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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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d4fd1b83 8Exim version 4.91
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10
11JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
12 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
13 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
14 extant use locations.
15
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16JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
17 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
18
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19JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
20 Previously only the last row was returned.
21
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22JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
23 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
24 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
25 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
26 input.
27
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28JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
29 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
30 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
31 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
32 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
33 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
34 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
35 Main pool for expansions.
36 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
37 active in the testsuite.
38 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
39
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40JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
41 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
42 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
43 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
44 round-robin DNS.
45
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46JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
47 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
48 failure response.
49
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50JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
51 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
52 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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53
54JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
55 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
56 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 57
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58JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
59 rows affected is given instead).
60
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61JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
62 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
63
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64JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
65 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
66 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
67 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
68 for all multi-message initiating connections.
69
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70JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
71 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
72 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
73
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74JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
75 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
76 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
77 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
78 separate.
79
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80JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
81 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
82 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
83 fake-reject.
84
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85JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
86 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
87
aab9a843 88PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 89 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 90 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 91
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92JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
93 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
94 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
95 and send a quit.
96
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97JH/18 Convert macro handling to be tree-based, from the previous linear list.
98 With the number of builtin macros we now have this is worthwhile,
99 dropping the config-file read time (during which new macros are checked
100 and registered, and macros are expanded) from about 500 usec to about 180.
101
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105
106JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
107 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
108 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
109 pairs of long lines into single ones.
110
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111PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
112 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
113
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114JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
115 This permits better logging.
116
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117JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
118 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
119 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
120 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
121 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 122 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 123
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124JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
125 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
126 "exiwhat" output.
127
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128PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
129 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
130 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
131
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132JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
133 than 255 are no longer allowed.
134
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135JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
136 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
137 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
138 client, there is no benefit for these.
139 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
140 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
141 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
142 is used (3.2.4 +).
143
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144PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
145 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
146
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147JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
148 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
149 erroneously found still-pending ones.
150
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151JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
152 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
153
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154JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
155 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
156 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
157 signature and again for transmission.
158
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159JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
160 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 161 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 162
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163JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
164 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
165 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
166 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
167 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
168 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
169 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
170
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171JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
172 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
173 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 174 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 175
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176PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
177 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
178 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
179 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
180 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
181 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
182 processing options.
183
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184JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
185 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
186 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
187 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
188 connections.
925ac8e4 189
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190PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
191 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
192 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
193 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
194 versions.
195
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196JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
197 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
198 inaccessible.
199
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200JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
201 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
202 banner-time rejection.
203
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204JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
205 callout/hold.
206
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207PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
208 is the name of a transport.
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209 Fixes bug 2140.
210
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211HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
212
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213JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
214 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
215
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216JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
217 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
218 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
219 during compilation.
220
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221JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
222 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
223 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 224 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 225
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226JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
227 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
228 initial verify call returned a defer.
229
ad1a76fe 230JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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231 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
232
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233JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
234 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
235
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236JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
237 if present. Previously it was ignored.
238
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239JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
240 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
241
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242JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
243 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
244 extensible.
245
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246PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
247 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
248
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249PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
250 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
251 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
252
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253JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
254 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
255 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
256 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
257
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258HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
259 and confused the parent.
260
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261JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
262 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
263
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264JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
265 for log purposes.
266
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267JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
268 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
269 out-of-order delivery.
270
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271JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
272 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
273 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
274 error for the HELO.
275
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276JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
277 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
278 desynchronisation.
279
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280JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
281 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
282 one run was done. Bug 2189.
283
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284JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
285 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
286 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
287 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
288 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
289 message is still "Temporary local problem".
290
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291JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
292 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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293 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
294
295HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
296 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
297 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 298
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299JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
300 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
301 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
302 though a different problem.
303
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9427e879 308JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 309 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 310
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311JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
312
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313PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
314 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
315
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316JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
317 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
318
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319JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
320 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
321 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
322 before acknowledging the chunk.
323
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324PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
325 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
326 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
327
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328JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
329 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
330 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
331 should.
332
333JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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334 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
335 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 336
bd8fbe36 337JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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338 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
339
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340JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
341 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
342 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
343 body hash calculated value.
344
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345JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
346 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
347 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
348
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349JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
350
351JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
352 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
353
354JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
355 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
356 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
357
358JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
359 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
360 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
361 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
362 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
363 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
364
365JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
366 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
367 past that check, despite the cost.
368
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369JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
370 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
371 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
372
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373PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
374 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
375 TLS library to consume.
376
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377PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
378
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379PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
380
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381JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
382 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
383 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
384 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
385 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
386 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
387 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
388
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389PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
390
391PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
392
393PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
394 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
395 should be warning-free.
396
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397JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
398
399HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
400 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
401
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402HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
403 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
404 general solution here.
405
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406PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
407 already-broken messages in the queue.
408
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409JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
410
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411JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
412
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417JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
418 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 419
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420JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
421 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
422 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
423
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424JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
425 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
426 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
427 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
428 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
429 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
430 if one fails this test.
431 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
432 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
433
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434JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
435 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
436
23bb6982 437JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 438 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 439
0bd1b1ed 440JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 441 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 442
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443JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
444 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
445
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446JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
447 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
448
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449JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
450
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451JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
452 certificate).
453
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454JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
455 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
456 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
457 connection after a verify cache hit.
458 Do not update it with the verify result either.
459
460JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
461 when routing results in more than one destination address.
462
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463JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
464 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
465 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
466 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
467 when the cutthrough connection is made).
468
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469JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
470 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
471
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472JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
473 Previously they were not counted.
474
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475JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
476 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
477 that needed the lookup.
478
4c04137d 479JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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480 distinguished as "(=".
481
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482JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
483 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
484
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485JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
486
487JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
488 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 489
4c04137d 490JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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491 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
492
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493JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
494 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
495 compatible.
496
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497JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
498 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
499 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
500 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
501
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502JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
503
f59aaaaa 504JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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505 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
506 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 507
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508JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
509 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
510 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
511 be lost.
512
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513JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
514 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
515 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
516 itself :(
517
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518JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
519 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
520 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
521
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522JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
523 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
524 options.
525
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526JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
527
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528PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
529 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
530
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531PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
532 are not in the system include path.
533
ad7fc6eb 534JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 535 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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536 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
537 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 538
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539JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
540 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
541 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
542
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543JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
544
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545HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
546 an incoming connection.
547
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548HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
549 to rspamd.
550
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551HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
552 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 553
87cb4a16 554JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 555 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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556
557
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561JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
562 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
563 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
564 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 565
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566TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
567 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
568
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569TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
570 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
571 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
572 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
573 outgoing I= field.
574
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575JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
576 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
577 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
578 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
579 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
580 check on the next write.
581
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582HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
583 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
584 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
585 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
586 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
587
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588JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
589 mime_regex ACL conditions.
590
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591JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
592 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
593 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
594
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595JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
596 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
597 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
598 an authenticate fail is not an error.
599
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600HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
601 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
602
4c04137d 603JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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604 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
605
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606JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
607 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
608 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
609 distinct.
610
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611JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
612
613JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
614
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615JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
616
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617JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
618 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
619
98b98887 620JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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621 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
622
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623JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
624
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625JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
626 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
627
628JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
629
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630JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
631 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
632
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633JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
634
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635JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
636 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 637 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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638 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
639 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
640 they will retry in-clear.
641 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
642 at installation time.
643
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644HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
645 with the $config_file variable.
646
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647JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
648 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
649 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
650 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 651 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
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653GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
654 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
655 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
656 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
657 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
658
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659JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
660
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661JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
662 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
663 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
664 list order is no longer honoured.
665
4c04137d 666JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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667 for DKIM processing.
668
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669JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
670 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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672JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
673 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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674 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
675 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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677JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
678 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
679
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680JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
681 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
682
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683JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
684 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
685
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686JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
687
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688JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
689 cached by the daemon.
690
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691JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
692 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
693
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694JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
695 keys are given for lookup.
696
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697JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
698 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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699 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
700 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 701
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702JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
703 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
704 server-side so match that on older versions.
705
07c73177 706JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 707 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 708 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 709
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710JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
711 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
712
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713JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
714 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
715 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 716 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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717 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
718 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
719 initial truncated version.
720
ab9152ff 721JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 722
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723JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
724
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725JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
726 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
727
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728JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
729
bc3c7bb7 730HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 731
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732JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
733 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
734 induced overflows.
735
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736JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
737 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
738 stage.
739
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740JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
741 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
742
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743JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
744 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
745 former class.
746
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747JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
748 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
749 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
750
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751JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
752 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
753 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
754 extraction. Accept either.
755
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760JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
761 expanded.
762
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763JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
764
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765JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
766 it.
767
01a4a5c5 768JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 769 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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770 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
771 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
772
cb1d7830 773JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 774 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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775 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
776
610ff438 777JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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778 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
779 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
780 TLS connections
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782JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
783 sites use this now.
784
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785JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
786 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
787 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
788 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
789 have a dsn_lasthop option.
790
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791JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
792 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 793 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 794
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795JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
796
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797JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
798 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
799
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800JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
801 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
802
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803JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
804 /defer_ok option.
805
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806JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
807 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
808
fd4d8871 809JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 810 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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811 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
812
813JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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814 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
815 specify a port-range.
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817JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
818 timeout value per server.
819
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820JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
821 now have the list separator specified.
822
8a512ed5 823JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 824 option values.
8a512ed5 825
82c0c8ea 826JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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827 under OpenSSL.
828
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829JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
830
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831JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
832 rather than the verbs used.
833
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834JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
835 from 255 to 1024 chars.
836
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837JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
838
cfab9d68 839HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 840 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 841
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842JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
843 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
844
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845HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
846 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
847
4c04137d 848JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
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850JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
851
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852JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
853 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 854 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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855 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
856
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857JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
858
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859JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
860 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
861
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862JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
863 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
864
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865JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
866
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867JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
868
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869JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
870
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871JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
872 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
873
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874JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
875 added for tls authenticator.
876
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877HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
878
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883TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
884 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
885 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
886 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
887 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
888 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
889 the script parsing/test process like normal.
890
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891TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
892 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
893 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
894 function when detected.
895
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896JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
897 cause callback expansion.
898
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899TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
900 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
901 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
902 instead of bool when processing it.
903
0f06b4f2 904JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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906
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907JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
908
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909JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
910
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911TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
912
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913TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
914 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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917 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
918 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
919 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 920 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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921 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
922
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923JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
924 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
925 exceeded it.
926
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927JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
928 version 3.3.6 or later.
929
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931 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
932 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 933 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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935 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
936 option is defined.
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938TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
939 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
940
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941JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
942 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
943 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
944 matches.
945
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946JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
947 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
948 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
949
ad4c5ff9
JH
950JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
951 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
952
953JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
954 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
955 syntax errors.
956
3394b36a 957JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
958
959JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
960 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
961
3394b36a
TL
962TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
963 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
964 tarball.
965
ad4c5ff9
JH
966JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
967
4c04137d 968JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
969 Bug 1561.
970
971JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
972 output list separator was used.
973
8bc732e8 974
1f0ebb98
TL
975Exim version 4.84
976-----------------
09728d20
TL
977TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
978 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
979 return.
1f0ebb98 980
a612424f 981JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 982 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
JH
983
984JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
985
986TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 987 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 988
1f0ebb98 989
c0e56233
TF
990Exim version 4.83
991-----------------
992
993TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
994
995 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
996 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
997 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
998 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
999 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1000 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1001
7245734e
TF
1002TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1003 utilities have not been installed.
1004
fd5dad68
JH
1005JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1006 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1007
5428a946
TL
1008TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1009 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1010
a3c86431
TL
1011TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1012 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
TL
1013 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1014 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1015
aa26e137
JH
1016JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1017
5a1b8443
WB
1018TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1019 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1020
72c9e342
PP
1021PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1022 not dns_use_dnssec.
