OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages.
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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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11JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
12 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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fc243e94 14JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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15 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
16 its own TCP segment.
17
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18JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
19 each verb.
20
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21JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
22
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23JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
24
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25JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
26 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
27
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28JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
29 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
30 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
31 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
32 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
33 suitably configured).
34
c05bdbd6 35JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
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36 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
37
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38JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
39 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
40 crash could result.
41
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42JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
43 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
44
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45JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
46 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
47 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
48 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
49 to this system.
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52Exim version 4.92
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54
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55JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
56 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
57
58JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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59 non-signal-safe functions being used.
60
61JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
62 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
63 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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65JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
66 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
67 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
68
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69JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
70 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
71 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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72 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
73 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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74 messed with.
75
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76PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
77 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
78
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79JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
80 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
81 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
82 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
83 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
84 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
85 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
86
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87JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
88 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
89
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90JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
91 legitimate.
92
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93JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
94 Previously this would segfault.
95
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96JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
97 segfault.
98
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99JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
100 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
101 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
102 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
103 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
104 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
105
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106JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
107
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108JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
109 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
110 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
111 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
112
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113JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
114
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115JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
116 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
117 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
118 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
119
5054c4fd 120JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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122JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
5054c4fd 123
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124JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
125 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
126 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
127
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128JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
129 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
130 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
131
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132PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
133
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134JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
135 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
136 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
137 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
138
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139PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
140 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
141 promised '?' replacement.
142
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143PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
144
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145JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
146 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
147 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
148 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
149 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
150
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151JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
152 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
153 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
154
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155JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
156 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
157 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
158
7ea1237c 159JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 160 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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161 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
162
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163JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
164 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
165 hope that is portable enough.
166
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167JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
168 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
169 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
170 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
171
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172JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
173 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
174 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
175
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176JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
177 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
178 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
179 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
180
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181JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
182 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
183
75c121f0 184JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 185 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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186 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
187 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
188
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189JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
190 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
191 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
192
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193JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
194 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
195 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
196 the previous G, M, k.
197
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198JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
199 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
200 it was unset.
201
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202JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
203 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
204 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
205 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
206
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207JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
208 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
209
de6f74f2 210JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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211 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
212 off past the nul-terimation.
213
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214JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
215 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
216 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
217 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
218 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
219
aa6e77af 220JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
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222JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
223 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
224 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
225 actually does fail.
226
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227AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
228 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
229
230JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
231 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
232 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
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234JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
235 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
236 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
237
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238JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
239 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
240
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c39c8870 245GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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246 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
247 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
248 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
249 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
250 be defined in redis_servers.
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252GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
253 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
254
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255JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
256 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
257 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
258 extant use locations.
259
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260JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
261 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
262
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263JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
264 Previously only the last row was returned.
265
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266JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
267 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
268 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
269 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
270 input.
271
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272JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
273 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
274 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
275 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
276 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
277 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
278 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
279 Main pool for expansions.
280 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
281 active in the testsuite.
282 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
283
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284JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
285 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
286 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
287 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
288 round-robin DNS.
289
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290JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
291 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
292 failure response.
293
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294JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
295 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
296 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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298JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
299 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
300 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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302JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
303 rows affected is given instead).
304
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305JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
306 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
307
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308JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
309 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
310 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
311 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
312 for all multi-message initiating connections.
313
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314JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
315 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
316 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
317
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318JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
319 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
320 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
321 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
322 separate.
323
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324JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
325 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
326 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
327 fake-reject.
328
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329HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
330
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331JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
332 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
333
aab9a843 334PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 335 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 336 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 337
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338JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
339 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
340 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
341 and send a quit.
342
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343JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
344 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
345
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346JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
347 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
348 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
349
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350JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
351 for the build is renamed.
352
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353JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
354 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
355 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
356
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357JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
358 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
359 result replacing the original.
360
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361JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
362 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
363 and the resources needed to be freed.
364
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365JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
366
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367JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
368 was not propagated.
369
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370JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
371 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
372 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
373 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
374
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375JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
376 length value. Previously this would segfault.
377
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378HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
379 newer versions of the scanner.
380
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381JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
382 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
383 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
384 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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385 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
386 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
387 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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389JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
390 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
391 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
392 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
393 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
394 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
395 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
396 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
397 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
398 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
399
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400JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
401 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
402
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403JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
404
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405HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
406 allows proper process termination in container environments.
407
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408JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
409 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
410
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411JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
412 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
413 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
414
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415JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
416 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
417 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 418 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 419
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420JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
421 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
422 would be spooled.
423
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424PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
425 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
426
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427HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
428 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
429 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
430 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
431 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 432
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433JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
434 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
435 lines.
436
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437JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
438 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
439
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440PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
441 suffix list.
442
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443JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
444 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
445 "bare" representation.
446
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447JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
448 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
449 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
450 corrupted the output.
451
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456JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
457 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
458 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
459 pairs of long lines into single ones.
460
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461PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
462 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
463
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464JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
465 This permits better logging.
466
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467JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
468 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
469 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
470 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
471 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 472 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 473
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474JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
475 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
476 "exiwhat" output.
477
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478PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
479 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
480 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
481
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482JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
483 than 255 are no longer allowed.
484
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485JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
486 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
487 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
488 client, there is no benefit for these.
489 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
490 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
491 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
492 is used (3.2.4 +).
493
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494PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
495 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
496
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497JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
498 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
499 erroneously found still-pending ones.
500
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501JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
502 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
503
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504JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
505 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
506 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
507 signature and again for transmission.
508
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509JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
510 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 511 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 512
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513JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
514 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
515 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
516 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
517 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
518 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
519 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
520
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521JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
522 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
523 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 524 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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526PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
527 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
528 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
529 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
530 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
531 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
532 processing options.
533
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534JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
535 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
536 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
537 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
538 connections.
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540PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
541 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
542 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
543 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
544 versions.
545
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546JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
547 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
548 inaccessible.
549
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550JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
551 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
552 banner-time rejection.
553
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554JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
555 callout/hold.
556
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557PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
558 is the name of a transport.
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559 Fixes bug 2140.
560
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561HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
562
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563JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
564 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
565
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566JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
567 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
568 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
569 during compilation.
570
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571JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
572 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
573 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 574 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 575
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576JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
577 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
578 initial verify call returned a defer.
579
ad1a76fe 580JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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581 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
582
ad1a76fe
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583JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
584 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
585
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586JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
587 if present. Previously it was ignored.
588
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589JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
590 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
591
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592JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
593 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
594 extensible.
595
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596PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
597 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
598
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599PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
600 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
601 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
602
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603JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
604 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
605 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
606 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
607
0768462d 608HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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609 and confused the parent.
610
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611JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
612 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
613
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614JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
615 for log purposes.
616
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617JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
618 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
619 out-of-order delivery.
620
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621JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
622 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
623 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
624 error for the HELO.
625
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626JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
627 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
628 desynchronisation.
629
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630JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
631 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
632 one run was done. Bug 2189.
633
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634JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
635 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
636 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
637 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
638 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
639 message is still "Temporary local problem".
640
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641JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
642 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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643 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
644
645HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
646 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
647 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 648
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649JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
650 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
651 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
652 though a different problem.
653
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9427e879 658JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 659 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 660
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661JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
662
4c57a40e
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663PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
664 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
665
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666JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
667 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
668
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669JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
670 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
671 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
672 before acknowledging the chunk.
673
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674PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
675 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
676 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
677
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678JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
679 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
680 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
681 should.
682
683JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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684 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
685 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 686
bd8fbe36 687JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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688 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
689
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690JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
691 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
692 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
693 body hash calculated value.
694
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695JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
696 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
697 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
698
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699JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
700
701JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
702 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
703
704JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
705 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
706 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
707
708JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
709 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
710 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
711 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
712 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
713 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
714
715JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
716 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
717 past that check, despite the cost.
718
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719JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
720 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
721 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
722
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723PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
724 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
725 TLS library to consume.
726
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727PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
728
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729PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
730
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731JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
732 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
733 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
734 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
735 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
736 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
737 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
738
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739PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
740
741PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
742
743PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
744 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
745 should be warning-free.
746
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747JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
748
749HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
750 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
751
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752HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
753 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
754 general solution here.
755
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756PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
757 already-broken messages in the queue.
758
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759JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
760
3b1a84c8
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761JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
762
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767JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
768 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 769
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770JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
771 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
772 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
773
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774JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
775 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
776 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
777 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
778 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
779 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
780 if one fails this test.
781 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
782 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
783
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784JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
785 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
786
23bb6982 787JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 788 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 789
0bd1b1ed 790JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 791 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 792
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793JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
794 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
795
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796JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
797 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
798
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799JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
800
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801JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
802 certificate).
803
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804JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
805 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
806 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
807 connection after a verify cache hit.
808 Do not update it with the verify result either.
809
810JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
811 when routing results in more than one destination address.
812
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813JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
814 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
815 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
816 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
817 when the cutthrough connection is made).
818
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819JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
820 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
821
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822JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
823 Previously they were not counted.
824
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825JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
826 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
827 that needed the lookup.
828
4c04137d 829JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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830 distinguished as "(=".
831
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832JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
833 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
834
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835JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
836
837JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
838 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 839
4c04137d 840JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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841 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
842
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843JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
844 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
845 compatible.
846
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847JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
848 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
849 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
850 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
851
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852JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
853
f59aaaaa 854JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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855 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
856 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
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858JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
859 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
860 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
861 be lost.
862
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863JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
864 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
865 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
866 itself :(
867
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868JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
869 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
870 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
871
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872JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
873 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
874 options.
875
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876JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
877
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878PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
879 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
880
8b0fb68e
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881PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
882 are not in the system include path.
883
ad7fc6eb 884JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 885 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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886 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
887 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 888
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889JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
890 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
891 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
892
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893JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
894
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895HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
896 an incoming connection.
897
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898HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
899 to rspamd.
900
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901HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
902 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 903
87cb4a16 904JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 905 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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906
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911JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
912 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
913 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
914 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 915
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916TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
917 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
918
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919TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
920 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
921 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
922 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
923 outgoing I= field.
924
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925JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
926 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
927 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
928 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
929 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
930 check on the next write.
931
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932HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
933 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
934 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
935 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
936 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
937
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938JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
939 mime_regex ACL conditions.
940
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941JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
942 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
943 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
944
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945JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
946 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
947 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
948 an authenticate fail is not an error.
949
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950HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
951 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
952
4c04137d 953JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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954 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
955
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956JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
957 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
958 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
959 distinct.
960
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961JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
962
963JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
964
ec0eb1a3
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965JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
966
41e93589
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967JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
968 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
969
98b98887 970JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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971 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
972
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973JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
974
858e91c2
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975JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
976 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
977
978JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
979
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980JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
981 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
982
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983JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
984
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985JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
986 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 987 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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988 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
989 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
990 they will retry in-clear.
991 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
992 at installation time.
993
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994HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
995 with the $config_file variable.
996
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997JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
998 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
999 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1000 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1001 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1002
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1003GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1004 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1005 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1006 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1007 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1008
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1009JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1010
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1011JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1012 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1013 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1014 list order is no longer honoured.
1015
4c04137d 1016JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1017 for DKIM processing.
1018
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1019JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1020 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1021
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1022JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1023 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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1024 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1025 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1026
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1027JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1028 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1029
2d8d625b
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1030JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1031 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1032
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1033JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1034 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1035
f2f2c91b
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1036JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1037
ce325893
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1038JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1039 cached by the daemon.
1040
de78e2d5
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1041JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1042 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1043
379ba7d0
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1044JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1045 keys are given for lookup.
1046
f444c2c7
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1047JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1048 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1049 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1050 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1051
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1052JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1053 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1054 server-side so match that on older versions.
1055
07c73177 1056JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1057 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1058 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1059
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1060JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1061 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1062
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1063JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1064 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1065 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1066 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1067 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1068 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1069 initial truncated version.
1070
ab9152ff 1071JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1072
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1073JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1074
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1075JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1076 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1077
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1078JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1079
bc3c7bb7 1080HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1081
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1082JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1083 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1084 induced overflows.
1085
59eaad2b
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1086JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1087 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1088 stage.
1089
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1090JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1091 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1092
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1093JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1094 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1095 former class.
1096
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1097JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1098 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1099 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1100
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1101JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1102 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1103 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1104 extraction. Accept either.
1105
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4c57a40e 1109
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1110JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1111 expanded.
