim version 4.65
1422-----------------
1423
1424TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1425 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1426 versions. (#438)
1427
d6066548
MH
1428MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1429 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1430 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1431
4362ff0d
PH
1432PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1433 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1434 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1435 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1436 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1437 rather than extend the field.
1438
93cfa765 1439
944e9e9c
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1440Exim version 4.64
1441-----------------
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TK
1443TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1444 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1445 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1446 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1447 these files.
1448
1449TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1450 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1451 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1452
1453TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1454 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1455 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1456
1457TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1458 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1459 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1460 in the field name.
1461
2b1c6e3a
PH
1462PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1463 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1464 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1465 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1466 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1467 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1468 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1469 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1470 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1471 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1472 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1473
1f872c80
PH
1474PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1475 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1476
1477PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1478 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1479 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1480 ignores EPIPE as well.
1481
d203e649
PH
1482PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1483 (quoted-printable decoding).
1484
cc2ed8f7 1485PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1486 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1487
ddfcd446
PH
1488PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1489
d45b1de8
PH
1490PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1491
1492PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1493
38a0a95f 1494PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1495 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1496
a2405d83
JJ
1497JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1498 in 4.64-PH/09.
1499
1500JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1501 miscellaneous code fixes
1502
6ea85e9a
PH
1503PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1504 rejections.
1505
26da7e20
PH
1506PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1507 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1508 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1509 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1510 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1511 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1512 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1513 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1514
14aa5a05 1515PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1516 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1517 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1518 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1519 function.
1520 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1521 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1522 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1523 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1524 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1525 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1526 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1527 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1528 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1529
ff75a1f7
PH
1530PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1531 decoding.
1532
e6f6568e
PH
1533PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1534 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1535 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1536 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1537 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1538 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1539 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1540 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1541
d6f6e0dc
PH
1542PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1543 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1544 list.
1545
322050c2
PH
1546PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1547 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1548 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1549 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1550 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1551 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1552 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1553 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1554 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1555 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1556 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1557 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1558 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1559
08955dd3
PH
1560PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1561 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1562 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1563 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1564 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1565 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1566 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1567
1eccaa59
PH
1568PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1569 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1570 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1571 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1572 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1573 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1574 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1575 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1576 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1577 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1578
602e59e5
PH
1579PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1580 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1581 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1582 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1583 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1584
411ef850
PH
1585PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1586 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1587 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1588 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1589 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1590 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1591 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1592
7befa435
PH
1593PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1594 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1595 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1596 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1597 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1598 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1599 been verified.
1600
48da4259 1601PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1602 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1603 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1604 and authorization.)
1605
48da4259
PH
1606PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1607 if any retry times were supplied.
1608
d1d5595c
PH
1609PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1610 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1611 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1612
0ef732d9
PH
1613PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1614
328895cc
PH
1615PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1616
fd700877
PH
1617PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1618 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1619 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1620 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1621 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1622 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1623
8dce1a6f
PH
1624PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1625 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1626
17af4a17
PH
1627PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1628 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1629 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1630
1631PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1632 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1633 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1634 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1635 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1636 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1637 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1638 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1639 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1640
1641 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1642 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1643 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1644 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1645 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1646 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1647 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1648 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1649 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1650
1651 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1652 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1653 hammering the server.
1654
c1114884
PH
1655PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1656 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1657
7a0743eb
PH
1658PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1659
0d85fa3f
PH
1660PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1661 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1662 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1663
1bf43b78
PH
1664PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1665 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1666 one case where this was not true.
1667
520de300
PH
1668PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1669 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1670 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1671 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1672 fails.
1673
48c7f9e2
PH
1674PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1675 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1676 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1677 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1678 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1679 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1680 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1681 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1682 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1683 smtp transport.
1684
99ea1c86
PH
1685PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1686 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1687 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1688 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1689
a2042e78
PH
1690PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1691 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1692
4fbcfc2e
PH
1693PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1694 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1695 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1696
aa41d2de
PH
1697PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1698
af561417
PH
1699PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1700
3cc66b45
PH
1701PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1702
194cc0e4
PH
1703PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1704 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1705 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1706 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1707
a401ddaa
PH
1708PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1709 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1710
4e88a19f
PH
1711PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1712 be meaningful with "accept".
1713
d7d7b289
SC
1714SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1715 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1716
1717SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1718 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1719 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1720
1721SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1722 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1723 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1724 there is data to show.
1725 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1726
1727SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1728 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1729 as well as the number of messages.
1730
1731SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1732 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1733 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1734
1735SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1736 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1737 have a flag are now skipped.
1738
1739SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1740 Added the -emptyok flag.
1741
1742SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1743 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1744
0ea2a468
JJ
1745JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1746 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1747 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1748
1749JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1750 match 4.64-PH/13
1751
1752JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1753 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1754
1755JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1756
1757JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1758 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1759
8a10f5a4
PH
1760PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1761
30e18802
PH
1762PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1763 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1764 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1765 contravention of the specifications.
1766
55728a4f
PH
1767PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1768 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1769 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1770
d7837193
PH
1771PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1772 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1773 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1774
87054a31
PH
1775PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1776
ea2c01d2
MH
1777MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1778 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1779 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1780 some point in the past.
1781
e4fa6968
PH
1782PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1783 transport during callout processing was broken.
1784
56f5d9bd
PH
1785PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1786 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1787
922e1c28
PH
1788PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1789 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1790
21eb6e72
PH
1791PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1792 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1793
a0540757
PH
1794PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1795
944e9e9c 1796
478be7b0
SC
1797Exim version 4.63
1798-----------------
1799
1800SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1801 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1802
1803SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1804 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1805 there is data to show.
1806 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1807
1808SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1809 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1810
2b965a65
TF
1811TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1812 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1813
45b91596
PH
1814TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1815 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1816
c59f5781
TF
1817TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1818 submissions from trusted users.
1819
90fc3069
TF
1820TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1821 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1822
6083aca0
TF
1823TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1824 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1825 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1826 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1827 there is now a framework to start from.
1828
765b530f
PH
1829PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1830 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1831 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1832
4e167a8c
PH
1833PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1834
4608d683
PH
1835PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1836
b8dc3e4a
PH
1837PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1838
5418e93b
PH
1839PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1840 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1841 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1842
b4a9bda2
PH
1843PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1844 libradius.
1845
45b91596
PH
1846PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1847 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1848 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1849
5547e2c5
PH
1850PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1851 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1852 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1853 its arguments.
1854
dbcef0ea
PH
1855PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1856 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1857 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1858 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1859 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1860
25257489
PH
1861PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1862 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1863
c816d124
PH
1864PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1865
a9ccd69a
PH
1866PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1867 operations in malware.c.
1868
75fa1910
PH
1869PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1870 signatures.
1871
a7d7aa58
PH
1872PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1873 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1874 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1875 all.
1876
42119b09
PH
1877PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1878 statements to "add_header".
1879
41609df5
PH
1880PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1881 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1882
a5bd321b
PH
1883PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1884 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1885 latter.
1886
e85a7ad5 1887PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1888 so that it is now:
1889
e85a7ad5
PH
1890 ${if or { \
1891 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1892 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1893 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1894 }{no}{yes}}
1895
e85a7ad5
PH
1896 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1897 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1898
d8fe1c03
PH
1899PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1900 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1901
16282d2b
PH
1902PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1903 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1904 any possible encoding problems.
1905
35d40a98
PH
1906PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1907 but not after initializing Perl.
