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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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11JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
12 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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fc243e94 14JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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15 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
16 its own TCP segment.
17
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18JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
19 each verb.
20
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21JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
22
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23JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
24
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25JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
26 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
27
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28JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
29 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
30 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
31 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
32 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
33 suitably configured).
34
c05bdbd6 35JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
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36 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
37
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38JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
39 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
40 crash could result.
41
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42JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
43 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
44
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45JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
46 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
47 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
48 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
49 to this system.
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51JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
52 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
53 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
54
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55JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
56 output.
57
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58JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
59 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
60
3c55eef2 61JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 62 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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63 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
64 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
65 input).
66
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67HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
68 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
69 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
70 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
71 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
72
7d8d08c4 73HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
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74 shared (NFS) environment.
75
7d8d08c4 76HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
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77 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
78 affected.
79
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80JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
81 on some platforms for bit 31.
82
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83JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
84 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
85 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
86 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
87 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
88 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
89 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
90 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
91
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92JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
93
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94JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
95 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
96
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97JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
98 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
99 facility.
100
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101JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
102 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
103 documentation.
104
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105JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
106 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
107 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
108 not do so.
109
59c0959a 110JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
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111 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
112 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
113
114JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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115 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
116 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
117 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
118 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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120JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
121 reject under TFO.
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efad2f41 123JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 124 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
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125 be requested on all coneections.
126
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127JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
128 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
129
6ee11061 130PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
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132JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
133 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
134 one for these; the option was ignored.
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136JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
137 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
138 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
139 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
140
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141JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
142 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
143 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
144 standards.
145
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146JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
147 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
148 error ignored was made.
149
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150JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
151
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152JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
153 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
154 values, to catch one form of exploit.
155
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156JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
157 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
158 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
159
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160JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
161 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
162 causing a segfault.
163
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164JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
165 them in our smtp response.
166
9c6881f8 167JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
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168 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
169 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
170 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
171 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
172
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173JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
174 link count into consideration.
175
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176HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
177 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
178
179JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
180 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
181 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
182 surprise.
183
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185
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189
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190JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
191 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
192
193JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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194 non-signal-safe functions being used.
195
196JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
197 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
198 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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200JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
201 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
202 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
203
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204JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
205 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
206 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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207 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
208 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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209 messed with.
210
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211PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
212 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
213
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214JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
215 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
216 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
217 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
218 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
219 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
220 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
221
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222JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
223 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
224
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225JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
226 legitimate.
227
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228JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
229 Previously this would segfault.
230
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231JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
232 segfault.
233
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234JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
235 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
236 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
237 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
238 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
239 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
240
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241JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
242
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243JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
244 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
245 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
246 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
247
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248JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
249
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250JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
251 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
252 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
253 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
254
5054c4fd 255JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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257JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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259JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
260 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
261 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
262
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263JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
264 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
265 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
266
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267PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
268
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269JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
270 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
271 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
272 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
273
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274PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
275 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
276 promised '?' replacement.
277
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278PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
279
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280JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
281 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
282 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
283 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
284 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
285
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286JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
287 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
288 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
289
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290JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
291 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
292 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
293
7ea1237c 294JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 295 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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296 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
297
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298JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
299 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
300 hope that is portable enough.
301
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302JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
303 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
304 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
305 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
306
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307JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
308 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
309 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
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311JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
312 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
313 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
314 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
315
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316JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
317 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
318
75c121f0 319JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 320 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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321 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
322 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
323
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324JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
325 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
326 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
327
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328JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
329 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
330 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
331 the previous G, M, k.
332
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333JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
334 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
335 it was unset.
336
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337JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
338 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
339 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
340 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
341
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342JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
343 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
344
de6f74f2 345JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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346 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
347 off past the nul-terimation.
348
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349JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
350 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
351 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
352 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
353 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
354
aa6e77af 355JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
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357JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
358 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
359 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
360 actually does fail.
361
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362AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
363 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
364
365JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
366 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
367 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
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369JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
370 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
371 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
372
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373JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
374 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
375
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c39c8870 380GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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381 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
382 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
383 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
384 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
385 be defined in redis_servers.
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387GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
388 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
389
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390JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
391 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
392 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
393 extant use locations.
394
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395JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
396 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
397
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398JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
399 Previously only the last row was returned.
400
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401JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
402 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
403 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
404 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
405 input.
406
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407JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
408 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
409 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
410 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
411 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
412 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
413 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
414 Main pool for expansions.
415 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
416 active in the testsuite.
417 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
418
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419JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
420 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
421 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
422 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
423 round-robin DNS.
424
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425JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
426 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
427 failure response.
428
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429JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
430 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
431 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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432
433JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
434 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
435 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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437JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
438 rows affected is given instead).
439
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440JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
441 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
442
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443JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
444 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
445 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
446 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
447 for all multi-message initiating connections.
448
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449JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
450 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
451 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
452
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453JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
454 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
455 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
456 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
457 separate.
458
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459JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
460 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
461 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
462 fake-reject.
463
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464HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
465
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466JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
467 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
468
aab9a843 469PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 470 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 471 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 472
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473JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
474 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
475 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
476 and send a quit.
477
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478JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
479 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
480
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481JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
482 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
483 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
484
c0635b6d
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485JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
486 for the build is renamed.
487
b808677c
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488JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
489 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
490 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
491
6678c382
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492JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
493 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
494 result replacing the original.
495
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496JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
497 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
498 and the resources needed to be freed.
499
15ae19f9
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500JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
501
e6532c4a
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502JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
503 was not propagated.
504
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505JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
506 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
507 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
508 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
509
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510JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
511 length value. Previously this would segfault.
512
71bb51e0
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513HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
514 newer versions of the scanner.
515
e04bfa34
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516JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
517 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
518 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
519 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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520 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
521 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
522 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 523
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524JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
525 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
526 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
527 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
528 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
529 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
530 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
531 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
532 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
533 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
534
c9cf9ac4
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535JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
536 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
537
b3b37076
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538JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
539
830832c9
HSHR
540HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
541 allows proper process termination in container environments.
542
f64e8b5f
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543JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
544 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
545
8f0776b5
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546JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
547 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
548 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
549
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550JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
551 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
552 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 553 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 554
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555JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
556 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
557 would be spooled.
558
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559PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
560 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
561
eb445b04
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562HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
563 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
564 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
565 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
566 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 567
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568JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
569 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
570 lines.
571
a28050f8
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572JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
573 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
574
ddd16464
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575PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
576 suffix list.
577
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578JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
579 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
580 "bare" representation.
581
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582JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
583 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
584 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
585 corrupted the output.
586
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590
591JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
592 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
593 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
594 pairs of long lines into single ones.
595
856d1e16
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596PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
597 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
598
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599JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
600 This permits better logging.
601
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602JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
603 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
604 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
605 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
606 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 607 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 608
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609JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
610 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
611 "exiwhat" output.
