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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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2c422e6f 4Exim version 4.82
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7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 26
a3fb9793 27PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 32 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 33
d27f98fe 34TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 35
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36TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
37
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38TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
40
ae0e32ee 41TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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44
45TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 46
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47JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
48
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49JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
50
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51PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
52
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53NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
54 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 55
585121e2 56JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 57
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58PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
59
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60PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
61 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
62
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63JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
64 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
65 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 66
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67JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
68
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69JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
70
ea722490 71JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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72 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
73
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74JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
75 Bugzilla 884.
76
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77JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
78 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
79
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80JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
81 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
82
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83PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
84 CVE-2012-5671
85
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86JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
87 authenticators.
88
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89JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
90 for control.
91
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92PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
93
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94PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
95 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
96 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
97 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
98
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100Exim version 4.80.1
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102
103PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
104 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 105 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 106
ea722490 107
b1770b6e 108Exim version 4.80
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110
111PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
112 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
113 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
114
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115NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
116
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117NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
118 improved.
119
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120NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
121
c1e794ba 122PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 123
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124PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
125
126PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
127 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
128
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129PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
130 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
131
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132PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
133 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
134
f1e05cc7 135PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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136 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
137 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 138
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139PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
140
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141PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
142 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
143
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144PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
145
c45dd180 146PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 147
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148PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
149 non-compliant senders.
150 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
151
eae0036b 152NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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153 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
154 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
155
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156PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
157 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
158 in spool file corruption.
159
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160PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
161 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
162 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
163 "Got SSL error 2".
164
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165TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
166 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
167 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
168
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169JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
170 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
171
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172JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
173
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174PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
175 diagnostics.
176 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
177
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178PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
179 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
180 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
181
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182PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
183 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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184 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
185 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 186
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187PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
188 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
189
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190PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
191 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
192 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
193 resolver implementation change.
194
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195PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
196 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
197
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198PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
199
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200PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
201
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202PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
203 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
204
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205PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
206 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
207
9e45c72b 208JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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209 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
210
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211PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
212 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
213 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
214 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 215 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 216
53947857 217PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 218
eae0036b 219PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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220 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
221 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 222
9e45c72b 223JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 224
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225PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
226 read-only, out of scope).
227 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
228
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229PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
230 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
231 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
232 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
233
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234PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
235
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236PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
237 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
238 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
239 real issues in debug logging.
240
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241PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
242 assignment on my part. Fixed.
243
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244PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
245 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
246 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
247
248PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
249 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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250 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
251 problems.
3375e053 252
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253PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
254 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
255
57eb9e91 256PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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257 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
258 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
259 needs to override this, it can.
260
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261PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
262 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
263 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
264
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265PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
266 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
267 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
268 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
269
3ecab157 270PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 271
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273Exim version 4.77
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275
276PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
277 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
278
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279TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
280
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281TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
282 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 283
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284TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
285 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
286
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287TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
288 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
289 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
290
291 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
292 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
293 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
294 not safe for signals.
295
296 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
297 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
298 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
299 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
300 exiwhat.
301
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302TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
303
304 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
305 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
306 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
307 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
308 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
309
310 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
311 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
312 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
313 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
314 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
315 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
316
317 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
318 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
319 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
320 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
321
322 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
323 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
324 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
325 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
326
327 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
328 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
329 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
330 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
331 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
332 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
333 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
334 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
335 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
336
337 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
338 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
339 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
340 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
341
342 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
343 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
344 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
345 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
346 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
347 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
348 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
349 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
350 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
351 details in the main documentation.
352
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353TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
354
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355TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
356
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357TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
358 repository when doing development or release builds.
359
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360PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
361 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 362
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363PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
364 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
365 Bugzilla 97.
366
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367PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
368
9e949f00 369PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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370 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
371
372PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
373 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 374
555ae6af 375PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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376 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
377
378PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
379 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 380
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381PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
382 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
383
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384PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
385 Bugzilla 1156.
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386 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
387 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 388
d6cc7c78 389PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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390 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
391 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
392
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393PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
394
3399bb60 395PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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396
397PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
398 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
399
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401Exim version 4.76
402-----------------
403
404PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
405
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406PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
407 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
408
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409PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
410
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411PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
412
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413PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
414 Bugzilla 1098.
415
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416PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
417 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 418
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419TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
420 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
421
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422PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
423 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
424
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425PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
426 Bugzilla 1104.
427
c8d52a00 428TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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429 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
430
431TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
432 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
433 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
434 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
435
436PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
437 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 438
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440Exim version 4.75
441-----------------
442
4c9ef03a 443NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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444 Bugzilla 1073
445
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446TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
447 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
448 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
449
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450TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
451 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
452
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453PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
454 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
455 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
456
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457PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
458 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
459
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460PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
461 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
462
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463NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
464 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
465
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466NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
467 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
468
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469PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
470 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 471
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472NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
473 Fixes bug 943.
474
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475PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
476 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
477
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478PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
479 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
480
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481PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
482 SQL string expansion failure details.
483 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
484
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485PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
486 Patch from Simon Arlott.
487
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488PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
489 extern declarations in function scope.
490 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
491
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492PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
493 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
494 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
495 a kernel bug).
496
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497PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
498 Patch from Mark Zealey.
499
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500PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
501 Patch from Mark Zealey.
502
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503PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
504 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
505
bc4bc4c5
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506PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
507 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
508
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509NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
510 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
511 Dennis Davis.
512
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513PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
514
6bac1a9a
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515PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
516
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517NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
518 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 519
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520TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
521 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
522
aa097c4c 523
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524Exim version 4.74
525-----------------
526
527TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
528 consequences so log it to the panic log.
529
c0ea85ab
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530TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
531 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
532
0761d44e
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533TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
534
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535DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
536 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
537 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
538
539PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
540 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
541 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
542
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543PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
544 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
545 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
546 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
547
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548PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
549 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
550 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
551 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
552
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553PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
554 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
555 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
556 arbitrary files.
557
c0886197
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558PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
559 (Wolfgang Breyha)
560
b7487bce
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561PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
562 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
563 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
564 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
565 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
566
8c07b69f 567
97fd1e48 568Exim version 4.73
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570
571PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
572 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
573 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
574
6901c596
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575PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
576 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
577
a8c8d6b5
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578JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
579
77bb000f
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580PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
581
a29e5231
PP
582PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
583
ec5a0394 584PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 585
55c75993
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586PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
587
453a6645 588PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
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589 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
590 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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591 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
592
8544e77a
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593PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
594 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
595 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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596 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
597 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 598
83e029d5
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599PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
600
ed7f7860
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601PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
602
7d9f747b
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603PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
604
4b2241d2
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605PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
606
10385c15
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607PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
608
dbc4b90d
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609PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
610
532be449
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611PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
612
6a8de854 613PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
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614 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
615 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 616
5dc43717
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617JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
618
619JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
620 "exim" to be used
55c75993 621
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622PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
623 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
624
491fab4c
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625PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
626 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
627 Notification from John Horne.
628
13eb9497
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629PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
630 compatible.
631
632PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
633 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
634 it normally works.
635
7f36d675
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636DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
637 access.
638
c1d94452
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639DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
640 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
641 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
642
e2f5dc15
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643DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
644 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
645 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
646 configuration file.
647
cd25e41d
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648DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
649 option (effectively making it always true).
650
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651DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
652 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
653
fa32850b
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654DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
655 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
656
79d4bc3d
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657PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
658 run-time user, instead of root.
659
43236f35 660PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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661 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
662
fb08281f
DW
663DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
664 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
665 arguments.
3346ab01 666
74935b98
DW
667DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
668 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
669 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
670
90b6341f
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671DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
672
57730b52
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673NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
674
66581d1e 675
465e92cf
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676Exim version 4.72
677-----------------
678
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679JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
680 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
681 typos
465e92cf 682
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683JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
684 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
685 (Finput)
edae0343 686
9bd3e22c
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687NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
688 Patch from Alain Williams
689
bb576ff7
NM
690NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
691
5a1a5845
NM
692NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
693 Patch from Andreas Metzler
694
981a9fad
NM
695NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
696 Patch from Kirill Miazine
697
7fc497ee
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698NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
699
1a41defa
JJ
700JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
701
a466095c 702NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 703 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 704
94a6bd0b
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705TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
706
707TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
708
709MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
710 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
711 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
712
c1b141a8
NM
713NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
714 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 715
b26eacf1 716NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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717 Patch by Simon Arlott
718
179c5980 719PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 720 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 721
9bd3e22c 722
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723Exim version 4.71
724-----------------
725
7d9f747b 726TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 727
f013fb92
NM
728NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
729
0eb8eedd
NM
730NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
731
663ee6d9
NM
732NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
733
177ebd9b
NM
734NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
735
7c6d71af 736
210f147e
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737Exim version 4.70
738-----------------
739
cdd3bb85 740TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 741 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
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742
743TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
744 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 745 Hirsch).
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746
747TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
748 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 749 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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750
751TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
752 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
753
210f147e
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754NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
755 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
756 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
757 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
758
deafd5b3
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759NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
760 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 761 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 762
089793a4
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763TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
764
5f16ca82
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765TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
766
dae9d94e 767NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 768 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 769
7d9f747b 770NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 771
06864c44
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772TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
773 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
774 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
775 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
776
65a7d8c3 777NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 778 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 779
23510047 780TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 781
7d9f747b 782NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 783
7d8eec3a 784NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 785 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 786
89dec7b6
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787TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
788 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 789
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790TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
791 that they are available at delivery time.