1908
034d99ab
PH
1909PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1910 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1911 apparently, which is not desirable.
1912
6ec97b1b
PH
1913PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1914 queries.
1915
e22ca4ac
JJ
1916JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1917 --not options
1918
1919JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1920
33d73e3b
PH
1921PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1922 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1923 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1924 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1925
9ecb03f3
PH
1926PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1927 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1928 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1929
084efe8d
PH
1930PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1931 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1932 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1933 0.12.
1934
366fc9f0
PH
1935PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1936 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1937 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1938 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1939 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1940
c59f5781 1941
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TF
1942Exim version 4.62
1943-----------------
1944
1945TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1946 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1947
1cce3af8
PH
1948PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1949 patch).
1950
afb3eaaf
PH
1951PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1952 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1953 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1954 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1955 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1956 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1957 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1958 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1959 451 error is used.
1960
e173618b
PH
1961PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1962
dd16e114
PH
1963PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1964 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1965 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1966
f7fd3850
PH
1967PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1968 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1969 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1970 odd errors.
1971
d87df92c
PH
1972PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1973 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1974
7e9f683d
PH
1975PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1976 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1977 option (which defaults to 0600).
1978
bfad5236
PH
1979PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1980
01c490df
PH
1981PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1982 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1983 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1984 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1985 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1986 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1987 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1988
d6629cdc
PH
1989PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1990
1cce3af8 1991
214e2000
PH
1992Exim version 4.61
1993-----------------
1994
1995PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1996 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1997 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1998 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1999 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2000 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2001 addresses as local.
2002
f9daeae0
PH
2003PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2004 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2005
7e66e54d
PH
2006PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2007
c8ea1597
PH
2008PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2009 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2010 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2011 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2012 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2013 grumble.
2014
911f6fde
PH
2015PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2016 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2017
47ca6d6c
PH
2018PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2019 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2020 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2021 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2022 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2023
ed0e9820
PH
2024PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2025 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2026 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2027 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2028
eff37e47
PH
2029PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2030 be the same on different OS.
2031
1921d2ea
PH
2032PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2033 testing.
2034
b3f69ca8
JJ
2035JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2036 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2037
2038JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2039 in 4.61-PH/06
2040
424a1c63
PH
2041PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2042 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2043 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2044 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2045 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2046 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2047 bounce message.
2048
7a100415
PH
2049PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2050 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2051 when Exim was called.
2052
19b9dc85
PH
2053PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2054 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2055
309bd837
PH
2056PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2057 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2058 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2059 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2060
59e82a2a
PH
2061PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2062 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2063 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2064 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2065 changes:
2066
2067 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2068 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2069 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2070
2071 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2072 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2073 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2074
9edc04ce
PH
2075PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2076 feature).
2077
1349e1e5
PH
2078PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2079 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2080 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2081 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2082 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2083 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2084 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2085 values from the SRV records were lost.
2086
ea49d0e1
PH
2087PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2088 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2089 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2090
064a94c9
PH
2091PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2092 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2093 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2094
727071f8
PH
2095PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2096 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2097 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2098 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2099 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2100 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2101 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2102 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2103 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2104 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2105
f78eb7c6
PH
2106PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2107 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2108 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2109
21c28500
PH
2110PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2111 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2112
2113PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2114 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2115 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2116 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2117 is given.
2118
1688f43b
PH
2119PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2120 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2121 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2122
2123PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2124 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2125 PH/23 above applies.
2126
9675b384
PH
2127PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2128 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2129 (for which there is an explicit test).
2130
6a3f1455
PH
2131PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2132
dac79d3e
PH
2133PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2134 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2135 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2136 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2137 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2138
5977a0b3
PH
2139PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2140 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2141 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2142 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2143
c91535f3
PH
2144PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2145 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2146 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2147
0d46a8c8
PH
2148PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2149
278c6e6c
PH
2150PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2151
2cbb4081
PH
2152PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2153 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2154 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2155
3eef829e
PH
2156PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2157 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2158 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2159 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2160 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2161
1ab95fa6
PH
2162PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2163 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2164 the message gets confusing).
2165
230205fc
PH
2166PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2167 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2168 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2169 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2170
75e0e026
PH
2171PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2172 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2173 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2174 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2175 same order.
2176
2177PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2178 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2179 the different processes.
2180
145396a6
PH
2181PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2182
3cd34f13
PH
2183PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2184
11121d3d
JJ
2185JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2186 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2187
2188JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2189 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2190
2191JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2192 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2193 messages matching specified criteria.
2194
8def5aaf
PH
2195PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2196
929ba01c
PH
2197PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2198 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2199
2632889e
PH
2200PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2201 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2202 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2203 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2204 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2205 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2206 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2207 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2208 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2209 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2210
944a9c55
PH
2211PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2212 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2213 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2214
4a23603b
PH
2215PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2216
4730f942
PH
2217PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2218 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2219 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2220 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2221 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2222 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2223 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2224 the variable.
2225
30dba1e6
PH
2226PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2227 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2228
382afc6b
PH
2229PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2230
a86229cf
PH
2231PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2232
50c99ba6
PH
2233PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2234
d35e429d
PH
2235PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2236 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2237 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2238 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2239 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2240 size of the count of files.
2241
f90d018c
PH
2242PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2243
75def545
PH
2244PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2245 used in LMTP mode:
2246
2247 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2248 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2249 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2250 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2251
2252 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2253 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2254 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2255
2256PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2257 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2258 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2259 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2260 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2261
c46782ef
PH
2262PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2263 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2264
71fafd95
PH
2265PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2266 will now be deprecated.
2267
2c5db4fd
PH
2268PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2269
9cf6b11a
JJ
2270JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2271 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2272 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2273
2274JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2275 with very large, slow to parse queues
2276
2277JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2278
2279JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2280
898d150f
PH
2281PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2282 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2283 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2284 SMTP output lines.
2285
46218253
PH
2286PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2287 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2288 Sieve code now uses this.
2289
e97957bc
PH
2290PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2291 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2292
81e509d7
PH
2293PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2294 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2295
3d240ff7
PH
2296PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2297
b37c4101
PH
2298PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2299 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2300 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2301 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2302 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2303
79378e0f
PH
2304PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2305 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2306 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2307 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2308
e49c7bb4
PH
2309PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2310
d114ec46
PH
2311PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2312
f3d7df6c
PH
2313PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2314 is preferred over IPv4.
2315
715ab376
PH
2316PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2317 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2318 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2319 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2320 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2321 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2322 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2323
6b31b150
PH
2324PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2325 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2326 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2327
2328PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2329
d515a917
PH
2330PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2331 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2332 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2333 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2334 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2335 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2336 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2337 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2338 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2339 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2340 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2341
9b8fadde
PH
2342PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2343 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2344 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2345
214e2000 2346
5de37277
PH
2347Exim version 4.60
2348-----------------
2349
cc38ddbf
PH
2350PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2351
2352 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2353 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2354
2355 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2356 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2357 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2358
72fdd6ae
PH
2359PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2360
2361 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2362 not a single digit.
2363
2364 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2365 string.
2366
2367 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2368 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2369 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2370 silly things.
2371
2372 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2373 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2374
2375 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2376 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2377
cb741023
PH
2378PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2379 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2380 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2381
f174f16e
PH
2382PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2383 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2384
c25242d7
PH
2385PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2386 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2387
2388 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2389
2390 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2391 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2392 this:
2393
2394 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2395
82c19f95
PH
2396PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2397 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2398 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2399 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2400 identical. For example:
2401
2402 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2403
2404 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2405 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2406 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2407
d7ffbc12
PH
2408PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2409 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2410 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2411 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2412
9f526266
PH
2413PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2414 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2415 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2416 message.