1112
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1113JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1114
ad07e9ad
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1115JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1116 it.
1117
01a4a5c5 1118JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1119 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1120 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1121 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1122
cb1d7830 1123JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1124 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1125 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1126
610ff438 1127JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1128 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1129 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1130 TLS connections
610ff438 1131
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1132JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1133 sites use this now.
1134
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1135JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1136 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1137 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1138 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1139 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1140
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1141JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1142 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1143 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1144
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1145JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1146
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1147JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1148 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1149
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1150JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1151 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1152
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1153JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1154 /defer_ok option.
1155
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1156JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1157 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1158
fd4d8871 1159JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1160 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1161 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1162
1163JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1164 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1165 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1166
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1167JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1168 timeout value per server.
1169
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1170JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1171 now have the list separator specified.
1172
8a512ed5 1173JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1174 option values.
8a512ed5 1175
82c0c8ea 1176JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1177 under OpenSSL.
1178
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1179JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1180
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1181JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1182 rather than the verbs used.
1183
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1184JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1185 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1186
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1187JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1188
cfab9d68 1189HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1190 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1191
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1192JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1193 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1194
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1195HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1196 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1197
4c04137d 1198JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1199
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1200JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1201
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1202JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1203 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1204 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1205 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1206
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1207JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1208
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1209JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1210 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1211
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1212JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1213 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1214
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1215JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1216
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1217JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1218
7137ca4b
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1219JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1220
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1221JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1222 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1223
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1224JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1225 added for tls authenticator.
1226
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1227HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1228
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1233TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1234 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1235 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1236 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1237 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1238 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1239 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1240
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1241TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1242 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1243 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1244 function when detected.
1245
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1246JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1247 cause callback expansion.
1248
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1249TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1250 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1251 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1252 instead of bool when processing it.
1253
0f06b4f2 1254JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1255 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1256
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1257JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1258
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1259JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1260
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1261TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1262
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1263TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1264 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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1266JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1267 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1268 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1269 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1270 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1271 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1272
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1273JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1274 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1275 exceeded it.
1276
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1277JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1278 version 3.3.6 or later.
1279
4c04137d 1280JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1281 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1282 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1283 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1284 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1285 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1286 option is defined.
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1288TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1289 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1290
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1291JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1292 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1293 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1294 matches.
1295
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1296JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1297 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1298 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1299
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1300JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1301 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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1302
1303JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1304 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1305 syntax errors.
1306
3394b36a 1307JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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1308
1309JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1310 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1311
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1312TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1313 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1314 tarball.
1315
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1316JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1317
4c04137d 1318JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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1319 Bug 1561.
1320
1321JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1322 output list separator was used.
1323
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1327TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1328 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1329 return.
1f0ebb98 1330
a612424f 1331JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1332 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1334JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1335
1336TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1337 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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1342
1343TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1344
1345 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1346 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1347 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1348 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1349 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1350 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1351
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1352TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1353 utilities have not been installed.
1354
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1355JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1356 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1357
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1358TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1359 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1360
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1361TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1362 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1363 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1364 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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1366JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1367
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1368TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1369 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1370
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1371PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1372 not dns_use_dnssec.
1373
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1374JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1375
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1376TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1377 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1378 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1379
8ddef691 1380TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1381 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1382 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1383 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1384 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1385 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1386
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1387JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1388
e45a1c37
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1389JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1390 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1391
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1392JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1393 failed delivery.
1394
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1395JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1396
511a6c14 1397JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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1398
1399JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1400 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1401
51c7471d
JH
1402JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1403 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1404
3695be34
TL
1405TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1406
1e06383a
TL
1407JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1408
76146973
JH
1409JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1410 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1411
1412 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1413 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1414 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1415
8c8b8274
TL
1416TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1417 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1418 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1419 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1420
35aba663
JH
1421JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1422
8c51eead 1423JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1424 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1425 lookup).
8c51eead 1426
deae092e
HS
1427TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1428 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1429 Schlichting.
35aba663 1430
fd3b6a4a 1431JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1432 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1433
8d91c6dc
LT
1434TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1435 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1436
2b4a568d
JH
1437JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1438
d2af03f4
HS
1439TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1440 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1441 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1442
9d1c15ef
JH
1443JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1444 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1445
44662487
JH
1446JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1447 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1448 hosts_request_ocsp.
1449
ed3bba5f 1450JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1451 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1452 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1453
8ccd00b1
JH
1454JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1455
8ded8589
TL
1456TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1457 Christian Aistleitner.
1458
f2de3a33
JH
1459JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1460
6eb02f88
TL
1461TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1462 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1463
00bff6f6
JH
1464JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1465 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1466
071c51f7
JH
1467JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1468 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1469
a6d4c44e
TF
1470TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1471 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1472
3ae173e7
ACK
1473TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1474 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1475
c13d09b8
TL
1476TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1477 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1478 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1479
0df4ab80
JH
1480JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1481
66be95e0
PP
1482PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1483 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1484 Jasper Wallace.
1485
1bd0d12b
JH
1486JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1487
0de7239e
TL
1488TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1489 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1490 CVE-2014-2972
1491
fd3b6a4a 1492
2c422e6f 1493Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1494-----------------
1495
1496PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1497
12f69989
PP
1498PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1499 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1500
54c90be1
PP
1501PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1502 by GnuTLS.
1503
1f4a55da
PP
1504PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1505 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1506 routines.
1507
13363eba 1508PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1509
66645890 1510PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1511 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1512 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1513 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1514 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1515
a3fb9793 1516PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1517 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1518 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1519 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1520 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1521 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1522
d27f98fe 1523TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1524
6822b909
TL
1525TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1526
e7568d51
TL
1527TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1528 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1529
ae0e32ee 1530TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1531 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1532 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1533
1534TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1535
e2658fff
TL
1536TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1537
83712b39
TL
1538TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1539 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1540
976b7e9f
JH
1541JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1542
be4a1376
JH
1543JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1544
ec4b68e5
PP
1545PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1546
d7148a07
NM
1547NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1548 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1549
585121e2 1550JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1551
2519e60d
TL
1552PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1553 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1554 function.
a5f239e4 1555
13d08c90
PP
1556PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1557 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1558
bef3ea7f
JH
1559JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1560 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1561 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1562
846726c5
JH
1563JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1564
3a796370
JH
1565JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1566
ea722490 1567JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1568 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1569
b1b05573
JH
1570JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1571 Bugzilla 884.
1572
362145b5
JH
1573JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1574 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1575
3c0a92dc
JH
1576JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1577 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1578
6d7c6175
PP
1579PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1580 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1581 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1582
6f123593
JH
1583JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1584 authenticators.
1585
c8e2fc1e
JH
1586JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1587 for control.
1588
005ac57f
PP
1589PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1590
3f1df0e3
PP
1591PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1592 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1593 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1594 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1595
67bd1ab3
TF
1596TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1597
1598 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1599 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1600 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1601 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1602 the retry rules.
1603
1604 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1605 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1606 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1607
1608 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1609 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1610 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1611 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1612
1ddeb334
TF
1613 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1614 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1615 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1616 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1617 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1618 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1619 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1620
1621 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1622 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1623
326cdc37
TF
1624TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1625
1626 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1627
1628 Resent-From: f
1629
1630 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1631 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1632 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1633 username as equal to the username.
1634
1635 This change corrects that bug.
1636
f62514b3
GF
1637GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1638 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1639 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1640
eb505532
TF
1641TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1642
14c7b357
PP
1643PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1644 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1645 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1646 NULL dereference and crash.
1647
94eaf700
PP
1648JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1649
6f5a440a
PP
1650PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1651 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1652 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1653
514ee161
SC
1654SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1655
fd98a5c6
JH
1656JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1657 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1658 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1659 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1660 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1661 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1662 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1663 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1664 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1665 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1666 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1667
035c7f1e
PP
1668PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1669 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1670
ff284120
PP
1671PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1672 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1673 Bugzilla 880.
1674
26e72755
PP
1675PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1676 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1677 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1678 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1679 an empty string is now equivalent.
1680
0fbd9bff
PP
1681PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1682 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1683 not performing validation itself.
1684
700d22f3
PP
1685PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1686 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1687
fcc8e047
JH
1688JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1689 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1690
4c04137d 1691TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1692
8c020188
PP
1693PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1694 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1695 other false fix of the same issue.
1696 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1697 Bugzilla 1363.
1698
d13cdd30
PP
1699PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1700 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1701
e2fbf4a2
PP
1702PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1703 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1704 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1705
f4c1088b
PP
1706PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1707 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1708 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1709
c5c2182f
PP
1710TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1711
73431ca9
JH
1712JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1713
2d07a215
TL
1714TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1715 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1716
a30a8861
TL
1717TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1718 Alexander Miroch.
1719
33382dd9
TL
1720TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1721 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1722 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1723 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1724 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1725
046172e6
TL
1726TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1727 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1728
581d7bee 1729TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1730 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1731 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1732
1733TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1734 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1735 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1736 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1737
237b2cf2
TL
1738TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1739
9fc5a352
TL
1740TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1741 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1742 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1743
b10e4ec2
TL
1744TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1745
e2cebd74
TL
1746TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1747 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1748 interaction.
1749
1750TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1751 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1752
2519e60d
TL
1753TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1754 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1755
e78e6ecf 1756
4263f395
PP
1757Exim version 4.80.1
1758-------------------
1759
1760PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1761 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1762 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1763
ea722490 1764
b1770b6e 1765Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1766-----------------
1767
1768PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1769 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1770 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1771
23c7e742
NM
1772NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1773
b322aac8
NM
1774NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1775 improved.
1776
4a891427
NM
1777NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1778
c1e794ba 1779PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1780
97753960
PP
1781PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1782
1783PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1784 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1785
df6303fa
PP
1786PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1787 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1788
7e6a8985
PP
1789PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1790 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1791
f1e05cc7 1792PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1793 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1794 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1795
4c287009
PP
1796PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1797
b98bb9ac
PP
1798PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1799 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1800
4a6a987a
PP
1801PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1802
c45dd180 1803PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1804
7db8d074
PP
1805PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1806 non-compliant senders.
1807 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1808
eae0036b 1809NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1810 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1811 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1812
dec5017e
PP
1813PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1814 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1815 in spool file corruption.
1816
c80c5570
PP
1817PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1818 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1819 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1820 "Got SSL error 2".
1821
076b11e2
PP
1822TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1823 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1824 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1825
5407bfff
JH
1826JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1827 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1828
9e45c72b
PP
1829JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1830
e74376d8
PP
1831PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1832 diagnostics.
1833 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1834
4c04137d 1835PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1836 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1837 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1838
7be682ca
PP
1839PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1840 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1841 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1842 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1843
ef840681
PP
1844PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1845 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1846
5bfb4cdf
PP
1847PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1848 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1849 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1850 resolver implementation change.
1851
c6e95d22
PP
1852PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1853 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1854
9cbad13b
PP
1855PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1856
9ee44efb
PP
1857PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1858
6a6084f8
PP
1859PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1860 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1861
12dd53c7
PP
1862PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1863 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1864
9e45c72b 1865JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1866 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1867
17c76198
PP
1868PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1869 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1870 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1871 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1872 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1873
53947857 1874PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1875
eae0036b 1876PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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PP
1877 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1878 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1879
9e45c72b 1880JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1881
7390e768
PP
1882PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1883 read-only, out of scope).
1884 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1885
08488c86
PP
1886PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1887 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1888 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1889 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1890
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1891PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1892
81f91683
PP
1893PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1894 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1895 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1896 real issues in debug logging.
1897
5779e6aa
PP
1898PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1899 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1900
3375e053
PP
1901PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1902 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1903 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1904
1905PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1906 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1907 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1908 problems.
3375e053 1909
9d26b8c0
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1910PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1911 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1912
57eb9e91 1913PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1914 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1915 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1916 needs to override this, it can.
1917
16880d1a
PP
1918PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1919 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1920 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1921
a799883d
PP
1922PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1923 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1924 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1925 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1926
3ecab157 1927PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1928
0599f9cf 1929
867fcbf5
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1930Exim version 4.77
1931-----------------
1932
1933PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1934 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1935
f1a29782
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1936TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1937
ab42bd23
TK
1938TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1939 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1940
0ca0cf52
TF
1941TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1942 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1943
921b12ca
TF
1944TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1945 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1946 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1947
1948 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1949 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1950 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1951 not safe for signals.