1023
76f44207
WB
1024JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1025
770747fd
MFM
1026TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1027 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1028 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1029
8ddef691 1030TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1031 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1032 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1033 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1034 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1035 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1036
b9c2e32f
AR
1037JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1038
e45a1c37
JH
1039JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1040 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1041
67d81c10
JH
1042JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1043 failed delivery.
1044
b1f8e4f8
JH
1045JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1046
511a6c14 1047JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1048
1049JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1050 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1051
51c7471d
JH
1052JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1053 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1054
3695be34
TL
1055TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1056
1e06383a
TL
1057JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1058
76146973
JH
1059JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1060 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1061
1062 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1063 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1064 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1065
8c8b8274
TL
1066TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1067 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1068 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1069 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1070
35aba663
JH
1071JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1072
8c51eead 1073JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1074 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1075 lookup).
8c51eead 1076
deae092e
HS
1077TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1078 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1079 Schlichting.
35aba663 1080
fd3b6a4a 1081JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1082 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1083
8d91c6dc
LT
1084TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1085 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1086
2b4a568d
JH
1087JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1088
d2af03f4
HS
1089TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1090 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1091 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1092
9d1c15ef
JH
1093JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1094 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1095
44662487
JH
1096JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1097 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1098 hosts_request_ocsp.
1099
ed3bba5f 1100JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1101 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1102 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1103
8ccd00b1
JH
1104JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1105
8ded8589
TL
1106TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1107 Christian Aistleitner.
1108
f2de3a33
JH
1109JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1110
6eb02f88
TL
1111TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1112 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1113
00bff6f6
JH
1114JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1115 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1116
071c51f7
JH
1117JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1118 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1119
a6d4c44e
TF
1120TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1121 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1122
3ae173e7
ACK
1123TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1124 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1125
c13d09b8
TL
1126TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1127 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1128 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1129
0df4ab80
JH
1130JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1131
66be95e0
PP
1132PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1133 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1134 Jasper Wallace.
1135
1bd0d12b
JH
1136JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1137
0de7239e
TL
1138TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1139 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1140 CVE-2014-2972
1141
fd3b6a4a 1142
2c422e6f 1143Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1144-----------------
1145
1146PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1147
12f69989
PP
1148PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1149 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1150
54c90be1
PP
1151PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1152 by GnuTLS.
1153
1f4a55da
PP
1154PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1155 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1156 routines.
1157
13363eba 1158PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1159
66645890 1160PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1161 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1162 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1163 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1164 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1165
a3fb9793 1166PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1167 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1168 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1169 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1170 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1171 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1172
d27f98fe 1173TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1174
6822b909
TL
1175TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1176
e7568d51
TL
1177TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1178 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1179
ae0e32ee 1180TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1181 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1182 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1183
1184TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1185
e2658fff
TL
1186TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1187
83712b39
TL
1188TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1189 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1190
976b7e9f
JH
1191JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1192
be4a1376
JH
1193JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1194
ec4b68e5
PP
1195PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1196
d7148a07
NM
1197NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1198 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1199
585121e2 1200JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1201
2519e60d
TL
1202PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1203 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1204 function.
a5f239e4 1205
13d08c90
PP
1206PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1207 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1208
bef3ea7f
JH
1209JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1210 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1211 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1212
846726c5
JH
1213JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1214
3a796370
JH
1215JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1216
ea722490 1217JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1218 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1219
b1b05573
JH
1220JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1221 Bugzilla 884.
1222
362145b5
JH
1223JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1224 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1225
3c0a92dc
JH
1226JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1227 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1228
6d7c6175
PP
1229PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1230 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1231 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1232
6f123593
JH
1233JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1234 authenticators.
1235
c8e2fc1e
JH
1236JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1237 for control.
1238
005ac57f
PP
1239PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1240
3f1df0e3
PP
1241PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1242 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1243 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1244 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1245
67bd1ab3
TF
1246TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1247
1248 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1249 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1250 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1251 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1252 the retry rules.
1253
1254 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1255 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1256 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1257
1258 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1259 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1260 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1261 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1262
1ddeb334
TF
1263 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1264 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1265 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1266 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1267 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1268 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1269 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1270
1271 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1272 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1273
326cdc37
TF
1274TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1275
1276 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1277
1278 Resent-From: f
1279
1280 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1281 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1282 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1283 username as equal to the username.
1284
1285 This change corrects that bug.
1286
f62514b3
GF
1287GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1288 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1289 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1290
eb505532
TF
1291TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1292
14c7b357
PP
1293PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1294 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1295 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1296 NULL dereference and crash.
1297
94eaf700
PP
1298JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1299
6f5a440a
PP
1300PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1301 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1302 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1303
514ee161
SC
1304SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1305
fd98a5c6
JH
1306JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1307 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1308 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1309 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1310 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1311 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1312 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1313 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1314 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1315 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1316 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1317
035c7f1e
PP
1318PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1319 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1320
ff284120
PP
1321PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1322 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1323 Bugzilla 880.
1324
26e72755
PP
1325PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1326 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1327 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1328 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1329 an empty string is now equivalent.
1330
0fbd9bff
PP
1331PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1332 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1333 not performing validation itself.
1334
700d22f3
PP
1335PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1336 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1337
fcc8e047
JH
1338JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1339 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1340
4c04137d 1341TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1342
8c020188
PP
1343PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1344 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1345 other false fix of the same issue.
1346 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1347 Bugzilla 1363.
1348
d13cdd30
PP
1349PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1350 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1351
e2fbf4a2
PP
1352PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1353 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1354 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1355
f4c1088b
PP
1356PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1357 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1358 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1359
c5c2182f
PP
1360TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1361
73431ca9
JH
1362JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1363
2d07a215
TL
1364TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1365 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1366
a30a8861
TL
1367TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1368 Alexander Miroch.
1369
33382dd9
TL
1370TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1371 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1372 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1373 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1374 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1375
046172e6
TL
1376TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1377 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1378
581d7bee 1379TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1380 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1381 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1382
1383TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1384 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1385 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1386 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1387
237b2cf2
TL
1388TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1389
9fc5a352
TL
1390TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1391 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1392 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1393
b10e4ec2
TL
1394TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1395
e2cebd74
TL
1396TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1397 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1398 interaction.
1399
1400TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1401 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1402
2519e60d
TL
1403TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1404 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1405
e78e6ecf 1406
4263f395
PP
1407Exim version 4.80.1
1408-------------------
1409
1410PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1411 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1412 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1413
ea722490 1414
b1770b6e 1415Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1416-----------------
1417
1418PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1419 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1420 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1421
23c7e742
NM
1422NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1423
b322aac8
NM
1424NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1425 improved.
1426
4a891427
NM
1427NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1428
c1e794ba 1429PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1430
97753960
PP
1431PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1432
1433PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1434 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1435
df6303fa
PP
1436PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1437 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1438
7e6a8985
PP
1439PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1440 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1441
f1e05cc7 1442PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1443 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1444 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1445
4c287009
PP
1446PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1447
b98bb9ac
PP
1448PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1449 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1450
4a6a987a
PP
1451PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1452
c45dd180 1453PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1454
7db8d074
PP
1455PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1456 non-compliant senders.
1457 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1458
eae0036b 1459NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1460 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1461 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1462
dec5017e
PP
1463PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1464 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1465 in spool file corruption.
1466
c80c5570
PP
1467PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1468 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1469 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1470 "Got SSL error 2".
1471
076b11e2
PP
1472TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1473 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1474 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1475
5407bfff
JH
1476JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1477 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1478
9e45c72b
PP
1479JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1480
e74376d8
PP
1481PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1482 diagnostics.
1483 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1484
4c04137d 1485PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1486 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1487 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1488
7be682ca
PP
1489PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1490 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1491 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1492 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1493
ef840681
PP
1494PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1495 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1496
5bfb4cdf
PP
1497PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1498 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1499 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1500 resolver implementation change.
1501
c6e95d22
PP
1502PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1503 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1504
9cbad13b
PP
1505PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1506
9ee44efb
PP
1507PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1508
6a6084f8
PP
1509PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1510 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1511
12dd53c7
PP
1512PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1513 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1514
9e45c72b 1515JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1516 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1517
17c76198
PP
1518PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1519 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1520 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1521 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1522 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1523
53947857 1524PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1525
eae0036b 1526PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1527 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1528 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1529
9e45c72b 1530JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1531
7390e768
PP
1532PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1533 read-only, out of scope).
1534 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1535
08488c86
PP
1536PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1537 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1538 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1539 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1540
6475bd82
PP
1541PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1542
81f91683
PP
1543PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1544 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1545 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1546 real issues in debug logging.
1547
5779e6aa
PP
1548PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1549 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1550
3375e053
PP
1551PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1552 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1553 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1554
1555PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1556 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1557 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1558 problems.
3375e053 1559
9d26b8c0
PP
1560PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1561 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1562
57eb9e91 1563PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1564 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1565 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1566 needs to override this, it can.
1567
16880d1a
PP
1568PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1569 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1570 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1571
a799883d
PP
1572PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1573 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1574 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1575 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1576
3ecab157 1577PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1578
0599f9cf 1579
867fcbf5
PP
1580Exim version 4.77
1581-----------------
1582
1583PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1584 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1585
f1a29782
TF
1586TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1587
ab42bd23
TK
1588TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1589 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1590
0ca0cf52
TF
1591TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1592 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1593
921b12ca
TF
1594TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1595 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1596 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1597
1598 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1599 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1600 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1601 not safe for signals.
1602
1603 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1604 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1605 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1606 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1607 exiwhat.
1608
c99ce5c9
TF
1609TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1610
1611 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1612 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1613 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1614 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1615 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1616
1617 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1618 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1619 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1620 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1621 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1622 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1623
1624 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1625 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1626 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1627 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1628
1629 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1630 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1631 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1632 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1633
1634 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1635 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1636 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1637 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1638 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1639 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1640 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1641 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1642 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1643
1644 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1645 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1646 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1647 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1648
1649 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1650 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1651 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1652 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1653 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1654 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1655 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1656 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1657 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1658 details in the main documentation.
1659
3634fc25
TF
1660TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1661
792e8a19
TF
1662TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1663
5901f0ab
TF
1664TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1665 repository when doing development or release builds.
1666
7f2a2a43
PP
1667PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1668 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1669
061b7ebd
PP
1670PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1671 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1672 Bugzilla 97.
1673
e12f8c32
PP
1674PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1675
9e949f00 1676PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1677 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1678
1679PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1680 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1681
555ae6af 1682PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1683 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1684
1685PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1686 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1687
6f7fe114
PP
1688PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1689 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1690
c566dd90
PP
1691PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1692 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1693 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1694 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1695
d6cc7c78 1696PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1697 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1698 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1699
0d0e4455
PP
1700PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1701
3399bb60 1702PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1703
1704PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1705 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1706
0ca0cf52 1707
10906672
PP
1708Exim version 4.76
1709-----------------
1710
1711PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1712
754a0503
PP
1713PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1714 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1715
c0c7b2da
PP
1716PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1717
e97d1f08
PP
1718PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1719
084c1d8c
PP
1720PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1721 Bugzilla 1098.
1722
4e7ee012
PP
1723PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1724 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1725
c8d52a00
PP
1726TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1727 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1728
54e7ce4a
PP
1729PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1730 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1731
5ee6f336
PP
1732PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1733 Bugzilla 1104.
1734
c8d52a00 1735TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1736 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1737
1738TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1739 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1740 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1741 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1742
1743PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1744 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1745
10906672 1746
aa097c4c
NM
1747Exim version 4.75
1748-----------------
1749
4c04137d 1750NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1751 Bugzilla 1073
1752
7f3d9eff
TF
1753TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1754 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1755 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1756
159f52d2
TF
1757TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1758 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1759
0cc9542a
PP
1760PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1761 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1762 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1763
f7274286
PP
1764PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1765 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1766
7b797365
PP
1767PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1768 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1769
caacae52
NM
1770NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1771 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1772
09dcaba9
NM
1773NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1774 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1775
bc19a55b
PP
1776PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1777 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1778
bd4c9759
NM
1779NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1780 Fixes bug 943.