612
98913c8e
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613PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
614 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
615 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
616
8d909960
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617JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
618 than 255 are no longer allowed.
619
7006ee24
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620JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
621 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
622 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
623 client, there is no benefit for these.
624 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
625 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
626 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
627 is used (3.2.4 +).
628
6e411084
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629PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
630 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
631
4c2471ca
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632JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
633 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
634 erroneously found still-pending ones.
635
4e910c01
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636JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
637 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
638
42055a33
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639JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
640 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
641 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
642 signature and again for transmission.
643
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644JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
645 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 646 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 647
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648JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
649 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
650 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
651 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
652 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
653 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
654 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
655
40525d07
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656JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
657 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
658 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 659 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 660
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661PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
662 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
663 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
664 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
665 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
666 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
667 processing options.
668
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669JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
670 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
671 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
672 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
673 connections.
925ac8e4 674
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675PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
676 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
677 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
678 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
679 versions.
680
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681JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
682 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
683 inaccessible.
684
e69636bc
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685JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
686 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
687 banner-time rejection.
688
a843a57e
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689JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
690 callout/hold.
691
8e041ae0
PP
692PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
693 is the name of a transport.
833c70bc
PP
694 Fixes bug 2140.
695
35a04365
HSHR
696HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
697
4226691b
JH
698JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
699 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
700
d185889f
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701JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
702 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
703 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
704 during compilation.
705
0a6c178c
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706JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
707 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
708 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 709 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 710
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711JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
712 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
713 initial verify call returned a defer.
714
ad1a76fe 715JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
14de8063
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716 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
717
ad1a76fe
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718JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
719 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
720
135e9496
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721JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
722 if present. Previously it was ignored.
723
f2ed27cf
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724JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
725 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
726
7eb0e5d2
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727JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
728 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
729 extensible.
730
4f9f4be4
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731PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
732 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
733
dc4de9cc
PP
734PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
735 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
736 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
737
ea18931d
JH
738JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
739 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
740 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
741 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
742
0768462d 743HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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744 and confused the parent.
745
848214f7
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746JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
747 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
748
9e0ed81f
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749JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
750 for log purposes.
751
2540f2f8
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752JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
753 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
754 out-of-order delivery.
755
e5ab0ba9
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756JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
757 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
758 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
759 error for the HELO.
760
e99a3a6c
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761JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
762 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
763 desynchronisation.
764
18067c75
JH
765JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
766 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
767 one run was done. Bug 2189.
768
72934ba7
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769JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
770 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
771 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
772 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
773 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
774 message is still "Temporary local problem".
775
625667b6
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776JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
777 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
b488395f
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778 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
779
780HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
781 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
782 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 783
d21bf202
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784JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
785 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
786 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
787 though a different problem.
788
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9427e879 793JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 794 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 795
7b283890
JH
796JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
797
4c57a40e
PP
798PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
799 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
800
5d036699
JH
801JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
802 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
803
f4630439
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804JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
805 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
806 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
807 before acknowledging the chunk.
808
f988ce57
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809PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
810 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
811 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
812
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813JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
814 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
815 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
816 should.
817
818JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
b895f4b2
JH
819 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
820 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 821
bd8fbe36 822JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
JH
823 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
824
bd8fbe36
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825JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
826 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
827 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
828 body hash calculated value.
829
eea19017
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830JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
831 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
832 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
833
44e6651b
JH
834JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
835
836JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
837 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
838
839JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
840 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
841 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
842
843JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
844 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
845 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
846 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
847 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
848 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
849
850JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
851 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
852 past that check, despite the cost.
853
b6040544
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854JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
855 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
856 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
857
f700ea4d
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858PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
859 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
860 TLS library to consume.
861
da88acae
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862PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
863
f6ef9370
PP
864PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
865
90341c71
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866JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
867 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
868 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
869 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
870 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
871 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
872 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
873
1ec2ab36
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874PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
875
876PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
877
878PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
879 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
880 should be warning-free.
881
8b2b9480
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882JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
883
884HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
885 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
886
d953610f
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887HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
888 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
889 general solution here.
890
7dc5f827
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891PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
892 already-broken messages in the queue.
893
4bb432cb
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894JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
895
3b1a84c8
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896JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
897
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902JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
903 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 904
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905JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
906 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
907 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
908
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909JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
910 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
911 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
912 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
913 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
914 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
915 if one fails this test.
916 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
917 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
918
789f8a4f
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919JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
920 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
921
23bb6982 922JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 923 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 924
0bd1b1ed 925JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 926 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 927
20b9a2dc
JH
928JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
929 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
930
05392bbc
JH
931JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
932 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
933
1a6230a3
JH
934JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
935
cfab9d68
JH
936JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
937 certificate).
938
98c82a3d
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939JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
940 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
941 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
942 connection after a verify cache hit.
943 Do not update it with the verify result either.
944
945JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
946 when routing results in more than one destination address.
947
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948JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
949 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
950 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
951 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
952 when the cutthrough connection is made).
953
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954JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
955 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
956
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957JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
958 Previously they were not counted.
959
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960JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
961 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
962 that needed the lookup.
963
4c04137d 964JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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965 distinguished as "(=".
966
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967JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
968 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
969
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970JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
971
972JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
973 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 974
4c04137d 975JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
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976 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
977
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978JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
979 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
980 compatible.
981
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982JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
983 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
984 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
985 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
986
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987JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
988
f59aaaaa 989JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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990 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
991 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 992
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993JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
994 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
995 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
996 be lost.
997
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998JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
999 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1000 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1001 itself :(
1002
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1003JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1004 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1005 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1006
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1007JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1008 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1009 options.
1010
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1011JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1012
317e40ac
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1013PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1014 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1015
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1016PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1017 are not in the system include path.
1018
ad7fc6eb 1019JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 1020 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
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1021 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1022 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1023
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1024JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1025 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1026 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1027
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1028JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1029
8d73599f
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1030HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1031 an incoming connection.
1032
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1033HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1034 to rspamd.
1035
8e53a4fc
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1036HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1037 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1038
87cb4a16 1039JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1040 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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1041
1042
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1046JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1047 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1048 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1049 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1050
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1051TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1052 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1053
ac881e27
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1054TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1055 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1056 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1057 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1058 outgoing I= field.
1059
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1060JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1061 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1062 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1063 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1064 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1065 check on the next write.
1066
f1b81d81
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1067HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1068 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1069 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1070 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1071 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1072
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1073JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1074 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1075
895fbaf2
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1076JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1077 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1078 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1079
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1080JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1081 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1082 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1083 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1084
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1085HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1086 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1087
4c04137d 1088JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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1089 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1090
6f6dedcc
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1091JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1092 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1093 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1094 distinct.