1952
1953 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1954 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1955 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1956 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1957 exiwhat.
1958
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1959TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1960
1961 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1962 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1963 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1964 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1965 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1966
1967 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1968 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1969 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1970 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1971 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1972 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1973
1974 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1975 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1976 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1977 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1978
1979 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1980 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1981 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1982 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1983
1984 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1985 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1986 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1987 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1988 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1989 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1990 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1991 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1992 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1993
1994 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1995 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1996 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1997 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1998
1999 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2000 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2001 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2002 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2003 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2004 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2005 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2006 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2007 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2008 details in the main documentation.
2009
3634fc25
TF
2010TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2011
792e8a19
TF
2012TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2013
5901f0ab
TF
2014TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2015 repository when doing development or release builds.
2016
7f2a2a43
PP
2017PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2018 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2019
061b7ebd
PP
2020PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2021 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2022 Bugzilla 97.
2023
e12f8c32
PP
2024PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2025
9e949f00 2026PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2027 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2028
2029PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2030 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2031
555ae6af 2032PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2033 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2034
2035PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2036 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2037
6f7fe114
PP
2038PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2039 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2040
c566dd90
PP
2041PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2042 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2043 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2044 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2045
d6cc7c78 2046PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2047 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2048 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2049
0d0e4455
PP
2050PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2051
3399bb60 2052PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2053
2054PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2055 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2056
0ca0cf52 2057
10906672
PP
2058Exim version 4.76
2059-----------------
2060
2061PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2062
754a0503
PP
2063PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2064 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2065
c0c7b2da
PP
2066PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2067
e97d1f08
PP
2068PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2069
084c1d8c
PP
2070PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2071 Bugzilla 1098.
2072
4e7ee012
PP
2073PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2074 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2075
c8d52a00
PP
2076TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2077 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2078
54e7ce4a
PP
2079PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2080 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2081
5ee6f336
PP
2082PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2083 Bugzilla 1104.
2084
c8d52a00 2085TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2086 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2087
2088TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2089 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2090 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2091 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2092
2093PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2094 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2095
10906672 2096
aa097c4c
NM
2097Exim version 4.75
2098-----------------
2099
4c04137d 2100NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2101 Bugzilla 1073
2102
7f3d9eff
TF
2103TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2104 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2105 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2106
159f52d2
TF
2107TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2108 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2109
0cc9542a
PP
2110PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2111 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2112 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2113
f7274286
PP
2114PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2115 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2116
7b797365
PP
2117PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2118 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2119
caacae52
NM
2120NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2121 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2122
09dcaba9
NM
2123NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2124 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2125
bc19a55b
PP
2126PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2127 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2128
bd4c9759
NM
2129NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2130 Fixes bug 943.
2131
b72aab72
PP
2132PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2133 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2134
2fe76745
PP
2135PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2136 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2137
76aa570c
PP
2138PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2139 SQL string expansion failure details.
2140 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2141
f1e5fef5
PP
2142PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2143 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2144
4d805ee9
PP
2145PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2146 extern declarations in function scope.
2147 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2148
cd59ab18
PP
2149PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2150 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2151 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2152 a kernel bug).
2153
332f5cf3
PP
2154PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2155 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2156
29cfeb94
PP
2157PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2158 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2159
660242ad
PP
2160PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2161 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2162
bc4bc4c5
PP
2163PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2164 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2165
2e64baa9
NM
2166NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2167 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2168 Dennis Davis.
2169
4c04137d 2170PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2171
6bac1a9a
PP
2172PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2173
552193f0
NM
2174NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2175 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2176
1b587e48
TF
2177TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2178 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2179
aa097c4c 2180
8c07b69f
TF
2181Exim version 4.74
2182-----------------
2183
2184TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2185 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2186
c0ea85ab
TF
2187TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2188 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2189
0761d44e
TF
2190TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2191
0a349494
PP
2192DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2193 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2194 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2195
2196PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2197 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2198 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2199
fea24b2e
PP
2200PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2201 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2202 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2203 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2204
6545de78
PP
2205PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2206 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2207 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2208 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2209
1670ef10
PP
2210PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2211 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2212 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2213 arbitrary files.
2214
c0886197
PP
2215PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2216 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2217
b7487bce
PP
2218PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2219 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2220 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2221 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2222 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2223
8c07b69f 2224
97fd1e48 2225Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2226-----------------
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2227
2228PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2229 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2230 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2231
6901c596
PP
2232PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2233 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2234
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2235JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2236
77bb000f
PP
2237PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2238
a29e5231
PP
2239PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2240
ec5a0394 2241PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2242
55c75993
PP
2243PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2244
453a6645 2245PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2246 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2247 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2248 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2249
8544e77a
PP
2250PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2251 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2252 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2253 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2254 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2255
83e029d5
PP
2256PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2257
ed7f7860
PP
2258PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2259
7d9f747b
PP
2260PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2261
4b2241d2
PP
2262PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2263
10385c15
PP
2264PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2265
dbc4b90d
PP
2266PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2267
532be449
PP
2268PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2269
6a8de854 2270PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2271 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2272 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2273
5dc43717
JJ
2274JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2275
2276JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2277 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2278
3346ab01
PP
2279PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2280 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2281
491fab4c
PP
2282PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2283 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2284 Notification from John Horne.
2285
13eb9497
PP
2286PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2287 compatible.
2288
2289PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2290 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2291 it normally works.
2292
7f36d675
DW
2293DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2294 access.
2295
c1d94452
DW
2296DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2297 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2298 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2299
e2f5dc15
DW
2300DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2301 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2302 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2303 configuration file.
2304
cd25e41d
DW
2305DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2306 option (effectively making it always true).
2307
261dc43e
DW
2308DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2309 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2310
fa32850b
DW
2311DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2312 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2313
79d4bc3d
PP
2314PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2315 run-time user, instead of root.
2316
43236f35 2317PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2318 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2319
fb08281f
DW
2320DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2321 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2322 arguments.
3346ab01 2323
74935b98
DW
2324DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2325 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2326 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2327
90b6341f
DW
2328DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2329
57730b52
ML
2330NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2331
66581d1e 2332
465e92cf
JJ
2333Exim version 4.72
2334-----------------
2335
453a6645
PP
2336JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2337 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2338 typos
465e92cf 2339
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PP
2340JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2341 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2342 (Finput)
edae0343 2343
9bd3e22c
NM
2344NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2345 Patch from Alain Williams
2346
bb576ff7
NM
2347NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2348
5a1a5845
NM
2349NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2350 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2351
981a9fad
NM
2352NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2353 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2354
7fc497ee
NM
2355NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2356
1a41defa
JJ
2357JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2358
a466095c 2359NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2360 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2361
94a6bd0b
NM
2362TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2363
2364TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2365
2366MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2367 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2368 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2369
c1b141a8
NM
2370NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2371 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2372
b26eacf1 2373NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2374 Patch by Simon Arlott
2375
179c5980 2376PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2377 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2378
9bd3e22c 2379
7c6d71af
NM
2380Exim version 4.71
2381-----------------
2382
7d9f747b 2383TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2384
f013fb92
NM
2385NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2386
0eb8eedd
NM
2387NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2388
663ee6d9
NM
2389NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2390
177ebd9b
NM
2391NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2392
7c6d71af 2393
210f147e
NM
2394Exim version 4.70
2395-----------------
2396
cdd3bb85 2397TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2398 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2399
2400TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2401 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2402 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2403
2404TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2405 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2406 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2407
2408TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2409 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2410
210f147e
NM
2411NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2412 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2413 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2414 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2415
deafd5b3
NM
2416NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2417 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2418 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2419
089793a4
TF
2420TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2421
5f16ca82
TF
2422TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2423
dae9d94e 2424NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2425 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2426
7d9f747b 2427NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2428
06864c44
TF
2429TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2430 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2431 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2432 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2433
65a7d8c3 2434NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2435 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2436
23510047 2437TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2438
7d9f747b 2439NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2440
7d8eec3a 2441NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2442 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2443
89dec7b6
TF
2444TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2445 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2446
a99de90c
TF
2447TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2448 that they are available at delivery time.
2449
e2803e40
TF
2450TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2451
7199e1ee
TF
2452TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2453 incoming_port log selectors.
2454
e276e04b
TF
2455TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2456 setting expands to an empty string.
2457
ce552449 2458NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2459 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2460
e765a0f1 2461NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2462 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2463
4f054c63 2464NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2465 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2466
7d9f747b
PP
2467NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2468 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2469
7d9f747b
PP
2470NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2471 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2472
b52bc06e 2473NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2474 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2475
447de4b0
NM
2476NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2477
4c69d561 2478NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2479 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2480
d5c39246 2481NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2482 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2483
0b23848a
TK
2484TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2485
8f3414a1 2486NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2487 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2488
fb6f955d
NM
2489NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2490
2491NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2492
7d9f747b
PP
2493NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2494 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2495
7d9f747b
PP
2496NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2497 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2498
7d9f747b
PP
2499NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2500 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2501
7d9f747b
PP
2502NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2503 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2504
7d9f747b
PP
2505NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2506 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2507
7d9f747b
PP
2508NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2509 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2510
7d9f747b
PP
2511NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2512 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2513
7d9f747b 2514NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2515 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2516
7d9f747b 2517NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2518
7d9f747b
PP
2519NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2520 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2521
7d9f747b 2522NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2523
7d9f747b 2524NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2525
7d9f747b 2526NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2527
7d9f747b 2528NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2529
17792b53 2530NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2531 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2532
7d9f747b
PP
2533NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2534 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2535
91576cec 2536NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2537 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2538
7d9f747b
PP
2539NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2540 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2541
7d9f747b 2542NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2543
7d9f747b 2544NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2545
7d9f747b 2546NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2547
7d9f747b 2548NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2549
deafd5b3 2550
47db1125
NM
2551Exim version 4.69
2552-----------------
2553
4b3504d0
TK
2554TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2555 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2556 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2557
2558 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2559 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2560 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2561 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2562 build errors in sieve.c.
2563
81ea09ca
NM
2564NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2565 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2566 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2567
f13cddcb
SC
2568SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2569
7d9f747b 2570NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2571
7d9f747b 2572NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2573
7d9f747b 2574NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2575
2576
eb4c0de6
PH
2577Exim version 4.68
2578-----------------
2579
2580PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2581
6a3bceb1
PH
2582PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2583 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2584 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2585 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2586 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2587 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2588 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2589 for iplsearch lookups.
2590
2591 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2592 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2593 previously such lookups could never work.
2594
4c04137d 2595 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2596 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2597 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2598
2e30fa9d
TK
2599TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2600 version.
2601
0806a9c5
MH
2602MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2603 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2604 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2605 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2606 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2607 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2608
ae276964
TK
2609TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2610 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2611
0f2cbd1b
MH
2612MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2613 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2614 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2615 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2616 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2617 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2618
2b85bce7
PH
2619PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2620 local_scan API.
2621
93655c46
PH
2622PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2623
6c512171
PH
2624PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2625 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2626 encrypted.
2627
2628PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2629 by clients under certain conditions.
2630
aa6dc513
PH
2631PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2632 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2633
a96603a0
PH
2634PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2635
8f240103
PH
2636PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2637 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2638
2639PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2640
d677b2f2
PH
2641PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2642
d52120f2
PH
2643PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2644
64f2600a
PH
2645PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2646 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2647
8669f003
PH
2648PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2649
a4dc33a8
PH
2650PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2651 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2652
d6a60c0f
PH
2653PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2654
8f128379
PH
2655PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2656
8932dffe
PH
2657PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2658 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2659 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2660 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2661
ddea74fa 2662PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2663 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2664 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2665
ddea74fa 2666PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2667 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2668
ddea74fa
PH
2669PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2670
ce9f225c
PH
2671PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2672
19897d52
PH
2673PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2674
bc64a74d
PH
2675PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2676 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2677 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2678
eb4c0de6 2679
b4ed4da0
PH
2680Exim version 4.67
2681-----------------
2682
22ad45c9
MH
2683MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2684 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2685 Jan Srzednicki.
2686
b4ed4da0
PH
2687PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2688 issue a MAIL command.
2689
431b7361
PH
2690PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2691
2692 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2693
2694 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2695 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2696 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2697 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2698 item. This has been fixed.