792
e2803e40
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793TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
794
7199e1ee
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795TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
796 incoming_port log selectors.
797
e276e04b
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798TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
799 setting expands to an empty string.
800
ce552449 801NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 802 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 803
e765a0f1 804NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 805 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 806
4f054c63 807NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 808 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 809
7d9f747b
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810NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
811 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 812
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813NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
814 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 815
b52bc06e 816NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 817 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 818
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819NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
820
4c69d561 821NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 822 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 823
d5c39246 824NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 825 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 826
0b23848a
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827TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
828
8f3414a1 829NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 830 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 831
fb6f955d
NM
832NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
833
834NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 835
7d9f747b
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836NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
837 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 838
7d9f747b
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839NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
840 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 841
7d9f747b
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842NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
843 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 844
7d9f747b
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845NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
846 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 847
7d9f747b
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848NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
849 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 850
7d9f747b
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851NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
852 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 853
7d9f747b
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854NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
855 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 856
7d9f747b 857NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 858 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 859
7d9f747b 860NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 861
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862NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
863 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 864
7d9f747b 865NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 866
7d9f747b 867NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 868
7d9f747b 869NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 870
7d9f747b 871NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 872
17792b53 873NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 874 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 875
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876NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
877 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 878
91576cec 879NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 880 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 881
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882NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
883 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 884
7d9f747b 885NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 886
7d9f747b 887NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 888
7d9f747b 889NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 890
7d9f747b 891NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 892
deafd5b3 893
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894Exim version 4.69
895-----------------
896
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897TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
898 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
899 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
900
901 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
902 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
903 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
904 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
905 build errors in sieve.c.
906
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907NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
908 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
909 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
910
f13cddcb
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911SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
912
7d9f747b 913NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 914
7d9f747b 915NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 916
7d9f747b 917NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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918
919
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920Exim version 4.68
921-----------------
922
923PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
924
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925PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
926 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
927 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
928 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
929 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
930 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
931 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
932 for iplsearch lookups.
933
934 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
935 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
936 previously such lookups could never work.
937
938 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
939 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
940 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
941
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942TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
943 version.
944
0806a9c5
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945MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
946 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
947 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
948 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
949 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
950 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
951
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952TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
953 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
954
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955MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
956 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
957 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
958 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
959 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
960 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
961
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962PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
963 local_scan API.
964
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965PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
966
6c512171
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967PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
968 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
969 encrypted.
970
971PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
972 by clients under certain conditions.
973
aa6dc513
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974PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
975 "_responses" off the end of the name.
976
a96603a0
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977PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
978
8f240103
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979PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
980 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
981
982PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
983
d677b2f2
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984PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
985
d52120f2
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986PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
987
64f2600a
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988PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
989 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
990
8669f003
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991PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
992
a4dc33a8
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993PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
994 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
995
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996PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
997
8f128379
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998PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
999
8932dffe
PH
1000PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1001 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1002 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1003 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1004
ddea74fa 1005PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1006 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1007 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1008
ddea74fa 1009PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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PH
1010 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1011
ddea74fa
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1012PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1013
ce9f225c
PH
1014PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1015
19897d52
PH
1016PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1017
bc64a74d
PH
1018PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1019 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1020 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1021
eb4c0de6 1022
b4ed4da0
PH
1023Exim version 4.67
1024-----------------
1025
22ad45c9
MH
1026MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1027 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1028 Jan Srzednicki.
1029
b4ed4da0
PH
1030PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1031 issue a MAIL command.
1032
431b7361
PH
1033PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1034
1035 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1036
1037 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1038 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1039 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1040 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1041 item. This has been fixed.
1042
1043PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1044 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1045
83da1223
PH
1046PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1047 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1048
54fc8428
PH
1049PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1050 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1051 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1052
34c5e8dd
SC
1053SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1054
bbe15da8
PH
1055PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1056 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1057 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1058 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1059 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1060
0e8a9471
MH
1061MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1062 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1063 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1064
f0872424
PH
1065PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1066 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1067 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1068 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1069
b01dd148
PH
1070PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1071
6bf342e1
PH
1072PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1073
273f34d0
PH
1074PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1075 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1076 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1077 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1078 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1079
cf8b11a5
PH
1080PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1081
41c7c167
PH
1082PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1083 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1084 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1085 values).
1086
9c57cbc0
PH
1087PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1088
f3f065bb
PH
1089PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1090
047bdd8c
PH
1091PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1092
0ce9abe6
PH
1093PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1094
0e22dfd1
PH
1095PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1096
4c590bd1
PH
1097PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1098 no_callout_flush is set.
1099
09945f1e
PH
1100PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1101 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1102 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1103 fixed.
1104
c51b8e75
PH
1105PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1106
e28326d8
PH
1107PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1108 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1109 other ACL rejections are.
1110
75b1493f
PH
1111PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1112 with slight modification.
1113
7c5214ec
PH
1114PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1115 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1116
4311097e
PH
1117PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1118 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1119 connection.
1120
29f89cad
PH
1121PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1122 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1123
5e687460
SC
1124SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1125
c3611384
PH
1126PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1127 expansion side effects.
1128
5a11a7b4
PH
1129PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1130 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1131 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1132 be the same.
1133
0e20aff9
MH
1134MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1135 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1136 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1137
ca86f471
PH
1138PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1139 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1140 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1141 were accidentally chopped off.
1142
a14e5636
PH
1143PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1144 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1145 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1146 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1147 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1148 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1149 pipelining has not been advertised.
1150
ec95d1a6
PH
1151PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1152
42855d71
PH
1153PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1154 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1155 This has been fixed.
1156
57c2c631
PH
1157PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1158 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1159 reported on Solaris.
1160
58c01c94
PH
1161PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1162 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1163 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1164 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1165 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1166 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1167 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1168
dee5a20a
PH
1169PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1170 cpus.
1171
d2ee6114
PH
1172PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1173
b2d5182b
PH
1174PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1175
79749a79
PH
1176PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1177 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1178 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1179 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1180 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1181 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1182
c456d9bb
PH
1183PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1184 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1185 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1186 host_all_ignored option.
1187
cd9868ec
PH
1188PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1189 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1190 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1191 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1192 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1193 is what is supposed to happen).
1194
ebeaf996
PH
1195PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1196 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1197 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1198 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1199 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1200 uses the Exim user.
1201
2679d413
PH
1202PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1203 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1204 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1205 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1206 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1207 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1208 users.
1209
84024b72
PH
1210PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1211
8005d38e
SC
1212SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1213 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1214 (Jez Hancock).
1215 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1216 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1217
3298c6c6
SC
1218SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1219
a43a27c5
PH
1220PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1221
58eb016e 1222PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1223 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1224 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1225 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1226 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1227 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1228 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1229 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1230 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1231 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1232 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1233
b43a74ea
PH
1234PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1235 advertised in response to EHLO.
1236
b4ed4da0 1237
5dd1517f
PH
1238Exim version 4.66
1239-----------------
1240
1241PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1242 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1243
1244 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1245 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1246
1247 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1248 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1249 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1250
1251 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1252 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1253 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1254 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1255 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1256
1257
93cfa765
TK
1258Exim version 4.65
1259-----------------
1260
1261TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1262 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1263 versions. (#438)
1264
d6066548
MH
1265MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1266 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1267 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1268
4362ff0d
PH
1269PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1270 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1271 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1272 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1273 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1274 rather than extend the field.
1275
93cfa765 1276
944e9e9c
TF
1277Exim version 4.64
1278-----------------
aa41d2de 1279
21d74bd9
TK
1280TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1281 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1282 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1283 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1284 these files.
1285
1286TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1287 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1288 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1289
1290TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1291 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1292 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1293
1294TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1295 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1296 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1297 in the field name.
1298
2b1c6e3a
PH
1299PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1300 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1301 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1302 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1303 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1304 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1305 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1306 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1307 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1308 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1309 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1310
1f872c80
PH
1311PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1312 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1313
1314PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1315 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1316 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1317 ignores EPIPE as well.
1318
d203e649
PH
1319PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1320 (quoted-printable decoding).
1321
cc2ed8f7 1322PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1323 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1324
ddfcd446
PH
1325PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1326
d45b1de8
PH
1327PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1328
1329PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1330
38a0a95f 1331PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1332 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1333
a2405d83
JJ
1334JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1335 in 4.64-PH/09.
1336
1337JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1338 miscellaneous code fixes
1339
6ea85e9a
PH
1340PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1341 rejections.
1342
26da7e20
PH
1343PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1344 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1345 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1346 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1347 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1348 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1349 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1350 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1351
14aa5a05 1352PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1353 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1354 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1355 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1356 function.
1357 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1358 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1359 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1360 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1361 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1362 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1363 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1364 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1365 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1366
ff75a1f7
PH
1367PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1368 decoding.
1369
e6f6568e
PH
1370PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1371 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1372 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1373 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1374 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1375 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1376 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1377 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1378
d6f6e0dc
PH
1379PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1380 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1381 list.
1382
322050c2
PH
1383PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1384 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1385 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1386 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1387 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1388 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1389 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1390 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1391 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1392 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1393 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1394 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1395 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1396
08955dd3
PH
1397PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1398 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1399 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1400 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1401 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1402 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1403 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1404
1eccaa59
PH
1405PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1406 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1407 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1408 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1409 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1410 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1411 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1412 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1413 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1414 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1415
602e59e5
PH
1416PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1417 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1418 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1419 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1420 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1421
411ef850
PH
1422PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1423 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1424 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1425 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1426 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1427 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1428 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1429
7befa435
PH
1430PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1431 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1432 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1433 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1434 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1435 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1436 been verified.