1781
b72aab72
PP
1782PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1783 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1784
2fe76745
PP
1785PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1786 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1787
76aa570c
PP
1788PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1789 SQL string expansion failure details.
1790 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1791
f1e5fef5
PP
1792PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1793 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1794
4d805ee9
PP
1795PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1796 extern declarations in function scope.
1797 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1798
cd59ab18
PP
1799PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1800 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1801 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1802 a kernel bug).
1803
332f5cf3
PP
1804PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1805 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1806
29cfeb94
PP
1807PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1808 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1809
660242ad
PP
1810PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1811 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1812
bc4bc4c5
PP
1813PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1814 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1815
2e64baa9
NM
1816NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1817 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1818 Dennis Davis.
1819
4c04137d 1820PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1821
6bac1a9a
PP
1822PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1823
552193f0
NM
1824NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1825 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1826
1b587e48
TF
1827TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1828 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1829
aa097c4c 1830
8c07b69f
TF
1831Exim version 4.74
1832-----------------
1833
1834TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1835 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1836
c0ea85ab
TF
1837TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1838 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1839
0761d44e
TF
1840TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1841
0a349494
PP
1842DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1843 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1844 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1845
1846PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1847 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1848 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1849
fea24b2e
PP
1850PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1851 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1852 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1853 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1854
6545de78
PP
1855PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1856 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1857 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1858 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1859
1670ef10
PP
1860PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1861 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1862 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1863 arbitrary files.
1864
c0886197
PP
1865PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1866 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1867
b7487bce
PP
1868PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1869 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1870 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1871 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1872 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1873
8c07b69f 1874
97fd1e48 1875Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1876-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1877
1878PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1879 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1880 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1881
6901c596
PP
1882PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1883 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1884
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1885JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1886
77bb000f
PP
1887PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1888
a29e5231
PP
1889PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1890
ec5a0394 1891PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1892
55c75993
PP
1893PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1894
453a6645 1895PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1896 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1897 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1898 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1899
8544e77a
PP
1900PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1901 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1902 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1903 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1904 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1905
83e029d5
PP
1906PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1907
ed7f7860
PP
1908PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1909
7d9f747b
PP
1910PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1911
4b2241d2
PP
1912PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1913
10385c15
PP
1914PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1915
dbc4b90d
PP
1916PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1917
532be449
PP
1918PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1919
6a8de854 1920PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1921 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1922 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1923
5dc43717
JJ
1924JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1925
1926JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1927 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1928
3346ab01
PP
1929PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1930 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1931
491fab4c
PP
1932PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1933 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1934 Notification from John Horne.
1935
13eb9497
PP
1936PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1937 compatible.
1938
1939PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1940 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1941 it normally works.
1942
7f36d675
DW
1943DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1944 access.
1945
c1d94452
DW
1946DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1947 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1948 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1949
e2f5dc15
DW
1950DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1951 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1952 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1953 configuration file.
1954
cd25e41d
DW
1955DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1956 option (effectively making it always true).
1957
261dc43e
DW
1958DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1959 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1960
fa32850b
DW
1961DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1962 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1963
79d4bc3d
PP
1964PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1965 run-time user, instead of root.
1966
43236f35 1967PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1968 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1969
fb08281f
DW
1970DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1971 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1972 arguments.
3346ab01 1973
74935b98
DW
1974DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1975 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1976 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1977
90b6341f
DW
1978DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1979
57730b52
ML
1980NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1981
66581d1e 1982
465e92cf
JJ
1983Exim version 4.72
1984-----------------
1985
453a6645
PP
1986JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1987 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1988 typos
465e92cf 1989
453a6645
PP
1990JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1991 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1992 (Finput)
edae0343 1993
9bd3e22c
NM
1994NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1995 Patch from Alain Williams
1996
bb576ff7
NM
1997NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1998
5a1a5845
NM
1999NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2000 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2001
981a9fad
NM
2002NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2003 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2004
7fc497ee
NM
2005NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2006
1a41defa
JJ
2007JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2008
a466095c 2009NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2010 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2011
94a6bd0b
NM
2012TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2013
2014TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2015
2016MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2017 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2018 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2019
c1b141a8
NM
2020NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2021 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2022
b26eacf1 2023NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2024 Patch by Simon Arlott
2025
179c5980 2026PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2027 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2028
9bd3e22c 2029
7c6d71af
NM
2030Exim version 4.71
2031-----------------
2032
7d9f747b 2033TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2034
f013fb92
NM
2035NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2036
0eb8eedd
NM
2037NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2038
663ee6d9
NM
2039NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2040
177ebd9b
NM
2041NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2042
7c6d71af 2043
210f147e
NM
2044Exim version 4.70
2045-----------------
2046
cdd3bb85 2047TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2048 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2049
2050TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2051 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2052 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2053
2054TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2055 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2056 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2057
2058TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2059 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2060
210f147e
NM
2061NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2062 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2063 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2064 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2065
deafd5b3
NM
2066NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2067 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2068 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2069
089793a4
TF
2070TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2071
5f16ca82
TF
2072TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2073
dae9d94e 2074NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2075 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2076
7d9f747b 2077NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2078
06864c44
TF
2079TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2080 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2081 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2082 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2083
65a7d8c3 2084NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2085 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2086
23510047 2087TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2088
7d9f747b 2089NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2090
7d8eec3a 2091NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2092 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2093
89dec7b6
TF
2094TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2095 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2096
a99de90c
TF
2097TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2098 that they are available at delivery time.
2099
e2803e40
TF
2100TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2101
7199e1ee
TF
2102TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2103 incoming_port log selectors.
2104
e276e04b
TF
2105TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2106 setting expands to an empty string.
2107
ce552449 2108NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2109 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2110
e765a0f1 2111NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2112 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2113
4f054c63 2114NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2115 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2116
7d9f747b
PP
2117NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2118 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2119
7d9f747b
PP
2120NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2121 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2122
b52bc06e 2123NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2124 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2125
447de4b0
NM
2126NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2127
4c69d561 2128NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2129 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2130
d5c39246 2131NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2132 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2133
0b23848a
TK
2134TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2135
8f3414a1 2136NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2137 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2138
fb6f955d
NM
2139NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2140
2141NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2142
7d9f747b
PP
2143NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2144 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2145
7d9f747b
PP
2146NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2147 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2148
7d9f747b
PP
2149NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2150 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2151
7d9f747b
PP
2152NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2153 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2154
7d9f747b
PP
2155NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2156 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2157
7d9f747b
PP
2158NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2159 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2160
7d9f747b
PP
2161NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2162 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2163
7d9f747b 2164NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2165 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2166
7d9f747b 2167NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2168
7d9f747b
PP
2169NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2170 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2171
7d9f747b 2172NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2173
7d9f747b 2174NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2175
7d9f747b 2176NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2177
7d9f747b 2178NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2179
17792b53 2180NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2181 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2182
7d9f747b
PP
2183NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2184 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2185
91576cec 2186NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2187 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2188
7d9f747b
PP
2189NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2190 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2191
7d9f747b 2192NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2193
7d9f747b 2194NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2195
7d9f747b 2196NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2197
7d9f747b 2198NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2199
deafd5b3 2200
47db1125
NM
2201Exim version 4.69
2202-----------------
2203
4b3504d0
TK
2204TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2205 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2206 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2207
2208 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2209 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2210 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2211 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2212 build errors in sieve.c.
2213
81ea09ca
NM
2214NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2215 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2216 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2217
f13cddcb
SC
2218SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2219
7d9f747b 2220NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2221
7d9f747b 2222NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2223
7d9f747b 2224NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2225
2226
eb4c0de6
PH
2227Exim version 4.68
2228-----------------
2229
2230PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2231
6a3bceb1
PH
2232PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2233 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2234 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2235 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2236 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2237 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2238 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2239 for iplsearch lookups.
2240
2241 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2242 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2243 previously such lookups could never work.
2244
4c04137d 2245 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2246 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2247 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2248
2e30fa9d
TK
2249TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2250 version.
2251
0806a9c5
MH
2252MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2253 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2254 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2255 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2256 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2257 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2258
ae276964
TK
2259TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2260 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2261
0f2cbd1b
MH
2262MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2263 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2264 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2265 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2266 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2267 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2268
2b85bce7
PH
2269PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2270 local_scan API.
2271
93655c46
PH
2272PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2273
6c512171
PH
2274PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2275 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2276 encrypted.
2277
2278PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2279 by clients under certain conditions.
2280
aa6dc513
PH
2281PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2282 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2283
a96603a0
PH
2284PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2285
8f240103
PH
2286PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2287 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2288
2289PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2290
d677b2f2
PH
2291PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2292
d52120f2
PH
2293PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2294
64f2600a
PH
2295PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2296 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2297
8669f003
PH
2298PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2299
a4dc33a8
PH
2300PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2301 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2302
d6a60c0f
PH
2303PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2304
8f128379
PH
2305PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2306
8932dffe
PH
2307PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2308 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2309 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2310 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2311
ddea74fa 2312PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2313 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2314 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2315
ddea74fa 2316PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2317 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2318
ddea74fa
PH
2319PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2320
ce9f225c
PH
2321PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2322
19897d52
PH
2323PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2324
bc64a74d
PH
2325PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2326 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2327 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2328
eb4c0de6 2329
b4ed4da0
PH
2330Exim version 4.67
2331-----------------
2332
22ad45c9
MH
2333MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2334 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2335 Jan Srzednicki.
2336
b4ed4da0
PH
2337PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2338 issue a MAIL command.
2339
431b7361
PH
2340PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2341
2342 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2343
2344 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2345 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2346 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2347 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2348 item. This has been fixed.
2349
2350PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2351 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2352
83da1223
PH
2353PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2354 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2355
54fc8428
PH
2356PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2357 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2358 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2359
34c5e8dd
SC
2360SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2361
bbe15da8
PH
2362PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2363 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2364 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2365 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2366 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2367
0e8a9471
MH
2368MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2369 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2370 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2371
f0872424
PH
2372PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2373 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2374 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2375 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2376
b01dd148
PH
2377PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2378
6bf342e1
PH
2379PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2380
273f34d0
PH
2381PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2382 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2383 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2384 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2385 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2386
cf8b11a5
PH
2387PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2388
41c7c167
PH
2389PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2390 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2391 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2392 values).
2393
9c57cbc0
PH
2394PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2395
f3f065bb
PH
2396PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2397
047bdd8c
PH
2398PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2399
0ce9abe6
PH
2400PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2401
0e22dfd1
PH
2402PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2403
4c590bd1
PH
2404PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2405 no_callout_flush is set.
2406
09945f1e
PH
2407PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2408 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2409 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2410 fixed.
2411
c51b8e75
PH
2412PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2413
e28326d8 2414PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2415 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2416 other ACL rejections are.
2417
75b1493f
PH
2418PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2419 with slight modification.
2420
7c5214ec
PH
2421PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2422 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2423
4311097e
PH
2424PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2425 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2426 connection.
2427
29f89cad
PH
2428PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2429 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2430
5e687460
SC
2431SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2432
c3611384
PH
2433PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2434 expansion side effects.
2435
5a11a7b4
PH
2436PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2437 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2438 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2439 be the same.
2440
0e20aff9
MH
2441MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2442 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2443 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2444
ca86f471
PH
2445PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2446 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2447 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2448 were accidentally chopped off.
2449
a14e5636
PH
2450PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2451 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2452 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2453 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2454 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2455 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2456 pipelining has not been advertised.
2457
ec95d1a6
PH
2458PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2459
42855d71
PH
2460PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2461 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2462 This has been fixed.
2463
57c2c631
PH
2464PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2465 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2466 reported on Solaris.
2467
58c01c94
PH
2468PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2469 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2470 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2471 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2472 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2473 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2474 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2475
dee5a20a
PH
2476PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2477 cpus.