2699
2700PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2701 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2702
83da1223
PH
2703PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2704 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2705
54fc8428
PH
2706PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2707 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2708 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2709
34c5e8dd
SC
2710SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2711
bbe15da8
PH
2712PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2713 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2714 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2715 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2716 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2717
0e8a9471
MH
2718MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2719 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2720 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2721
f0872424
PH
2722PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2723 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2724 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2725 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2726
b01dd148
PH
2727PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2728
6bf342e1
PH
2729PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2730
273f34d0
PH
2731PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2732 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2733 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2734 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2735 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2736
cf8b11a5
PH
2737PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2738
41c7c167
PH
2739PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2740 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2741 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2742 values).
2743
9c57cbc0
PH
2744PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2745
f3f065bb
PH
2746PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2747
047bdd8c
PH
2748PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2749
0ce9abe6
PH
2750PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2751
0e22dfd1
PH
2752PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2753
4c590bd1
PH
2754PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2755 no_callout_flush is set.
2756
09945f1e
PH
2757PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2758 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2759 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2760 fixed.
2761
c51b8e75
PH
2762PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2763
e28326d8 2764PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2765 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2766 other ACL rejections are.
2767
75b1493f
PH
2768PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2769 with slight modification.
2770
7c5214ec
PH
2771PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2772 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2773
4311097e
PH
2774PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2775 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2776 connection.
2777
29f89cad
PH
2778PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2779 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2780
5e687460
SC
2781SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2782
c3611384
PH
2783PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2784 expansion side effects.
2785
5a11a7b4
PH
2786PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2787 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2788 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2789 be the same.
2790
0e20aff9
MH
2791MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2792 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2793 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2794
ca86f471
PH
2795PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2796 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2797 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2798 were accidentally chopped off.
2799
a14e5636
PH
2800PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2801 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2802 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2803 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2804 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2805 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2806 pipelining has not been advertised.
2807
ec95d1a6
PH
2808PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2809
42855d71
PH
2810PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2811 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2812 This has been fixed.
2813
57c2c631
PH
2814PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2815 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2816 reported on Solaris.
2817
58c01c94
PH
2818PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2819 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2820 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2821 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2822 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2823 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2824 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2825
dee5a20a
PH
2826PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2827 cpus.
2828
d2ee6114
PH
2829PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2830
b2d5182b
PH
2831PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2832
79749a79
PH
2833PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2834 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2835 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2836 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2837 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2838 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2839
c456d9bb
PH
2840PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2841 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2842 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2843 host_all_ignored option.
2844
cd9868ec
PH
2845PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2846 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2847 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2848 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2849 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2850 is what is supposed to happen).
2851
ebeaf996
PH
2852PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2853 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2854 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2855 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2856 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2857 uses the Exim user.
2858
2679d413
PH
2859PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2860 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2861 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2862 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2863 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2864 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2865 users.
2866
84024b72
PH
2867PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2868
8005d38e
SC
2869SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2870 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2871 (Jez Hancock).
2872 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2873 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2874
3298c6c6
SC
2875SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2876
a43a27c5
PH
2877PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2878
58eb016e 2879PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2880 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2881 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2882 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2883 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2884 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2885 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2886 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2887 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2888 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2889 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2890
b43a74ea
PH
2891PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2892 advertised in response to EHLO.
2893
b4ed4da0 2894
5dd1517f
PH
2895Exim version 4.66
2896-----------------
2897
2898PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2899 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2900
2901 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2902 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2903
2904 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2905 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2906 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2907
2908 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2909 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2910 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2911 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2912 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2913
2914
93cfa765
TK
2915Exim version 4.65
2916-----------------
2917
2918TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2919 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2920 versions. (#438)
2921
d6066548
MH
2922MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2923 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2924 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2925
4362ff0d
PH
2926PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2927 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2928 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2929 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2930 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2931 rather than extend the field.
2932
93cfa765 2933
944e9e9c
TF
2934Exim version 4.64
2935-----------------
aa41d2de 2936
21d74bd9
TK
2937TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2938 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2939 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2940 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2941 these files.
2942
2943TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2944 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2945 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2946
2947TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2948 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2949 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2950
2951TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2952 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2953 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2954 in the field name.
2955
2b1c6e3a
PH
2956PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2957 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2958 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2959 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2960 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2961 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2962 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2963 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2964 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2965 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2966 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2967
1f872c80
PH
2968PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2969 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2970
2971PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2972 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2973 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2974 ignores EPIPE as well.
2975
d203e649
PH
2976PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2977 (quoted-printable decoding).
2978
cc2ed8f7 2979PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2980 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2981
ddfcd446
PH
2982PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2983
d45b1de8
PH
2984PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2985
2986PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2987
38a0a95f 2988PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2989 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2990
a2405d83
JJ
2991JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2992 in 4.64-PH/09.
2993
2994JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2995 miscellaneous code fixes
2996
6ea85e9a
PH
2997PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2998 rejections.
2999
26da7e20
PH
3000PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3001 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3002 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3003 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3004 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3005 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3006 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3007 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3008
14aa5a05 3009PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3010 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3011 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3012 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3013 function.
3014 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3015 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3016 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3017 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3018 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3019 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3020 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3021 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3022 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3023
ff75a1f7
PH
3024PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3025 decoding.
3026
e6f6568e
PH
3027PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3028 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3029 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3030 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3031 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3032 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3033 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3034 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3035
d6f6e0dc
PH
3036PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3037 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3038 list.
3039
322050c2
PH
3040PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3041 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3042 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3043 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3044 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3045 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3046 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3047 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3048 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3049 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3050 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3051 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3052 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3053
08955dd3
PH
3054PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3055 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3056 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3057 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3058 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3059 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3060 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3061
1eccaa59
PH
3062PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3063 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3064 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3065 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3066 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3067 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3068 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3069 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3070 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3071 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3072
602e59e5
PH
3073PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3074 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3075 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3076 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3077 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3078
411ef850
PH
3079PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3080 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3081 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3082 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3083 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3084 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3085 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3086
7befa435
PH
3087PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3088 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3089 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3090 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3091 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3092 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3093 been verified.
3094
48da4259 3095PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3096 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3097 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3098 and authorization.)
3099
48da4259
PH
3100PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3101 if any retry times were supplied.
3102
d1d5595c
PH
3103PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3104 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3105 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3106
0ef732d9
PH
3107PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3108
328895cc
PH
3109PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3110
fd700877
PH
3111PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3112 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3113 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3114 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3115 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3116 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3117
8dce1a6f
PH
3118PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3119 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3120
17af4a17
PH
3121PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3122 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3123 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3124
3125PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3126 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3127 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3128 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3129 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3130 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3131 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3132 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3133 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3134
3135 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3136 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3137 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3138 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3139 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3140 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3141 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3142 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3143 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3144
3145 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3146 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3147 hammering the server.
3148
c1114884
PH
3149PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3150 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3151
7a0743eb
PH
3152PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3153
0d85fa3f
PH
3154PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3155 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3156 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3157
1bf43b78
PH
3158PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3159 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3160 one case where this was not true.
3161
520de300
PH
3162PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3163 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3164 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3165 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3166 fails.
3167
48c7f9e2
PH
3168PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3169 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3170 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3171 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3172 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3173 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3174 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3175 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3176 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3177 smtp transport.
3178
99ea1c86
PH
3179PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3180 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3181 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3182 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3183
a2042e78
PH
3184PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3185 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3186
4fbcfc2e
PH
3187PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3188 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3189 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3190
aa41d2de
PH
3191PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3192
af561417
PH
3193PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3194
3cc66b45
PH
3195PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3196
194cc0e4
PH
3197PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3198 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3199 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3200 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3201
a401ddaa
PH
3202PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3203 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3204
4e88a19f
PH
3205PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3206 be meaningful with "accept".
3207
d7d7b289
SC
3208SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3209 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3210
3211SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3212 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3213 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3214
3215SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3216 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3217 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3218 there is data to show.
3219 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3220
3221SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3222 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3223 as well as the number of messages.
3224
3225SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3226 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3227 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3228
3229SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3230 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3231 have a flag are now skipped.
3232
3233SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3234 Added the -emptyok flag.
3235
3236SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3237 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3238
0ea2a468
JJ
3239JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3240 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3241 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3242
3243JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3244 match 4.64-PH/13
3245
3246JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3247 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3248
3249JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3250
3251JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3252 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3253
8a10f5a4
PH
3254PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3255
30e18802
PH
3256PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3257 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3258 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3259 contravention of the specifications.
3260
55728a4f
PH
3261PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3262 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3263 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3264
d7837193
PH
3265PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3266 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3267 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3268
87054a31
PH
3269PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3270
ea2c01d2
MH
3271MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3272 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3273 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3274 some point in the past.
3275
e4fa6968
PH
3276PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3277 transport during callout processing was broken.
3278
56f5d9bd
PH
3279PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3280 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3281
922e1c28
PH
3282PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3283 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3284
21eb6e72
PH
3285PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3286 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3287
a0540757
PH
3288PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3289
944e9e9c 3290
478be7b0
SC
3291Exim version 4.63
3292-----------------
3293
3294SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3295 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3296
3297SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3298 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3299 there is data to show.
3300 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3301
3302SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3303 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3304
2b965a65
TF
3305TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3306 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3307
45b91596
PH
3308TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3309 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3310
c59f5781
TF
3311TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3312 submissions from trusted users.
3313
90fc3069
TF
3314TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3315 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3316
6083aca0
TF
3317TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3318 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3319 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3320 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3321 there is now a framework to start from.
3322
765b530f
PH
3323PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3324 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3325 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3326
4e167a8c
PH
3327PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3328
4608d683
PH
3329PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3330
b8dc3e4a
PH
3331PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3332
5418e93b
PH
3333PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3334 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3335 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3336
b4a9bda2
PH
3337PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3338 libradius.
3339
45b91596
PH
3340PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3341 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3342 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3343
5547e2c5
PH
3344PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3345 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3346 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3347 its arguments.
3348
dbcef0ea
PH
3349PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3350 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3351 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3352 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3353 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3354
25257489
PH
3355PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3356 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3357
c816d124
PH
3358PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3359
a9ccd69a
PH
3360PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3361 operations in malware.c.
3362
75fa1910
PH
3363PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3364 signatures.
3365
a7d7aa58
PH
3366PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3367 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3368 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3369 all.
3370
42119b09
PH
3371PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3372 statements to "add_header".
3373
41609df5
PH
3374PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3375 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3376
a5bd321b
PH
3377PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3378 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3379 latter.
3380
e85a7ad5 3381PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3382 so that it is now:
3383
e85a7ad5
PH
3384 ${if or { \
3385 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3386 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3387 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3388 }{no}{yes}}
3389
e85a7ad5
PH
3390 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3391 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3392
d8fe1c03
PH
3393PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3394 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3395
16282d2b
PH
3396PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3397 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3398 any possible encoding problems.
3399
35d40a98
PH
3400PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3401 but not after initializing Perl.
3402
034d99ab
PH
3403PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3404 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3405 apparently, which is not desirable.
3406
6ec97b1b
PH
3407PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3408 queries.
3409
e22ca4ac
JJ
3410JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3411 --not options
3412
3413JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3414
33d73e3b
PH
3415PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3416 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3417 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3418 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3419
9ecb03f3
PH
3420PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3421 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3422 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3423
084efe8d
PH
3424PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3425 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3426 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3427 0.12.
3428
366fc9f0
PH
3429PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3430 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3431 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3432 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3433 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3434
c59f5781 3435
c887c79e
TF
3436Exim version 4.62
3437-----------------
3438
3439TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3440 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3441
1cce3af8
PH
3442PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3443 patch).
3444
afb3eaaf
PH
3445PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3446 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3447 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3448 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3449 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3450 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3451 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3452 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3453 451 error is used.
3454
e173618b
PH
3455PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3456
dd16e114
PH
3457PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3458 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3459 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3460
f7fd3850
PH
3461PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3462 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3463 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3464 odd errors.
3465
d87df92c
PH
3466PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3467 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3468
7e9f683d
PH
3469PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3470 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3471 option (which defaults to 0600).
3472
bfad5236
PH
3473PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3474
01c490df
PH
3475PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3476 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3477 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3478 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3479 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3480 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3481 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3482
d6629cdc
PH
3483PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3484
1cce3af8 3485
214e2000
PH
3486Exim version 4.61
3487-----------------
3488
3489PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3490 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3491 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3492 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3493 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3494 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3495 addresses as local.