1095
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1096JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1097
1098JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1099
ec0eb1a3
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1100JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1101
41e93589
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1102JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1103 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1104
98b98887 1105JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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1106 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1107
98b98887
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1108JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1109
858e91c2
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1110JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1111 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1112
1113JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1114
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1115JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1116 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1117
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1118JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1119
23f3dc67
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1120JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1121 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1122 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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1123 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1124 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1125 they will retry in-clear.
1126 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1127 at installation time.
1128
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1129HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1130 with the $config_file variable.
1131
5ef5dd52
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1132JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1133 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1134 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1135 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1136 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1137
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1138GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1139 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1140 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1141 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1142 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1143
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1144JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1145
7f06582c
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1146JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1147 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1148 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1149 list order is no longer honoured.
1150
4c04137d 1151JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1152 for DKIM processing.
1153
f0989ec0
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1154JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1155 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1156
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1157JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1158 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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1159 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1160 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1161
8c5d388a
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1162JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1163 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1164
2d8d625b
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1165JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1166 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1167
0cbf2b82
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1168JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1169 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1170
f2f2c91b
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1171JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1172
ce325893
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1173JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1174 cached by the daemon.
1175
de78e2d5
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1176JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1177 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1178
379ba7d0
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1179JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1180 keys are given for lookup.
1181
f444c2c7
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1182JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1183 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1184 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1185 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1186
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1187JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1188 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1189 server-side so match that on older versions.
1190
07c73177 1191JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1192 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1193 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1194
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1195JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1196 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1197
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1198JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1199 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1200 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1201 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1202 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1203 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1204 initial truncated version.
1205
ab9152ff 1206JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1207
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1208JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1209
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1210JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1211 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1212
af483912
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1213JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1214
bc3c7bb7 1215HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1216
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1217JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1218 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1219 induced overflows.
1220
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1221JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1222 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1223 stage.
1224
f9334a28
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1225JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1226 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1227
dc8091e7
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1228JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1229 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1230 former class.
1231
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1232JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1233 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1234 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1235
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1236JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1237 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1238 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1239 extraction. Accept either.
1240
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1245JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1246 expanded.
1247
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1248JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1249
ad07e9ad
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1250JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1251 it.
1252
01a4a5c5 1253JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1254 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1255 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1256 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1257
cb1d7830 1258JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1259 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1260 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1261
610ff438 1262JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1263 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1264 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1265 TLS connections
610ff438 1266
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1267JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1268 sites use this now.
1269
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1270JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1271 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1272 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1273 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1274 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1275
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1276JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1277 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1278 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1279
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1280JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1281
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1282JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1283 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1284
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1285JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1286 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1287
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1288JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1289 /defer_ok option.
1290
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1291JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1292 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1293
fd4d8871 1294JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1295 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1296 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1297
1298JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1299 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1300 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1301
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1302JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1303 timeout value per server.
1304
2ad78978
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1305JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1306 now have the list separator specified.
1307
8a512ed5 1308JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1309 option values.
8a512ed5 1310
82c0c8ea 1311JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1312 under OpenSSL.
1313
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1314JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1315
82c0c8ea
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1316JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1317 rather than the verbs used.
1318
b980ed83
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1319JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1320 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1321
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1322JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1323
cfab9d68 1324HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1325 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1326
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1327JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1328 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1329
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1330HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1331 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1332
4c04137d 1333JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1334
d2a2c69b
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1335JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1336
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1337JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1338 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1339 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1340 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1341
1f12df4d
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1342JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1343
1f155f8e
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1344JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1345 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1346
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1347JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1348 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1349
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1350JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1351
474f71bf
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1352JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1353
7137ca4b
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1354JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1355
dcb1095c
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1356JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1357 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1358
2f460950
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1359JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1360 added for tls authenticator.
1361
2f680c0c
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1362HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1363
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1368TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1369 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1370 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1371 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1372 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1373 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1374 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1375
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1376TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1377 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1378 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1379 function when detected.
1380
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1381JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1382 cause callback expansion.
1383
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1384TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1385 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1386 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1387 instead of bool when processing it.
1388
0f06b4f2 1389JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1390 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1391
be36e572
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1392JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1393
ac4ef9bd
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1394JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1395
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1396TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1397
c713ca4b
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1398TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1399 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1400
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1401JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1402 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1403 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1404 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1405 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1406 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1407
8bc732e8
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1408JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1409 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1410 exceeded it.
1411
a7fec7a7
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1412JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1413 version 3.3.6 or later.
1414
4c04137d 1415JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1416 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1417 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1418 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1419 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1420 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1421 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1422
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1423TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1424 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1425
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1426JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1427 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1428 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1429 matches.
1430
e9477a08
JH
1431JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1432 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1433 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1434
ad4c5ff9
JH
1435JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1436 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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1437
1438JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1439 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1440 syntax errors.
1441
3394b36a 1442JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1443
1444JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1445 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1446
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1447TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1448 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1449 tarball.
1450
ad4c5ff9
JH
1451JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1452
4c04137d 1453JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
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1454 Bug 1561.
1455
1456JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1457 output list separator was used.
1458
8bc732e8 1459
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1460Exim version 4.84
1461-----------------
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1462TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1463 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1464 return.
1f0ebb98 1465
a612424f 1466JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1467 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1468
1469JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1470
1471TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1472 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1473
1f0ebb98 1474
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1475Exim version 4.83
1476-----------------
1477
1478TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1479
1480 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1481 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1482 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1483 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1484 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1485 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1486
7245734e
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1487TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1488 utilities have not been installed.
1489
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1490JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1491 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1492
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1493TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1494 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1495
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1496TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1497 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1498 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1499 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1500
aa26e137
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1501JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1502
5a1b8443
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1503TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1504 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1505
72c9e342
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1506PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1507 not dns_use_dnssec.
1508
76f44207
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1509JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1510
770747fd
MFM
1511TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1512 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1513 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1514
8ddef691 1515TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1516 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1517 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1518 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1519 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1520 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1521
b9c2e32f
AR
1522JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1523
e45a1c37
JH
1524JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1525 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1526
67d81c10
JH
1527JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1528 failed delivery.
1529
b1f8e4f8
JH
1530JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1531
511a6c14 1532JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1533
1534JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1535 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1536
51c7471d
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1537JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1538 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1539
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TL
1540TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1541
1e06383a
TL
1542JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1543
76146973
JH
1544JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1545 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1546
1547 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1548 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1549 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1550
8c8b8274
TL
1551TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1552 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1553 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1554 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1555
35aba663
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1556JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1557
8c51eead 1558JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1559 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1560 lookup).
8c51eead 1561
deae092e
HS
1562TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1563 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1564 Schlichting.