2478
d2ee6114
PH
2479PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2480
b2d5182b
PH
2481PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2482
79749a79
PH
2483PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2484 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2485 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2486 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2487 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2488 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2489
c456d9bb
PH
2490PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2491 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2492 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2493 host_all_ignored option.
2494
cd9868ec
PH
2495PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2496 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2497 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2498 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2499 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2500 is what is supposed to happen).
2501
ebeaf996
PH
2502PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2503 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2504 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2505 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2506 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2507 uses the Exim user.
2508
2679d413
PH
2509PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2510 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2511 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2512 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2513 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2514 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2515 users.
2516
84024b72
PH
2517PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2518
8005d38e
SC
2519SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2520 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2521 (Jez Hancock).
2522 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2523 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2524
3298c6c6
SC
2525SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2526
a43a27c5
PH
2527PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2528
58eb016e 2529PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2530 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2531 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2532 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2533 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2534 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2535 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2536 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2537 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2538 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2539 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2540
b43a74ea
PH
2541PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2542 advertised in response to EHLO.
2543
b4ed4da0 2544
5dd1517f
PH
2545Exim version 4.66
2546-----------------
2547
2548PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2549 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2550
2551 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2552 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2553
2554 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2555 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2556 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2557
2558 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2559 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2560 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2561 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2562 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2563
2564
93cfa765
TK
2565Exim version 4.65
2566-----------------
2567
2568TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2569 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2570 versions. (#438)
2571
d6066548
MH
2572MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2573 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2574 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2575
4362ff0d
PH
2576PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2577 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2578 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2579 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2580 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2581 rather than extend the field.
2582
93cfa765 2583
944e9e9c
TF
2584Exim version 4.64
2585-----------------
aa41d2de 2586
21d74bd9
TK
2587TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2588 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2589 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2590 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2591 these files.
2592
2593TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2594 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2595 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2596
2597TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2598 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2599 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2600
2601TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2602 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2603 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2604 in the field name.
2605
2b1c6e3a
PH
2606PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2607 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2608 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2609 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2610 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2611 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2612 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2613 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2614 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2615 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2616 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2617
1f872c80
PH
2618PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2619 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2620
2621PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2622 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2623 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2624 ignores EPIPE as well.
2625
d203e649
PH
2626PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2627 (quoted-printable decoding).
2628
cc2ed8f7 2629PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2630 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2631
ddfcd446
PH
2632PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2633
d45b1de8
PH
2634PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2635
2636PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2637
38a0a95f 2638PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2639 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2640
a2405d83
JJ
2641JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2642 in 4.64-PH/09.
2643
2644JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2645 miscellaneous code fixes
2646
6ea85e9a
PH
2647PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2648 rejections.
2649
26da7e20
PH
2650PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2651 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2652 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2653 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2654 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2655 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2656 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2657 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2658
14aa5a05 2659PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2660 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2661 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2662 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2663 function.
2664 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2665 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2666 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2667 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2668 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2669 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2670 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2671 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2672 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2673
ff75a1f7
PH
2674PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2675 decoding.
2676
e6f6568e
PH
2677PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2678 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2679 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2680 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2681 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2682 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2683 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2684 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2685
d6f6e0dc
PH
2686PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2687 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2688 list.
2689
322050c2
PH
2690PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2691 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2692 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2693 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2694 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2695 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2696 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2697 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2698 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2699 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2700 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2701 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2702 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2703
08955dd3
PH
2704PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2705 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2706 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2707 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2708 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2709 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2710 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2711
1eccaa59
PH
2712PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2713 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2714 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2715 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2716 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2717 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2718 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2719 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2720 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2721 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2722
602e59e5
PH
2723PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2724 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2725 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2726 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2727 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2728
411ef850
PH
2729PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2730 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2731 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2732 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2733 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2734 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2735 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2736
7befa435
PH
2737PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2738 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2739 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2740 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2741 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2742 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2743 been verified.
2744
48da4259 2745PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2746 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2747 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2748 and authorization.)
2749
48da4259
PH
2750PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2751 if any retry times were supplied.
2752
d1d5595c
PH
2753PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2754 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2755 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2756
0ef732d9
PH
2757PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2758
328895cc
PH
2759PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2760
fd700877
PH
2761PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2762 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2763 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2764 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2765 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2766 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2767
8dce1a6f
PH
2768PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2769 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2770
17af4a17
PH
2771PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2772 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2773 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2774
2775PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2776 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2777 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2778 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2779 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2780 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2781 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2782 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2783 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2784
2785 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2786 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2787 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2788 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2789 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2790 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2791 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2792 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2793 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2794
2795 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2796 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2797 hammering the server.
2798
c1114884
PH
2799PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2800 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2801
7a0743eb
PH
2802PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2803
0d85fa3f
PH
2804PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2805 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2806 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2807
1bf43b78
PH
2808PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2809 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2810 one case where this was not true.
2811
520de300
PH
2812PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2813 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2814 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2815 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2816 fails.
2817
48c7f9e2
PH
2818PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2819 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2820 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2821 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2822 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2823 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2824 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2825 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2826 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2827 smtp transport.
2828
99ea1c86
PH
2829PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2830 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2831 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2832 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2833
a2042e78
PH
2834PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2835 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2836
4fbcfc2e
PH
2837PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2838 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2839 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2840
aa41d2de
PH
2841PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2842
af561417
PH
2843PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2844
3cc66b45
PH
2845PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2846
194cc0e4
PH
2847PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2848 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2849 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2850 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2851
a401ddaa
PH
2852PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2853 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2854
4e88a19f
PH
2855PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2856 be meaningful with "accept".
2857
d7d7b289
SC
2858SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2859 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2860
2861SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2862 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2863 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2864
2865SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2866 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2867 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2868 there is data to show.
2869 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2870
2871SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2872 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2873 as well as the number of messages.
2874
2875SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2876 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2877 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2878
2879SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2880 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2881 have a flag are now skipped.
2882
2883SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2884 Added the -emptyok flag.
2885
2886SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2887 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2888
0ea2a468
JJ
2889JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2890 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2891 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2892
2893JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2894 match 4.64-PH/13
2895
2896JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2897 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2898
2899JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2900
2901JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2902 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2903
8a10f5a4
PH
2904PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2905
30e18802
PH
2906PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2907 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2908 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2909 contravention of the specifications.
2910
55728a4f
PH
2911PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2912 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2913 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2914
d7837193
PH
2915PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2916 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2917 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2918
87054a31
PH
2919PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2920
ea2c01d2
MH
2921MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2922 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2923 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2924 some point in the past.
2925
e4fa6968
PH
2926PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2927 transport during callout processing was broken.
2928
56f5d9bd
PH
2929PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2930 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2931
922e1c28
PH
2932PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2933 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2934
21eb6e72
PH
2935PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2936 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2937
a0540757
PH
2938PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2939
944e9e9c 2940
478be7b0
SC
2941Exim version 4.63
2942-----------------
2943
2944SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2945 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2946
2947SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2948 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2949 there is data to show.
2950 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2951
2952SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2953 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2954
2b965a65
TF
2955TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2956 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2957
45b91596
PH
2958TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2959 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2960
c59f5781
TF
2961TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2962 submissions from trusted users.
2963
90fc3069
TF
2964TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2965 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2966
6083aca0
TF
2967TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2968 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2969 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2970 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2971 there is now a framework to start from.
2972
765b530f
PH
2973PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2974 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2975 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2976
4e167a8c
PH
2977PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2978
4608d683
PH
2979PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2980
b8dc3e4a
PH
2981PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2982
5418e93b
PH
2983PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2984 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2985 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2986
b4a9bda2
PH
2987PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2988 libradius.
2989
45b91596
PH
2990PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2991 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2992 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2993
5547e2c5
PH
2994PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2995 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2996 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2997 its arguments.
2998
dbcef0ea
PH
2999PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3000 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3001 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3002 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3003 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3004
25257489
PH
3005PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3006 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3007
c816d124
PH
3008PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3009
a9ccd69a
PH
3010PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3011 operations in malware.c.
3012
75fa1910
PH
3013PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3014 signatures.
3015
a7d7aa58
PH
3016PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3017 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3018 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3019 all.
3020
42119b09
PH
3021PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3022 statements to "add_header".
3023
41609df5
PH
3024PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3025 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3026
a5bd321b
PH
3027PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3028 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3029 latter.
3030
e85a7ad5 3031PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3032 so that it is now:
3033
e85a7ad5
PH
3034 ${if or { \
3035 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3036 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3037 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3038 }{no}{yes}}
3039
e85a7ad5
PH
3040 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3041 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3042
d8fe1c03
PH
3043PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3044 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3045
16282d2b
PH
3046PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3047 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3048 any possible encoding problems.
3049
35d40a98
PH
3050PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3051 but not after initializing Perl.
3052
034d99ab
PH
3053PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3054 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3055 apparently, which is not desirable.
3056
6ec97b1b
PH
3057PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3058 queries.
3059
e22ca4ac
JJ
3060JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3061 --not options
3062
3063JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3064
33d73e3b
PH
3065PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3066 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3067 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3068 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3069
9ecb03f3
PH
3070PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3071 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3072 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3073
084efe8d
PH
3074PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3075 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3076 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3077 0.12.
3078
366fc9f0
PH
3079PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3080 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3081 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3082 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3083 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3084
c59f5781 3085
c887c79e
TF
3086Exim version 4.62
3087-----------------
3088
3089TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3090 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3091
1cce3af8
PH
3092PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3093 patch).
3094
afb3eaaf
PH
3095PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3096 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3097 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3098 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3099 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3100 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3101 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3102 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3103 451 error is used.
3104
e173618b
PH
3105PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3106
dd16e114
PH
3107PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3108 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3109 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3110
f7fd3850
PH
3111PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3112 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3113 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3114 odd errors.
3115
d87df92c
PH
3116PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3117 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3118
7e9f683d
PH
3119PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3120 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3121 option (which defaults to 0600).
3122
bfad5236
PH
3123PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3124
01c490df
PH
3125PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3126 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3127 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3128 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3129 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3130 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3131 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3132
d6629cdc
PH
3133PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3134
1cce3af8 3135
214e2000
PH
3136Exim version 4.61
3137-----------------
3138
3139PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3140 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3141 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3142 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3143 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3144 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3145 addresses as local.
3146
f9daeae0
PH
3147PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3148 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3149
7e66e54d
PH
3150PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3151
c8ea1597
PH
3152PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3153 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3154 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3155 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3156 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3157 grumble.
3158
911f6fde
PH
3159PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3160 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3161
47ca6d6c
PH
3162PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3163 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3164 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3165 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3166 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3167
ed0e9820
PH
3168PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3169 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3170 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3171 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3172
eff37e47
PH
3173PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3174 be the same on different OS.
3175
1921d2ea
PH
3176PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3177 testing.
3178
b3f69ca8
JJ
3179JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3180 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3181
3182JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3183 in 4.61-PH/06
3184
424a1c63
PH
3185PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3186 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3187 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3188 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3189 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3190 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3191 bounce message.
3192
7a100415
PH
3193PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3194 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3195 when Exim was called.
3196
19b9dc85
PH
3197PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3198 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3199
309bd837
PH
3200PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3201 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3202 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3203 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3204
59e82a2a
PH
3205PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3206 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3207 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3208 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3209 changes:
3210
3211 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3212 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3213 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3214
3215 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3216 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3217 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3218
9edc04ce
PH
3219PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3220 feature).
3221
1349e1e5
PH
3222PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3223 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3224 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3225 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3226 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3227 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3228 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3229 values from the SRV records were lost.
3230
ea49d0e1
PH
3231PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3232 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3233 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3234
064a94c9
PH
3235PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3236 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3237 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3238
727071f8
PH
3239PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3240 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3241 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3242 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3243 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3244 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3245 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3246 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3247 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3248 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3249
f78eb7c6
PH
3250PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3251 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3252 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3253
21c28500
PH
3254PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3255 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3256
3257PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3258 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3259 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3260 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3261 is given.
3262
1688f43b
PH
3263PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3264 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3265 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3266
3267PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3268 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3269 PH/23 above applies.