3496
f9daeae0
PH
3497PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3498 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3499
7e66e54d
PH
3500PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3501
c8ea1597
PH
3502PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3503 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3504 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3505 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3506 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3507 grumble.
3508
911f6fde
PH
3509PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3510 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3511
47ca6d6c
PH
3512PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3513 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3514 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3515 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3516 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3517
ed0e9820
PH
3518PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3519 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3520 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3521 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3522
eff37e47
PH
3523PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3524 be the same on different OS.
3525
1921d2ea
PH
3526PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3527 testing.
3528
b3f69ca8
JJ
3529JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3530 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3531
3532JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3533 in 4.61-PH/06
3534
424a1c63
PH
3535PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3536 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3537 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3538 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3539 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3540 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3541 bounce message.
3542
7a100415
PH
3543PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3544 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3545 when Exim was called.
3546
19b9dc85
PH
3547PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3548 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3549
309bd837
PH
3550PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3551 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3552 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3553 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3554
59e82a2a
PH
3555PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3556 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3557 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3558 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3559 changes:
3560
3561 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3562 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3563 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3564
3565 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3566 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3567 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3568
9edc04ce
PH
3569PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3570 feature).
3571
1349e1e5
PH
3572PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3573 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3574 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3575 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3576 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3577 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3578 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3579 values from the SRV records were lost.
3580
ea49d0e1
PH
3581PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3582 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3583 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3584
064a94c9
PH
3585PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3586 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3587 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3588
727071f8
PH
3589PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3590 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3591 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3592 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3593 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3594 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3595 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3596 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3597 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3598 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3599
f78eb7c6
PH
3600PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3601 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3602 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3603
21c28500
PH
3604PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3605 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3606
3607PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3608 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3609 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3610 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3611 is given.
3612
1688f43b
PH
3613PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3614 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3615 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3616
3617PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3618 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3619 PH/23 above applies.
3620
9675b384
PH
3621PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3622 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3623 (for which there is an explicit test).
3624
6a3f1455
PH
3625PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3626
dac79d3e
PH
3627PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3628 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3629 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3630 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3631 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3632
5977a0b3
PH
3633PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3634 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3635 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3636 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3637
c91535f3
PH
3638PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3639 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3640 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3641
0d46a8c8
PH
3642PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3643
278c6e6c
PH
3644PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3645
2cbb4081
PH
3646PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3647 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3648 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3649
3eef829e
PH
3650PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3651 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3652 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3653 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3654 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3655
1ab95fa6
PH
3656PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3657 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3658 the message gets confusing).
3659
230205fc
PH
3660PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3661 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3662 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3663 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3664
75e0e026
PH
3665PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3666 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3667 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3668 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3669 same order.
3670
3671PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3672 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3673 the different processes.
3674
145396a6
PH
3675PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3676
3cd34f13
PH
3677PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3678
11121d3d
JJ
3679JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3680 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3681
3682JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3683 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3684
3685JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3686 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3687 messages matching specified criteria.
3688
8def5aaf
PH
3689PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3690
929ba01c
PH
3691PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3692 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3693
2632889e
PH
3694PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3695 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3696 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3697 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3698 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3699 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3700 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3701 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3702 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3703 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3704
944a9c55
PH
3705PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3706 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3707 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3708
4a23603b
PH
3709PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3710
4730f942
PH
3711PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3712 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3713 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3714 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3715 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3716 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3717 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3718 the variable.
3719
30dba1e6
PH
3720PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3721 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3722
382afc6b
PH
3723PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3724
a86229cf
PH
3725PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3726
50c99ba6
PH
3727PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3728
d35e429d
PH
3729PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3730 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3731 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3732 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3733 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3734 size of the count of files.
3735
f90d018c
PH
3736PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3737
75def545
PH
3738PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3739 used in LMTP mode:
3740
3741 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3742 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3743 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3744 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3745
3746 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3747 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3748 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3749
3750PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3751 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3752 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3753 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3754 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3755
c46782ef
PH
3756PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3757 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3758
71fafd95
PH
3759PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3760 will now be deprecated.
3761
2c5db4fd
PH
3762PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3763
9cf6b11a
JJ
3764JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3765 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3766 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3767
3768JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3769 with very large, slow to parse queues
3770
3771JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3772
3773JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3774
898d150f
PH
3775PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3776 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3777 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3778 SMTP output lines.
3779
46218253
PH
3780PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3781 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3782 Sieve code now uses this.
3783
e97957bc
PH
3784PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3785 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3786
81e509d7
PH
3787PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3788 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3789
3d240ff7
PH
3790PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3791
b37c4101
PH
3792PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3793 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3794 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3795 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3796 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3797
79378e0f
PH
3798PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3799 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3800 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3801 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3802
e49c7bb4
PH
3803PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3804
d114ec46
PH
3805PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3806
f3d7df6c
PH
3807PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3808 is preferred over IPv4.
3809
715ab376
PH
3810PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3811 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3812 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3813 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3814 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3815 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3816 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3817
6b31b150
PH
3818PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3819 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3820 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3821
3822PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3823
d515a917
PH
3824PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3825 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3826 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3827 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3828 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3829 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3830 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3831 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3832 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3833 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3834 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3835
9b8fadde
PH
3836PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3837 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3838 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3839
214e2000 3840
5de37277
PH
3841Exim version 4.60
3842-----------------
3843
cc38ddbf
PH
3844PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3845
3846 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3847 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3848
3849 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3850 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3851 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3852
72fdd6ae
PH
3853PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3854
3855 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3856 not a single digit.
3857
3858 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3859 string.
3860
3861 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3862 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3863 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3864 silly things.
3865
3866 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3867 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3868
3869 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3870 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3871
cb741023
PH
3872PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3873 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3874 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3875
f174f16e
PH
3876PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3877 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3878
c25242d7
PH
3879PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3880 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3881
3882 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3883
3884 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3885 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3886 this:
3887
3888 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3889
82c19f95
PH
3890PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3891 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3892 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3893 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3894 identical. For example:
3895
3896 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3897
3898 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3899 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3900 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3901
d7ffbc12
PH
3902PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3903 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3904 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3905 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3906
9f526266
PH
3907PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3908 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3909 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3910 message.
3911
87fcc8b9
PH
3912PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3913
3914 o fixes some comments
3915 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3916 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3917 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3918 and documents the missing references header update
3919
3920 and most important:
3921
3922 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3923 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3924 result)
3925
456682f5
PH
3926PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3927 Electronic Mail") by including:
3928
3929 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3930
3931 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3932 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3933 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3934 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3935 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3936
3937 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3938
3939 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3940
3941 The auto-replied keyword:
3942
3943 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3944 message by an automatic process,
3945
3946 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3947
3948 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3949 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3950
3951 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3952 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3953 other messages.
3954
3e46c1aa
PH
3955PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3956 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3957
49826d12
PH
3958PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3959
eba0c039
PH
3960PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3961 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3962 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3963
a0d6ba8a
PH
3964PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3965 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3966 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3967
f0917727
PH
3968PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3969 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3970 and treats the condition as false.
3971
096fee00
PH
3972PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3973
024bd3c2
PH
3974PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3975 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3976 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3977 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3978 not changing the active code.
3979
3980 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3981 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3982
3983 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3984 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3985
df199fec
PH
3986PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3987 (Bugzilla #53).
3988
d27f1df3
PH
3989PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3990 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3991 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3992 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3993 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3994 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3995 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3996 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3997 the text comparison.
3998
96776534
PH
3999PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4000 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4001 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4002 The same fix has been applied.
4003
5de37277 4004
9a799bc0
PH
4005Exim version 4.54
4006-----------------
4007
4008PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4009 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4010 It now does.
4011
99a4b039
PH
4012PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4013 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4014
4015PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4016
4b233853
PH
4017PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4018 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4019 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4020 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4021 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4022
8857ccfd
PH
4023TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4024 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4025 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4026 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4027 or /domain=).
4028
433a2980
PH
4029PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4030 testing suite.
4031
3e46c1aa 4032
9a799bc0 4033
e3a311ba
TK
4034Exim version 4.53
4035-----------------
4036
4037TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4038 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4039
13b685f9
PH
4040PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4041
395ff96d
PH
4042PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4043
5b68f6e4
PH
4044PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4045 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4046 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4047
1ab52c69
PH
4048PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4049 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4050 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4051
b07e6aa3
PH
4052PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4053 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4054 operating systems.
4055
254e032f
PH
4056PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4057 ${stat: expansion item.
4058
3af76a81
PH
4059PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4060 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4061
2548ba04
PH
4062PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4063 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4064 file for comments.
4065
b6c6011d
PH
4066PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4067
cf39cf57
PH
4068PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4069 setting.
4070
f1513293
PH
4071PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4072 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4073
727549a4
PH
4074TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4075
af46795e
PH
4076PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4077 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4078 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4079 the end of the subprocess.
4080
d7b47fd0
PH
4081PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4082 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4083 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4084 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4085 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4086
ee744174
JJ
4087JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4088
b582ab87
PH
4089TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4090
41a13e0a
PH
4091PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4092 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4093
f625cc5a
PH
4094PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4095
4096PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4097
21f7af35
PH
4098PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4099 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4100 HP-UX compiler.
4101
31480e42
PH
4102PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4103
2d280592
PH
4104PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4105 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4106 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4107
7cd1141b
PH
4108PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4109 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4110
4111PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4112 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4113
750af86e
PH
4114PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4115 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4116
4117 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4118 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4119
4120 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4121 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4122 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4123 contributed by a Radius user.
4124
4125PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4126 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4127
4304270b
TK
4128TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4129 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4130
750af86e
PH
4131PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4132 available.
4133
64ffc24f
PH
4134PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4135 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4136 received.
4137
5dd9625b
PH
4138PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4139 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4140 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4141 header lines when this was not necessary.
4142
5591031b
PH
4143PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4144
ba18e66a
PH
4145PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4146 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4147 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4148 exists".
4149
9cec981f
PH
4150PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4151 -bV or -d is used.
4152
aa2b5c79
PH
4153PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4154 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4155 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4156 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4157
48a53b7f
PH
4158PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4159
1c59d63b
PH
4160PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4161
671012da
TK
4162TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4163
1509d3a8
PH
4164PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4165
4166PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4167 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4168 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4169 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4170 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4171 settings.
4172
4173PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4174
2fe1a124
PH
4175PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4176 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4177 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4178 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4179 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4180 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4181 which is clearly wrong.
4182
8800895a
PH
4183PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4184
ccfdb010
PH
4185PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4186 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4187 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4188 subsequently added.
4189
1130bfb0
PH
4190PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4191 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4192
ebcb507f
PH
4193PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4194
c35e155c
PH
4195PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4196 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4197
95d1f782
PH
4198PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4199 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4200
fd6de02e
PH
4201PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4202 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4203
58de37c5
PH
4204PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4205 recipients, not senders.
4206
261cf466
TF
4207TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4208 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4209
3ee512ff
PH
4210PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4211
e08c430f
PH
4212PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4213
bef5a11f
PH
4214PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4215 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4216 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4217 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4218
7546de58
TF
4219TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4220
e5d5a95f
TF
4221TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4222 clock is set back in time.
4223
2e88a017
TF
4224TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4225 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4226
a5f65aa4
TF
4227TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4228 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4229
e7726cbf
PH
4230PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4231 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4232 (see PH/47 above).
4233
a7fdad5b
TF
4234TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4235 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4236 header rewrites.
4237
6af56900
PH
4238PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4239 type ("H").
4240
0925ede6
PH
4241PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4242
66afa403
TF
4243TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4244 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4245 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4246
0154e85a
TF
4247TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4248 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4249 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4250 helo verification defer as a failure.
4251
16f12c76
PH
4252PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4253 actual error message.
4254
bbe902f0 4255
e5a9dba6
PH
4256Exim version 4.52
4257-----------------
4258
4259TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4260
22c3b60b
PH
4261PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4262 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4263 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4264 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4265
06a9b4b5
PH
4266TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4267
c1ac6996
PH
4268PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4269 can still be requested.
4270
9c7a242c
PH
4271PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4272 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4273 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4274 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4275
87ba3f5f
PH
4276TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4277 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4278 circumstances, but probably never did.
4279
4280PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4281 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4282 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4283 in the header line.