1437
48da4259 1438PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1439 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1440 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1441 and authorization.)
1442
48da4259
PH
1443PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1444 if any retry times were supplied.
1445
d1d5595c
PH
1446PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1447 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1448 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1449
0ef732d9
PH
1450PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1451
328895cc
PH
1452PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1453
fd700877
PH
1454PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1455 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1456 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1457 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1458 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1459 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1460
8dce1a6f
PH
1461PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1462 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1463
17af4a17
PH
1464PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1465 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1466 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1467
1468PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1469 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1470 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1471 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1472 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1473 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1474 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1475 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1476 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1477
1478 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1479 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1480 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1481 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1482 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1483 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1484 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1485 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1486 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1487
1488 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1489 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1490 hammering the server.
1491
c1114884
PH
1492PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1493 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1494
7a0743eb
PH
1495PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1496
0d85fa3f
PH
1497PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1498 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1499 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1500
1bf43b78
PH
1501PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1502 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1503 one case where this was not true.
1504
520de300
PH
1505PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1506 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1507 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1508 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1509 fails.
1510
48c7f9e2
PH
1511PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1512 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1513 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1514 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1515 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1516 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1517 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1518 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1519 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1520 smtp transport.
1521
99ea1c86
PH
1522PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1523 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1524 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1525 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1526
a2042e78
PH
1527PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1528 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1529
4fbcfc2e
PH
1530PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1531 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1532 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1533
aa41d2de
PH
1534PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1535
af561417
PH
1536PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1537
3cc66b45
PH
1538PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1539
194cc0e4
PH
1540PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1541 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1542 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1543 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1544
a401ddaa
PH
1545PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1546 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1547
4e88a19f
PH
1548PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1549 be meaningful with "accept".
1550
d7d7b289
SC
1551SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1552 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1553
1554SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1555 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1556 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1557
1558SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1559 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1560 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1561 there is data to show.
1562 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1563
1564SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1565 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1566 as well as the number of messages.
1567
1568SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1569 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1570 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1571
1572SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1573 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1574 have a flag are now skipped.
1575
1576SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1577 Added the -emptyok flag.
1578
1579SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1580 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1581
0ea2a468
JJ
1582JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1583 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1584 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1585
1586JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1587 match 4.64-PH/13
1588
1589JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1590 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1591
1592JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1593
1594JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1595 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1596
8a10f5a4
PH
1597PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1598
30e18802
PH
1599PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1600 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1601 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1602 contravention of the specifications.
1603
55728a4f
PH
1604PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1605 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1606 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1607
d7837193
PH
1608PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1609 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1610 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1611
87054a31
PH
1612PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1613
ea2c01d2
MH
1614MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1615 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1616 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1617 some point in the past.
1618
e4fa6968
PH
1619PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1620 transport during callout processing was broken.
1621
56f5d9bd
PH
1622PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1623 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1624
922e1c28
PH
1625PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1626 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1627
21eb6e72
PH
1628PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1629 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1630
a0540757
PH
1631PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1632
944e9e9c 1633
478be7b0
SC
1634Exim version 4.63
1635-----------------
1636
1637SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1638 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1639
1640SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1641 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1642 there is data to show.
1643 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1644
1645SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1646 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1647
2b965a65
TF
1648TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1649 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1650
45b91596
PH
1651TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1652 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1653
c59f5781
TF
1654TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1655 submissions from trusted users.
1656
90fc3069
TF
1657TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1658 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1659
6083aca0
TF
1660TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1661 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1662 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1663 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1664 there is now a framework to start from.
1665
765b530f
PH
1666PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1667 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1668 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1669
4e167a8c
PH
1670PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1671
4608d683
PH
1672PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1673
b8dc3e4a
PH
1674PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1675
5418e93b
PH
1676PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1677 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1678 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1679
b4a9bda2
PH
1680PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1681 libradius.
1682
45b91596
PH
1683PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1684 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1685 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1686
5547e2c5
PH
1687PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1688 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1689 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1690 its arguments.
1691
dbcef0ea
PH
1692PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1693 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1694 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1695 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1696 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1697
25257489
PH
1698PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1699 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1700
c816d124
PH
1701PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1702
a9ccd69a
PH
1703PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1704 operations in malware.c.
1705
75fa1910
PH
1706PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1707 signatures.
1708
a7d7aa58
PH
1709PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1710 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1711 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1712 all.
1713
42119b09
PH
1714PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1715 statements to "add_header".
1716
41609df5
PH
1717PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1718 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1719
a5bd321b
PH
1720PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1721 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1722 latter.
1723
e85a7ad5 1724PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1725 so that it is now:
1726
e85a7ad5
PH
1727 ${if or { \
1728 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1729 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1730 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1731 }{no}{yes}}
1732
e85a7ad5
PH
1733 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1734 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1735
d8fe1c03
PH
1736PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1737 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1738
16282d2b
PH
1739PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1740 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1741 any possible encoding problems.
1742
35d40a98
PH
1743PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1744 but not after initializing Perl.
1745
034d99ab
PH
1746PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1747 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1748 apparently, which is not desirable.
1749
6ec97b1b
PH
1750PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1751 queries.
1752
e22ca4ac
JJ
1753JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1754 --not options
1755
1756JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1757
33d73e3b
PH
1758PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1759 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1760 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1761 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1762
9ecb03f3
PH
1763PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1764 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1765 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1766
084efe8d
PH
1767PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1768 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1769 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1770 0.12.
1771
366fc9f0
PH
1772PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1773 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1774 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1775 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1776 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1777
c59f5781 1778
c887c79e
TF
1779Exim version 4.62
1780-----------------
1781
1782TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1783 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1784
1cce3af8
PH
1785PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1786 patch).
1787
afb3eaaf
PH
1788PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1789 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1790 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1791 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1792 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1793 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1794 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1795 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1796 451 error is used.
1797
e173618b
PH
1798PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1799
dd16e114
PH
1800PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1801 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1802 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1803
f7fd3850
PH
1804PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1805 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1806 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1807 odd errors.
1808
d87df92c
PH
1809PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1810 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1811
7e9f683d
PH
1812PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1813 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1814 option (which defaults to 0600).
1815
bfad5236
PH
1816PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1817
01c490df
PH
1818PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1819 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1820 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1821 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1822 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1823 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1824 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1825
d6629cdc
PH
1826PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1827
1cce3af8 1828
214e2000
PH
1829Exim version 4.61
1830-----------------
1831
1832PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1833 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1834 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1835 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1836 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1837 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1838 addresses as local.
1839
f9daeae0
PH
1840PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1841 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1842
7e66e54d
PH
1843PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1844
c8ea1597
PH
1845PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1846 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1847 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1848 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1849 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1850 grumble.
1851
911f6fde
PH
1852PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1853 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1854
47ca6d6c
PH
1855PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1856 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1857 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1858 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1859 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1860
ed0e9820
PH
1861PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1862 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1863 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1864 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1865
eff37e47
PH
1866PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1867 be the same on different OS.
1868
1921d2ea
PH
1869PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1870 testing.
1871
b3f69ca8
JJ
1872JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1873 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1874
1875JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1876 in 4.61-PH/06
1877
424a1c63
PH
1878PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1879 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1880 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1881 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1882 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1883 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1884 bounce message.
1885
7a100415
PH
1886PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1887 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1888 when Exim was called.
1889
19b9dc85
PH
1890PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1891 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1892
309bd837
PH
1893PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1894 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1895 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1896 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1897
59e82a2a
PH
1898PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1899 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1900 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1901 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1902 changes:
1903
1904 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1905 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1906 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1907
1908 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1909 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1910 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1911
9edc04ce
PH
1912PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1913 feature).
1914
1349e1e5
PH
1915PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1916 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1917 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1918 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1919 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1920 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1921 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1922 values from the SRV records were lost.
1923
ea49d0e1
PH
1924PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1925 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1926 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1927
064a94c9
PH
1928PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1929 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1930 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1931
727071f8
PH
1932PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1933 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1934 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1935 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1936 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1937 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1938 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1939 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1940 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1941 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1942
f78eb7c6
PH
1943PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1944 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1945 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1946
21c28500
PH
1947PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1948 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1949
1950PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1951 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1952 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1953 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1954 is given.
1955
1688f43b
PH
1956PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1957 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1958 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1959
1960PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1961 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1962 PH/23 above applies.
1963
9675b384
PH
1964PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1965 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1966 (for which there is an explicit test).
1967
6a3f1455
PH
1968PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1969
dac79d3e
PH
1970PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1971 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1972 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1973 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1974 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1975
5977a0b3
PH
1976PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1977 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1978 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1979 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1980
c91535f3
PH
1981PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1982 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1983 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1984
0d46a8c8
PH
1985PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1986
278c6e6c
PH
1987PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1988
2cbb4081
PH
1989PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1990 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1991 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1992
3eef829e
PH
1993PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1994 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1995 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1996 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1997 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1998
1ab95fa6
PH
1999PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2000 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2001 the message gets confusing).
2002
230205fc
PH
2003PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2004 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2005 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2006 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2007
75e0e026
PH
2008PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2009 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2010 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2011 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2012 same order.
2013
2014PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2015 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2016 the different processes.