3270
9675b384
PH
3271PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3272 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3273 (for which there is an explicit test).
3274
6a3f1455
PH
3275PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3276
dac79d3e
PH
3277PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3278 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3279 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3280 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3281 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3282
5977a0b3
PH
3283PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3284 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3285 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3286 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3287
c91535f3
PH
3288PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3289 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3290 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3291
0d46a8c8
PH
3292PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3293
278c6e6c
PH
3294PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3295
2cbb4081
PH
3296PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3297 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3298 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3299
3eef829e
PH
3300PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3301 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3302 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3303 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3304 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3305
1ab95fa6
PH
3306PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3307 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3308 the message gets confusing).
3309
230205fc
PH
3310PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3311 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3312 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3313 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3314
75e0e026
PH
3315PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3316 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3317 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3318 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3319 same order.
3320
3321PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3322 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3323 the different processes.
3324
145396a6
PH
3325PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3326
3cd34f13
PH
3327PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3328
11121d3d
JJ
3329JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3330 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3331
3332JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3333 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3334
3335JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3336 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3337 messages matching specified criteria.
3338
8def5aaf
PH
3339PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3340
929ba01c
PH
3341PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3342 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3343
2632889e
PH
3344PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3345 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3346 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3347 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3348 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3349 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3350 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3351 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3352 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3353 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3354
944a9c55
PH
3355PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3356 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3357 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3358
4a23603b
PH
3359PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3360
4730f942
PH
3361PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3362 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3363 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3364 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3365 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3366 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3367 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3368 the variable.
3369
30dba1e6
PH
3370PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3371 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3372
382afc6b
PH
3373PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3374
a86229cf
PH
3375PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3376
50c99ba6
PH
3377PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3378
d35e429d
PH
3379PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3380 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3381 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3382 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3383 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3384 size of the count of files.
3385
f90d018c
PH
3386PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3387
75def545
PH
3388PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3389 used in LMTP mode:
3390
3391 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3392 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3393 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3394 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3395
3396 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3397 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3398 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3399
3400PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3401 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3402 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3403 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3404 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3405
c46782ef
PH
3406PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3407 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3408
71fafd95
PH
3409PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3410 will now be deprecated.
3411
2c5db4fd
PH
3412PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3413
9cf6b11a
JJ
3414JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3415 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3416 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3417
3418JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3419 with very large, slow to parse queues
3420
3421JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3422
3423JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3424
898d150f
PH
3425PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3426 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3427 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3428 SMTP output lines.
3429
46218253
PH
3430PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3431 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3432 Sieve code now uses this.
3433
e97957bc
PH
3434PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3435 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3436
81e509d7
PH
3437PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3438 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3439
3d240ff7
PH
3440PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3441
b37c4101
PH
3442PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3443 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3444 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3445 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3446 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3447
79378e0f
PH
3448PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3449 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3450 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3451 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3452
e49c7bb4
PH
3453PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3454
d114ec46
PH
3455PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3456
f3d7df6c
PH
3457PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3458 is preferred over IPv4.
3459
715ab376
PH
3460PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3461 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3462 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3463 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3464 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3465 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3466 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3467
6b31b150
PH
3468PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3469 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3470 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3471
3472PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3473
d515a917
PH
3474PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3475 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3476 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3477 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3478 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3479 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3480 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3481 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3482 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3483 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3484 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3485
9b8fadde
PH
3486PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3487 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3488 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3489
214e2000 3490
5de37277
PH
3491Exim version 4.60
3492-----------------
3493
cc38ddbf
PH
3494PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3495
3496 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3497 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3498
3499 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3500 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3501 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3502
72fdd6ae
PH
3503PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3504
3505 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3506 not a single digit.
3507
3508 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3509 string.
3510
3511 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3512 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3513 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3514 silly things.
3515
3516 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3517 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3518
3519 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3520 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3521
cb741023
PH
3522PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3523 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3524 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3525
f174f16e
PH
3526PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3527 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3528
c25242d7
PH
3529PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3530 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3531
3532 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3533
3534 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3535 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3536 this:
3537
3538 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3539
82c19f95
PH
3540PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3541 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3542 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3543 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3544 identical. For example:
3545
3546 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3547
3548 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3549 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3550 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3551
d7ffbc12
PH
3552PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3553 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3554 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3555 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3556
9f526266
PH
3557PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3558 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3559 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3560 message.
3561
87fcc8b9
PH
3562PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3563
3564 o fixes some comments
3565 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3566 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3567 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3568 and documents the missing references header update
3569
3570 and most important:
3571
3572 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3573 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3574 result)
3575
456682f5
PH
3576PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3577 Electronic Mail") by including:
3578
3579 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3580
3581 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3582 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3583 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3584 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3585 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3586
3587 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3588
3589 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3590
3591 The auto-replied keyword:
3592
3593 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3594 message by an automatic process,
3595
3596 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3597
3598 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3599 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3600
3601 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3602 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3603 other messages.
3604
3e46c1aa
PH
3605PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3606 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3607
49826d12
PH
3608PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3609
eba0c039
PH
3610PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3611 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3612 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3613
a0d6ba8a
PH
3614PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3615 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3616 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3617
f0917727
PH
3618PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3619 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3620 and treats the condition as false.
3621
096fee00
PH
3622PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3623
024bd3c2
PH
3624PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3625 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3626 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3627 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3628 not changing the active code.
3629
3630 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3631 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3632
3633 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3634 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3635
df199fec
PH
3636PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3637 (Bugzilla #53).
3638
d27f1df3
PH
3639PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3640 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3641 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3642 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3643 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3644 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3645 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3646 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3647 the text comparison.
3648
96776534
PH
3649PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3650 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3651 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3652 The same fix has been applied.
3653
5de37277 3654
9a799bc0
PH
3655Exim version 4.54
3656-----------------
3657
3658PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3659 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3660 It now does.
3661
99a4b039
PH
3662PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3663 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3664
3665PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3666
4b233853
PH
3667PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3668 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3669 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3670 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3671 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3672
8857ccfd
PH
3673TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3674 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3675 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3676 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3677 or /domain=).
3678
433a2980
PH
3679PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3680 testing suite.
3681
3e46c1aa 3682
9a799bc0 3683
e3a311ba
TK
3684Exim version 4.53
3685-----------------
3686
3687TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3688 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3689
13b685f9
PH
3690PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3691
395ff96d
PH
3692PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3693
5b68f6e4
PH
3694PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3695 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3696 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3697
1ab52c69
PH
3698PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3699 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3700 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3701
b07e6aa3
PH
3702PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3703 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3704 operating systems.
3705
254e032f
PH
3706PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3707 ${stat: expansion item.
3708
3af76a81
PH
3709PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3710 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3711
2548ba04
PH
3712PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3713 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3714 file for comments.
3715
b6c6011d
PH
3716PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3717
cf39cf57
PH
3718PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3719 setting.
3720
f1513293
PH
3721PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3722 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3723
727549a4
PH
3724TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3725
af46795e
PH
3726PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3727 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3728 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3729 the end of the subprocess.
3730
d7b47fd0
PH
3731PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3732 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3733 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3734 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3735 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3736
ee744174
JJ
3737JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3738
b582ab87
PH
3739TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3740
41a13e0a
PH
3741PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3742 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3743
f625cc5a
PH
3744PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3745
3746PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3747
21f7af35
PH
3748PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3749 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3750 HP-UX compiler.
3751
31480e42
PH
3752PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3753
2d280592
PH
3754PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3755 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3756 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3757
7cd1141b
PH
3758PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3759 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3760
3761PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3762 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3763
750af86e
PH
3764PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3765 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3766
3767 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3768 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3769
3770 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3771 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3772 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3773 contributed by a Radius user.
3774
3775PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3776 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3777
4304270b
TK
3778TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3779 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3780
750af86e
PH
3781PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3782 available.
3783
64ffc24f
PH
3784PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3785 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3786 received.
3787
5dd9625b
PH
3788PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3789 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3790 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3791 header lines when this was not necessary.
3792
5591031b
PH
3793PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3794
ba18e66a
PH
3795PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3796 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3797 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3798 exists".
3799
9cec981f
PH
3800PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3801 -bV or -d is used.
3802
aa2b5c79
PH
3803PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3804 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3805 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3806 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3807
48a53b7f
PH
3808PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3809
1c59d63b
PH
3810PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3811
671012da
TK
3812TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3813
1509d3a8
PH
3814PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3815
3816PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3817 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3818 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3819 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3820 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3821 settings.
3822
3823PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3824
2fe1a124
PH
3825PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3826 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3827 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3828 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3829 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3830 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3831 which is clearly wrong.
3832
8800895a
PH
3833PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3834
ccfdb010
PH
3835PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3836 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3837 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3838 subsequently added.
3839
1130bfb0
PH
3840PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3841 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3842
ebcb507f
PH
3843PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3844
c35e155c
PH
3845PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3846 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3847
95d1f782
PH
3848PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3849 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3850
fd6de02e
PH
3851PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3852 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3853
58de37c5
PH
3854PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3855 recipients, not senders.
3856
261cf466
TF
3857TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3858 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3859
3ee512ff
PH
3860PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3861
e08c430f
PH
3862PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3863
bef5a11f
PH
3864PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3865 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3866 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3867 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3868
7546de58
TF
3869TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3870
e5d5a95f
TF
3871TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3872 clock is set back in time.
3873
2e88a017
TF
3874TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3875 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3876
a5f65aa4
TF
3877TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3878 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3879
e7726cbf
PH
3880PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3881 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3882 (see PH/47 above).
3883
a7fdad5b
TF
3884TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3885 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3886 header rewrites.
3887
6af56900
PH
3888PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3889 type ("H").
3890
0925ede6
PH
3891PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3892
66afa403
TF
3893TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3894 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3895 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3896
0154e85a
TF
3897TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3898 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3899 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3900 helo verification defer as a failure.
3901
16f12c76
PH
3902PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3903 actual error message.
3904
bbe902f0 3905
e5a9dba6
PH
3906Exim version 4.52
3907-----------------
3908
3909TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3910
22c3b60b
PH
3911PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3912 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3913 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3914 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3915
06a9b4b5
PH
3916TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3917
c1ac6996
PH
3918PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3919 can still be requested.
3920
9c7a242c
PH
3921PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3922 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3923 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3924 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3925
87ba3f5f
PH
3926TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3927 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3928 circumstances, but probably never did.
3929
3930PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3931 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3932 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3933 in the header line.
3934
29aba418
TF
3935TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3936
fe0dab11
TF
3937TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3938 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3939
11d337a4
TK
3940TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3941
3942TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3943
415c8f3b
PH
3944PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3945 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3946 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3947 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3948 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3949 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3950
958541e9
PH
3951PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3952 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3953 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3954 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3955 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3956 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3957
c206415f
TK
3958TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3959 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3960
2a4be8f9
PH
3961PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3962 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3963
1cba11c5
SC
3964SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3965 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3966
4c04137d 3967SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3968
3969SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3970
3971SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3972
3973SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3974
3975SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3976
3977SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3978
1005d00e
TK
3979TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3980
3981TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3982 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3983 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3984
3985TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3986 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3987 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3988 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3989
9b4768fa
PH
3990PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3991 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3992 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3993
3994PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3995 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3996 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3997 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3998
0d7eb84a
PH
3999PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4000 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4001 to be made).
4002
4003PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4004 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4005 should work with maildirs and everything.
4006
40727bee
TK
4007TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4008 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4009
554d2369
TF
4010TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4011 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4012
1f922db1
PH
4013PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4014 function for BDB 4.3.
4015
ef213c3b
PH
4016PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4017
8ac170f3
PH
4018PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4019 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4020 involved.
4021
b1c749bb
PH
4022PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4023 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4024 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4025 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4026 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4027 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4028
4aac9b49
PH
4029PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4030 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4031 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4032 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4033 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4034 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4035 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4036 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4037
294520c8
TK
4038TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4039 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4040 details.