2417
87fcc8b9
PH
2418PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2419
2420 o fixes some comments
2421 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2422 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2423 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2424 and documents the missing references header update
2425
2426 and most important:
2427
2428 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2429 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2430 result)
2431
456682f5
PH
2432PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2433 Electronic Mail") by including:
2434
2435 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2436
2437 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2438 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2439 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2440 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2441 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2442
2443 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2444
2445 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2446
2447 The auto-replied keyword:
2448
2449 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2450 message by an automatic process,
2451
2452 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2453
2454 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2455 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2456
2457 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2458 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2459 other messages.
2460
3e46c1aa
PH
2461PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2462 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2463
49826d12
PH
2464PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2465
eba0c039
PH
2466PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2467 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2468 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2469
a0d6ba8a
PH
2470PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2471 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2472 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2473
f0917727
PH
2474PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2475 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2476 and treats the condition as false.
2477
096fee00
PH
2478PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2479
024bd3c2
PH
2480PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2481 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2482 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2483 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2484 not changing the active code.
2485
2486 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2487 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2488
2489 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2490 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2491
df199fec
PH
2492PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2493 (Bugzilla #53).
2494
d27f1df3
PH
2495PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2496 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2497 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2498 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2499 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2500 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2501 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2502 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2503 the text comparison.
2504
96776534
PH
2505PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2506 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2507 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2508 The same fix has been applied.
2509
5de37277 2510
9a799bc0
PH
2511Exim version 4.54
2512-----------------
2513
2514PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2515 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2516 It now does.
2517
99a4b039
PH
2518PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2519 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2520
2521PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2522
4b233853
PH
2523PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2524 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2525 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2526 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2527 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2528
8857ccfd
PH
2529TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2530 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2531 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2532 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2533 or /domain=).
2534
433a2980
PH
2535PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2536 testing suite.
2537
3e46c1aa 2538
9a799bc0 2539
e3a311ba
TK
2540Exim version 4.53
2541-----------------
2542
2543TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2544 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2545
13b685f9
PH
2546PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2547
395ff96d
PH
2548PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2549
5b68f6e4
PH
2550PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2551 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2552 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2553
1ab52c69
PH
2554PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2555 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2556 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2557
b07e6aa3
PH
2558PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2559 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2560 operating systems.
2561
254e032f
PH
2562PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2563 ${stat: expansion item.
2564
3af76a81
PH
2565PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2566 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2567
2548ba04
PH
2568PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2569 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2570 file for comments.
2571
b6c6011d
PH
2572PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2573
cf39cf57
PH
2574PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2575 setting.
2576
f1513293
PH
2577PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2578 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2579
727549a4
PH
2580TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2581
af46795e
PH
2582PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2583 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2584 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2585 the end of the subprocess.
2586
d7b47fd0
PH
2587PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2588 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2589 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2590 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2591 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2592
ee744174
JJ
2593JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2594
b582ab87
PH
2595TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2596
41a13e0a
PH
2597PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2598 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2599
f625cc5a
PH
2600PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2601
2602PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2603
21f7af35
PH
2604PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2605 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2606 HP-UX compiler.
2607
31480e42
PH
2608PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2609
2d280592
PH
2610PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2611 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2612 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2613
7cd1141b
PH
2614PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2615 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2616
2617PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2618 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2619
750af86e
PH
2620PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2621 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2622
2623 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2624 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2625
2626 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2627 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2628 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2629 contributed by a Radius user.
2630
2631PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2632 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2633
4304270b
TK
2634TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2635 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2636
750af86e
PH
2637PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2638 available.
2639
64ffc24f
PH
2640PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2641 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2642 received.
2643
5dd9625b
PH
2644PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2645 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2646 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2647 header lines when this was not necessary.
2648
5591031b
PH
2649PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2650
ba18e66a
PH
2651PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2652 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2653 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2654 exists".
2655
9cec981f
PH
2656PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2657 -bV or -d is used.
2658
aa2b5c79
PH
2659PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2660 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2661 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2662 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2663
48a53b7f
PH
2664PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2665
1c59d63b
PH
2666PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2667
671012da
TK
2668TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2669
1509d3a8
PH
2670PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2671
2672PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2673 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2674 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2675 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2676 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2677 settings.
2678
2679PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2680
2fe1a124
PH
2681PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2682 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2683 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2684 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2685 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2686 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2687 which is clearly wrong.
2688
8800895a
PH
2689PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2690
ccfdb010
PH
2691PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2692 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2693 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2694 subsequently added.
2695
1130bfb0
PH
2696PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2697 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2698
ebcb507f
PH
2699PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2700
c35e155c
PH
2701PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2702 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2703
95d1f782
PH
2704PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2705 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2706
fd6de02e
PH
2707PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2708 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2709
58de37c5
PH
2710PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2711 recipients, not senders.
2712
261cf466
TF
2713TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2714 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2715
3ee512ff
PH
2716PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2717
e08c430f
PH
2718PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2719
bef5a11f
PH
2720PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2721 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2722 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2723 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2724
7546de58
TF
2725TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2726
e5d5a95f
TF
2727TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2728 clock is set back in time.
2729
2e88a017
TF
2730TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2731 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2732
a5f65aa4
TF
2733TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2734 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2735
e7726cbf
PH
2736PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2737 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2738 (see PH/47 above).
2739
a7fdad5b
TF
2740TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2741 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2742 header rewrites.
2743
6af56900
PH
2744PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2745 type ("H").
2746
0925ede6
PH
2747PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2748
66afa403
TF
2749TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2750 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2751 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2752
0154e85a
TF
2753TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2754 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2755 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2756 helo verification defer as a failure.
2757
16f12c76
PH
2758PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2759 actual error message.
2760
bbe902f0 2761
e5a9dba6
PH
2762Exim version 4.52
2763-----------------
2764
2765TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2766
22c3b60b
PH
2767PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2768 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2769 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2770 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2771
06a9b4b5
PH
2772TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2773
c1ac6996
PH
2774PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2775 can still be requested.
2776
9c7a242c
PH
2777PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2778 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2779 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2780 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2781
87ba3f5f
PH
2782TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2783 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2784 circumstances, but probably never did.
2785
2786PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2787 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2788 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2789 in the header line.
2790
29aba418
TF
2791TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2792
fe0dab11
TF
2793TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2794 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2795
11d337a4
TK
2796TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2797
2798TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2799
415c8f3b
PH
2800PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2801 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2802 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2803 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2804 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2805 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2806
958541e9
PH
2807PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2808 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2809 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2810 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2811 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2812 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2813
c206415f
TK
2814TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2815 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2816
2a4be8f9
PH
2817PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2818 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2819
1cba11c5
SC
2820SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2821 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2822
2823SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2824
2825SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2826
2827SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2828
2829SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2830
2831SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2832
2833SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2834
1005d00e
TK
2835TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2836
2837TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2838 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2839 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2840
2841TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2842 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2843 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2844 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2845
9b4768fa
PH
2846PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2847 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2848 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2849
2850PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2851 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2852 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2853 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2854
0d7eb84a
PH
2855PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2856 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2857 to be made).
2858
2859PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2860 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2861 should work with maildirs and everything.
2862
40727bee
TK
2863TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2864 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2865
554d2369
TF
2866TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2867 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2868
1f922db1
PH
2869PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2870 function for BDB 4.3.