2017
145396a6
PH
2018PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2019
3cd34f13
PH
2020PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2021
11121d3d
JJ
2022JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2023 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2024
2025JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2026 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2027
2028JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2029 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2030 messages matching specified criteria.
2031
8def5aaf
PH
2032PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2033
929ba01c
PH
2034PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2035 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2036
2632889e
PH
2037PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2038 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2039 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2040 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2041 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2042 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2043 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2044 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2045 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2046 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2047
944a9c55
PH
2048PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2049 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2050 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2051
4a23603b
PH
2052PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2053
4730f942
PH
2054PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2055 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2056 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2057 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2058 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2059 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2060 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2061 the variable.
2062
30dba1e6
PH
2063PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2064 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2065
382afc6b
PH
2066PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2067
a86229cf
PH
2068PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2069
50c99ba6
PH
2070PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2071
d35e429d
PH
2072PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2073 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2074 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2075 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2076 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2077 size of the count of files.
2078
f90d018c
PH
2079PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2080
75def545
PH
2081PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2082 used in LMTP mode:
2083
2084 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2085 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2086 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2087 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2088
2089 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2090 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2091 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2092
2093PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2094 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2095 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2096 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2097 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2098
c46782ef
PH
2099PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2100 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2101
71fafd95
PH
2102PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2103 will now be deprecated.
2104
2c5db4fd
PH
2105PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2106
9cf6b11a
JJ
2107JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2108 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2109 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2110
2111JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2112 with very large, slow to parse queues
2113
2114JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2115
2116JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2117
898d150f
PH
2118PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2119 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2120 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2121 SMTP output lines.
2122
46218253
PH
2123PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2124 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2125 Sieve code now uses this.
2126
e97957bc
PH
2127PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2128 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2129
81e509d7
PH
2130PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2131 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2132
3d240ff7
PH
2133PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2134
b37c4101
PH
2135PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2136 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2137 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2138 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2139 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2140
79378e0f
PH
2141PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2142 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2143 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2144 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2145
e49c7bb4
PH
2146PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2147
d114ec46
PH
2148PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2149
f3d7df6c
PH
2150PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2151 is preferred over IPv4.
2152
715ab376
PH
2153PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2154 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2155 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2156 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2157 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2158 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2159 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2160
6b31b150
PH
2161PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2162 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2163 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2164
2165PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2166
d515a917
PH
2167PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2168 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2169 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2170 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2171 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2172 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2173 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2174 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2175 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2176 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2177 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2178
9b8fadde
PH
2179PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2180 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2181 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2182
214e2000 2183
5de37277
PH
2184Exim version 4.60
2185-----------------
2186
cc38ddbf
PH
2187PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2188
2189 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2190 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2191
2192 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2193 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2194 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2195
72fdd6ae
PH
2196PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2197
2198 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2199 not a single digit.
2200
2201 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2202 string.
2203
2204 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2205 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2206 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2207 silly things.
2208
2209 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2210 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2211
2212 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2213 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2214
cb741023
PH
2215PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2216 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2217 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2218
f174f16e
PH
2219PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2220 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2221
c25242d7
PH
2222PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2223 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2224
2225 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2226
2227 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2228 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2229 this:
2230
2231 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2232
82c19f95
PH
2233PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2234 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2235 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2236 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2237 identical. For example:
2238
2239 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2240
2241 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2242 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2243 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2244
d7ffbc12
PH
2245PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2246 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2247 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2248 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2249
9f526266
PH
2250PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2251 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2252 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2253 message.
2254
87fcc8b9
PH
2255PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2256
2257 o fixes some comments
2258 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2259 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2260 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2261 and documents the missing references header update
2262
2263 and most important:
2264
2265 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2266 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2267 result)
2268
456682f5
PH
2269PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2270 Electronic Mail") by including:
2271
2272 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2273
2274 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2275 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2276 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2277 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2278 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2279
2280 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2281
2282 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2283
2284 The auto-replied keyword:
2285
2286 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2287 message by an automatic process,
2288
2289 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2290
2291 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2292 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2293
2294 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2295 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2296 other messages.
2297
3e46c1aa
PH
2298PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2299 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2300
49826d12
PH
2301PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2302
eba0c039
PH
2303PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2304 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2305 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2306
a0d6ba8a
PH
2307PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2308 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2309 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2310
f0917727
PH
2311PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2312 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2313 and treats the condition as false.
2314
096fee00
PH
2315PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2316
024bd3c2
PH
2317PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2318 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2319 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2320 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2321 not changing the active code.
2322
2323 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2324 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2325
2326 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2327 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2328
df199fec
PH
2329PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2330 (Bugzilla #53).
2331
d27f1df3
PH
2332PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2333 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2334 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2335 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2336 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2337 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2338 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2339 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2340 the text comparison.
2341
96776534
PH
2342PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2343 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2344 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2345 The same fix has been applied.
2346
5de37277 2347
9a799bc0
PH
2348Exim version 4.54
2349-----------------
2350
2351PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2352 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2353 It now does.
2354
99a4b039
PH
2355PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2356 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2357
2358PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2359
4b233853
PH
2360PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2361 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2362 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2363 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2364 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2365
8857ccfd
PH
2366TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2367 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2368 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2369 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2370 or /domain=).
2371
433a2980
PH
2372PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2373 testing suite.
2374
3e46c1aa 2375
9a799bc0 2376
e3a311ba
TK
2377Exim version 4.53
2378-----------------
2379
2380TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2381 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2382
13b685f9
PH
2383PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2384
395ff96d
PH
2385PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2386
5b68f6e4
PH
2387PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2388 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2389 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2390
1ab52c69
PH
2391PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2392 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2393 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2394
b07e6aa3
PH
2395PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2396 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2397 operating systems.
2398
254e032f
PH
2399PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2400 ${stat: expansion item.
2401
3af76a81
PH
2402PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2403 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2404
2548ba04
PH
2405PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2406 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2407 file for comments.
2408
b6c6011d
PH
2409PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2410
cf39cf57
PH
2411PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2412 setting.
2413
f1513293
PH
2414PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2415 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2416
727549a4
PH
2417TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2418
af46795e
PH
2419PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2420 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2421 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2422 the end of the subprocess.
2423
d7b47fd0
PH
2424PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2425 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2426 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2427 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2428 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2429
ee744174
JJ
2430JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2431
b582ab87
PH
2432TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2433
41a13e0a
PH
2434PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2435 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2436
f625cc5a
PH
2437PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2438
2439PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2440
21f7af35
PH
2441PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2442 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2443 HP-UX compiler.
2444
31480e42
PH
2445PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2446
2d280592
PH
2447PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2448 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2449 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2450
7cd1141b
PH
2451PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2452 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2453
2454PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2455 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2456
750af86e
PH
2457PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2458 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2459
2460 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2461 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2462
2463 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2464 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2465 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2466 contributed by a Radius user.
2467
2468PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2469 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2470
4304270b
TK
2471TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2472 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2473
750af86e
PH
2474PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2475 available.
2476
64ffc24f
PH
2477PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2478 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2479 received.
2480
5dd9625b
PH
2481PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2482 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2483 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2484 header lines when this was not necessary.
2485
5591031b
PH
2486PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2487
ba18e66a
PH
2488PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2489 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2490 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2491 exists".
2492
9cec981f
PH
2493PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2494 -bV or -d is used.
2495
aa2b5c79
PH
2496PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2497 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2498 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2499 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2500
48a53b7f
PH
2501PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2502
1c59d63b
PH
2503PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2504
671012da
TK
2505TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2506
1509d3a8
PH
2507PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2508
2509PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2510 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2511 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2512 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2513 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2514 settings.
2515
2516PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2517
2fe1a124
PH
2518PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2519 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2520 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2521 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2522 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2523 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2524 which is clearly wrong.
2525
8800895a
PH
2526PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2527
ccfdb010
PH
2528PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2529 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2530 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2531 subsequently added.
2532
1130bfb0
PH
2533PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2534 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2535
ebcb507f
PH
2536PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2537
c35e155c
PH
2538PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2539 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2540
95d1f782
PH
2541PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2542 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2543
fd6de02e
PH
2544PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2545 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2546
58de37c5
PH
2547PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2548 recipients, not senders.
2549
261cf466
TF
2550TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2551 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2552
3ee512ff
PH
2553PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2554
e08c430f
PH
2555PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2556
bef5a11f
PH
2557PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2558 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2559 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2560 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2561
7546de58
TF
2562TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2563
e5d5a95f
TF
2564TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2565 clock is set back in time.
2566
2e88a017
TF
2567TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2568 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2569
a5f65aa4
TF
2570TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2571 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2572
e7726cbf
PH
2573PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2574 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2575 (see PH/47 above).
2576
a7fdad5b
TF
2577TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2578 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2579 header rewrites.
2580
6af56900
PH
2581PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2582 type ("H").
2583
0925ede6
PH
2584PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2585
66afa403
TF
2586TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2587 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2588 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2589
0154e85a
TF
2590TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2591 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2592 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2593 helo verification defer as a failure.
2594
16f12c76
PH
2595PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2596 actual error message.
2597
bbe902f0 2598
e5a9dba6
PH
2599Exim version 4.52
2600-----------------
2601
2602TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2603
22c3b60b
PH
2604PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2605 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2606 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2607 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2608
06a9b4b5
PH
2609TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2610
c1ac6996
PH
2611PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2612 can still be requested.