4041
5bd022fe
PH
4042PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4043 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4044
90e9ce59
PH
4045PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4046 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4047 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4048 test. It is now used for both.
4049
5ea81592
PH
4050PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4051 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4052 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4053 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4054 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4055 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4056
c6c2dc1d
PH
4057PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4058 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4059 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4060 string_vformat().
4061
fffffe4c
PH
4062PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4063 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4064 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4065
9a26b6b2
PH
4066PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4067 experimental DomainKeys support:
4068
4069 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4070 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4071 the control was given.
4072
4073 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4074
4aee0225
PH
4075PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4076
32d668a5
PH
4077PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4078
8187c3f3
PH
4079PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4080 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4081 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4082 db.h files).
4083
ff790e47 4084PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4085 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4086 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4087 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4088 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4089 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4090 course.
ff790e47 4091
5417f6d1
PH
4092PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4093 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4094 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4095 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4096 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4097 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4098
59cf8544
PH
4099PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4100 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4101 do -d+all out of habit.
4102
e7ad8a65
PH
4103PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4104 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4105 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4106
ade42478
PH
4107PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4108 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4109 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4110 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4111 record types that Exim uses.
4112
182ad5cf
PH
4113PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4114 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4115 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4116 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4117 non-existent file that was broken.
4118
b0d9fc80
TK
4119TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4120 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4121
4122TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4123 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4124 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4125
4126TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4127
47c7a64a
PH
4128PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4129 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4130 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4131 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4132 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4133 same time.
4134
a388bce4
SC
4135SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4136 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4137 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4138 at a slight CPU cost.
4139
4140SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4141 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4142
4143SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4144 by Marc Sherman.
4145
0793e4ed
SC
4146SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4147
c58b88df
PH
4148PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4149 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4150
e7ad8a65 4151
7982096b
PH
4152Exim version 4.51
4153-----------------
4154
1a46a8c5
PH
4155TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4156 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4157
2f079f46 4158TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4159
4160TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4161
4162PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4163 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4164
4165PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4166 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4167 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4168 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4169 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4170 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4171 file.
4172
4173PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4174 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4175 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4176 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4177 these two options.
4178
4179PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4180 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4181 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4182 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4183 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4184 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4185 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4186 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4187
4188PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4189 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4190
4191PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4192 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4193 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4194 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4195 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4196 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4197
4198PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4199 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4200 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4201 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4202
4203PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4204 Finch).
4205
4206PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4207 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4208
49c2d5ea
PH
4209PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4210 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4211 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4212 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4213 message.
49c2d5ea 4214
bf759a8b
PH
4215PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4216
83364d30
PH
4217PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4218 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4219
7999bbd7
PH
4220PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4221 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4222 to what was transported.)
4223
7dbf77c9
PH
4224TF/01 Added $received_time.
4225
74e0617f
PH
4226PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4227 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4228 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4229 spamd_address settings.
4230
2f079f46
PH
4231PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4232 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4233 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4234 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4235 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4236
8c841523
PH
4237PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4238
7766a4f0
PH
4239PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4240 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4241 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4242 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4243 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4244
8b417f2c
PH
4245PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4246 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4247
901f42cb
PH
4248PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4249 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4250 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4251 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4252 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4253 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4254 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4255 for failure.
4256
f9b9210e
PH
4257PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4258 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4259 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4260 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4261 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4262 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4263 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4264 "input=".
4265
54cdb463
PH
4266PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4267
cf00dad6
PH
4268PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4269 driver and ACL definitions.
4270
acb1b346
PH
4271PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4272 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4273
c5ddb310
PH
4274PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4275 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4276 understands it better than I do:
4277
4278 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4279 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4280
4281 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4282 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4283 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4284 => three warnings about OTP not working
4285 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4286
4287 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4288 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4289 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4290 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4291 for each call.)
4292 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4293 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4294
4295 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4296 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4297 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4298
31619da6
PH
4299PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4300 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4301 specified.
4302
bebaf0fc
PH
4303PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4304 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4305 "Linux".
4306
475fe28a
PH
4307PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4308 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4309 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4310
4311 warn !verify = sender
4312 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4313
4314 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4315 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4316
7e8bec7a
PH
4317PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4318
4319 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4320 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4321
4322 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4323 nomenclature these days.)
4324
e4a89c47
PH
4325PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4326 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4327
5ca2a9a1
PH
4328PH/30 In these circumstances:
4329 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4330 . First host does not offer TLS;
4331 . First host accepts first address;
4332 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4333 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4334 . Second host accepts second address.
4335 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4336 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4337 address.
7e8bec7a 4338
c688b954
PH
4339PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4340 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4341 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4342 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4343 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4344
fed77020
PH
4345PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4346 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4347
7fe1560f
PH
4348PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4349 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4350
ebb6e6d5
PH
4351PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4352 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4353 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4354
9c4e8f60
PH
4355PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4356 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4357 overlooked.
4358
4359PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4360
d7174846
PH
4361PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4362 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4363 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4364 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4365 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4366 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4367 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4368
4369 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4370 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4371 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4372 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4373 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4374
4375 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4376 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4377 routed further.
4378
cfe75fc3
PH
4379PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4380 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4381 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4382 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4383 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4384 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4385
be22d70e
PH
4386PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4387
0612b098
PH
4388PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4389 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4390 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4391 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4392 printable escape sequences.
4393
2e0c1448
PH
4394PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4395 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4396 body only.
4397
447d236c
PH
4398PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4399 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4400 are as follows:
4401
4402 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4403 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4404 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4405 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4406 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4407
4408 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4409 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4410 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4411
d20976dc
PH
4412PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4413
f656d135
PH
4414PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4415 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4416 play with."
4417
2e2a30b4
PH
4418PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4419 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4420 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4421 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4422 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4423 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4424 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4425 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4426 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4427 the log output.
4428
9176e9f0
PH
4429PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4430 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4431 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4432 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4433 "make".
4434
7982096b 4435
bbe902f0
PH
4436A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4437----------------------------------------
4438
4439Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4440changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4441needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4442in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4443that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4444release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4445from 4.43.
4446
4447I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
44484.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4449those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4450historical information.
4451
4452
f7b63901 4453Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4454-----------------
4455
5fe762f6
PH
4456 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4457
139059f6 4458 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4459 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4460
7086e875
PH
4461 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4462 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4463 place.
4464
35af9f61
PH
4465 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4466 filter fails to execute.
4467
b668c215
PH
4468 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4469 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4470 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4471 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4472 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4473
a494b1e1
PH
4474 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4475
4476 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4477 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4478 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4479 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4480
c5fcb476
PH
4481 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4482 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4483 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4484 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4485 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4486
69358f02
PH
4487 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4488
5be20824
PH
448910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4490
eb2c0248
PH
449111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4492 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4493 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4494 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4495
2a3eea10
PH
449612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4497 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4498 sender verification.
4499
450013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4501 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4502
23c7ff99
PH
450314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4504
4deaf07d
PH
450515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4506 connection timeout.
4507
926e1192
PH
450816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4509 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4510
650edc6f
PH
451117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4512 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4513
2c7db3f5
PH
451418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4515 information about exactly what failed.
4516
3d235903
PH
451719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4518
7c7ad977
PH
451920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4520 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4521 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4522
981756db
PH
452321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4524 It is now set to "smtps".
4525
d4eb88df
PH
452622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4527 ignore_target_hosts.
4528
452923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4530 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4531 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4532 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4533 "[x.x.x.x]".
4534
7d468ab8
PH
453524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4536 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4537 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4538
453925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4540 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4541 wake it up if nothing else does.
4542
62c0818f
PH
454326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4544 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4545 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4546 end up negative.
4547
26034054
PH
454827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4549 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4550
af66f652
PH
455128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4552
90af77f4
PH
455329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4554 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4555 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4556 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4557 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4558 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4559 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4560 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4561
d8ef3577
PH
456230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4563 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4564 than one IP address.
4565
5cb8cbc6
PH
456631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4567 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4568 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4569 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4570
14702f5b
PH
457132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4572 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4573 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4574 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4575 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4576 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4577
063b1e99
PH
457833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4579 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4580 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4581 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4582
652e1b65
PH
458334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4584 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4585 respected.
4586
6f0c9a4f
PH
458735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4588 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4589 $sender_host_address.
4590
33397d19
PH
459136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4592 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4593 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4594 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4595 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4596 very small.
4597
7bb56e1f
PH
459837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4599
4600 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4601 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4602
ea3bc19b
PH
4603 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4604 just the host names, not the priorities.
4605
4606 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4607 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4608 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4609
ea3bc19b 4610 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4611 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4612
0bcb2a0e
PH
461338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4614 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4615 domain.
4616
2ac0e484
PH
461739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4618
4e1fde53
PH
461940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4620 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4621
de365ded
PH
462241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4623 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4624 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4625
f05da2e8
PH
462642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4627
d6453af2
PH
462843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4629
f7b63901
PH
463044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4631
463245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4633 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4634 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4635 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4636 because the tests only now provoked it.
4637
a444213a
PH
463846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4639 (this can affect the format of dates).
4640
0ec020ea
PH
464147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4642 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4643 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4644 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4645
b1206957
PH
464648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4647
464849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4649 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4650 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4651 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4652
26dd5a95
PH
465350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4654 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4655 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4656
343b2385
PH
465751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4658 autoreply.
4659
1c5466b9
PH
466052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4661 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4662 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4663 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4664 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4665 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4666 is going on).
4667
55ee9ee3
PH
466853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4669 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4670 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4671 the line.
4672
d38f8232
PH
467354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4674 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4675 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4676
4677 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4678 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4679 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4680 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4681 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4682 so I produce this patch..."
4683
3295e65b
PH
4684 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4685 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4686 is not defined.
4687
7102e136
PH
468855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4689 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4690 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4691 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4692 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4693
3ca0ba97
PH
469456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4695
c2bcbe20
PH
469657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4697 long debug lines gets shown.
4698
18ce445d
PH
469958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4700 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4701
1f5b4c3d
PH
470259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4703
4704 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4705 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4706 of $primary_hostname.
4707
b975ba52
PH
470860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4709 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4710 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4711 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4712 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4713 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4714 by change 4.50/55 above.
4715
4716 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4717 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4718 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4719 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4720 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4721 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4722 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4723
472461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4725 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4726 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4727 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4728
17ffcae7
PH
472962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4730 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4731
d95f9fdb
PH
473263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4733 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4734 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4735 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4736 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4737
86b8287f
PH
473864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4739 This has been fixed.
4740
60dc5e56
PH
474165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4742 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4743 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4744 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4745 the caching.)
4746
533244af
PH
474766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4748
a5a28604
PH
474967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4750 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4751 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4752 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4753
7e634d24
PH
475468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4755 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4756
3e11c26b
PH
475769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4758 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4759 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4760
6729cf78
PH
476170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4762 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4763 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4764 message there.
4765
00f00ca5
PH
476671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4767 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4768 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4769
c9bdd01c
PH
477072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4771 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4772 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4773 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4774
d43194df
PH
477573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4776 during host lookups.
4777
fe5b5d0b
PH
477874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4779 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4780
4781 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4782
76a2d7ba
PH
478375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4784 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4785 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4786 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4787 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4788 background.
4789
479076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4791 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4792
04f7d5b9
PH
479377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4794 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4795 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4796
bc60667e
PH
479778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4798
bb6e88ff
PH
479979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4800 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4801 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4802 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4803 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4804 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4805 process earlier.
4806
1e70f85b
PH
480780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4808 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4809 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4810 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4811 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4812
481381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4814 tables).
4815
4e01f9d6
PH
481682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4817
1ee1cef2
PH
481883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4819 "vacation" handling.
4820
6e2b4ccc
PH
482184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4822 OS variants using glibc.
4823
8e669ac1
PH
482485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4825
495ae4b0 4826
bbe902f0
PH
4827----------------------------------------------------
4828See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4829----------------------------------------------------
4830
4831
4832Exim version 4.44
4833-----------------
4834
4835 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4836 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4837 transport
4838
4839 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4840 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4841 place.