2871
ef213c3b
PH
2872PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2873
8ac170f3
PH
2874PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2875 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2876 involved.
2877
b1c749bb
PH
2878PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2879 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2880 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2881 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2882 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2883 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2884
4aac9b49
PH
2885PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2886 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2887 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2888 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2889 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2890 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2891 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2892 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2893
294520c8
TK
2894TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2895 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2896 details.
2897
5bd022fe
PH
2898PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2899 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2900
90e9ce59
PH
2901PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2902 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2903 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2904 test. It is now used for both.
2905
5ea81592
PH
2906PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2907 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2908 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2909 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2910 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2911 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2912
c6c2dc1d
PH
2913PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2914 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2915 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2916 string_vformat().
2917
fffffe4c
PH
2918PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2919 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2920 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2921
9a26b6b2
PH
2922PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2923 experimental DomainKeys support:
2924
2925 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2926 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2927 the control was given.
2928
2929 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2930
4aee0225
PH
2931PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2932
32d668a5
PH
2933PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2934
8187c3f3
PH
2935PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2936 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2937 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2938 db.h files).
2939
ff790e47 2940PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2941 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2942 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2943 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2944 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2945 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2946 course.
ff790e47 2947
5417f6d1
PH
2948PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2949 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2950 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2951 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2952 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2953 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2954
59cf8544
PH
2955PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2956 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2957 do -d+all out of habit.
2958
e7ad8a65
PH
2959PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2960 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2961 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2962
ade42478
PH
2963PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2964 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2965 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2966 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2967 record types that Exim uses.
2968
182ad5cf
PH
2969PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2970 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2971 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2972 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2973 non-existent file that was broken.
2974
b0d9fc80
TK
2975TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2976 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2977
2978TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2979 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2980 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2981
2982TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2983
47c7a64a
PH
2984PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2985 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2986 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2987 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2988 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2989 same time.
2990
a388bce4
SC
2991SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2992 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2993 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2994 at a slight CPU cost.
2995
2996SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2997 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2998
2999SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3000 by Marc Sherman.
3001
0793e4ed
SC
3002SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3003
c58b88df
PH
3004PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3005 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3006
e7ad8a65 3007
7982096b
PH
3008Exim version 4.51
3009-----------------
3010
1a46a8c5
PH
3011TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3012 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3013
2f079f46 3014TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3015
3016TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3017
3018PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3019 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3020
3021PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3022 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3023 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3024 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3025 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3026 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3027 file.
3028
3029PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3030 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3031 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3032 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3033 these two options.
3034
3035PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3036 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3037 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3038 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3039 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3040 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3041 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3042 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3043
3044PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3045 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3046
3047PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3048 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3049 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3050 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3051 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3052 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3053
3054PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3055 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3056 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3057 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3058
3059PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3060 Finch).
3061
3062PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3063 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3064
49c2d5ea
PH
3065PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3066 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3067 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3068 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3069 message.
49c2d5ea 3070
bf759a8b
PH
3071PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3072
83364d30
PH
3073PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3074 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3075
7999bbd7
PH
3076PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3077 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3078 to what was transported.)
3079
7dbf77c9
PH
3080TF/01 Added $received_time.
3081
74e0617f
PH
3082PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3083 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3084 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3085 spamd_address settings.
3086
2f079f46
PH
3087PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3088 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3089 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3090 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3091 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3092
8c841523
PH
3093PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3094
7766a4f0
PH
3095PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3096 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3097 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3098 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3099 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3100
8b417f2c
PH
3101PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3102 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3103
901f42cb
PH
3104PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3105 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3106 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3107 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3108 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3109 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3110 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3111 for failure.
3112
f9b9210e
PH
3113PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3114 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3115 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3116 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3117 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3118 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3119 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3120 "input=".
3121
54cdb463
PH
3122PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3123
cf00dad6
PH
3124PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3125 driver and ACL definitions.
3126
acb1b346
PH
3127PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3128 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3129
c5ddb310
PH
3130PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3131 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3132 understands it better than I do:
3133
3134 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3135 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3136
3137 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3138 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3139 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3140 => three warnings about OTP not working
3141 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3142
3143 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3144 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3145 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3146 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3147 for each call.)
3148 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3149 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3150
3151 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3152 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3153 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3154
31619da6
PH
3155PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3156 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3157 specified.
3158
bebaf0fc
PH
3159PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3160 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3161 "Linux".
3162
475fe28a
PH
3163PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3164 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3165 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3166
3167 warn !verify = sender
3168 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3169
3170 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3171 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3172
7e8bec7a
PH
3173PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3174
3175 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3176 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3177
3178 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3179 nomenclature these days.)
3180
e4a89c47
PH
3181PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3182 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3183
5ca2a9a1
PH
3184PH/30 In these circumstances:
3185 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3186 . First host does not offer TLS;
3187 . First host accepts first address;
3188 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3189 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3190 . Second host accepts second address.
3191 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3192 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3193 address.
7e8bec7a 3194
c688b954
PH
3195PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3196 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3197 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3198 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3199 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3200
fed77020
PH
3201PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3202 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3203
7fe1560f
PH
3204PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3205 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3206
ebb6e6d5
PH
3207PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3208 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3209 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3210
9c4e8f60
PH
3211PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3212 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3213 overlooked.
3214
3215PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3216
d7174846
PH
3217PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3218 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3219 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3220 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3221 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3222 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3223 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3224
3225 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3226 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3227 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3228 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3229 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3230
3231 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3232 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3233 routed further.
3234
cfe75fc3
PH
3235PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3236 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3237 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3238 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3239 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3240 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3241
be22d70e
PH
3242PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3243
0612b098
PH
3244PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3245 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3246 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3247 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3248 printable escape sequences.
3249
2e0c1448
PH
3250PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3251 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3252 body only.
3253
447d236c
PH
3254PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3255 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3256 are as follows:
3257
3258 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3259 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3260 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3261 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3262 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3263
3264 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3265 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3266 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3267
d20976dc
PH
3268PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3269
f656d135
PH
3270PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3271 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3272 play with."
3273
2e2a30b4
PH
3274PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3275 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3276 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3277 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3278 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3279 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3280 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3281 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3282 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3283 the log output.
3284
9176e9f0
PH
3285PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3286 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3287 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3288 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3289 "make".
3290
7982096b 3291
bbe902f0
PH
3292A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3293----------------------------------------
3294
3295Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3296changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3297needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3298in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3299that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3300release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3301from 4.43.
3302
3303I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
33044.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3305those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3306historical information.
3307
3308
f7b63901 3309Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3310-----------------
3311
5fe762f6
PH
3312 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3313
139059f6 3314 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3315 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3316
7086e875
PH
3317 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3318 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3319 place.
3320
35af9f61
PH
3321 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3322 filter fails to execute.
3323
b668c215
PH
3324 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3325 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3326 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3327 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3328 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3329
a494b1e1
PH
3330 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3331
3332 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3333 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3334 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3335 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3336
c5fcb476
PH
3337 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3338 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3339 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3340 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3341 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3342
69358f02
PH
3343 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3344
5be20824
PH
334510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3346
eb2c0248
PH
334711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3348 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3349 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3350 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3351
2a3eea10
PH
335212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3353 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3354 sender verification.
3355
335613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3357 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3358
23c7ff99
PH
335914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3360
4deaf07d
PH
336115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3362 connection timeout.