4284
29aba418
TF
4285TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4286
fe0dab11
TF
4287TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4288 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4289
11d337a4
TK
4290TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4291
4292TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4293
415c8f3b
PH
4294PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4295 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4296 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4297 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4298 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4299 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4300
958541e9
PH
4301PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4302 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4303 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4304 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4305 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4306 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4307
c206415f
TK
4308TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4309 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4310
2a4be8f9
PH
4311PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4312 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4313
1cba11c5
SC
4314SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4315 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4316
4c04137d 4317SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4318
4319SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4320
4321SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4322
4323SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4324
4325SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4326
4327SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4328
1005d00e
TK
4329TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4330
4331TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4332 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4333 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4334
4335TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4336 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4337 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4338 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4339
9b4768fa
PH
4340PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4341 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4342 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4343
4344PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4345 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4346 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4347 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4348
0d7eb84a
PH
4349PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4350 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4351 to be made).
4352
4353PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4354 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4355 should work with maildirs and everything.
4356
40727bee
TK
4357TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4358 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4359
554d2369
TF
4360TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4361 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4362
1f922db1
PH
4363PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4364 function for BDB 4.3.
4365
ef213c3b
PH
4366PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4367
8ac170f3
PH
4368PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4369 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4370 involved.
4371
b1c749bb
PH
4372PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4373 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4374 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4375 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4376 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4377 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4378
4aac9b49
PH
4379PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4380 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4381 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4382 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4383 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4384 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4385 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4386 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4387
294520c8
TK
4388TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4389 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4390 details.
4391
5bd022fe
PH
4392PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4393 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4394
90e9ce59
PH
4395PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4396 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4397 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4398 test. It is now used for both.
4399
5ea81592
PH
4400PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4401 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4402 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4403 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4404 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4405 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4406
c6c2dc1d
PH
4407PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4408 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4409 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4410 string_vformat().
4411
fffffe4c
PH
4412PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4413 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4414 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4415
9a26b6b2
PH
4416PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4417 experimental DomainKeys support:
4418
4419 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4420 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4421 the control was given.
4422
4423 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4424
4aee0225
PH
4425PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4426
32d668a5
PH
4427PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4428
8187c3f3
PH
4429PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4430 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4431 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4432 db.h files).
4433
ff790e47 4434PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4435 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4436 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4437 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4438 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4439 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4440 course.
ff790e47 4441
5417f6d1
PH
4442PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4443 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4444 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4445 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4446 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4447 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4448
59cf8544
PH
4449PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4450 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4451 do -d+all out of habit.
4452
e7ad8a65
PH
4453PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4454 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4455 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4456
ade42478
PH
4457PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4458 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4459 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4460 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4461 record types that Exim uses.
4462
182ad5cf
PH
4463PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4464 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4465 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4466 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4467 non-existent file that was broken.
4468
b0d9fc80
TK
4469TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4470 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4471
4472TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4473 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4474 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4475
4476TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4477
47c7a64a
PH
4478PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4479 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4480 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4481 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4482 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4483 same time.
4484
a388bce4
SC
4485SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4486 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4487 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4488 at a slight CPU cost.
4489
4490SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4491 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4492
4493SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4494 by Marc Sherman.
4495
0793e4ed
SC
4496SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4497
c58b88df
PH
4498PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4499 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4500
e7ad8a65 4501
7982096b
PH
4502Exim version 4.51
4503-----------------
4504
1a46a8c5
PH
4505TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4506 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4507
2f079f46 4508TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4509
4510TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4511
4512PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4513 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4514
4515PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4516 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4517 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4518 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4519 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4520 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4521 file.
4522
4523PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4524 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4525 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4526 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4527 these two options.
4528
4529PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4530 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4531 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4532 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4533 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4534 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4535 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4536 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4537
4538PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4539 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4540
4541PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4542 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4543 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4544 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4545 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4546 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4547
4548PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4549 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4550 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4551 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4552
4553PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4554 Finch).
4555
4556PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4557 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4558
49c2d5ea
PH
4559PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4560 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4561 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4562 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4563 message.
49c2d5ea 4564
bf759a8b
PH
4565PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4566
83364d30
PH
4567PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4568 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4569
7999bbd7
PH
4570PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4571 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4572 to what was transported.)
4573
7dbf77c9
PH
4574TF/01 Added $received_time.
4575
74e0617f
PH
4576PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4577 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4578 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4579 spamd_address settings.
4580
2f079f46
PH
4581PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4582 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4583 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4584 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4585 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4586
8c841523
PH
4587PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4588
7766a4f0
PH
4589PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4590 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4591 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4592 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4593 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4594
8b417f2c
PH
4595PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4596 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4597
901f42cb
PH
4598PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4599 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4600 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4601 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4602 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4603 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4604 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4605 for failure.
4606
f9b9210e
PH
4607PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4608 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4609 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4610 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4611 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4612 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4613 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4614 "input=".
4615
54cdb463
PH
4616PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4617
cf00dad6
PH
4618PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4619 driver and ACL definitions.
4620
acb1b346
PH
4621PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4622 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4623
c5ddb310
PH
4624PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4625 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4626 understands it better than I do:
4627
4628 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4629 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4630
4631 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4632 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4633 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4634 => three warnings about OTP not working
4635 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4636
4637 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4638 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4639 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4640 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4641 for each call.)
4642 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4643 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4644
4645 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4646 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4647 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4648
31619da6
PH
4649PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4650 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4651 specified.
4652
bebaf0fc
PH
4653PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4654 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4655 "Linux".
4656
475fe28a
PH
4657PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4658 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4659 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4660
4661 warn !verify = sender
4662 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4663
4664 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4665 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4666
7e8bec7a
PH
4667PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4668
4669 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4670 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4671
4672 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4673 nomenclature these days.)
4674
e4a89c47
PH
4675PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4676 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4677
5ca2a9a1
PH
4678PH/30 In these circumstances:
4679 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4680 . First host does not offer TLS;
4681 . First host accepts first address;
4682 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4683 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4684 . Second host accepts second address.
4685 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4686 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4687 address.
7e8bec7a 4688
c688b954
PH
4689PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4690 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4691 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4692 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4693 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4694
fed77020
PH
4695PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4696 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4697
7fe1560f
PH
4698PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4699 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4700
ebb6e6d5
PH
4701PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4702 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4703 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4704
9c4e8f60
PH
4705PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4706 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4707 overlooked.
4708
4709PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4710
d7174846
PH
4711PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4712 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4713 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4714 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4715 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4716 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4717 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4718
4719 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4720 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4721 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4722 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4723 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4724
4725 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4726 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4727 routed further.
4728
cfe75fc3
PH
4729PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4730 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4731 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4732 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4733 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4734 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4735
be22d70e
PH
4736PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4737
0612b098
PH
4738PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4739 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4740 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4741 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4742 printable escape sequences.
4743
2e0c1448
PH
4744PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4745 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4746 body only.
4747
447d236c
PH
4748PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4749 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4750 are as follows:
4751
4752 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4753 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4754 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4755 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4756 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4757
4758 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4759 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4760 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4761
d20976dc
PH
4762PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4763
f656d135
PH
4764PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4765 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4766 play with."
4767
2e2a30b4
PH
4768PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4769 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4770 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4771 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4772 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4773 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4774 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4775 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4776 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4777 the log output.
4778
9176e9f0
PH
4779PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4780 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4781 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4782 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4783 "make".
4784
7982096b 4785
bbe902f0
PH
4786A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4787----------------------------------------
4788
4789Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4790changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4791needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4792in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4793that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4794release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4795from 4.43.
4796
4797I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
47984.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4799those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4800historical information.
4801
4802
f7b63901 4803Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4804-----------------
4805
5fe762f6
PH
4806 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4807
139059f6 4808 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4809 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4810
7086e875
PH
4811 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4812 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4813 place.
4814
35af9f61
PH
4815 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4816 filter fails to execute.
4817
b668c215
PH
4818 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4819 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4820 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4821 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4822 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4823
a494b1e1
PH
4824 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4825
4826 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4827 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4828 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4829 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4830
c5fcb476
PH
4831 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4832 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4833 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4834 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4835 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4836
69358f02
PH
4837 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4838
5be20824
PH
483910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4840
eb2c0248
PH
484111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4842 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4843 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4844 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4845
2a3eea10
PH
484612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4847 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4848 sender verification.
4849
485013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4851 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4852
23c7ff99
PH
485314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4854
4deaf07d
PH
485515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4856 connection timeout.
4857
926e1192
PH
485816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4859 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4860
650edc6f
PH
486117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4862 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4863
2c7db3f5
PH
486418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4865 information about exactly what failed.
4866
3d235903
PH
486719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4868
7c7ad977
PH
486920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4870 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4871 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4872
981756db
PH
487321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4874 It is now set to "smtps".
4875
d4eb88df
PH
487622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4877 ignore_target_hosts.
4878
487923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4880 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4881 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4882 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4883 "[x.x.x.x]".
4884
7d468ab8
PH
488524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4886 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4887 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4888
488925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4890 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4891 wake it up if nothing else does.
4892
62c0818f
PH
489326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4894 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4895 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4896 end up negative.
4897
26034054
PH
489827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4899 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4900
af66f652
PH
490128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4902
90af77f4
PH
490329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4904 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4905 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4906 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4907 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4908 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4909 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4910 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4911
d8ef3577
PH
491230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4913 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4914 than one IP address.
4915
5cb8cbc6
PH
491631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4917 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4918 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4919 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4920
14702f5b
PH
492132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4922 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4923 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4924 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4925 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4926 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4927
063b1e99
PH
492833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4929 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4930 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4931 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4932
652e1b65
PH
493334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4934 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4935 respected.
4936
6f0c9a4f
PH
493735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4938 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4939 $sender_host_address.
4940
33397d19
PH
494136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4942 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4943 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4944 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4945 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4946 very small.
4947
7bb56e1f
PH
494837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4949
4950 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4951 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4952
ea3bc19b
PH
4953 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4954 just the host names, not the priorities.
4955
4956 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4957 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4958 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4959
ea3bc19b 4960 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4961 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4962
0bcb2a0e
PH
496338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4964 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4965 domain.
4966
2ac0e484
PH
496739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4968
4e1fde53
PH
496940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4970 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4971
de365ded
PH
497241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4973 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4974 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4975
f05da2e8
PH
497642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4977
d6453af2
PH
497843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4979
f7b63901
PH
498044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4981
498245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4983 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4984 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4985 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4986 because the tests only now provoked it.
4987
a444213a
PH
498846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4989 (this can affect the format of dates).
4990
0ec020ea
PH
499147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4992 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4993 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4994 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4995
b1206957
PH
499648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4997
499849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4999 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5000 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5001 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5002
26dd5a95
PH
500350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5004 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5005 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5006
343b2385
PH
500751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5008 autoreply.
5009
1c5466b9
PH
501052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5011 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5012 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5013 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5014 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5015 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5016 is going on).
5017
55ee9ee3
PH
501853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5019 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5020 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5021 the line.
5022
d38f8232
PH
502354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5024 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5025 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5026
5027 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5028 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5029 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5030 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5031 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5032 so I produce this patch..."
5033
3295e65b
PH
5034 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5035 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5036 is not defined.
5037
7102e136
PH
503855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5039 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5040 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5041 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5042 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5043
3ca0ba97
PH
504456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5045
c2bcbe20
PH
504657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5047 long debug lines gets shown.
5048
18ce445d
PH
504958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5050 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5051
1f5b4c3d
PH
505259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5053
5054 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5055 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5056 of $primary_hostname.
5057
b975ba52
PH
505860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5059 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5060 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5061 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5062 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5063 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5064 by change 4.50/55 above.
5065
5066 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5067 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5068 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5069 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5070 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5071 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5072 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5073
507461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5075 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5076 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5077 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5078
17ffcae7
PH
507962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5080 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5081
d95f9fdb
PH
508263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5083 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5084 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5085 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5086 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5087
86b8287f
PH
508864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5089 This has been fixed.
5090
60dc5e56
PH
509165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5092 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5093 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5094 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5095 the caching.)
5096
533244af
PH
509766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5098
a5a28604
PH
509967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5100 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5101 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5102 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5103
7e634d24
PH
510468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5105 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5106
3e11c26b
PH
510769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5108 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5109 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5110
6729cf78
PH
511170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5112 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5113 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5114 message there.
5115
00f00ca5
PH
511671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5117 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5118 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5119
c9bdd01c
PH
512072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5121 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5122 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5123 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5124
d43194df
PH
512573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5126 during host lookups.