35aba663 1565
fd3b6a4a 1566JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1567 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1568
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1569TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1570 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1571
2b4a568d
JH
1572JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1573
d2af03f4
HS
1574TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1575 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1576 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1577
9d1c15ef
JH
1578JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1579 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1580
44662487
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1581JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1582 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1583 hosts_request_ocsp.
1584
ed3bba5f 1585JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1586 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1587 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1588
8ccd00b1
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1589JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1590
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TL
1591TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1592 Christian Aistleitner.
1593
f2de3a33
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1594JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1595
6eb02f88
TL
1596TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1597 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1598
00bff6f6
JH
1599JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1600 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1601
071c51f7
JH
1602JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1603 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1604
a6d4c44e
TF
1605TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1606 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1607
3ae173e7
ACK
1608TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1609 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1610
c13d09b8
TL
1611TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1612 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1613 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1614
0df4ab80
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1615JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1616
66be95e0
PP
1617PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1618 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1619 Jasper Wallace.
1620
1bd0d12b
JH
1621JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1622
0de7239e
TL
1623TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1624 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1625 CVE-2014-2972
1626
fd3b6a4a 1627
2c422e6f 1628Exim version 4.82
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1629-----------------
1630
1631PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1632
12f69989
PP
1633PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1634 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1635
54c90be1
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1636PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1637 by GnuTLS.
1638
1f4a55da
PP
1639PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1640 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1641 routines.
1642
13363eba 1643PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1644
66645890 1645PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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PP
1646 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1647 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1648 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1649 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1650
a3fb9793 1651PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1652 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1653 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1654 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1655 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1656 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1657
d27f98fe 1658TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1659
6822b909
TL
1660TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1661
e7568d51
TL
1662TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1663 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1664
ae0e32ee 1665TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1666 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1667 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1668
1669TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1670
e2658fff
TL
1671TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1672
83712b39
TL
1673TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1674 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1675
976b7e9f
JH
1676JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1677
be4a1376
JH
1678JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1679
ec4b68e5
PP
1680PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1681
d7148a07
NM
1682NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1683 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1684
585121e2 1685JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1686
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TL
1687PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1688 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1689 function.
a5f239e4 1690
13d08c90
PP
1691PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1692 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1693
bef3ea7f
JH
1694JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1695 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1696 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1697
846726c5
JH
1698JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1699
3a796370
JH
1700JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1701
ea722490 1702JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1703 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1704
b1b05573
JH
1705JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1706 Bugzilla 884.
1707
362145b5
JH
1708JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1709 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1710
3c0a92dc
JH
1711JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1712 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1713
6d7c6175
PP
1714PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1715 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1716 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1717
6f123593
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1718JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1719 authenticators.
1720
c8e2fc1e
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1721JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1722 for control.
1723
005ac57f
PP
1724PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1725
3f1df0e3
PP
1726PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1727 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1728 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1729 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1730
67bd1ab3
TF
1731TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1732
1733 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1734 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1735 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1736 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1737 the retry rules.
1738
1739 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1740 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1741 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1742
1743 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1744 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1745 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1746 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1747
1ddeb334
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1748 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1749 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1750 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1751 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1752 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1753 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1754 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1755
1756 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1757 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1758
326cdc37
TF
1759TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1760
1761 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1762
1763 Resent-From: f
1764
1765 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1766 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1767 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1768 username as equal to the username.
1769
1770 This change corrects that bug.
1771
f62514b3
GF
1772GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1773 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1774 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1775
eb505532
TF
1776TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1777
14c7b357
PP
1778PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1779 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1780 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1781 NULL dereference and crash.
1782
94eaf700
PP
1783JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1784
6f5a440a
PP
1785PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1786 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1787 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1788
514ee161
SC
1789SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1790
fd98a5c6
JH
1791JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1792 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1793 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1794 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1795 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1796 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1797 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1798 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
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1799 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1800 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1801 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1802
035c7f1e
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1803PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1804 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1805
ff284120
PP
1806PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1807 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1808 Bugzilla 880.
1809
26e72755
PP
1810PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1811 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1812 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1813 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1814 an empty string is now equivalent.
1815
0fbd9bff
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1816PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1817 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1818 not performing validation itself.
1819
700d22f3
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1820PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1821 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1822
fcc8e047
JH
1823JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1824 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1825
4c04137d 1826TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1827
8c020188
PP
1828PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1829 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1830 other false fix of the same issue.
1831 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1832 Bugzilla 1363.
1833
d13cdd30
PP
1834PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1835 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1836
e2fbf4a2
PP
1837PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1838 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1839 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1840
f4c1088b
PP
1841PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1842 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1843 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1844
c5c2182f
PP
1845TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1846
73431ca9
JH
1847JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1848
2d07a215
TL
1849TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1850 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1851
a30a8861
TL
1852TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1853 Alexander Miroch.
1854
33382dd9
TL
1855TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1856 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1857 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1858 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1859 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1860
046172e6
TL
1861TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1862 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1863
581d7bee 1864TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1865 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1866 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1867
1868TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1869 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1870 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1871 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1872
237b2cf2
TL
1873TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1874
9fc5a352
TL
1875TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1876 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1877 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1878
b10e4ec2
TL
1879TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1880
e2cebd74
TL
1881TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1882 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1883 interaction.
1884
1885TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1886 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1887
2519e60d
TL
1888TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1889 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1890
e78e6ecf 1891
4263f395
PP
1892Exim version 4.80.1
1893-------------------
1894
1895PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1896 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1897 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1898
ea722490 1899
b1770b6e 1900Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1901-----------------
1902
1903PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1904 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1905 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1906
23c7e742
NM
1907NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1908
b322aac8
NM
1909NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1910 improved.
1911
4a891427
NM
1912NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1913
c1e794ba 1914PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1915
97753960
PP
1916PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1917
1918PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1919 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1920
df6303fa
PP
1921PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1922 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1923
7e6a8985
PP
1924PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1925 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1926
f1e05cc7 1927PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1928 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1929 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1930
4c287009
PP
1931PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1932
b98bb9ac
PP
1933PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1934 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1935
4a6a987a
PP
1936PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1937
c45dd180 1938PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1939
7db8d074
PP
1940PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1941 non-compliant senders.
1942 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1943
eae0036b 1944NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1945 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1946 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1947
dec5017e
PP
1948PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1949 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1950 in spool file corruption.
1951
c80c5570
PP
1952PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1953 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1954 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1955 "Got SSL error 2".
1956
076b11e2
PP
1957TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1958 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1959 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1960
5407bfff
JH
1961JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1962 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1963
9e45c72b
PP
1964JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1965
e74376d8
PP
1966PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1967 diagnostics.
1968 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1969
4c04137d 1970PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1971 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1972 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1973
7be682ca
PP
1974PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1975 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1976 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1977 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1978
ef840681
PP
1979PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1980 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1981
5bfb4cdf
PP
1982PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1983 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1984 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1985 resolver implementation change.