3363
926e1192
PH
336416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3365 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3366
650edc6f
PH
336717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3368 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3369
2c7db3f5
PH
337018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3371 information about exactly what failed.
3372
3d235903
PH
337319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3374
7c7ad977
PH
337520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3376 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3377 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3378
981756db
PH
337921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3380 It is now set to "smtps".
3381
d4eb88df
PH
338222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3383 ignore_target_hosts.
3384
338523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3386 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3387 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3388 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3389 "[x.x.x.x]".
3390
7d468ab8
PH
339124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3392 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3393 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3394
339525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3396 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3397 wake it up if nothing else does.
3398
62c0818f
PH
339926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3400 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3401 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3402 end up negative.
3403
26034054
PH
340427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3405 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3406
af66f652
PH
340728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3408
90af77f4
PH
340929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3410 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3411 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3412 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3413 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3414 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3415 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3416 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3417
d8ef3577
PH
341830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3419 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3420 than one IP address.
3421
5cb8cbc6
PH
342231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3423 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3424 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3425 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3426
14702f5b
PH
342732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3428 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3429 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3430 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3431 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3432 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3433
063b1e99
PH
343433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3435 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3436 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3437 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3438
652e1b65
PH
343934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3440 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3441 respected.
3442
6f0c9a4f
PH
344335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3444 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3445 $sender_host_address.
3446
33397d19
PH
344736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3448 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3449 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3450 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3451 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3452 very small.
3453
7bb56e1f
PH
345437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3455
3456 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3457 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3458
ea3bc19b
PH
3459 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3460 just the host names, not the priorities.
3461
3462 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3463 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3464 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3465
ea3bc19b 3466 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3467 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3468
0bcb2a0e
PH
346938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3470 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3471 domain.
3472
2ac0e484
PH
347339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3474
4e1fde53
PH
347540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3476 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3477
de365ded
PH
347841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3479 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3480 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3481
f05da2e8
PH
348242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3483
d6453af2
PH
348443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3485
f7b63901
PH
348644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3487
348845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3489 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3490 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3491 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3492 because the tests only now provoked it.
3493
a444213a
PH
349446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3495 (this can affect the format of dates).
3496
0ec020ea
PH
349747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3498 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3499 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3500 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3501
b1206957
PH
350248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3503
350449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3505 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3506 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3507 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3508
26dd5a95
PH
350950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3510 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3511 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3512
343b2385
PH
351351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3514 autoreply.
3515
1c5466b9
PH
351652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3517 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3518 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3519 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3520 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3521 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3522 is going on).
3523
55ee9ee3
PH
352453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3525 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3526 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3527 the line.
3528
d38f8232
PH
352954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3530 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3531 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3532
3533 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3534 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3535 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3536 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3537 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3538 so I produce this patch..."
3539
3295e65b
PH
3540 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3541 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3542 is not defined.
3543
7102e136
PH
354455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3545 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3546 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3547 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3548 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3549
3ca0ba97
PH
355056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3551
c2bcbe20
PH
355257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3553 long debug lines gets shown.
3554
18ce445d
PH
355558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3556 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3557
1f5b4c3d
PH
355859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3559
3560 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3561 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3562 of $primary_hostname.
3563
b975ba52
PH
356460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3565 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3566 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3567 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3568 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3569 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3570 by change 4.50/55 above.
3571
3572 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3573 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3574 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3575 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3576 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3577 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3578 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3579
358061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3581 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3582 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3583 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3584
17ffcae7
PH
358562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3586 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3587
d95f9fdb
PH
358863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3589 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3590 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3591 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3592 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3593
86b8287f
PH
359464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3595 This has been fixed.
3596
60dc5e56
PH
359765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3598 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3599 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3600 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3601 the caching.)
3602
533244af
PH
360366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3604
a5a28604
PH
360567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3606 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3607 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3608 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3609
7e634d24
PH
361068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3611 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3612
3e11c26b
PH
361369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3614 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3615 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3616
6729cf78
PH
361770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3618 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3619 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3620 message there.
3621
00f00ca5
PH
362271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3623 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3624 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3625
c9bdd01c
PH
362672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3627 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3628 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3629 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3630
d43194df
PH
363173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3632 during host lookups.
3633
fe5b5d0b
PH
363474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3635 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3636
3637 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3638
76a2d7ba
PH
363975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3640 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3641 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3642 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3643 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3644 background.
3645
364676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3647 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3648
04f7d5b9
PH
364977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3650 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3651 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3652
bc60667e
PH
365378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3654
bb6e88ff
PH
365579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3656 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3657 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3658 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3659 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3660 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3661 process earlier.
3662
1e70f85b
PH
366380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3664 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3665 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3666 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3667 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3668
366981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3670 tables).
3671
4e01f9d6
PH
367282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3673
1ee1cef2
PH
367483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3675 "vacation" handling.
3676
6e2b4ccc
PH
367784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3678 OS variants using glibc.
3679
8e669ac1
PH
368085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3681
495ae4b0 3682
bbe902f0
PH
3683----------------------------------------------------
3684See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3685----------------------------------------------------
3686
3687
3688Exim version 4.44
3689-----------------
3690
3691 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3692 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3693 transport
3694
3695 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3696 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3697 place.
3698
3699 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3700 filter fails to execute.
3701
3702 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3703 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3704 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3705 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3706 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3707
3708 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3709 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3710 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3711 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3712
3713 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3714 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3715 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3716 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3717 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3718
3719 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3720
3721 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3722 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3723 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3724 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3725
3726 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3727 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3728 sender verification.
3729
373010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3731 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3732
373311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3734 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3735
373612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3737 ignore_target_hosts.
3738
373913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3740 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3741 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3742 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3743 "[x.x.x.x]".
3744
374514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3746 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3747 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3748
374915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3750 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3751 wake it up if nothing else does.
3752
375316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3754 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3755 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3756 end up negative.
3757
375817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3759 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3760
ea3a6f44 376118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3762
376319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3764 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3765 empty pattern.
3766
376720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3768 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3769 one IP address.
3770
ea3a6f44
NM
377121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3772 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3773 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3774 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3775 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3776 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3777
ea3a6f44
NM
377822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3779 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3780 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3781
378223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3783 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3784 $sender_host_address.
3785
378624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3787
ea3a6f44
NM
378825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3789 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3790 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3791
379226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3793 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3794
ea3a6f44
NM
379527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3796 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3797
ea3a6f44
NM
379828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3799 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3800 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3801 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3802
380329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3804 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3805 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3806
ea3a6f44
NM
380730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3808 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3809 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3810 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3811
ea3a6f44
NM
381231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3813 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3814 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3815
ea3a6f44
NM
381631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3817 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3818
ea3a6f44
NM
381932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3820 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3821 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3822 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3823 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3824 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3825 is going on).
bbe902f0 3826
ea3a6f44
NM
382733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3828 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3829 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3830 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3831 CAN-2005-0021
3832
ea3a6f44
NM
383334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3834 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3835 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3836 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3837 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3838 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3839 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3840
3841 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3842 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3843 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3844 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3845 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3846 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3847 CAN-2005-0021
3848
ea3a6f44
NM
384935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3850 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3851 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3852 CAN-2005-0022
3853
ea3a6f44
NM
385436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3855 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3856 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3857 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3858 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3859
ea3a6f44
NM
386037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3861 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3862 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3863 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3864 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3865
ea3a6f44
NM
386638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3867 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3868 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3869 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3870 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3871
3872
495ae4b0
PH
3873Exim version 4.43
3874-----------------
3875
3876 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3877 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3878 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3879 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3880 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3881 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3882 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3883
3884 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3885 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3886 the delivery.