4842
4843 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4844 filter fails to execute.
4845
4846 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4847 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4848 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4849 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4850 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4851
4852 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4853 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4854 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4855 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4856
4857 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4858 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4859 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4860 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4861 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4862
4863 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4864
4865 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4866 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4867 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4868 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4869
4870 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4871 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4872 sender verification.
4873
487410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4875 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4876
487711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4878 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4879
488012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4881 ignore_target_hosts.
4882
488313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4884 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4885 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4886 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4887 "[x.x.x.x]".
4888
488914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4890 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4891 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4892
489315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4894 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4895 wake it up if nothing else does.
4896
489716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4898 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4899 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4900 end up negative.
4901
490217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4903 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4904
ea3a6f44 490518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4906
490719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4908 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4909 empty pattern.
4910
491120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4912 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4913 one IP address.
4914
ea3a6f44
NM
491521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4916 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4917 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4918 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4919 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4920 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4921
ea3a6f44
NM
492222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4923 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4924 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4925
492623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4927 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4928 $sender_host_address.
4929
493024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4931
ea3a6f44
NM
493225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4933 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4934 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4935
493626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4937 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4938
ea3a6f44
NM
493927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4940 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4941
ea3a6f44
NM
494228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4943 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4944 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4945 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4946
494729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4948 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4949 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4950
ea3a6f44
NM
495130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4952 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4953 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4954 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4955
ea3a6f44
NM
495631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4957 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4958 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4959
ea3a6f44
NM
496031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4961 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4962
ea3a6f44
NM
496332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4964 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4965 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4966 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4967 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4968 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4969 is going on).
bbe902f0 4970
ea3a6f44
NM
497133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4972 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4973 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4974 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4975 CAN-2005-0021
4976
ea3a6f44
NM
497734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4978 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4979 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4980 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4981 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4982 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4983 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4984
4985 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4986 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4987 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4988 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4989 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4990 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4991 CAN-2005-0021
4992
ea3a6f44
NM
499335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4994 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4995 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4996 CAN-2005-0022
4997
ea3a6f44
NM
499836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4999 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5000 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5001 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5002 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5003
ea3a6f44
NM
500437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5005 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5006 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5007 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5008 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5009
ea3a6f44
NM
501038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5011 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5012 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5013 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5014 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5015
5016
495ae4b0
PH
5017Exim version 4.43
5018-----------------
5019
5020 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5021 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5022 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5023 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5024 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5025 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5026 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5027
5028 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5029 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5030 the delivery.
5031
5032 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5033
5034 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5035
5036 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5037 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5038 to local_scan().
5039
5040 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5041 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5042 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5043 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5044 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5045
5046 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5047 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5048
5049 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5050
5051 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5052
505310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5054 header_sender only.
5055
505611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5057 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5058
505912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5060 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5061 affecting debugging statements).
5062
506313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5064
506514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5066 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5067 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5068 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5069 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5070 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5071 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5072 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5073 after the received time, and all would be well.
5074
507515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5076 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5077 condition in an expansion string.
5078
507916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5080
508117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5082 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5083 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5084 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5085 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5086 job under whatever limits there are.
5087
508818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5089
509019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5091 space).
5092
509320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5094 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5095 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5096 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5097 return path is set.
5098
509921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5100 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5101 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5102 binary data in such strings.
5103
510422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5105
510623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5107 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5108 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5109 failure, which is pointless.
5110
511124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5112
511325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5114
511526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5116 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5117 Sender: header lines.
5118
511927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5120 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5121 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5122
512328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5124 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5125 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5126 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5127 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5128 happens.
5129
513029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5131 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5132 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5133 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5134 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5135
513630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5137 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5138 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5139 1024.
5140
514131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5142 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5143
514432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5145 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5146
514733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5148
514932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5150
515133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5152
515334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5154 syntax error.
5155
515635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5157
515836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5159
516037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5161 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5162 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5163 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5164
516538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5166 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5167
5168
5169Exim version 4.42
5170-----------------
5171
5172 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5173 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5174 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5175 it was not quoted.
5176 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5177 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5178 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5179 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5180 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5181 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5182
5183 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5184 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5185 verification failure".
5186
5187 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5188 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5189 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5190 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5191
5192 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5193 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5194 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5195 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5196 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5197 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5198 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5199 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5200 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5201 treated as a timeout.
5202
5203 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5204 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5205 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5206 not set for Exim filters).
5207
5208 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5209 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5210 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5211
5212 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5213
5214 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5215 try to make them clearer.
5216
5217 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5218 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5219
5220 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5221
5222 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5223
522410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5225 only the Cygwin environment.
5226
522711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5228 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5229 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5230 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5231 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5232
523312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5234 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5235 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5236 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5237 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5238 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5239 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5240
524113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5242 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5243
524414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5245
5246 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5247 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5248 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5249
5250 To: susanne@some.where
5251
5252 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5253 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5254 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5255 of addresses in From: header lines).
5256
5257 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5258 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5259 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5260
5261 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5262 treated as non-personal.
5263
5264 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5265 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5266
526715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5268
526916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5270
527117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5272 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5273 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5274
527518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5276 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5277
527819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5279 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5280 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5281 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5282 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5283 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5284
528520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5286 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5287 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5288 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5289 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5290 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5291 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5292 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5293
5294 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5295
529621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5297 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5298
529922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5300 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5301 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5302
530323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5304 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5305
530624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5307 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5308 rather than long int.
5309
531025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5311
531226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5313
5314
5315Exim version 4.41
5316-----------------
5317
5318 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5319 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5320 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5321 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5322 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5323 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5324
5325
5326Exim version 4.40
5327-----------------
5328
5329 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5330 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5331
5332 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5333 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5334 socklen_t is defined.
5335
5336 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5337 always exist.
5338
5339 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5340 configured.
5341
5342 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5343 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5344 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5345 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5346 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5347
5348 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5349 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5350 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5351 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5352
5353 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5354 of flapping under certain conditions.
5355
5356 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5357 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5358 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5359
5360 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5361
536210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5363
536411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5365 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5366 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5367 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5368
536912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5370 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5371 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5372 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5373 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5374 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5375 preserved with the message after it was received.
5376
537713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5378 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5379 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5380 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5381 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5382 test suite worked just fine.
5383
538414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5385 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5386 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5387
538815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5389 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5390 string.
5391
539216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5393 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5394 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5395 does not fully solve it.
5396
539717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5398 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5399 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5400 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5401 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5402
540318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5404 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5405 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5406
540719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5408 string, for example:
5409
5410 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5411
5412 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5413 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5414 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5415 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5416 the routers could not see them.
5417
541820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5419 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5420
542121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5422 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5423 output).
5424
542522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5426 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5427 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5428 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5429 that needed quoting.
5430
543123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5432 was not being matched caselessly.
5433
543424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5435 backslashes.
5436
543725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5438 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5439 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5440 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5441 when use_sender is false.
5442
544326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5444
544527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5446
544728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5448
544929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5450 the configuration file.
5451
545230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5453 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5454
545531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5456
545732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5458 bytes in the message body.
5459
546033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5461 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5462 delivery.
5463
546434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5465
546635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5467
546836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5469 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5470 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5471 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5472 another IP address.
5473
5474
5475Exim version 4.34
5476-----------------
5477
5478 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5479 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5480
5481 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5482 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5483 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5484 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5485 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5486
5487 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5488 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5489
5490 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5491 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5492 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5493
5494 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5495 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5496 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5497
5498 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5499 for routers.
5500
5501 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5502 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5503 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5504 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5505 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5506 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5507 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5508
5509
5510Exim version 4.33
5511-----------------
5512
5513 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5514 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5515 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5516 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5517 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5518 default (and expected) setting.
5519
5520 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5521 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5522 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5523 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5524
5525 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5526 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5527
5528 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5529 in domain lists.
5530
5531 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5532 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5533 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5534 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5535 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5536 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5537
5538 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5539 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5540 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5541
5542 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5543 part (NOT match_host).
5544
5545 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5546
5547 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5548 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5549 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5550 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5551 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5552 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5553 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5554 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5555 the same named file.
5556
555710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5558 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5559 when Exim is built.
5560
556111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5562 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5563 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5564 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5565 a host name.
5566
556712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5568 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5569 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5570
557113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5572
557314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5574
557515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5576
557716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5578 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5579
558017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5581 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5582 before starting the TLS session.
5583
558418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5585
558619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5587 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5588
558920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5590 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5591 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5592 colon in the middle).
5593
5594
5595Exim version 4.32
5596-----------------
5597
5598 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5599 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5600 multiple configurations are in use.
5601
5602 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5603 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5604 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5605 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5606 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5607 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5608
5609 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5610 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5611
5612 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5613 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5614 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5615
5616 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5617 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5618 occurs.
5619
5620 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5621 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5622
5623 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5624
5625 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5626 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5627
5628 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5629
5630 -prval:sval
5631
5632 is equivalent to
5633
5634 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5635
5636 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5637 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5638 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5639 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5640 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5641
564210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5643 Exim's behaviour:
5644
5645 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5646 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5647 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5648 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5649 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5650 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5651
5652 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5653 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5654 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5655 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5656 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5657 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5658 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5659 string.
5660
5661 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5662 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5663 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5664 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5665 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5666
566711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5668
566912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5670 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5671 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5672
567313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5674
567514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5676 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5677 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5678 information.
5679
568015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5681 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5682
568316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5684 Three changes have been made:
5685
5686 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5687 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5688 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5689 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5690 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5691
5692 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5693 been restored.
5694
5695 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5696 the modified behaviour.
5697
5698
5699Exim version 4.31
5700-----------------
5701
5702 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5703 Larry Rosenman.
5704
5705 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5706 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5707
5708 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5709 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5710 try to track down a specific problem.
5711
5712 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5713 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5714 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5715
5716 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5717 warning.
5718
5719 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5720 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5721 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5722 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5723 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5724 some earlier ones do not.
5725
5726 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5727
5728 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5729 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5730 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5731 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5732 address literals are enabled, of course).
5733
5734 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5735
573610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5737 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5738 by a command such as
5739
5740 exim -f "" ...
5741
5742 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5743
574411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5745
574612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5747 remained set. It is now erased.
5748
574913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5750 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5751
575214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5753 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5754 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5755 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5756 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5757 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5758 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5759 appropriate error code.
5760
576115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5762 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5763 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5764 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5765 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5766 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5767
576816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5769 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5770 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5771
577217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5773 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5774 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5775 terminate the header.
5776
577718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5778 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5779 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5780
578119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5782 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5783 (4.30/29). In particular:
5784
5785 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5786 imposed.
5787
5788 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5789 to write a maildirsize file.
5790
5791 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5792 the transport, the new value overrides.
5793
5794 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5795 count.
5796
579720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5798 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5799 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5800 space or a tab.
5801
580221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5803 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5804 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5805 the fallback hosts.
5806
580722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5808 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5809 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5810
581123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5812 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5813 using a union.
5814
581524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5816 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5817 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5818
581925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5820
582126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5822
582327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5824
582528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5826 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5827 become corrupted.
5828
582929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5830 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5831 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5832 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5833 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5834 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5835 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5836 too great.
5837
583830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5839 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5840 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5841 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5842 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5843 incorrectly.
5844
584531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5846 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5847 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5848 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5849 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5850 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5851 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5852 cached value only when the same options are set.
5853
585432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5855
585633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5857 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5858 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5859 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5860 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5861
586234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5863 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5864 it is clearly obsolete.
5865
586635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5867 transport.
5868
586936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5870 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5871 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5872 times.
5873
587437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5875 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5876 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5877 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5878 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5879
588038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5881 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5882 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5883 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5884
588539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5886
5887 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5888
5889 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5890 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5891 2^31.
5892
589340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5894 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5895 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5896 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5897 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5898 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5899 $localpart_data.
5900
590141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5902 with the -f command-line option.