5127
fe5b5d0b
PH
512874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5129 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5130
5131 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5132
76a2d7ba
PH
513375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5134 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5135 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5136 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5137 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5138 background.
5139
514076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5141 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5142
04f7d5b9
PH
514377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5144 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5145 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5146
bc60667e
PH
514778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5148
bb6e88ff
PH
514979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5150 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5151 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5152 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5153 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5154 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5155 process earlier.
5156
1e70f85b
PH
515780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5158 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5159 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5160 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5161 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5162
516381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5164 tables).
5165
4e01f9d6
PH
516682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5167
1ee1cef2
PH
516883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5169 "vacation" handling.
5170
6e2b4ccc
PH
517184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5172 OS variants using glibc.
5173
8e669ac1
PH
517485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5175
495ae4b0 5176
bbe902f0
PH
5177----------------------------------------------------
5178See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5179----------------------------------------------------
5180
5181
5182Exim version 4.44
5183-----------------
5184
5185 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5186 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5187 transport
5188
5189 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5190 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5191 place.
5192
5193 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5194 filter fails to execute.
5195
5196 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5197 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5198 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5199 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5200 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5201
5202 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5203 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5204 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5205 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5206
5207 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5208 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5209 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5210 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5211 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5212
5213 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5214
5215 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5216 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5217 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5218 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5219
5220 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5221 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5222 sender verification.
5223
522410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5225 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5226
522711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5228 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5229
523012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5231 ignore_target_hosts.
5232
523313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5234 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5235 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5236 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5237 "[x.x.x.x]".
5238
523914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5240 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5241 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5242
524315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5244 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5245 wake it up if nothing else does.
5246
524716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5248 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5249 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5250 end up negative.
5251
525217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5253 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5254
ea3a6f44 525518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5256
525719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5258 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5259 empty pattern.
5260
526120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5262 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5263 one IP address.
5264
ea3a6f44
NM
526521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5266 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5267 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5268 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5269 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5270 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5271
ea3a6f44
NM
527222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5273 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5274 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5275
527623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5277 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5278 $sender_host_address.
5279
528024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5281
ea3a6f44
NM
528225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5283 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5284 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5285
528626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5287 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5288
ea3a6f44
NM
528927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5290 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5291
ea3a6f44
NM
529228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5293 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5294 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5295 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5296
529729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5298 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5299 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5300
ea3a6f44
NM
530130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5302 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5303 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5304 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5305
ea3a6f44
NM
530631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5307 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5308 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5309
ea3a6f44
NM
531031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5311 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5312
ea3a6f44
NM
531332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5314 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5315 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5316 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5317 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5318 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5319 is going on).
bbe902f0 5320
ea3a6f44
NM
532133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5322 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5323 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5324 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5325 CAN-2005-0021
5326
ea3a6f44
NM
532734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5328 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5329 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5330 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5331 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5332 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5333 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5334
5335 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5336 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5337 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5338 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5339 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5340 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5341 CAN-2005-0021
5342
ea3a6f44
NM
534335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5344 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5345 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5346 CAN-2005-0022
5347
ea3a6f44
NM
534836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5349 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5350 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5351 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5352 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5353
ea3a6f44
NM
535437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5355 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5356 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5357 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5358 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5359
ea3a6f44
NM
536038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5361 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5362 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5363 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5364 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5365
5366
495ae4b0
PH
5367Exim version 4.43
5368-----------------
5369
5370 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5371 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5372 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5373 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5374 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5375 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5376 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5377
5378 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5379 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5380 the delivery.
5381
5382 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5383
5384 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5385
5386 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5387 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5388 to local_scan().
5389
5390 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5391 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5392 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5393 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5394 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5395
5396 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5397 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5398
5399 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5400
5401 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5402
540310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5404 header_sender only.
5405
540611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5407 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5408
540912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5410 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5411 affecting debugging statements).
5412
541313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5414
541514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5416 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5417 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5418 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5419 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5420 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5421 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5422 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5423 after the received time, and all would be well.
5424
542515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5426 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5427 condition in an expansion string.
5428
542916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5430
543117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5432 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5433 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5434 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5435 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5436 job under whatever limits there are.
5437
543818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5439
544019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5441 space).
5442
544320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5444 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5445 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5446 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5447 return path is set.
5448
544921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5450 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5451 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5452 binary data in such strings.
5453
545422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5455
545623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5457 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5458 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5459 failure, which is pointless.
5460
546124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5462
546325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5464
546526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5466 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5467 Sender: header lines.
5468
546927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5470 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5471 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5472
547328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5474 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5475 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5476 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5477 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5478 happens.
5479
548029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5481 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5482 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5483 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5484 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5485
548630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5487 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5488 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5489 1024.
5490
549131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5492 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5493
549432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5495 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5496
549733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5498
549932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5500
550133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5502
550334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5504 syntax error.
5505
550635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5507
550836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5509
551037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5511 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5512 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5513 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5514
551538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5516 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5517
5518
5519Exim version 4.42
5520-----------------
5521
5522 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5523 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5524 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5525 it was not quoted.
5526 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5527 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5528 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5529 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5530 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5531 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5532
5533 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5534 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5535 verification failure".
5536
5537 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5538 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5539 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5540 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5541
5542 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5543 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5544 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5545 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5546 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5547 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5548 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5549 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5550 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5551 treated as a timeout.
5552
5553 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5554 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5555 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5556 not set for Exim filters).
5557
5558 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5559 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5560 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5561
5562 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5563
5564 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5565 try to make them clearer.
5566
5567 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5568 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5569
5570 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5571
5572 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5573
557410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5575 only the Cygwin environment.
5576
557711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5578 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5579 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5580 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5581 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5582
558312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5584 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5585 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5586 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5587 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5588 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5589 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5590
559113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5592 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5593
559414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5595
5596 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5597 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5598 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5599
5600 To: susanne@some.where
5601
5602 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5603 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5604 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5605 of addresses in From: header lines).
5606
5607 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5608 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5609 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5610
5611 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5612 treated as non-personal.
5613
5614 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5615 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5616
561715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5618
561916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5620
562117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5622 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5623 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5624
562518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5626 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5627
562819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5629 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5630 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5631 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5632 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5633 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5634
563520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5636 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5637 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5638 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5639 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5640 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5641 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5642 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5643
5644 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5645
564621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5647 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5648
564922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5650 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5651 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5652
565323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5654 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5655
565624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5657 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5658 rather than long int.
5659
566025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5661
566226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5663
5664
5665Exim version 4.41
5666-----------------
5667
5668 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5669 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5670 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5671 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5672 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5673 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5674
5675
5676Exim version 4.40
5677-----------------
5678
5679 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5680 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5681
5682 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5683 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5684 socklen_t is defined.
5685
5686 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5687 always exist.
5688
5689 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5690 configured.
5691
5692 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5693 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5694 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5695 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5696 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5697
5698 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5699 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5700 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5701 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5702
5703 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5704 of flapping under certain conditions.
5705
5706 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5707 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5708 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5709
5710 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5711
571210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5713
571411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5715 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5716 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5717 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5718
571912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5720 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5721 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5722 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5723 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5724 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5725 preserved with the message after it was received.
5726
572713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5728 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5729 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5730 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5731 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5732 test suite worked just fine.
5733
573414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5735 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5736 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5737
573815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5739 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5740 string.
5741
574216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5743 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5744 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5745 does not fully solve it.
5746
574717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5748 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5749 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5750 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5751 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5752
575318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5754 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5755 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5756
575719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5758 string, for example:
5759
5760 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5761
5762 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5763 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5764 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5765 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5766 the routers could not see them.
5767
576820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5769 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5770
577121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5772 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5773 output).
5774
577522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5776 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5777 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5778 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5779 that needed quoting.
5780
578123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5782 was not being matched caselessly.
5783
578424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5785 backslashes.
5786
578725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5788 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5789 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5790 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5791 when use_sender is false.
5792
579326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5794
579527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5796
579728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5798
579929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5800 the configuration file.
5801
580230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5803 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5804
580531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5806
580732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5808 bytes in the message body.
5809
581033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5811 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5812 delivery.
5813
581434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5815
581635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5817
581836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5819 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5820 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5821 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5822 another IP address.
5823
5824
5825Exim version 4.34
5826-----------------
5827
5828 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5829 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5830
5831 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5832 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5833 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5834 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5835 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5836
5837 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5838 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5839
5840 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5841 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5842 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5843
5844 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5845 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5846 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5847
5848 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5849 for routers.
5850
5851 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5852 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5853 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5854 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5855 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5856 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5857 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5858
5859
5860Exim version 4.33
5861-----------------
5862
5863 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5864 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5865 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5866 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5867 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5868 default (and expected) setting.
5869
5870 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5871 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5872 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5873 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5874
5875 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5876 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5877
5878 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5879 in domain lists.
5880
5881 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5882 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5883 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5884 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5885 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5886 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5887
5888 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5889 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5890 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5891
5892 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5893 part (NOT match_host).
5894
5895 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5896
5897 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5898 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5899 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5900 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5901 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5902 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5903 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5904 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5905 the same named file.
5906
590710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5908 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5909 when Exim is built.
5910
591111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5912 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5913 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5914 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5915 a host name.
5916
591712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5918 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5919 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5920
592113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5922
592314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5924
592515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5926
592716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5928 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5929
593017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5931 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5932 before starting the TLS session.
5933
593418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5935
593619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5937 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5938
593920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5940 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5941 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5942 colon in the middle).
5943
5944
5945Exim version 4.32
5946-----------------
5947
5948 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5949 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5950 multiple configurations are in use.
5951
5952 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5953 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5954 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5955 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5956 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5957 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5958
5959 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5960 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5961
5962 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5963 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5964 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5965
5966 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5967 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5968 occurs.
5969
5970 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5971 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5972
5973 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5974
5975 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5976 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5977
5978 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5979
5980 -prval:sval
5981
5982 is equivalent to
5983
5984 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5985
5986 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5987 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5988 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5989 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5990 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5991
599210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5993 Exim's behaviour:
5994
5995 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5996 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5997 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5998 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5999 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6000 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6001
6002 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6003 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6004 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6005 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6006 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6007 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6008 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6009 string.
6010
6011 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6012 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6013 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6014 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6015 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6016
601711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6018
601912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6020 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6021 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6022
602313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6024
602514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6026 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6027 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6028 information.
6029
603015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6031 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6032
603316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6034 Three changes have been made:
6035
6036 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6037 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6038 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6039 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6040 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6041
6042 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6043 been restored.
6044
6045 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6046 the modified behaviour.
6047
6048
6049Exim version 4.31
6050-----------------
6051
6052 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6053 Larry Rosenman.
6054
6055 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6056 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6057
6058 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6059 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6060 try to track down a specific problem.
6061
6062 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6063 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6064 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6065
6066 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6067 warning.
6068
6069 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6070 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6071 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6072 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6073 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6074 some earlier ones do not.
6075
6076 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6077
6078 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6079 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6080 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6081 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6082 address literals are enabled, of course).
6083
6084 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6085
608610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6087 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6088 by a command such as
6089
6090 exim -f "" ...
6091
6092 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6093
609411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6095
609612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6097 remained set. It is now erased.
6098
609913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6100 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6101
610214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6103 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6104 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6105 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6106 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6107 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6108 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6109 appropriate error code.
6110
611115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6112 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6113 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6114 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6115 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6116 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6117
611816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6119 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6120 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6121
612217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6123 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6124 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6125 terminate the header.
6126
612718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6128 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6129 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6130
613119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6132 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6133 (4.30/29). In particular:
6134
6135 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6136 imposed.
6137
6138 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6139 to write a maildirsize file.
6140
6141 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6142 the transport, the new value overrides.
6143
6144 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6145 count.
6146
614720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6148 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6149 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6150 space or a tab.
6151
615221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6153 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6154 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6155 the fallback hosts.
6156
615722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6158 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6159 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6160
616123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6162 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6163 using a union.
6164
616524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6166 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6167 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6168
616925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6170
617126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6172
617327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6174
617528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6176 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6177 become corrupted.
6178
617929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6180 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6181 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6182 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6183 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6184 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6185 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6186 too great.
6187
618830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6189 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6190 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6191 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6192 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6193 incorrectly.
6194
619531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6196 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6197 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6198 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6199 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6200 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6201 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6202 cached value only when the same options are set.
6203
620432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6205
620633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6207 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6208 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6209 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6210 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6211
621234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6213 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6214 it is clearly obsolete.