1986
c6e95d22
PP
1987PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1988 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1989
9cbad13b
PP
1990PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1991
9ee44efb
PP
1992PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1993
6a6084f8
PP
1994PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1995 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1996
12dd53c7
PP
1997PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1998 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1999
9e45c72b 2000JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
2001 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2002
17c76198
PP
2003PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2004 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2005 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2006 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 2007 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 2008
53947857 2009PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 2010
eae0036b 2011PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
2012 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2013 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 2014
9e45c72b 2015JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 2016
7390e768
PP
2017PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2018 read-only, out of scope).
2019 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2020
08488c86
PP
2021PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2022 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2023 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2024 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2025
6475bd82
PP
2026PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2027
81f91683
PP
2028PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2029 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2030 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2031 real issues in debug logging.
2032
5779e6aa
PP
2033PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2034 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2035
3375e053
PP
2036PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2037 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2038 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2039
2040PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2041 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2042 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2043 problems.
3375e053 2044
9d26b8c0
PP
2045PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2046 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2047
57eb9e91 2048PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2049 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2050 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2051 needs to override this, it can.
2052
16880d1a
PP
2053PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2054 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2055 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2056
a799883d
PP
2057PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2058 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2059 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2060 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2061
3ecab157 2062PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2063
0599f9cf 2064
867fcbf5
PP
2065Exim version 4.77
2066-----------------
2067
2068PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2069 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2070
f1a29782
TF
2071TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2072
ab42bd23
TK
2073TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2074 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2075
0ca0cf52
TF
2076TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2077 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2078
921b12ca
TF
2079TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2080 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2081 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2082
2083 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2084 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2085 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2086 not safe for signals.
2087
2088 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2089 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2090 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2091 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2092 exiwhat.
2093
c99ce5c9
TF
2094TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2095
2096 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2097 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2098 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2099 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2100 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2101
2102 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2103 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2104 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2105 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2106 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2107 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2108
2109 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2110 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2111 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2112 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2113
2114 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2115 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2116 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2117 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2118
2119 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2120 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2121 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2122 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2123 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2124 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2125 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2126 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2127 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2128
2129 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2130 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2131 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2132 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2133
2134 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2135 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2136 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2137 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2138 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2139 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2140 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2141 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2142 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2143 details in the main documentation.
2144
3634fc25
TF
2145TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2146
792e8a19
TF
2147TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2148
5901f0ab
TF
2149TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2150 repository when doing development or release builds.
2151
7f2a2a43
PP
2152PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2153 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2154
061b7ebd
PP
2155PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2156 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2157 Bugzilla 97.
2158
e12f8c32
PP
2159PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2160
9e949f00 2161PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2162 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2163
2164PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2165 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2166
555ae6af 2167PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2168 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2169
2170PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2171 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2172
6f7fe114
PP
2173PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2174 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2175
c566dd90
PP
2176PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2177 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2178 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2179 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2180
d6cc7c78 2181PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2182 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2183 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2184
0d0e4455
PP
2185PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2186
3399bb60 2187PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2188
2189PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2190 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2191
0ca0cf52 2192
10906672
PP
2193Exim version 4.76
2194-----------------
2195
2196PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2197
754a0503
PP
2198PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2199 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2200
c0c7b2da
PP
2201PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2202
e97d1f08
PP
2203PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2204
084c1d8c
PP
2205PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2206 Bugzilla 1098.
2207
4e7ee012
PP
2208PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2209 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2210
c8d52a00
PP
2211TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2212 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2213
54e7ce4a
PP
2214PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2215 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2216
5ee6f336
PP
2217PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2218 Bugzilla 1104.
2219
c8d52a00 2220TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2221 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2222
2223TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2224 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2225 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2226 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2227
2228PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2229 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2230
10906672 2231
aa097c4c
NM
2232Exim version 4.75
2233-----------------
2234
4c04137d 2235NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2236 Bugzilla 1073
2237
7f3d9eff
TF
2238TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2239 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2240 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2241
159f52d2
TF
2242TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2243 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2244
0cc9542a
PP
2245PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2246 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2247 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2248
f7274286
PP
2249PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2250 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2251
7b797365
PP
2252PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2253 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2254
caacae52
NM
2255NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2256 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2257
09dcaba9
NM
2258NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2259 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2260
bc19a55b
PP
2261PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2262 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2263
bd4c9759
NM
2264NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2265 Fixes bug 943.
2266
b72aab72
PP
2267PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2268 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2269
2fe76745
PP
2270PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2271 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2272
76aa570c
PP
2273PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2274 SQL string expansion failure details.
2275 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2276
f1e5fef5
PP
2277PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2278 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2279
4d805ee9
PP
2280PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2281 extern declarations in function scope.
2282 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2283
cd59ab18
PP
2284PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2285 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2286 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2287 a kernel bug).
2288
332f5cf3
PP
2289PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2290 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2291
29cfeb94
PP
2292PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2293 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2294
660242ad
PP
2295PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2296 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2297
bc4bc4c5
PP
2298PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2299 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2300
2e64baa9
NM
2301NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2302 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2303 Dennis Davis.
2304
4c04137d 2305PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2306
6bac1a9a
PP
2307PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2308
552193f0
NM
2309NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2310 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2311
1b587e48
TF
2312TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2313 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2314
aa097c4c 2315
8c07b69f
TF
2316Exim version 4.74
2317-----------------
2318
2319TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2320 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2321
c0ea85ab
TF
2322TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2323 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2324
0761d44e
TF
2325TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2326
0a349494
PP
2327DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2328 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2329 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2330
2331PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2332 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2333 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2334
fea24b2e
PP
2335PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2336 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2337 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2338 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2339
6545de78
PP
2340PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2341 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2342 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2343 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2344
1670ef10
PP
2345PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2346 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2347 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2348 arbitrary files.
2349
c0886197
PP
2350PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2351 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2352
b7487bce
PP
2353PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2354 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2355 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2356 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2357 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2358
8c07b69f 2359
97fd1e48 2360Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2361-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2362
2363PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2364 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2365 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2366
6901c596
PP
2367PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2368 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2369
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2370JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2371
77bb000f
PP
2372PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2373
a29e5231
PP
2374PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2375
ec5a0394 2376PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2377
55c75993
PP
2378PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2379
453a6645 2380PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2381 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2382 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2383 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2384
8544e77a
PP
2385PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2386 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2387 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2388 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2389 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2390
83e029d5
PP
2391PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2392
ed7f7860
PP
2393PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2394
7d9f747b
PP
2395PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2396
4b2241d2
PP
2397PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2398
10385c15
PP
2399PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2400
dbc4b90d
PP
2401PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2402
532be449
PP
2403PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2404
6a8de854 2405PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2406 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2407 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2408
5dc43717
JJ
2409JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2410
2411JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2412 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2413
3346ab01
PP
2414PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2415 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2416
491fab4c
PP
2417PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2418 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2419 Notification from John Horne.