2613
9c7a242c
PH
2614PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2615 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2616 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2617 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2618
87ba3f5f
PH
2619TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2620 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2621 circumstances, but probably never did.
2622
2623PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2624 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2625 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2626 in the header line.
2627
29aba418
TF
2628TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2629
fe0dab11
TF
2630TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2631 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2632
11d337a4
TK
2633TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2634
2635TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2636
415c8f3b
PH
2637PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2638 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2639 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2640 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2641 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2642 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2643
958541e9
PH
2644PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2645 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2646 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2647 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2648 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2649 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2650
c206415f
TK
2651TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2652 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2653
2a4be8f9
PH
2654PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2655 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2656
1cba11c5
SC
2657SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2658 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2659
2660SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2661
2662SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2663
2664SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2665
2666SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2667
2668SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2669
2670SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2671
1005d00e
TK
2672TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2673
2674TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2675 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2676 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2677
2678TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2679 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2680 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2681 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2682
9b4768fa
PH
2683PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2684 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2685 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2686
2687PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2688 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2689 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2690 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2691
0d7eb84a
PH
2692PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2693 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2694 to be made).
2695
2696PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2697 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2698 should work with maildirs and everything.
2699
40727bee
TK
2700TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2701 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2702
554d2369
TF
2703TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2704 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2705
1f922db1
PH
2706PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2707 function for BDB 4.3.
2708
ef213c3b
PH
2709PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2710
8ac170f3
PH
2711PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2712 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2713 involved.
2714
b1c749bb
PH
2715PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2716 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2717 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2718 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2719 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2720 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2721
4aac9b49
PH
2722PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2723 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2724 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2725 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2726 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2727 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2728 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2729 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2730
294520c8
TK
2731TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2732 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2733 details.
2734
5bd022fe
PH
2735PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2736 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2737
90e9ce59
PH
2738PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2739 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2740 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2741 test. It is now used for both.
2742
5ea81592
PH
2743PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2744 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2745 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2746 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2747 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2748 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2749
c6c2dc1d
PH
2750PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2751 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2752 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2753 string_vformat().
2754
fffffe4c
PH
2755PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2756 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2757 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2758
9a26b6b2
PH
2759PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2760 experimental DomainKeys support:
2761
2762 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2763 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2764 the control was given.
2765
2766 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2767
4aee0225
PH
2768PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2769
32d668a5
PH
2770PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2771
8187c3f3
PH
2772PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2773 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2774 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2775 db.h files).
2776
ff790e47 2777PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2778 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2779 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2780 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2781 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2782 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2783 course.
ff790e47 2784
5417f6d1
PH
2785PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2786 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2787 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2788 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2789 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2790 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2791
59cf8544
PH
2792PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2793 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2794 do -d+all out of habit.
2795
e7ad8a65
PH
2796PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2797 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2798 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2799
ade42478
PH
2800PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2801 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2802 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2803 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2804 record types that Exim uses.
2805
182ad5cf
PH
2806PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2807 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2808 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2809 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2810 non-existent file that was broken.
2811
b0d9fc80
TK
2812TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2813 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2814
2815TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2816 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2817 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2818
2819TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2820
47c7a64a
PH
2821PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2822 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2823 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2824 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2825 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2826 same time.
2827
a388bce4
SC
2828SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2829 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2830 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2831 at a slight CPU cost.
2832
2833SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2834 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2835
2836SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2837 by Marc Sherman.
2838
0793e4ed
SC
2839SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2840
c58b88df
PH
2841PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2842 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2843
e7ad8a65 2844
7982096b
PH
2845Exim version 4.51
2846-----------------
2847
1a46a8c5
PH
2848TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2849 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2850
2f079f46 2851TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2852
2853TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2854
2855PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2856 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2857
2858PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2859 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2860 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2861 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2862 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2863 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2864 file.
2865
2866PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2867 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2868 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2869 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2870 these two options.
2871
2872PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2873 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2874 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2875 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2876 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2877 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2878 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2879 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2880
2881PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2882 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2883
2884PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2885 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2886 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2887 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2888 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2889 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2890
2891PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2892 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2893 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2894 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2895
2896PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2897 Finch).
2898
2899PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2900 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2901
49c2d5ea
PH
2902PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2903 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2904 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2905 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2906 message.
49c2d5ea 2907
bf759a8b
PH
2908PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2909
83364d30
PH
2910PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2911 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2912
7999bbd7
PH
2913PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2914 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2915 to what was transported.)
2916
7dbf77c9
PH
2917TF/01 Added $received_time.
2918
74e0617f
PH
2919PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2920 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2921 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2922 spamd_address settings.
2923
2f079f46
PH
2924PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2925 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2926 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2927 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2928 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2929
8c841523
PH
2930PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2931
7766a4f0
PH
2932PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2933 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2934 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2935 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2936 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2937
8b417f2c
PH
2938PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2939 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2940
901f42cb
PH
2941PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2942 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2943 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2944 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2945 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2946 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2947 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2948 for failure.
2949
f9b9210e
PH
2950PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2951 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2952 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2953 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2954 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2955 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2956 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2957 "input=".
2958
54cdb463
PH
2959PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2960
cf00dad6
PH
2961PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2962 driver and ACL definitions.
2963
acb1b346
PH
2964PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2965 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2966
c5ddb310
PH
2967PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2968 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2969 understands it better than I do:
2970
2971 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2972 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2973
2974 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2975 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2976 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2977 => three warnings about OTP not working
2978 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2979
2980 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2981 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2982 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2983 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2984 for each call.)
2985 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2986 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2987
2988 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2989 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2990 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2991
31619da6
PH
2992PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2993 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2994 specified.
2995
bebaf0fc
PH
2996PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2997 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2998 "Linux".
2999
475fe28a
PH
3000PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3001 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3002 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3003
3004 warn !verify = sender
3005 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3006
3007 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3008 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3009
7e8bec7a
PH
3010PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3011
3012 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3013 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3014
3015 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3016 nomenclature these days.)
3017
e4a89c47
PH
3018PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3019 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3020
5ca2a9a1
PH
3021PH/30 In these circumstances:
3022 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3023 . First host does not offer TLS;
3024 . First host accepts first address;
3025 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3026 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3027 . Second host accepts second address.
3028 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3029 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3030 address.
7e8bec7a 3031
c688b954
PH
3032PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3033 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3034 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3035 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3036 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3037
fed77020
PH
3038PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3039 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3040
7fe1560f
PH
3041PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3042 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3043
ebb6e6d5
PH
3044PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3045 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3046 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3047
9c4e8f60
PH
3048PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3049 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3050 overlooked.
3051
3052PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3053
d7174846
PH
3054PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3055 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3056 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3057 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3058 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3059 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3060 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3061
3062 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3063 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3064 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3065 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3066 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3067
3068 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3069 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3070 routed further.
3071
cfe75fc3
PH
3072PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3073 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3074 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3075 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3076 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3077 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3078
be22d70e
PH
3079PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3080
0612b098
PH
3081PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3082 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3083 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3084 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3085 printable escape sequences.
3086
2e0c1448
PH
3087PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3088 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3089 body only.
3090
447d236c
PH
3091PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3092 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3093 are as follows:
3094
3095 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3096 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3097 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3098 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3099 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3100
3101 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3102 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3103 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3104
d20976dc
PH
3105PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3106
f656d135
PH
3107PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3108 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3109 play with."
3110
2e2a30b4
PH
3111PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3112 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3113 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3114 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3115 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3116 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3117 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3118 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3119 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3120 the log output.
3121
9176e9f0
PH
3122PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3123 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3124 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3125 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3126 "make".
3127
7982096b 3128
bbe902f0
PH
3129A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3130----------------------------------------
3131
3132Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3133changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3134needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3135in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3136that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3137release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3138from 4.43.
3139
3140I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
31414.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3142those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3143historical information.
3144
3145
f7b63901 3146Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3147-----------------
3148
5fe762f6
PH
3149 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3150
139059f6 3151 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3152 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3153
7086e875
PH
3154 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3155 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3156 place.
3157
35af9f61
PH
3158 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3159 filter fails to execute.
3160
b668c215
PH
3161 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3162 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3163 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3164 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3165 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3166
a494b1e1
PH
3167 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3168
3169 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3170 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3171 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3172 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3173
c5fcb476
PH
3174 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3175 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3176 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3177 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3178 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3179
69358f02
PH
3180 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3181
5be20824
PH
318210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3183
eb2c0248
PH
318411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3185 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3186 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3187 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3188
2a3eea10
PH
318912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3190 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3191 sender verification.
3192
319313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3194 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3195
23c7ff99
PH
319614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3197
4deaf07d
PH
319815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3199 connection timeout.
3200
926e1192
PH
320116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3202 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3203
650edc6f
PH
320417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3205 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3206
2c7db3f5
PH
320718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3208 information about exactly what failed.
3209
3d235903
PH
321019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3211
7c7ad977
PH
321220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3213 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3214 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3215
981756db
PH
321621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3217 It is now set to "smtps".
3218
d4eb88df
PH
321922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3220 ignore_target_hosts.
3221
322223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3223 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3224 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3225 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3226 "[x.x.x.x]".
3227
7d468ab8
PH
322824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3229 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3230 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3231
323225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3233 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3234 wake it up if nothing else does.
3235
62c0818f
PH
323626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3237 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3238 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3239 end up negative.