3887
3888 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3889
3890 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3891
3892 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3893 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3894 to local_scan().
3895
3896 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3897 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3898 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3899 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3900 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3901
3902 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3903 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3904
3905 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3906
3907 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3908
390910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3910 header_sender only.
3911
391211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3913 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3914
391512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3916 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3917 affecting debugging statements).
3918
391913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3920
392114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3922 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3923 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3924 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3925 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3926 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3927 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3928 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3929 after the received time, and all would be well.
3930
393115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3932 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3933 condition in an expansion string.
3934
393516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3936
393717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3938 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3939 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3940 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3941 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3942 job under whatever limits there are.
3943
394418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3945
394619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3947 space).
3948
394920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3950 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3951 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3952 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3953 return path is set.
3954
395521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3956 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3957 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3958 binary data in such strings.
3959
396022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3961
396223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3963 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3964 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3965 failure, which is pointless.
3966
396724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3968
396925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3970
397126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3972 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3973 Sender: header lines.
3974
397527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3976 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3977 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3978
397928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3980 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3981 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3982 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3983 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3984 happens.
3985
398629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3987 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3988 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3989 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3990 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3991
399230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3993 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3994 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3995 1024.
3996
399731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3998 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3999
400032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4001 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4002
400333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4004
400532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4006
400733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4008
400934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4010 syntax error.
4011
401235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4013
401436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4015
401637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4017 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4018 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4019 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4020
402138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4022 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4023
4024
4025Exim version 4.42
4026-----------------
4027
4028 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4029 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4030 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4031 it was not quoted.
4032 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4033 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4034 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4035 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4036 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4037 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4038
4039 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4040 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4041 verification failure".
4042
4043 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4044 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4045 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4046 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4047
4048 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4049 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4050 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4051 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4052 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4053 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4054 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4055 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4056 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4057 treated as a timeout.
4058
4059 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4060 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4061 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4062 not set for Exim filters).
4063
4064 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4065 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4066 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4067
4068 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4069
4070 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4071 try to make them clearer.
4072
4073 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4074 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4075
4076 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4077
4078 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4079
408010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4081 only the Cygwin environment.
4082
408311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4084 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4085 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4086 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4087 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4088
408912. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4090 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4091 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4092 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4093 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4094 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4095 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4096
409713. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4098 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4099
410014. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4101
4102 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4103 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4104 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4105
4106 To: susanne@some.where
4107
4108 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4109 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4110 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4111 of addresses in From: header lines).
4112
4113 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4114 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4115 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4116
4117 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4118 treated as non-personal.
4119
4120 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4121 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4122
412315. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4124
412516. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4126
412717. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4128 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4129 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4130
413118. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4132 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4133
413419. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4135 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4136 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4137 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4138 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4139 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4140
414120. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4142 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4143 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4144 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4145 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4146 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4147 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4148 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4149
4150 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4151
415221. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4153 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4154
415522. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4156 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4157 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4158
415923. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4160 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4161
416224. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4163 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4164 rather than long int.
4165
416625. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4167
416826. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4169
4170
4171Exim version 4.41
4172-----------------
4173
4174 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4175 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4176 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4177 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4178 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4179 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4180
4181
4182Exim version 4.40
4183-----------------
4184
4185 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4186 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4187
4188 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4189 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4190 socklen_t is defined.
4191
4192 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4193 always exist.
4194
4195 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4196 configured.
4197
4198 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4199 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4200 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4201 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4202 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4203
4204 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4205 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4206 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4207 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4208
4209 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4210 of flapping under certain conditions.
4211
4212 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4213 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4214 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4215
4216 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4217
421810. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4219
422011. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4221 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4222 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4223 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4224
422512. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4226 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4227 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4228 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4229 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4230 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4231 preserved with the message after it was received.
4232
423313. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4234 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4235 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4236 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4237 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4238 test suite worked just fine.
4239
424014. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4241 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4242 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4243
424415. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4245 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4246 string.
4247
424816. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4249 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4250 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4251 does not fully solve it.
4252
425317. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4254 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4255 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4256 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4257 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4258
425918. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4260 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4261 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4262
426319. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4264 string, for example:
4265
4266 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4267
4268 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4269 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4270 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4271 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4272 the routers could not see them.
4273
427420. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4275 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4276
427721. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4278 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4279 output).
4280
428122. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4282 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4283 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4284 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4285 that needed quoting.
4286
428723. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4288 was not being matched caselessly.
4289
429024. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4291 backslashes.
4292
429325. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4294 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4295 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4296 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4297 when use_sender is false.
4298
429926. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4300
430127. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4302
430328. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4304
430529. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4306 the configuration file.
4307
430830. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4309 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4310
431131. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4312
431332. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4314 bytes in the message body.
4315
431633. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4317 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4318 delivery.
4319
432034. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4321
432235. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4323
432436. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4325 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4326 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4327 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4328 another IP address.
4329
4330
4331Exim version 4.34
4332-----------------
4333
4334 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4335 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4336
4337 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4338 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4339 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4340 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4341 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4342
4343 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4344 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4345
4346 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4347 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4348 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4349
4350 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4351 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4352 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4353
4354 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4355 for routers.
4356
4357 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4358 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4359 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4360 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4361 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4362 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4363 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4364
4365
4366Exim version 4.33
4367-----------------
4368
4369 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4370 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4371 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4372 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4373 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4374 default (and expected) setting.
4375
4376 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4377 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4378 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4379 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4380
4381 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4382 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4383
4384 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4385 in domain lists.
4386
4387 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4388 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4389 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4390 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4391 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4392 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4393
4394 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4395 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4396 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4397
4398 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4399 part (NOT match_host).
4400
4401 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4402
4403 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4404 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4405 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4406 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4407 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4408 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4409 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4410 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4411 the same named file.
4412
441310. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4414 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4415 when Exim is built.
4416
441711. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4418 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4419 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4420 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4421 a host name.
4422
442312. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4424 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4425 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4426
442713. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4428
442914. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4430
443115. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4432
443316. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4434 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4435
443617. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4437 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4438 before starting the TLS session.
4439
444018. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4441
444219. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4443 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4444
444520. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4446 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4447 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4448 colon in the middle).
4449
4450
4451Exim version 4.32
4452-----------------
4453
4454 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4455 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4456 multiple configurations are in use.
4457
4458 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4459 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4460 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4461 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4462 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4463 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4464
4465 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4466 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4467
4468 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4469 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4470 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4471
4472 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4473 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4474 occurs.
4475
4476 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4477 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4478
4479 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4480
4481 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4482 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4483
4484 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4485
4486 -prval:sval
4487
4488 is equivalent to
4489
4490 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4491
4492 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4493 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4494 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4495 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4496 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4497
449810. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4499 Exim's behaviour:
4500
4501 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4502 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4503 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4504 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4505 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4506 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4507
4508 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4509 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4510 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4511 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4512 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4513 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4514 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4515 string.
4516
4517 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4518 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4519 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4520 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4521 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4522
452311. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4524
452512. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4526 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4527 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4528
452913. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4530
453114. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4532 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4533 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4534 information.
4535
453615. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4537 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4538
453916. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4540 Three changes have been made:
4541
4542 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4543 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4544 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4545 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4546 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4547
4548 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4549 been restored.
4550
4551 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4552 the modified behaviour.
4553
4554
4555Exim version 4.31
4556-----------------
4557
4558 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4559 Larry Rosenman.