2420
13eb9497
PP
2421PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2422 compatible.
2423
2424PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2425 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2426 it normally works.
2427
7f36d675
DW
2428DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2429 access.
2430
c1d94452
DW
2431DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2432 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2433 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2434
e2f5dc15
DW
2435DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2436 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2437 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2438 configuration file.
2439
cd25e41d
DW
2440DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2441 option (effectively making it always true).
2442
261dc43e
DW
2443DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2444 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2445
fa32850b
DW
2446DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2447 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2448
79d4bc3d
PP
2449PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2450 run-time user, instead of root.
2451
43236f35 2452PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2453 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2454
fb08281f
DW
2455DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2456 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2457 arguments.
3346ab01 2458
74935b98
DW
2459DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2460 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2461 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2462
90b6341f
DW
2463DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2464
57730b52
ML
2465NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2466
66581d1e 2467
465e92cf
JJ
2468Exim version 4.72
2469-----------------
2470
453a6645
PP
2471JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2472 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2473 typos
465e92cf 2474
453a6645
PP
2475JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2476 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2477 (Finput)
edae0343 2478
9bd3e22c
NM
2479NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2480 Patch from Alain Williams
2481
bb576ff7
NM
2482NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2483
5a1a5845
NM
2484NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2485 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2486
981a9fad
NM
2487NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2488 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2489
7fc497ee
NM
2490NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2491
1a41defa
JJ
2492JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2493
a466095c 2494NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2495 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2496
94a6bd0b
NM
2497TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2498
2499TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2500
2501MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2502 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2503 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2504
c1b141a8
NM
2505NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2506 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2507
b26eacf1 2508NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2509 Patch by Simon Arlott
2510
179c5980 2511PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2512 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2513
9bd3e22c 2514
7c6d71af
NM
2515Exim version 4.71
2516-----------------
2517
7d9f747b 2518TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2519
f013fb92
NM
2520NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2521
0eb8eedd
NM
2522NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2523
663ee6d9
NM
2524NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2525
177ebd9b
NM
2526NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2527
7c6d71af 2528
210f147e
NM
2529Exim version 4.70
2530-----------------
2531
cdd3bb85 2532TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2533 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2534
2535TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2536 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2537 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2538
2539TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2540 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2541 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2542
2543TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2544 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2545
210f147e
NM
2546NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2547 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2548 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2549 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2550
deafd5b3
NM
2551NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2552 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2553 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2554
089793a4
TF
2555TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2556
5f16ca82
TF
2557TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2558
dae9d94e 2559NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2560 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2561
7d9f747b 2562NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2563
06864c44
TF
2564TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2565 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2566 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2567 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2568
65a7d8c3 2569NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2570 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2571
23510047 2572TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2573
7d9f747b 2574NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2575
7d8eec3a 2576NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2577 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2578
89dec7b6
TF
2579TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2580 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2581
a99de90c
TF
2582TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2583 that they are available at delivery time.
2584
e2803e40
TF
2585TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2586
7199e1ee
TF
2587TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2588 incoming_port log selectors.
2589
e276e04b
TF
2590TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2591 setting expands to an empty string.
2592
ce552449 2593NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2594 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2595
e765a0f1 2596NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2597 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2598
4f054c63 2599NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2600 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2601
7d9f747b
PP
2602NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2603 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2604
7d9f747b
PP
2605NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2606 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2607
b52bc06e 2608NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2609 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2610
447de4b0
NM
2611NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2612
4c69d561 2613NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2614 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2615
d5c39246 2616NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2617 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2618
0b23848a
TK
2619TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2620
8f3414a1 2621NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2622 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2623
fb6f955d
NM
2624NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2625
2626NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2627
7d9f747b
PP
2628NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2629 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2630
7d9f747b
PP
2631NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2632 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2633
7d9f747b
PP
2634NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2635 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2636
7d9f747b
PP
2637NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2638 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2639
7d9f747b
PP
2640NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2641 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2642
7d9f747b
PP
2643NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2644 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2645
7d9f747b
PP
2646NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2647 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2648
7d9f747b 2649NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2650 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2651
7d9f747b 2652NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2653
7d9f747b
PP
2654NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2655 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2656
7d9f747b 2657NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2658
7d9f747b 2659NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2660
7d9f747b 2661NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2662
7d9f747b 2663NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2664
17792b53 2665NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2666 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2667
7d9f747b
PP
2668NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2669 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2670
91576cec 2671NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2672 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2673
7d9f747b
PP
2674NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2675 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2676
7d9f747b 2677NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2678
7d9f747b 2679NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2680
7d9f747b 2681NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2682
7d9f747b 2683NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2684
deafd5b3 2685
47db1125
NM
2686Exim version 4.69
2687-----------------
2688
4b3504d0
TK
2689TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2690 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2691 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2692
2693 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2694 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2695 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2696 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2697 build errors in sieve.c.
2698
81ea09ca
NM
2699NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2700 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2701 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2702
f13cddcb
SC
2703SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2704
7d9f747b 2705NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2706
7d9f747b 2707NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2708
7d9f747b 2709NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2710
2711
eb4c0de6
PH
2712Exim version 4.68
2713-----------------
2714
2715PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2716
6a3bceb1
PH
2717PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2718 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2719 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2720 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2721 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2722 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2723 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2724 for iplsearch lookups.
2725
2726 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2727 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2728 previously such lookups could never work.
2729
4c04137d 2730 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2731 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2732 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2733
2e30fa9d
TK
2734TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2735 version.
2736
0806a9c5
MH
2737MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2738 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2739 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2740 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2741 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2742 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2743
ae276964
TK
2744TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2745 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2746
0f2cbd1b
MH
2747MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2748 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2749 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2750 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2751 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2752 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2753
2b85bce7
PH
2754PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2755 local_scan API.
2756
93655c46
PH
2757PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2758
6c512171
PH
2759PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2760 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2761 encrypted.
2762
2763PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2764 by clients under certain conditions.
2765
aa6dc513
PH
2766PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2767 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2768
a96603a0
PH
2769PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2770
8f240103
PH
2771PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2772 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2773
2774PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2775
d677b2f2
PH
2776PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2777
d52120f2
PH
2778PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2779
64f2600a
PH
2780PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2781 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2782
8669f003
PH
2783PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2784
a4dc33a8
PH
2785PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2786 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2787
d6a60c0f
PH
2788PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2789
8f128379
PH
2790PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2791
8932dffe
PH
2792PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2793 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2794 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2795 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2796
ddea74fa 2797PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2798 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2799 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2800
ddea74fa 2801PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2802 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2803
ddea74fa
PH
2804PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2805
ce9f225c
PH
2806PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2807
19897d52
PH
2808PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2809
bc64a74d
PH
2810PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2811 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2812 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2813
eb4c0de6 2814
b4ed4da0
PH
2815Exim version 4.67
2816-----------------
2817
22ad45c9
MH
2818MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2819 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2820 Jan Srzednicki.