3240
26034054
PH
324127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3242 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3243
af66f652
PH
324428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3245
90af77f4
PH
324629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3247 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3248 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3249 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3250 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3251 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3252 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3253 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3254
d8ef3577
PH
325530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3256 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3257 than one IP address.
3258
5cb8cbc6
PH
325931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3260 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3261 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3262 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3263
14702f5b
PH
326432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3265 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3266 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3267 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3268 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3269 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3270
063b1e99
PH
327133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3272 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3273 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3274 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3275
652e1b65
PH
327634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3277 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3278 respected.
3279
6f0c9a4f
PH
328035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3281 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3282 $sender_host_address.
3283
33397d19
PH
328436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3285 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3286 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3287 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3288 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3289 very small.
3290
7bb56e1f
PH
329137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3292
3293 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3294 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3295
ea3bc19b
PH
3296 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3297 just the host names, not the priorities.
3298
3299 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3300 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3301 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3302
ea3bc19b 3303 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3304 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3305
0bcb2a0e
PH
330638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3307 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3308 domain.
3309
2ac0e484
PH
331039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3311
4e1fde53
PH
331240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3313 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3314
de365ded
PH
331541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3316 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3317 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3318
f05da2e8
PH
331942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3320
d6453af2
PH
332143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3322
f7b63901
PH
332344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3324
332545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3326 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3327 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3328 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3329 because the tests only now provoked it.
3330
a444213a
PH
333146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3332 (this can affect the format of dates).
3333
0ec020ea
PH
333447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3335 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3336 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3337 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3338
b1206957
PH
333948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3340
334149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3342 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3343 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3344 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3345
26dd5a95
PH
334650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3347 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3348 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3349
343b2385
PH
335051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3351 autoreply.
3352
1c5466b9
PH
335352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3354 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3355 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3356 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3357 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3358 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3359 is going on).
3360
55ee9ee3
PH
336153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3362 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3363 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3364 the line.
3365
d38f8232
PH
336654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3367 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3368 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3369
3370 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3371 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3372 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3373 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3374 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3375 so I produce this patch..."
3376
3295e65b
PH
3377 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3378 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3379 is not defined.
3380
7102e136
PH
338155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3382 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3383 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3384 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3385 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3386
3ca0ba97
PH
338756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3388
c2bcbe20
PH
338957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3390 long debug lines gets shown.
3391
18ce445d
PH
339258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3393 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3394
1f5b4c3d
PH
339559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3396
3397 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3398 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3399 of $primary_hostname.
3400
b975ba52
PH
340160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3402 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3403 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3404 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3405 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3406 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3407 by change 4.50/55 above.
3408
3409 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3410 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3411 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3412 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3413 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3414 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3415 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3416
341761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3418 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3419 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3420 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3421
17ffcae7
PH
342262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3423 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3424
d95f9fdb
PH
342563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3426 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3427 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3428 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3429 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3430
86b8287f
PH
343164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3432 This has been fixed.
3433
60dc5e56
PH
343465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3435 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3436 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3437 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3438 the caching.)
3439
533244af
PH
344066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3441
a5a28604
PH
344267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3443 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3444 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3445 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3446
7e634d24
PH
344768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3448 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3449
3e11c26b
PH
345069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3451 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3452 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3453
6729cf78
PH
345470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3455 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3456 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3457 message there.
3458
00f00ca5
PH
345971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3460 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3461 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3462
c9bdd01c
PH
346372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3464 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3465 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3466 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3467
d43194df
PH
346873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3469 during host lookups.
3470
fe5b5d0b
PH
347174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3472 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3473
3474 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3475
76a2d7ba
PH
347675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3477 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3478 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3479 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3480 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3481 background.
3482
348376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3484 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3485
04f7d5b9
PH
348677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3487 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3488 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3489
bc60667e
PH
349078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3491
bb6e88ff
PH
349279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3493 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3494 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3495 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3496 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3497 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3498 process earlier.
3499
1e70f85b
PH
350080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3501 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3502 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3503 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3504 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3505
350681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3507 tables).
3508
4e01f9d6
PH
350982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3510
1ee1cef2
PH
351183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3512 "vacation" handling.
3513
6e2b4ccc
PH
351484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3515 OS variants using glibc.
3516
8e669ac1
PH
351785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3518
495ae4b0 3519
bbe902f0
PH
3520----------------------------------------------------
3521See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3522----------------------------------------------------
3523
3524
3525Exim version 4.44
3526-----------------
3527
3528 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3529 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3530 transport
3531
3532 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3533 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3534 place.
3535
3536 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3537 filter fails to execute.
3538
3539 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3540 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3541 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3542 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3543 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3544
3545 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3546 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3547 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3548 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3549
3550 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3551 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3552 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3553 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3554 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3555
3556 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3557
3558 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3559 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3560 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3561 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3562
3563 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3564 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3565 sender verification.
3566
356710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3568 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3569
357011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3571 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3572
357312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3574 ignore_target_hosts.
3575
357613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3577 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3578 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3579 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3580 "[x.x.x.x]".
3581
358214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3583 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3584 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3585
358615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3587 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3588 wake it up if nothing else does.
3589
359016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3591 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3592 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3593 end up negative.
3594
359517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3596 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3597
ea3a6f44 359818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3599
360019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3601 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3602 empty pattern.
3603
360420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3605 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3606 one IP address.
3607
ea3a6f44
NM
360821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3609 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3610 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3611 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3612 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3613 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3614
ea3a6f44
NM
361522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3616 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3617 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3618
361923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3620 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3621 $sender_host_address.
3622
362324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3624
ea3a6f44
NM
362525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3626 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3627 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3628
362926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3630 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3631
ea3a6f44
NM
363227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3633 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3634
ea3a6f44
NM
363528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3636 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3637 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3638 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3639
364029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3641 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3642 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3643
ea3a6f44
NM
364430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3645 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3646 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3647 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3648
ea3a6f44
NM
364931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3650 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3651 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3652
ea3a6f44
NM
365331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3654 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3655
ea3a6f44
NM
365632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3657 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3658 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3659 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3660 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3661 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3662 is going on).
bbe902f0 3663
ea3a6f44
NM
366433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3665 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3666 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3667 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3668 CAN-2005-0021
3669
ea3a6f44
NM
367034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3671 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3672 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3673 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3674 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3675 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3676 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3677
3678 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3679 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3680 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3681 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3682 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3683 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3684 CAN-2005-0021
3685
ea3a6f44
NM
368635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3687 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3688 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3689 CAN-2005-0022
3690
ea3a6f44
NM
369136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3692 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3693 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3694 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3695 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3696
ea3a6f44
NM
369737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3698 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3699 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3700 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3701 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3702
ea3a6f44
NM
370338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3704 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3705 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3706 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3707 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3708
3709
495ae4b0
PH
3710Exim version 4.43
3711-----------------
3712
3713 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3714 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3715 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3716 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3717 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3718 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3719 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3720
3721 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3722 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3723 the delivery.
3724
3725 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3726
3727 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3728
3729 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3730 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3731 to local_scan().
3732
3733 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3734 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3735 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3736 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3737 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3738
3739 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3740 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3741
3742 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3743
3744 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3745
374610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3747 header_sender only.
3748
374911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3750 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3751
375212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3753 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3754 affecting debugging statements).
3755
375613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3757
375814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3759 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3760 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3761 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3762 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3763 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3764 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3765 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3766 after the received time, and all would be well.
3767
376815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3769 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3770 condition in an expansion string.
3771
377216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3773
377417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3775 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3776 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3777 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3778 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3779 job under whatever limits there are.
3780
378118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3782
378319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3784 space).
3785
378620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3787 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3788 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3789 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3790 return path is set.
3791
379221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3793 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3794 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3795 binary data in such strings.
3796
379722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3798
379923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3800 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3801 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3802 failure, which is pointless.
3803
380424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3805
380625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3807
380826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3809 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3810 Sender: header lines.
3811
381227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3813 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3814 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3815
381628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3817 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3818 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3819 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3820 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3821 happens.
3822
382329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3824 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3825 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3826 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3827 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3828
382930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3830 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3831 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3832 1024.
3833
383431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3835 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3836
383732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3838 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3839
384033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3841
384232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3843
384433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3845
384634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3847 syntax error.
3848
384935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3850
385136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3852
385337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3854 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3855 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3856 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3857
385838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3859 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3860
3861
3862Exim version 4.42
3863-----------------
3864
3865 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3866 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3867 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3868 it was not quoted.
3869 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3870 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3871 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3872 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3873 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3874 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3875
3876 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3877 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3878 verification failure".
3879
3880 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3881 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3882 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3883 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3884
3885 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3886 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3887 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3888 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3889 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3890 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3891 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3892 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3893 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3894 treated as a timeout.
3895
3896 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3897 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3898 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3899 not set for Exim filters).
3900
3901 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3902 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3903 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3904
3905 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3906
3907 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3908 try to make them clearer.
3909
3910 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3911 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3912
3913 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3914
3915 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3916
391710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3918 only the Cygwin environment.
3919
392011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3921 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3922 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3923 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3924 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3925
392612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3927 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3928 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3929 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3930 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3931 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3932 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3933
393413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3935 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3936
393714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3938
3939 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3940 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3941 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3942
3943 To: susanne@some.where
3944
3945 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3946 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3947 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3948 of addresses in From: header lines).
3949
3950 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3951 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3952 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3953
3954 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3955 treated as non-personal.