4560
4561 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4562 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4563
4564 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4565 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4566 try to track down a specific problem.
4567
4568 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4569 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4570 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4571
4572 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4573 warning.
4574
4575 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4576 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4577 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4578 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4579 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4580 some earlier ones do not.
4581
4582 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4583
4584 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4585 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4586 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4587 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4588 address literals are enabled, of course).
4589
4590 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4591
459210. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4593 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4594 by a command such as
4595
4596 exim -f "" ...
4597
4598 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4599
460011. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4601
460212. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4603 remained set. It is now erased.
4604
460513. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4606 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4607
460814. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4609 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4610 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4611 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4612 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4613 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4614 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4615 appropriate error code.
4616
461715. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4618 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4619 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4620 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4621 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4622 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4623
462416. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4625 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4626 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4627
462817. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4629 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4630 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4631 terminate the header.
4632
463318. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4634 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4635 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4636
463719. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4638 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4639 (4.30/29). In particular:
4640
4641 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4642 imposed.
4643
4644 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4645 to write a maildirsize file.
4646
4647 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4648 the transport, the new value overrides.
4649
4650 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4651 count.
4652
465320. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4654 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4655 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4656 space or a tab.
4657
465821. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4659 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4660 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4661 the fallback hosts.
4662
466322. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4664 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4665 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4666
466723. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4668 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4669 using a union.
4670
467124. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4672 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4673 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4674
467525. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4676
467726. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4678
467927. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4680
468128. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4682 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4683 become corrupted.
4684
468529. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4686 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4687 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4688 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4689 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4690 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4691 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4692 too great.
4693
469430. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4695 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4696 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4697 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4698 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4699 incorrectly.
4700
470131. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4702 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4703 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4704 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4705 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4706 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4707 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4708 cached value only when the same options are set.
4709
471032. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4711
471233. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4713 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4714 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4715 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4716 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4717
471834: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4719 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4720 it is clearly obsolete.
4721
472235. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4723 transport.
4724
472536. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4726 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4727 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4728 times.
4729
473037. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4731 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4732 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4733 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4734 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4735
473638. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4737 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4738 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4739 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4740
474139. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4742
4743 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4744
4745 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4746 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4747 2^31.
4748
474940. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4750 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4751 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4752 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4753 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4754 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4755 $localpart_data.
4756
475741. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4758 with the -f command-line option.
4759
476042. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4761 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4762 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4763 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4764 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4765 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4766
476743. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4768 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4769 line.
4770
477144. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4772 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4773 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4774 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4775 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4776 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4777 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4778 buffer is too small.
4779
478045. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4781 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4782
478346. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4784 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4785 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4786 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4787 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4788 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4789 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4790 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4791 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4792
479347. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4794 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4795 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4796
479748. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4798 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4799 ACL").
4800
480149. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4802 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4803 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4804 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4805 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4806
480750. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4808 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4809 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4810 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4811 is set.
4812
481351. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4814
481552. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4816
481753. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4818 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4819
482054. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4821 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4822 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4823
482455. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4825 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4826 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4827 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4828 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4829
483056. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4831 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4832 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4833 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4834 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4835 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4836 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4837
483857. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4839 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4840 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4841 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4842 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4843 the test of how many are available.
4844
484558. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4846 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4847 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4848 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4849 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4850 new message is started.
4851
485259. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4853 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4854
485560. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4856 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4857
485861. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4859 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4860 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4861 is no long logged.
4862
486362. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4864 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4865 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4866 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4867 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4868 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4869 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4870
487163. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4872 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4873 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4874 interpreted as octal.
4875
487664. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4877 setting.
4878
487965. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4880 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4881 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4882 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4883 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4884 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4885
488666. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4887 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4888 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4889 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4890
4891 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4892 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4893 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4894 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4895
4896 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4897 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4898 is a bug fix.
4899
4900 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4901 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4902
490367. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4904
490568. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4906 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4907 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4908 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4909
491069. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4911 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4912 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4913 supplied", which is not helpful.
4914
491570. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4916 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4917 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4918
491971. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4920 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4921 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4922 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4923 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4924 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4925 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4926 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4927
492872. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4929 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4930 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4931 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4932 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4933
493473. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4935 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4936 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4937 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4938 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4939 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4940
494174. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4942 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4943 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4944
494575. Added write_rejectlog option.
4946
494776. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4948 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4949 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4950 variables.
4951
495277. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4953
495478. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4955 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4956 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4957 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4958 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4959 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4960 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4961 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4962
496379. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4964 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4965 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4966 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4967 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4968
496980. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4970 Haardt.
4971
497281. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4973 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4974 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4975 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4976 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4977 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4978 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4979 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4980 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4981
4982
4983Exim version 4.30
4984-----------------
4985
4986 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4987 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4988 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4989
4990 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4991 fixed.
4992
4993 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4994 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4995 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4996
4997 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4998 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4999 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5000 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5001 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5002 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5003
5004 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5005 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5006 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5007 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5008 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5009 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5010 the Exim test suite.
5011
5012 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5013 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5014 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5015 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5016
5017 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5018 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5019 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5020 specify it in this variable.
5021
5022 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5023 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5024 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5025 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5026
5027 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5028 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5029 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5030 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5031
5032 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5033 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5034 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5035 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5036 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5037
5038 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5039
504010. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5041 they are logged.
5042
504311. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5044 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5045 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5046 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5047 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5048
504912. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5050 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5051
505213. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5053 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5054 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5055 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5056 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5057
505814. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5059 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5060
506115. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5062 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5063 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5064
506516. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5066 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5067
506817. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5069 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5070
507118. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5072 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5073 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5074
507519. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5076 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5077
507820. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5079 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5080 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5081 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5082
508321. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5084
508522. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5086 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5087 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5088 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5089
509023. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5091
509224. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5093 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5094
509525. Added .include_if_exists.
5096
509726. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5098 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5099 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5100 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5101 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5102 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5103
510427. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5105
510628. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5107 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5108 this.
5109
511029. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5111
511230. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5113 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5114
5115 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5116 550 Sender verify failed
5117
5118 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5119 the final line of the response.
5120
512131. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5122 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5123 all other user lookups.
5124
512532. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5126 delivery time.
5127
512833. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5129 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5130 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5131 result into an int without checking.
5132
513334. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5134 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5135 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5136
513735. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5138 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5139 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5140 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5141
514236. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5143 correctly.
5144
514537. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5146 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5147
514838. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5149 to the empty sender.
5150
515139. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5152 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5153 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5154 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5155 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5156 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5157 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5158 panic log.
5159
516040. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5161 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5162 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5163 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5164 used.
5165
516641. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5167 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5168
516942. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5170 timestamps.
5171
517243. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5173 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5174
517544. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5176
517745. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5178 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5179 logs.
5180
518146. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5182 as soon as it is encountered.
5183
518447. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5185
518648. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5187 rewritten to "<>".
5188
518949. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5190 recognizes a tab character.
5191
519250. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5193 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5194 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5195 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5196
519751. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5198
519952. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5200 crash.
5201
520253. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5203
520454. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5205
520655. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5207 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5208 2822.
5209
521056. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5211 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5212 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5213 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5214 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5215
521657. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5217 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5218
521958. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5220 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5221 list (.included file names were always shown).
5222
522359. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5224 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5225 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5226 root at that time.
5227
522860. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5229 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5230
523161. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5232
523362. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5234
523563. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5236
523764. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5238 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5239 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5240 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5241 failures to open the logs.