2821
b4ed4da0
PH
2822PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2823 issue a MAIL command.
2824
431b7361
PH
2825PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2826
2827 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2828
2829 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2830 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2831 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2832 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2833 item. This has been fixed.
2834
2835PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2836 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2837
83da1223
PH
2838PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2839 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2840
54fc8428
PH
2841PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2842 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2843 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2844
34c5e8dd
SC
2845SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2846
bbe15da8
PH
2847PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2848 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2849 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2850 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2851 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2852
0e8a9471
MH
2853MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2854 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2855 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2856
f0872424
PH
2857PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2858 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2859 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2860 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2861
b01dd148
PH
2862PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2863
6bf342e1
PH
2864PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2865
273f34d0
PH
2866PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2867 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2868 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2869 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2870 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2871
cf8b11a5
PH
2872PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2873
41c7c167
PH
2874PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2875 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2876 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2877 values).
2878
9c57cbc0
PH
2879PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2880
f3f065bb
PH
2881PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2882
047bdd8c
PH
2883PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2884
0ce9abe6
PH
2885PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2886
0e22dfd1
PH
2887PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2888
4c590bd1
PH
2889PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2890 no_callout_flush is set.
2891
09945f1e
PH
2892PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2893 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2894 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2895 fixed.
2896
c51b8e75
PH
2897PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2898
e28326d8 2899PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2900 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2901 other ACL rejections are.
2902
75b1493f
PH
2903PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2904 with slight modification.
2905
7c5214ec
PH
2906PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2907 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2908
4311097e
PH
2909PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2910 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2911 connection.
2912
29f89cad
PH
2913PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2914 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2915
5e687460
SC
2916SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2917
c3611384
PH
2918PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2919 expansion side effects.
2920
5a11a7b4
PH
2921PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2922 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2923 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2924 be the same.
2925
0e20aff9
MH
2926MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2927 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2928 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2929
ca86f471
PH
2930PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2931 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2932 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2933 were accidentally chopped off.
2934
a14e5636
PH
2935PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2936 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2937 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2938 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2939 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2940 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2941 pipelining has not been advertised.
2942
ec95d1a6
PH
2943PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2944
42855d71
PH
2945PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2946 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2947 This has been fixed.
2948
57c2c631
PH
2949PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2950 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2951 reported on Solaris.
2952
58c01c94
PH
2953PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2954 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2955 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2956 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2957 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2958 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2959 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2960
dee5a20a
PH
2961PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2962 cpus.
2963
d2ee6114
PH
2964PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2965
b2d5182b
PH
2966PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2967
79749a79
PH
2968PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2969 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2970 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2971 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2972 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2973 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2974
c456d9bb
PH
2975PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2976 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2977 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2978 host_all_ignored option.
2979
cd9868ec
PH
2980PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2981 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2982 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2983 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2984 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2985 is what is supposed to happen).
2986
ebeaf996
PH
2987PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2988 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2989 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2990 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2991 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2992 uses the Exim user.
2993
2679d413
PH
2994PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2995 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2996 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2997 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2998 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2999 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3000 users.
3001
84024b72
PH
3002PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3003
8005d38e
SC
3004SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3005 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3006 (Jez Hancock).
3007 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3008 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3009
3298c6c6
SC
3010SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3011
a43a27c5
PH
3012PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3013
58eb016e 3014PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
3015 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3016 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3017 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3018 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3019 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3020 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3021 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3022 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3023 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3024 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3025
b43a74ea
PH
3026PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3027 advertised in response to EHLO.
3028
b4ed4da0 3029
5dd1517f
PH
3030Exim version 4.66
3031-----------------
3032
3033PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3034 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3035
3036 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3037 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3038
3039 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3040 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3041 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3042
3043 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3044 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3045 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3046 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3047 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3048
3049
93cfa765
TK
3050Exim version 4.65
3051-----------------
3052
3053TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3054 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3055 versions. (#438)
3056
d6066548
MH
3057MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3058 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3059 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3060
4362ff0d
PH
3061PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3062 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3063 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3064 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3065 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3066 rather than extend the field.
3067
93cfa765 3068
944e9e9c
TF
3069Exim version 4.64
3070-----------------
aa41d2de 3071
21d74bd9
TK
3072TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3073 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3074 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3075 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3076 these files.
3077
3078TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3079 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3080 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3081
3082TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3083 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3084 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3085
3086TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3087 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3088 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3089 in the field name.
3090
2b1c6e3a
PH
3091PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3092 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3093 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3094 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3095 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3096 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3097 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3098 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3099 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3100 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3101 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3102
1f872c80
PH
3103PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3104 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3105
3106PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3107 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3108 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3109 ignores EPIPE as well.
3110
d203e649
PH
3111PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3112 (quoted-printable decoding).
3113
cc2ed8f7 3114PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3115 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3116
ddfcd446
PH
3117PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3118
d45b1de8
PH
3119PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3120
3121PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3122
38a0a95f 3123PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3124 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3125
a2405d83
JJ
3126JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3127 in 4.64-PH/09.
3128
3129JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3130 miscellaneous code fixes
3131
6ea85e9a
PH
3132PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3133 rejections.
3134
26da7e20
PH
3135PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3136 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3137 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3138 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3139 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3140 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3141 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3142 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3143
14aa5a05 3144PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3145 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3146 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3147 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3148 function.
3149 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3150 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3151 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3152 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3153 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3154 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3155 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3156 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3157 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3158
ff75a1f7
PH
3159PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3160 decoding.
3161
e6f6568e
PH
3162PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3163 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3164 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3165 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3166 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3167 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3168 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3169 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3170
d6f6e0dc
PH
3171PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3172 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3173 list.
3174
322050c2
PH
3175PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3176 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3177 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3178 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3179 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3180 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3181 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3182 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3183 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3184 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3185 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3186 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3187 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3188
08955dd3
PH
3189PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3190 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3191 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3192 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3193 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3194 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3195 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3196
1eccaa59
PH
3197PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3198 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3199 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3200 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3201 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3202 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3203 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3204 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3205 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3206 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3207
602e59e5
PH
3208PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3209 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3210 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3211 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3212 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3213
411ef850
PH
3214PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3215 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3216 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3217 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3218 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3219 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3220 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3221
7befa435
PH
3222PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3223 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3224 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3225 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3226 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3227 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3228 been verified.
3229
48da4259 3230PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3231 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3232 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3233 and authorization.)
3234
48da4259
PH
3235PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3236 if any retry times were supplied.