5903
590442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5905 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5906 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5907 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5908 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5909 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5910
591143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5912 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5913 line.
5914
591544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5916 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5917 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5918 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5919 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5920 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5921 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5922 buffer is too small.
5923
592445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5925 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5926
592746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5928 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5929 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5930 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5931 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5932 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5933 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5934 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5935 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5936
593747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5938 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5939 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5940
594148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5942 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5943 ACL").
5944
594549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5946 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5947 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5948 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5949 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5950
595150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5952 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5953 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5954 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5955 is set.
5956
595751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5958
595952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5960
596153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5962 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5963
596454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5965 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5966 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5967
596855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5969 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5970 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5971 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5972 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5973
597456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5975 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5976 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5977 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5978 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5979 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5980 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5981
598257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5983 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5984 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5985 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5986 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5987 the test of how many are available.
5988
598958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5990 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5991 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5992 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5993 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5994 new message is started.
5995
599659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5997 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5998
599960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6000 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6001
600261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6003 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6004 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6005 is no long logged.
6006
600762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6008 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6009 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6010 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6011 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6012 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6013 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6014
601563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6016 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6017 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6018 interpreted as octal.
6019
602064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6021 setting.
6022
602365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6024 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6025 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6026 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6027 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6028 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6029
603066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6031 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6032 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6033 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6034
6035 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6036 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6037 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6038 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6039
6040 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6041 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6042 is a bug fix.
6043
6044 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6045 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6046
604767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6048
604968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6050 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6051 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6052 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6053
605469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6055 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6056 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6057 supplied", which is not helpful.
6058
605970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6060 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6061 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6062
606371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6064 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6065 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6066 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6067 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6068 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6069 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6070 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6071
607272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6073 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6074 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6075 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6076 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6077
607873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6079 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6080 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6081 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6082 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6083 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6084
608574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6086 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6087 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6088
608975. Added write_rejectlog option.
6090
609176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6092 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6093 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6094 variables.
6095
609677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6097
609878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6099 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6100 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6101 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6102 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6103 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6104 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6105 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6106
610779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6108 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6109 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6110 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6111 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6112
611380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6114 Haardt.
6115
611681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6117 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6118 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6119 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6120 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6121 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6122 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6123 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6124 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6125
6126
6127Exim version 4.30
6128-----------------
6129
6130 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6131 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6132 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6133
6134 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6135 fixed.
6136
6137 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6138 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6139 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6140
6141 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6142 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6143 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6144 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6145 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6146 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6147
6148 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6149 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6150 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6151 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6152 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6153 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6154 the Exim test suite.
6155
6156 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6157 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6158 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6159 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6160
6161 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6162 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6163 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6164 specify it in this variable.
6165
6166 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6167 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6168 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6169 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6170
6171 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6172 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6173 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6174 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6175
6176 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6177 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6178 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6179 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6180 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6181
6182 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6183
618410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6185 they are logged.
6186
618711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6188 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6189 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6190 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6191 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6192
619312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6194 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6195
619613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6197 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6198 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6199 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6200 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6201
620214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6203 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6204
620515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6206 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6207 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6208
620916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6210 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6211
621217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6213 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6214
621518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6216 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6217 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6218
621919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6220 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6221
622220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6223 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6224 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6225 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6226
622721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6228
622922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6230 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6231 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6232 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6233
623423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6235
623624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6237 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6238
623925. Added .include_if_exists.
6240
624126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6242 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6243 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6244 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6245 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6246 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6247
624827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6249
625028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6251 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6252 this.
6253
625429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6255
625630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6257 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6258
6259 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6260 550 Sender verify failed
6261
6262 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6263 the final line of the response.
6264
626531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6266 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6267 all other user lookups.
6268
626932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6270 delivery time.
6271
627233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6273 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6274 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6275 result into an int without checking.
6276
627734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6278 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6279 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6280
628135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6282 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6283 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6284 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6285
628636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6287 correctly.
6288
628937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6290 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6291
629238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6293 to the empty sender.
6294
629539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6296 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6297 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6298 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6299 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6300 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6301 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6302 panic log.
6303
630440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6305 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6306 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6307 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6308 used.
6309
631041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6311 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6312
631342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6314 timestamps.
6315
631643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6317 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6318
631944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6320
632145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6322 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6323 logs.
6324
632546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6326 as soon as it is encountered.
6327
632847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6329
633048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6331 rewritten to "<>".
6332
633349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6334 recognizes a tab character.
6335
633650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6337 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6338 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6339 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6340
634151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6342
634352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6344 crash.
6345
634653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6347
634854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6349
635055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6351 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6352 2822.
6353
635456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6355 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6356 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6357 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6358 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6359
636057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6361 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6362
636358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6364 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6365 list (.included file names were always shown).
6366
636759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6368 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6369 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6370 root at that time.
6371
637260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6373 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6374
637561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6376
637762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6378
637963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6380
638164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6382 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6383 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6384 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6385 failures to open the logs.
6386
638765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6388 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6389 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6390 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6391 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6392 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6393 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6394
6395
6396Exim version 4.24
6397-----------------
6398
6399 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6400 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6401 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6402 change 4.23/1.
6403
6404 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6405 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6406 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6407
6408 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6409 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6410 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6411
6412 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6413 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6414 causing some misleading effects.
6415
6416 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6417 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6418 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6419
6420 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6421 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6422 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6423 queue-runner function directly.
6424
6425
6426Exim version 4.23
6427-----------------
6428
6429 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6430 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6431
6432 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6433 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6434 was always written to the default place.
6435
6436 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6437 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6438 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6439
6440 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6441
6442 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6443
6444 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6445 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6446 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6447
6448 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6449 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6450 must start.
6451
6452 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6453 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6454 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6455
6456 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6457 command line option is disabled.
6458
6459 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6460 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6461
6462 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6463
6464 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6465
6466 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6467 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6468
646910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6470
647111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6472 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6473 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6474 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6475 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6476 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6477
647812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6479 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6480 timeout.
6481
648213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6483 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6484
648514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6486 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6487
648815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6489 received was valid base64.
6490
649116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6492 name of the variable that was being set.
6493
649417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6495
649618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6497 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6498 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6499 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6500 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6501 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6502
650319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6504
650520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6506 nor realm was specified.
6507
650821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6509 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6510 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6511 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6512
651322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6514 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6515 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6516
651723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6518 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6519 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6520
652124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6522 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6523 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6524 some systems use these upper case variants.
6525
652625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6527 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6528 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6529 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6530
653126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6532
653327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6534 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6535
653628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6537 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6538 expansion variable.
6539
654029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6541
654230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6543 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6544 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6545 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6546
654731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6548 using it.
6549
655032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6551 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6552 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6553
655433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6555 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6556
655734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6558 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6559 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6560 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6561
656235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6563 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6564 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6565
656636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6567
656837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6569 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6570 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6571 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6572 aborted.
6573
657438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6575 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6576 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6577
657839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6579
658040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6581 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6582
658341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6584 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6585
658642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6587 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6588 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6589 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6590 when emails are that large.
6591
6592
6593
6594Exim version 4.22
6595-----------------
6596
6597 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6598 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6599
6600 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6601 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6602 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6603
6604 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6605 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6606 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6607
6608 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6609 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6610 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6611 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6612 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6613
6614 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6615 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6616 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6617 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6618 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6619 ever.
6620
6621 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6622 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6623 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6624 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6625 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6626 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6627 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6628 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6629 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6630 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6631 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6632 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6633 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6634 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6635
6636 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6637 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6638 parameterised it.
6639
6640 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6641 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6642 error should be diagnosed.
6643
6644 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6645 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6646 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6647 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6648 appeared instead of "NULL".
6649
665010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6651 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6652 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6653 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6654 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6655 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6656 proceeds).
6657
6658 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6659 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6660 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6661
6662
6663Exim version 4.21
6664-----------------
6665
6666 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6667 or receiver verification errors.
6668
6669 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6670 name.
6671
6672 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6673 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6674 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6675 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6676
6677 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6678 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6679 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6680 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6681 shouldn't happen again.
6682
6683 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6684 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6685 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6686
6687 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6688 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6689
6690 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6691
6692 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6693 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6694
6695 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6696 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6697 RFC.
6698
669910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6700 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6701 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6702
670311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6704 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6705 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6706 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6707
670812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6709 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6710 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6711 to define what should happen).
6712
671313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6714 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6715 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6716
671714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6718
671915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6720
672116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6722 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6723
4c04137d 672417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6725 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6726 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6727 structure in all cases.
6728
6729 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6730 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6731 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6732 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6733
673418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6735 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6736 domain name.
6737
673819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6739 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6740
674120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6742 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6743
674421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6745 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6746 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6747
674822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6749 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6750 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6751
675223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6753 the book and for uniformity.
6754
675524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6756
675725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6758 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6759 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6760 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6761 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6762 non-existent command as the problem.
6763
676426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6765 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6766 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6767
676827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6769
677028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6771 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6772 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6773
677429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6775 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6776 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6777 timestamps using strftime().
6778
677930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6780 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6781
678232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6783 transport-time rewrites.
6784
678533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6786 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6787 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6788 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6789
679034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6791 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6792
679335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6794 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6795 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6796 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6797 comma and a space.
6798
679936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6800 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6801 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6802 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6803 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6804 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6805 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6806
680737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6808 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6809 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6810 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6811 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6812
681338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6814 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6815 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6816 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6817 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6818 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6819 remaining text gets split now.
6820
682139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6822 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6823 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6824 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6825
682640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6827 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6828 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6829 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6830 $return_path.
6831
683241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6833 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6834 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6835 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6836 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6837 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6838 passed through if needed.
6839
684042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6841 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6842 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6843 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6844 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6845 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6846
684743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6848 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6849 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6850 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6851 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6852
685344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6854 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6855 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6856 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6857 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6858
685945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6860 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6861 noticed.
6862
686346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6864 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6865 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6866 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6867 mayhem of various kinds.
6868
686947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6870 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6871 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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6872 the right test for positive values.
6873
687448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6875 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6876 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6877 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6878 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6879 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6880 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6881 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6882 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6883 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6884 envelope.
6885
688649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6887 module.
6888
688950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6890 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6891 forbidding it.
6892
689351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6894 the existing equality matching.
6895
689652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6897 dealing with inode numbers.
6898
689953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6900 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6901 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6902
690354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6904 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6905 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6906 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6907 local_scan().
6908
690955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6910 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6911 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6912 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6913 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6914 relay addresses has also been removed.
6915
691656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6917
691857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6919 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6920 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6921
692258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6923 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6924 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6925 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6926 processing applies to CR:
6927
6928 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6929 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6930
6931 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6932 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6933 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6934 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6935
693659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6937 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6938 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6939
694060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6941 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6942 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6943 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6944 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6945 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6946 arisen.
6947
694861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6949 program routers.
6950
695162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6952 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6953 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6954 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6955 adds:
6956
6957 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6958
6959 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6960
6961 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6962
696363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6964 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6965 not considered personal.
6966
696764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6968
696965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6970
697166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6972
697367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6974 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6975 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6976 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6977 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6978 header lines, and spool format errors.
6979
698068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6981 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6982 for more flexibility.
6983
698469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6985 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6986 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6987
698870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6989 Sabourenkov.
6990
699171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6992 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6993 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6994 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6995 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6996 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6997 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6998 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6999 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7000
700172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7002 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7003 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7004 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7005 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7006 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7007 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7008
700973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7010 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7011 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7012
701374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7014 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7015 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7016 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7017 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7018 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7019 instead of killing the process with assert().
7020
702175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7022 than Unicode encoding.
7023
702476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7025 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7026 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7027 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7028
702977. Added process_log_path.
7030
703178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7032 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7033
703479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7035 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7036
703780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7038 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7039 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7040
704181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7042 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7043 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7044 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7045 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7046 were applied:
7047
7048 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7049 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7050 as invalid.
7051
705282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7053 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7054 they will be used during message reception.
7055
7056
7057Exim version 4.20
7058-----------------
7059
7060The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7061
7062****