5242
524365. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5244 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5245 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5246 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5247 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5248 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5249 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5250
5251
5252Exim version 4.24
5253-----------------
5254
5255 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5256 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5257 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5258 change 4.23/1.
5259
5260 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5261 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5262 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5263
5264 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5265 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5266 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5267
5268 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5269 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5270 causing some misleading effects.
5271
5272 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5273 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5274 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5275
5276 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5277 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5278 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5279 queue-runner function directly.
5280
5281
5282Exim version 4.23
5283-----------------
5284
5285 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5286 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5287
5288 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5289 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5290 was always written to the default place.
5291
5292 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5293 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5294 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5295
5296 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5297
5298 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5299
5300 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5301 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5302 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5303
5304 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5305 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5306 must start.
5307
5308 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5309 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5310 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5311
5312 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5313 command line option is disabled.
5314
5315 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5316 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5317
5318 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5319
5320 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5321
5322 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5323 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5324
532510. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5326
532711. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5328 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5329 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5330 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5331 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5332 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5333
533412. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5335 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5336 timeout.
5337
533813. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5339 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5340
534114. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5342 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5343
534415. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5345 received was valid base64.
5346
534716. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5348 name of the variable that was being set.
5349
535017. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5351
535218. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5353 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5354 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5355 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5356 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5357 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5358
535919. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5360
536120. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5362 nor realm was specified.
5363
536421. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5365 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5366 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5367 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5368
536922. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5370 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5371 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5372
537323. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5374 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5375 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5376
537724. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5378 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5379 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5380 some systems use these upper case variants.
5381
538225. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5383 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5384 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5385 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5386
538726. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5388
538927. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5390 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5391
539228. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5393 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5394 expansion variable.
5395
539629. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5397
539830. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5399 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5400 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5401 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5402
540331. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5404 using it.
5405
540632. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5407 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5408 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5409
541033. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5411 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5412
541334. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5414 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5415 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5416 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5417
541835. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5419 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5420 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5421
542236. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5423
542437. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5425 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5426 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5427 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5428 aborted.
5429
543038. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5431 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5432 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5433
543439. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5435
543640. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5437 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5438
543941. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5440 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5441
544242. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5443 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5444 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5445 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5446 when emails are that large.
5447
5448
5449
5450Exim version 4.22
5451-----------------
5452
5453 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5454 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5455
5456 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5457 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5458 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5459
5460 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5461 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5462 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5463
5464 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5465 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5466 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5467 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5468 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5469
5470 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5471 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5472 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5473 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5474 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5475 ever.
5476
5477 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5478 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5479 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5480 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5481 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5482 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5483 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5484 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5485 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5486 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5487 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5488 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5489 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5490 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5491
5492 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5493 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5494 parameterised it.
5495
5496 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5497 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5498 error should be diagnosed.
5499
5500 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5501 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5502 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5503 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5504 appeared instead of "NULL".
5505
550610. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5507 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5508 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5509 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5510 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5511 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5512 proceeds).
5513
5514 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5515 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5516 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5517
5518
5519Exim version 4.21
5520-----------------
5521
5522 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5523 or receiver verification errors.
5524
5525 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5526 name.
5527
5528 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5529 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5530 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5531 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5532
5533 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5534 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5535 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5536 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5537 shouldn't happen again.
5538
5539 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5540 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5541 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5542
5543 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5544 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5545
5546 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5547
5548 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5549 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5550
5551 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5552 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5553 RFC.
5554
555510. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5556 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5557 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5558
555911. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5560 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5561 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5562 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5563
556412. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5565 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5566 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5567 to define what should happen).
5568
556913. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5570 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5571 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5572
557314. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5574
557515. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5576
557716. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5578 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5579
558017. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5581 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5582 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5583 structure in all cases.
5584
5585 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5586 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5587 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5588 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5589
559018. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5591 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5592 domain name.
5593
559419. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5595 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5596
559720. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5598 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5599
560021. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5601 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5602 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5603
560422. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5605 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5606 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5607
560823. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5609 the book and for uniformity.
5610
561124. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5612
561325. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5614 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5615 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5616 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5617 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5618 non-existent command as the problem.
5619
562026. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5621 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5622 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5623
562427. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5625
562628. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5627 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5628 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5629
563029. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5631 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5632 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5633 timestamps using strftime().
5634
563530. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5636 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5637
563832. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5639 transport-time rewrites.
5640
564133. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5642 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5643 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5644 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5645
564634. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5647 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5648
564935. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5650 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5651 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5652 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5653 comma and a space.
5654
565536. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5656 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5657 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5658 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5659 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5660 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5661 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5662
566337. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5664 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5665 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5666 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5667 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5668
566938. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5670 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5671 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5672 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5673 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5674 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5675 remaining text gets split now.
5676
567739. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5678 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5679 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5680 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5681
568240. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5683 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5684 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5685 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5686 $return_path.
5687
568841. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5689 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5690 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5691 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5692 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5693 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5694 passed through if needed.
5695
569642. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5697 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5698 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5699 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5700 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5701 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5702
570343. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5704 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5705 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5706 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5707 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5708
570944. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5710 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5711 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5712 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5713 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5714
571545. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5716 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5717 noticed.
5718
571946. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5720 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5721 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5722 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5723 mayhem of various kinds.
5724
572547. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5726 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5727 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5728 the right test for positive values.
5729
573048. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5731 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5732 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5733 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5734 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5735 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5736 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5737 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5738 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5739 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5740 envelope.
5741
574249. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5743 module.
5744
574550. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5746 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5747 forbidding it.
5748
574951. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5750 the existing equality matching.
5751
575252. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5753 dealing with inode numbers.
5754
575553. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5756 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5757 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5758
575954. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5760 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5761 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5762 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5763 local_scan().
5764
576555. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5766 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5767 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5768 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5769 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5770 relay addresses has also been removed.
5771
577256. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5773
577457. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5775 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5776 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5777
577858. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5779 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5780 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5781 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5782 processing applies to CR:
5783
5784 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5785 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5786
5787 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5788 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5789 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5790 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5791
579259. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5793 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5794 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5795
579660. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5797 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5798 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5799 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5800 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5801 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5802 arisen.
5803
580461. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5805 program routers.
5806
580762. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5808 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5809 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5810 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5811 adds:
5812
5813 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5814
5815 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5816
5817 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5818
581963. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5820 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5821 not considered personal.
5822
582364. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5824
582565. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5826
582766. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5828
582967. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5830 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5831 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5832 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5833 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5834 header lines, and spool format errors.
5835
583668. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5837 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5838 for more flexibility.
5839
584069. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5841 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5842 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5843
584470. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5845 Sabourenkov.
5846
584771. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5848 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5849 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5850 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5851 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5852 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5853 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5854 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5855 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5856
585772. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5858 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5859 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5860 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5861 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5862 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5863 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5864
586573. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5866 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5867 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5868
586974. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5870 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5871 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5872 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5873 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5874 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5875 instead of killing the process with assert().
5876
587775. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5878 than Unicode encoding.
5879
588076. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5881 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5882 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5883 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5884
588577. Added process_log_path.
5886
588778. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5888 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5889
589079. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5891 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5892
589380. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5894 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5895 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5896
589781. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5898 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5899 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5900 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5901 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5902 were applied:
5903
5904 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5905 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5906 as invalid.
5907
590882. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5909 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5910 they will be used during message reception.
5911
5912
5913Exim version 4.20
5914-----------------
5915
5916The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5917
5918****