3956
3957 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3958 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3959
396015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3961
396216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3963
396417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3965 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3966 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3967
396818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3969 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3970
397119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3972 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3973 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3974 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3975 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3976 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3977
397820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3979 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3980 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3981 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3982 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3983 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3984 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3985 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3986
3987 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3988
398921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3990 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3991
399222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3993 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3994 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3995
399623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3997 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3998
399924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4000 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4001 rather than long int.
4002
400325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4004
400526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4006
4007
4008Exim version 4.41
4009-----------------
4010
4011 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4012 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4013 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4014 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4015 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4016 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4017
4018
4019Exim version 4.40
4020-----------------
4021
4022 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4023 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4024
4025 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4026 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4027 socklen_t is defined.
4028
4029 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4030 always exist.
4031
4032 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4033 configured.
4034
4035 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4036 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4037 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4038 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4039 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4040
4041 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4042 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4043 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4044 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4045
4046 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4047 of flapping under certain conditions.
4048
4049 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4050 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4051 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4052
4053 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4054
405510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4056
405711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4058 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4059 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4060 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4061
406212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4063 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4064 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4065 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4066 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4067 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4068 preserved with the message after it was received.
4069
407013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4071 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4072 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4073 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4074 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4075 test suite worked just fine.
4076
407714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4078 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4079 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4080
408115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4082 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4083 string.
4084
408516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4086 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4087 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4088 does not fully solve it.
4089
409017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4091 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4092 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4093 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4094 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4095
409618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4097 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4098 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4099
410019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4101 string, for example:
4102
4103 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4104
4105 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4106 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4107 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4108 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4109 the routers could not see them.
4110
411120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4112 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4113
411421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4115 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4116 output).
4117
411822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4119 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4120 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4121 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4122 that needed quoting.
4123
412423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4125 was not being matched caselessly.
4126
412724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4128 backslashes.
4129
413025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4131 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4132 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4133 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4134 when use_sender is false.
4135
413626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4137
413827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4139
414028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4141
414229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4143 the configuration file.
4144
414530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4146 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4147
414831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4149
415032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4151 bytes in the message body.
4152
415333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4154 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4155 delivery.
4156
415734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4158
415935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4160
416136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4162 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4163 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4164 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4165 another IP address.
4166
4167
4168Exim version 4.34
4169-----------------
4170
4171 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4172 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4173
4174 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4175 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4176 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4177 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4178 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4179
4180 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4181 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4182
4183 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4184 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4185 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4186
4187 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4188 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4189 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4190
4191 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4192 for routers.
4193
4194 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4195 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4196 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4197 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4198 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4199 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4200 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4201
4202
4203Exim version 4.33
4204-----------------
4205
4206 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4207 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4208 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4209 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4210 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4211 default (and expected) setting.
4212
4213 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4214 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4215 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4216 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4217
4218 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4219 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4220
4221 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4222 in domain lists.
4223
4224 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4225 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4226 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4227 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4228 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4229 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4230
4231 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4232 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4233 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4234
4235 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4236 part (NOT match_host).
4237
4238 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4239
4240 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4241 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4242 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4243 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4244 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4245 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4246 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4247 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4248 the same named file.
4249
425010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4251 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4252 when Exim is built.
4253
425411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4255 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4256 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4257 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4258 a host name.
4259
426012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4261 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4262 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4263
426413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4265
426614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4267
426815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4269
427016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4271 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4272
427317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4274 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4275 before starting the TLS session.
4276
427718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4278
427919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4280 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4281
428220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4283 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4284 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4285 colon in the middle).
4286
4287
4288Exim version 4.32
4289-----------------
4290
4291 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4292 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4293 multiple configurations are in use.
4294
4295 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4296 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4297 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4298 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4299 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4300 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4301
4302 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4303 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4304
4305 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4306 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4307 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4308
4309 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4310 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4311 occurs.
4312
4313 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4314 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4315
4316 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4317
4318 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4319 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4320
4321 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4322
4323 -prval:sval
4324
4325 is equivalent to
4326
4327 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4328
4329 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4330 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4331 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4332 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4333 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4334
433510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4336 Exim's behaviour:
4337
4338 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4339 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4340 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4341 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4342 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4343 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4344
4345 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4346 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4347 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4348 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4349 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4350 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4351 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4352 string.
4353
4354 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4355 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4356 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4357 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4358 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4359
436011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4361
436212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4363 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4364 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4365
436613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4367
436814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4369 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4370 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4371 information.
4372
437315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4374 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4375
437616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4377 Three changes have been made:
4378
4379 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4380 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4381 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4382 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4383 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4384
4385 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4386 been restored.
4387
4388 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4389 the modified behaviour.
4390
4391
4392Exim version 4.31
4393-----------------
4394
4395 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4396 Larry Rosenman.
4397
4398 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4399 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4400
4401 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4402 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4403 try to track down a specific problem.
4404
4405 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4406 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4407 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4408
4409 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4410 warning.
4411
4412 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4413 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4414 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4415 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4416 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4417 some earlier ones do not.
4418
4419 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4420
4421 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4422 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4423 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4424 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4425 address literals are enabled, of course).
4426
4427 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4428
442910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4430 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4431 by a command such as
4432
4433 exim -f "" ...
4434
4435 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4436
443711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4438
443912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4440 remained set. It is now erased.
4441
444213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4443 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4444
444514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4446 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4447 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4448 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4449 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4450 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4451 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4452 appropriate error code.
4453
445415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4455 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4456 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4457 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4458 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4459 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4460
446116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4462 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4463 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4464
446517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4466 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4467 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4468 terminate the header.
4469
447018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4471 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4472 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4473
447419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4475 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4476 (4.30/29). In particular:
4477
4478 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4479 imposed.
4480
4481 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4482 to write a maildirsize file.
4483
4484 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4485 the transport, the new value overrides.
4486
4487 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4488 count.
4489
449020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4491 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4492 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4493 space or a tab.
4494
449521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4496 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4497 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4498 the fallback hosts.
4499
450022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4501 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4502 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4503
450423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4505 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4506 using a union.
4507
450824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4509 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4510 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4511
451225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4513
451426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4515
451627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4517
451828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4519 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4520 become corrupted.
4521
452229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4523 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4524 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4525 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4526 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4527 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4528 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4529 too great.
4530
453130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4532 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4533 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4534 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4535 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4536 incorrectly.
4537
453831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4539 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4540 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4541 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4542 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4543 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4544 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4545 cached value only when the same options are set.
4546
454732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4548
454933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4550 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4551 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4552 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4553 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4554
455534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4556 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4557 it is clearly obsolete.
4558
455935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4560 transport.
4561
456236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4563 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4564 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4565 times.
4566
456737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4568 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4569 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4570 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4571 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4572
457338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4574 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4575 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4576 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4577
457839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4579
4580 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4581
4582 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4583 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4584 2^31.
4585
458640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4587 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4588 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4589 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4590 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4591 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4592 $localpart_data.
4593
459441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4595 with the -f command-line option.
4596
459742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4598 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4599 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4600 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4601 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4602 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4603
460443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4605 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4606 line.
4607
460844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4609 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4610 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4611 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4612 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4613 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4614 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4615 buffer is too small.
4616
461745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4618 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4619
462046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4621 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4622 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4623 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4624 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4625 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4626 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4627 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4628 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4629
463047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4631 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4632 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4633
463448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4635 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4636 ACL").
4637
463849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4639 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4640 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4641 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4642 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4643
464450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4645 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4646 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4647 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4648 is set.
4649
465051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4651
465252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4653
465453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4655 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4656
465754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4658 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4659 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4660
466155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4662 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4663 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4664 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4665 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4666
466756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4668 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4669 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4670 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4671 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4672 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4673 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4674
467557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4676 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4677 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4678 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4679 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4680 the test of how many are available.
4681
468258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4683 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4684 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4685 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4686 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4687 new message is started.
4688
468959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4690 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4691
469260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4693 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4694
469561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4696 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4697 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4698 is no long logged.
4699
470062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4701 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4702 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4703 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4704 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4705 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4706 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4707
470863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4709 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4710 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4711 interpreted as octal.
4712
471364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4714 setting.
4715
471665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4717 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4718 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4719 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4720 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4721 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4722
472366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4724 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4725 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4726 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4727
4728 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4729 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4730 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4731 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4732
4733 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4734 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4735 is a bug fix.
4736
4737 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4738 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4739
474067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4741
474268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4743 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4744 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4745 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4746
474769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4748 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4749 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4750 supplied", which is not helpful.
4751
475270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4753 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4754 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4755
475671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4757 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4758 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4759 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4760 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4761 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4762 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4763 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4764
476572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4766 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4767 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4768 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4769 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4770
477173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4772 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4773 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4774 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4775 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4776 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4777
477874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4779 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4780 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4781
478275. Added write_rejectlog option.
4783
478476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4785 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4786 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4787 variables.
4788
478977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4790
479178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4792 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4793 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4794 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4795 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4796 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4797 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4798 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4799
480079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4801 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4802 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4803 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4804 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4805
480680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4807 Haardt.
4808
480981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4810 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4811 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4812 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4813 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4814 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4815 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4816 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4817 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4818
4819
4820Exim version 4.30
4821-----------------
4822
4823 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4824 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4825 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4826
4827 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4828 fixed.
4829
4830 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4831 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4832 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4833
4834 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4835 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4836 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4837 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4838 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4839 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4840
4841 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4842 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4843 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4844 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4845 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4846 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4847 the Exim test suite.
4848
4849 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4850 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4851 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4852 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4853
4854 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4855 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4856 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4857 specify it in this variable.