6215
621635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6217 transport.
6218
621936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6220 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6221 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6222 times.
6223
622437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6225 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6226 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6227 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6228 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6229
623038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6231 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6232 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6233 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6234
623539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6236
6237 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6238
6239 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6240 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6241 2^31.
6242
624340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6244 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6245 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6246 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6247 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6248 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6249 $localpart_data.
6250
625141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6252 with the -f command-line option.
6253
625442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6255 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6256 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6257 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6258 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6259 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6260
626143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6262 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6263 line.
6264
626544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6266 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6267 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6268 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6269 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6270 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6271 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6272 buffer is too small.
6273
627445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6275 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6276
627746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6278 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6279 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6280 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6281 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6282 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6283 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6284 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6285 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6286
628747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6288 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6289 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6290
629148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6292 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6293 ACL").
6294
629549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6296 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6297 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6298 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6299 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6300
630150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6302 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6303 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6304 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6305 is set.
6306
630751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6308
630952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6310
631153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6312 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6313
631454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6315 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6316 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6317
631855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6319 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6320 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6321 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6322 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6323
632456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6325 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6326 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6327 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6328 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6329 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6330 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6331
633257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6333 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6334 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6335 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6336 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6337 the test of how many are available.
6338
633958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6340 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6341 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6342 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6343 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6344 new message is started.
6345
634659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6347 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6348
634960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6350 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6351
635261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6353 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6354 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6355 is no long logged.
6356
635762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6358 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6359 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6360 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6361 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6362 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6363 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6364
636563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6366 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6367 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6368 interpreted as octal.
6369
637064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6371 setting.
6372
637365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6374 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6375 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6376 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6377 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6378 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6379
638066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6381 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6382 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6383 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6384
6385 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6386 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6387 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6388 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6389
6390 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6391 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6392 is a bug fix.
6393
6394 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6395 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6396
639767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6398
639968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6400 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6401 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6402 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6403
640469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6405 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6406 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6407 supplied", which is not helpful.
6408
640970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6410 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6411 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6412
641371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6414 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6415 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6416 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6417 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6418 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6419 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6420 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6421
642272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6423 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6424 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6425 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6426 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6427
642873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6429 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6430 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6431 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6432 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6433 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6434
643574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6436 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6437 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6438
643975. Added write_rejectlog option.
6440
644176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6442 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6443 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6444 variables.
6445
644677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6447
644878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6449 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6450 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6451 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6452 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6453 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6454 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6455 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6456
645779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6458 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6459 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6460 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6461 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6462
646380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6464 Haardt.
6465
646681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6467 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6468 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6469 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6470 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6471 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6472 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6473 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6474 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6475
6476
6477Exim version 4.30
6478-----------------
6479
6480 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6481 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6482 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6483
6484 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6485 fixed.
6486
6487 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6488 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6489 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6490
6491 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6492 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6493 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6494 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6495 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6496 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6498 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6499 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6500 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6501 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6502 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6503 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6504 the Exim test suite.
6505
6506 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6507 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6508 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6509 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6510
6511 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6512 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6513 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6514 specify it in this variable.
6515
6516 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6517 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6518 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6519 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6520
6521 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6522 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6523 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6524 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6525
6526 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6527 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6528 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6529 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6530 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6531
6532 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6533
653410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6535 they are logged.
6536
653711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6538 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6539 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6540 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6541 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6542
654312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6544 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6545
654613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6547 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6548 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6549 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6550 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6551
655214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6553 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6554
655515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6556 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6557 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6558
655916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6560 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6561
656217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6563 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6564
656518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6566 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6567 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6568
656919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6570 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6571
657220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6573 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6574 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6575 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6576
657721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6578
657922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6580 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6581 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6582 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6583
658423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6585
658624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6587 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6588
658925. Added .include_if_exists.
6590
659126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6592 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6593 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6594 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6595 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6596 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6597
659827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6599
660028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6601 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6602 this.
6603
660429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6605
660630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6607 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6608
6609 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6610 550 Sender verify failed
6611
6612 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6613 the final line of the response.
6614
661531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6616 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6617 all other user lookups.
6618
661932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6620 delivery time.
6621
662233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6623 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6624 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6625 result into an int without checking.
6626
662734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6628 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6629 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6630
663135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6632 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6633 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6634 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6635
663636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6637 correctly.
6638
663937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6640 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6641
664238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6643 to the empty sender.
6644
664539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6646 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6647 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6648 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6649 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6650 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6651 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6652 panic log.
6653
665440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6655 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6656 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6657 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6658 used.
6659
666041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6661 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6662
666342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6664 timestamps.
6665
666643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6667 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6668
666944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6670
667145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6672 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6673 logs.
6674
667546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6676 as soon as it is encountered.
6677
667847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6679
668048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6681 rewritten to "<>".
6682
668349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6684 recognizes a tab character.
6685
668650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6687 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6688 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6689 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6690
669151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6692
669352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6694 crash.
6695
669653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6697
669854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6699
670055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6701 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6702 2822.
6703
670456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6705 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6706 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6707 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6708 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6709
671057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6711 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6712
671358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6714 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6715 list (.included file names were always shown).
6716
671759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6718 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6719 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6720 root at that time.
6721
672260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6723 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6724
672561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6726
672762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6728
672963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6730
673164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6732 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6733 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6734 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6735 failures to open the logs.
6736
673765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6738 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6739 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6740 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6741 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6742 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6743 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6744
6745
6746Exim version 4.24
6747-----------------
6748
6749 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6750 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6751 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6752 change 4.23/1.
6753
6754 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6755 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6756 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6757
6758 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6759 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6760 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6761
6762 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6763 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6764 causing some misleading effects.
6765
6766 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6767 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6768 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6769
6770 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6771 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6772 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6773 queue-runner function directly.
6774
6775
6776Exim version 4.23
6777-----------------
6778
6779 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6780 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6781
6782 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6783 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6784 was always written to the default place.
6785
6786 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6787 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6788 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6789
6790 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6791
6792 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6793
6794 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6795 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6796 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6797
6798 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6799 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6800 must start.
6801
6802 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6803 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6804 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6805
6806 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6807 command line option is disabled.
6808
6809 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6810 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6811
6812 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6813
6814 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6815
6816 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6817 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6818
681910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6820
682111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6822 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6823 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6824 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6825 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6826 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6827
682812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6829 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6830 timeout.
6831
683213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6833 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6834
683514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6836 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6837
683815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6839 received was valid base64.
6840
684116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6842 name of the variable that was being set.
6843
684417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6845
684618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6847 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6848 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6849 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6850 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6851 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6852
685319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6854
685520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6856 nor realm was specified.
6857
685821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6859 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6860 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6861 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6862
686322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6864 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6865 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6866
686723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6868 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6869 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6870
687124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6872 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6873 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6874 some systems use these upper case variants.
6875
687625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6877 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6878 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6879 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6880
688126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6882
688327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6884 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6885
688628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6887 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6888 expansion variable.
6889
689029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6891
689230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6893 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6894 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6895 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6896
689731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6898 using it.
6899
690032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6901 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6902 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6903
690433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6905 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6906
690734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6908 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6909 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6910 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6911
691235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6913 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6914 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6915
691636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6917
691837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6919 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6920 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6921 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6922 aborted.
6923
692438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6925 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6926 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6927
692839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6929
693040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6931 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6932
693341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6934 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6935
693642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6937 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6938 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6939 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6940 when emails are that large.
6941
6942
6943
6944Exim version 4.22
6945-----------------
6946
6947 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6948 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6949
6950 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6951 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6952 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6953
6954 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6955 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6956 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6957
6958 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6959 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6960 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6961 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6962 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6963
6964 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6965 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6966 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6967 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6968 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6969 ever.
6970
6971 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6972 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6973 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6974 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6975 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6976 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6977 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6978 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6979 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6980 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6981 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6982 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6983 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6984 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6985
6986 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6987 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6988 parameterised it.
6989
6990 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6991 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6992 error should be diagnosed.
6993
6994 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6995 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6996 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6997 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6998 appeared instead of "NULL".
6999
700010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7001 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7002 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7003 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7004 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7005 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7006 proceeds).
7007
7008 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7009 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7010 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7011
7012
7013Exim version 4.21
7014-----------------
7015
7016 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7017 or receiver verification errors.
7018
7019 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7020 name.
7021
7022 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7023 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7024 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7025 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7026
7027 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7028 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7029 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7030 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7031 shouldn't happen again.
7032
7033 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7034 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7035 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7036
7037 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7038 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7039
7040 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7041
7042 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7043 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7044
7045 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7046 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7047 RFC.
7048
704910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7050 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7051 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7052
705311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7054 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7055 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7056 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7057
705812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7059 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7060 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7061 to define what should happen).
7062
706313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7064 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7065 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7066
706714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7068
706915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7070
707116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7072 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7073
4c04137d 707417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
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7075 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7076 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7077 structure in all cases.
7078
7079 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7080 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7081 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7082 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7083
708418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7085 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7086 domain name.
7087
708819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7089 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7090
709120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7092 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7093
709421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7095 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7096 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7097
709822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7099 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7100 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7101
710223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7103 the book and for uniformity.
7104
710524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7106
710725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7108 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
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7109 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7110 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7111 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7112 non-existent command as the problem.
7113
711426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7115 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7116 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7117
711827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7119
712028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7121 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7122 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7123
712429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7125 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7126 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7127 timestamps using strftime().
7128
712930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7130 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7131
713232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7133 transport-time rewrites.
7134
713533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7136 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7137 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7138 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7139
714034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7141 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7142
714335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7144 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7145 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7146 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7147 comma and a space.
7148
714936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7150 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7151 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7152 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7153 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7154 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7155 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7156
715737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7158 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7159 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7160 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7161 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7162
716338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7164 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7165 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7166 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7167 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7168 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7169 remaining text gets split now.
7170
717139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7172 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7173 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7174 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7175
717640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7177 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7178 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7179 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7180 $return_path.
7181
718241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7183 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7184 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7185 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7186 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7187 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7188 passed through if needed.
7189
719042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7191 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7192 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7193 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7194 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7195 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7196
719743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7198 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7199 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7200 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7201 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7202
720344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7204 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7205 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7206 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7207 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7208
720945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7210 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7211 noticed.
7212
721346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7214 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7215 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7216 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7217 mayhem of various kinds.
7218
721947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7220 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7221 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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7222 the right test for positive values.
7223
722448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7225 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7226 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7227 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7228 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7229 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7230 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7231 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7232 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7233 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7234 envelope.
7235
723649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7237 module.
7238
723950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7240 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7241 forbidding it.
7242
724351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7244 the existing equality matching.
7245
724652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7247 dealing with inode numbers.
7248
724953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7250 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7251 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7252
725354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7254 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7255 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7256 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7257 local_scan().
7258
725955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7260 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7261 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7262 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7263 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7264 relay addresses has also been removed.
7265
726656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7267
726857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7269 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7270 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7271
727258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7273 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7274 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7275 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7276 processing applies to CR:
7277
7278 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7279 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7280
7281 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7282 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7283 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7284 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7285
728659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7287 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7288 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7289
729060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7291 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7292 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7293 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7294 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7295 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7296 arisen.
7297
729861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7299 program routers.
7300
730162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7302 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7303 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7304 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7305 adds:
7306
7307 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7308
7309 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7310
7311 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7312
731363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7314 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7315 not considered personal.
7316
731764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7318
731965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7320
732166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7322
732367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7324 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7325 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7326 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7327 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7328 header lines, and spool format errors.
7329
733068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7331 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7332 for more flexibility.
7333
733469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7335 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7336 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7337
733870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7339 Sabourenkov.
7340
734171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7342 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7343 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7344 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7345 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7346 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7347 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7348 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7349 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7350
735172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7352 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7353 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7354 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7355 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7356 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7357 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7358
735973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7360 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7361 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7362
736374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7364 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7365 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7366 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7367 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7368 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7369 instead of killing the process with assert().
7370
737175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7372 than Unicode encoding.
7373
737476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7375 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7376 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7377 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7378
737977. Added process_log_path.
7380
738178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7382 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7383
738479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7385 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7386
738780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7388 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7389 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7390
739181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7392 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7393 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7394 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7395 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7396 were applied:
7397
7398 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7399 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7400 as invalid.
7401
740282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7403 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7404 they will be used during message reception.
7405
7406
7407Exim version 4.20
7408-----------------
7409
7410The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7411
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