4858
4859 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4860 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4861 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4862 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4863
4864 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4865 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4866 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4867 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4868
4869 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4870 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4871 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4872 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4873 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4874
4875 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4876
487710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4878 they are logged.
4879
488011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4881 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4882 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4883 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4884 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4885
488612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4887 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4888
488913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4890 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4891 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4892 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4893 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4894
489514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4896 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4897
489815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4899 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4900 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4901
490216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4903 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4904
490517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4906 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4907
490818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4909 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4910 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4911
491219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4913 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4914
491520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4916 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4917 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4918 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4919
492021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4921
492222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4923 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4924 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4925 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4926
492723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4928
492924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4930 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4931
493225. Added .include_if_exists.
4933
493426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4935 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4936 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4937 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4938 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4939 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4940
494127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4942
494328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4944 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4945 this.
4946
494729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4948
494930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4950 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4951
4952 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4953 550 Sender verify failed
4954
4955 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4956 the final line of the response.
4957
495831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4959 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4960 all other user lookups.
4961
496232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4963 delivery time.
4964
496533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4966 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4967 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4968 result into an int without checking.
4969
497034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4971 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4972 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4973
497435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4975 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4976 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4977 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4978
497936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4980 correctly.
4981
498237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4983 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4984
498538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4986 to the empty sender.
4987
498839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4989 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4990 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4991 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4992 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4993 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4994 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4995 panic log.
4996
499740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4998 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4999 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5000 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5001 used.
5002
500341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5004 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5005
500642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5007 timestamps.
5008
500943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5010 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5011
501244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5013
501445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5015 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5016 logs.
5017
501846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5019 as soon as it is encountered.
5020
502147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5022
502348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5024 rewritten to "<>".
5025
502649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5027 recognizes a tab character.
5028
502950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5030 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5031 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5032 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5033
503451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5035
503652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5037 crash.
5038
503953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5040
504154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5042
504355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5044 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5045 2822.
5046
504756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5048 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5049 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5050 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5051 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5052
505357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5054 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5055
505658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5057 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5058 list (.included file names were always shown).
5059
506059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5061 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5062 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5063 root at that time.
5064
506560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5066 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5067
506861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5069
507062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5071
507263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5073
507464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5075 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5076 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5077 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5078 failures to open the logs.
5079
508065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5081 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5082 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5083 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5084 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5085 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5086 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5087
5088
5089Exim version 4.24
5090-----------------
5091
5092 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5093 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5094 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5095 change 4.23/1.
5096
5097 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5098 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5099 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5100
5101 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5102 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5103 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5104
5105 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5106 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5107 causing some misleading effects.
5108
5109 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5110 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5111 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5112
5113 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5114 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5115 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5116 queue-runner function directly.
5117
5118
5119Exim version 4.23
5120-----------------
5121
5122 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5123 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5124
5125 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5126 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5127 was always written to the default place.
5128
5129 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5130 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5131 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5132
5133 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5134
5135 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5136
5137 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5138 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5139 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5140
5141 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5142 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5143 must start.
5144
5145 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5146 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5147 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5148
5149 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5150 command line option is disabled.
5151
5152 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5153 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5154
5155 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5156
5157 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5158
5159 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5160 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5161
516210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5163
516411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5165 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5166 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5167 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5168 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5169 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5170
517112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5172 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5173 timeout.
5174
517513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5176 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5177
517814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5179 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5180
518115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5182 received was valid base64.
5183
518416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5185 name of the variable that was being set.
5186
518717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5188
518918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5190 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5191 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5192 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5193 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5194 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5195
519619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5197
519820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5199 nor realm was specified.
5200
520121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5202 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5203 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5204 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5205
520622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5207 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5208 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5209
521023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5211 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5212 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5213
521424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5215 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5216 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5217 some systems use these upper case variants.
5218
521925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5220 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5221 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5222 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5223
522426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5225
522627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5227 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5228
522928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5230 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5231 expansion variable.
5232
523329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5234
523530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5236 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5237 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5238 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5239
524031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5241 using it.
5242
524332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5244 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5245 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5246
524733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5248 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5249
525034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5251 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5252 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5253 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5254
525535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5256 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5257 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5258
525936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5260
526137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5262 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5263 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5264 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5265 aborted.
5266
526738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5268 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5269 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5270
527139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5272
527340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5274 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5275
527641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5277 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5278
527942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5280 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5281 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5282 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5283 when emails are that large.
5284
5285
5286
5287Exim version 4.22
5288-----------------
5289
5290 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5291 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5292
5293 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5294 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5295 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5296
5297 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5298 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5299 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5300
5301 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5302 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5303 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5304 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5305 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5306
5307 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5308 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5309 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5310 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5311 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5312 ever.
5313
5314 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5315 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5316 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5317 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5318 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5319 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5320 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5321 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5322 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5323 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5324 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5325 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5326 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5327 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5328
5329 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5330 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5331 parameterised it.
5332
5333 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5334 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5335 error should be diagnosed.
5336
5337 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5338 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5339 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5340 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5341 appeared instead of "NULL".
5342
534310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5344 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5345 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5346 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5347 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5348 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5349 proceeds).
5350
5351 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5352 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5353 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5354
5355
5356Exim version 4.21
5357-----------------
5358
5359 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5360 or receiver verification errors.
5361
5362 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5363 name.
5364
5365 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5366 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5367 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5368 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5369
5370 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5371 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5372 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5373 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5374 shouldn't happen again.
5375
5376 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5377 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5378 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5379
5380 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5381 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5382
5383 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5384
5385 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5386 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5387
5388 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5389 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5390 RFC.
5391
539210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5393 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5394 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5395
539611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5397 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5398 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5399 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5400
540112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5402 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5403 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5404 to define what should happen).
5405
540613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5407 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5408 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5409
541014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5411
541215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5413
541416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5415 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5416
541717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5418 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5419 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5420 structure in all cases.
5421
5422 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5423 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5424 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5425 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5426
542718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5428 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5429 domain name.
5430
543119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5432 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5433
543420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5435 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5436
543721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5438 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5439 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5440
544122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5442 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5443 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5444
544523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5446 the book and for uniformity.
5447
544824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5449
545025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5451 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5452 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5453 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5454 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5455 non-existent command as the problem.
5456
545726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5458 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5459 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5460
546127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5462
546328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5464 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5465 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5466
546729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5468 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5469 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5470 timestamps using strftime().
5471
547230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5473 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5474
547532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5476 transport-time rewrites.
5477
547833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5479 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5480 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5481 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5482
548334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5484 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5485
548635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5487 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5488 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5489 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5490 comma and a space.
5491
549236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5493 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5494 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5495 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5496 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5497 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5498 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5499
550037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5501 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5502 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5503 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5504 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5505
550638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5507 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5508 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5509 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5510 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5511 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5512 remaining text gets split now.
5513
551439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5515 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5516 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5517 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5518
551940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5520 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5521 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5522 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5523 $return_path.
5524
552541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5526 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5527 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5528 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5529 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5530 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5531 passed through if needed.
5532
553342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5534 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5535 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5536 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5537 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5538 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5539
554043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5541 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5542 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5543 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5544 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5545
554644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5547 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5548 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5549 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5550 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5551
555245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5553 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5554 noticed.
5555
555646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5557 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5558 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5559 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5560 mayhem of various kinds.
5561
556247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5563 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5564 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5565 the right test for positive values.
5566
556748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5568 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5569 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5570 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5571 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5572 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5573 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5574 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5575 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5576 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5577 envelope.
5578
557949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5580 module.
5581
558250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5583 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5584 forbidding it.
5585
558651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5587 the existing equality matching.
5588
558952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5590 dealing with inode numbers.
5591
559253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5593 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5594 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5595
559654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5597 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5598 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5599 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5600 local_scan().
5601
560255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5603 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5604 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5605 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5606 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5607 relay addresses has also been removed.
5608
560956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5610
561157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5612 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5613 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5614
561558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5616 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5617 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5618 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5619 processing applies to CR:
5620
5621 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5622 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5623
5624 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5625 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5626 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5627 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5628
562959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5630 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5631 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5632
563360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5634 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5635 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5636 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5637 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5638 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5639 arisen.
5640
564161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5642 program routers.
5643
564462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5645 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5646 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5647 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5648 adds:
5649
5650 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5651
5652 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5653
5654 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5655
565663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5657 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5658 not considered personal.
5659
566064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5661
566265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5663
566466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5665
566667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5667 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5668 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5669 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5670 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5671 header lines, and spool format errors.
5672
567368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5674 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5675 for more flexibility.
5676
567769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5678 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5679 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5680
568170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5682 Sabourenkov.
5683
568471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5685 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5686 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5687 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5688 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5689 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5690 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5691 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5692 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5693
569472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5695 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5696 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5697 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5698 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5699 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5700 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5701
570273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5703 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5704 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5705
570674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5707 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5708 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5709 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5710 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5711 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5712 instead of killing the process with assert().
5713
571475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5715 than Unicode encoding.
5716
571776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5718 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5719 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5720 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5721
572277. Added process_log_path.
5723
572478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5725 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5726
572779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5728 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5729
573080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5731 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5732 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5733
573481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5735 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5736 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5737 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5738 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5739 were applied:
5740
5741 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5742 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5743 as invalid.
5744
574582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5746 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5747 they will be used during message reception.
5748
5749
5750Exim version 4.20
5751-----------------
5752
5753The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5754
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