3237
d1d5595c
PH
3238PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3239 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3240 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3241
0ef732d9
PH
3242PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3243
328895cc
PH
3244PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3245
fd700877
PH
3246PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3247 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3248 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3249 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3250 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3251 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3252
8dce1a6f
PH
3253PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3254 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3255
17af4a17
PH
3256PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3257 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3258 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3259
3260PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3261 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3262 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3263 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3264 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3265 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3266 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3267 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3268 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3269
3270 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3271 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3272 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3273 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3274 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3275 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3276 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3277 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3278 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3279
3280 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3281 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3282 hammering the server.
3283
c1114884
PH
3284PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3285 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3286
7a0743eb
PH
3287PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3288
0d85fa3f
PH
3289PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3290 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3291 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3292
1bf43b78
PH
3293PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3294 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3295 one case where this was not true.
3296
520de300
PH
3297PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3298 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3299 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3300 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3301 fails.
3302
48c7f9e2
PH
3303PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3304 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3305 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3306 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3307 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3308 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3309 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3310 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3311 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3312 smtp transport.
3313
99ea1c86
PH
3314PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3315 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3316 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3317 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3318
a2042e78
PH
3319PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3320 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3321
4fbcfc2e
PH
3322PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3323 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3324 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3325
aa41d2de
PH
3326PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3327
af561417
PH
3328PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3329
3cc66b45
PH
3330PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3331
194cc0e4
PH
3332PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3333 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3334 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3335 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3336
a401ddaa
PH
3337PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3338 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3339
4e88a19f
PH
3340PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3341 be meaningful with "accept".
3342
d7d7b289
SC
3343SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3344 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3345
3346SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3347 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3348 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3349
3350SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3351 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3352 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3353 there is data to show.
3354 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3355
3356SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3357 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3358 as well as the number of messages.
3359
3360SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3361 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3362 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3363
3364SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3365 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3366 have a flag are now skipped.
3367
3368SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3369 Added the -emptyok flag.
3370
3371SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3372 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3373
0ea2a468
JJ
3374JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3375 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3376 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3377
3378JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3379 match 4.64-PH/13
3380
3381JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3382 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3383
3384JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3385
3386JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3387 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3388
8a10f5a4
PH
3389PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3390
30e18802
PH
3391PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3392 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3393 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3394 contravention of the specifications.
3395
55728a4f
PH
3396PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3397 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3398 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3399
d7837193
PH
3400PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3401 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3402 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3403
87054a31
PH
3404PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3405
ea2c01d2
MH
3406MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3407 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3408 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3409 some point in the past.
3410
e4fa6968
PH
3411PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3412 transport during callout processing was broken.
3413
56f5d9bd
PH
3414PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3415 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3416
922e1c28
PH
3417PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3418 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3419
21eb6e72
PH
3420PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3421 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3422
a0540757
PH
3423PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3424
944e9e9c 3425
478be7b0
SC
3426Exim version 4.63
3427-----------------
3428
3429SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3430 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3431
3432SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3433 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3434 there is data to show.
3435 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3436
3437SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3438 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3439
2b965a65
TF
3440TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3441 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3442
45b91596
PH
3443TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3444 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3445
c59f5781
TF
3446TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3447 submissions from trusted users.
3448
90fc3069
TF
3449TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3450 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3451
6083aca0
TF
3452TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3453 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3454 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3455 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3456 there is now a framework to start from.
3457
765b530f
PH
3458PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3459 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3460 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3461
4e167a8c
PH
3462PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3463
4608d683
PH
3464PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3465
b8dc3e4a
PH
3466PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3467
5418e93b
PH
3468PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3469 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3470 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3471
b4a9bda2
PH
3472PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3473 libradius.
3474
45b91596
PH
3475PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3476 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3477 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3478
5547e2c5
PH
3479PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3480 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3481 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3482 its arguments.
3483
dbcef0ea
PH
3484PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3485 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3486 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3487 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3488 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3489
25257489
PH
3490PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3491 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3492
c816d124
PH
3493PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3494
a9ccd69a
PH
3495PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3496 operations in malware.c.
3497
75fa1910
PH
3498PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3499 signatures.
3500
a7d7aa58
PH
3501PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3502 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3503 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3504 all.
3505
42119b09
PH
3506PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3507 statements to "add_header".
3508
41609df5
PH
3509PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3510 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3511
a5bd321b
PH
3512PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3513 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3514 latter.
3515
e85a7ad5 3516PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3517 so that it is now:
3518
e85a7ad5
PH
3519 ${if or { \
3520 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3521 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3522 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3523 }{no}{yes}}
3524
e85a7ad5
PH
3525 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3526 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3527
d8fe1c03
PH
3528PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3529 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3530
16282d2b
PH
3531PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3532 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3533 any possible encoding problems.
3534
35d40a98
PH
3535PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3536 but not after initializing Perl.
3537
034d99ab
PH
3538PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3539 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3540 apparently, which is not desirable.
3541
6ec97b1b
PH
3542PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3543 queries.
3544
e22ca4ac
JJ
3545JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3546 --not options
3547
3548JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3549
33d73e3b
PH
3550PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3551 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3552 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3553 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3554
9ecb03f3
PH
3555PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3556 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3557 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3558
084efe8d
PH
3559PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3560 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3561 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3562 0.12.
3563
366fc9f0
PH
3564PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3565 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3566 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3567 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3568 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3569
c59f5781 3570
c887c79e
TF
3571Exim version 4.62
3572-----------------
3573
3574TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3575 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3576
1cce3af8
PH
3577PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3578 patch).
3579
afb3eaaf
PH
3580PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3581 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3582 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3583 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3584 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3585 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3586 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3587 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3588 451 error is used.
3589
e173618b
PH
3590PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3591
dd16e114
PH
3592PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3593 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3594 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3595
f7fd3850
PH
3596PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3597 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3598 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3599 odd errors.
3600
d87df92c
PH
3601PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3602 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3603
7e9f683d
PH
3604PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3605 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3606 option (which defaults to 0600).
3607
bfad5236
PH
3608PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3609
01c490df
PH
3610PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3611 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3612 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3613 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3614 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3615 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3616 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3617
d6629cdc
PH
3618PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3619
1cce3af8 3620
214e2000
PH
3621Exim version 4.61
3622-----------------
3623
3624PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3625 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3626 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3627 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3628 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3629 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3630 addresses as local.
3631
f9daeae0
PH
3632PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3633 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3634
7e66e54d
PH
3635PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3636
c8ea1597
PH
3637PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3638 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3639 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3640 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3641 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3642 grumble.
3643
911f6fde
PH
3644PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3645 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3646
47ca6d6c
PH
3647PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3648 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3649 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3650 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3651 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3652
ed0e9820
PH
3653PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3654 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3655 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3656 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3657
eff37e47
PH
3658PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3659 be the same on different OS.
3660
1921d2ea
PH
3661PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3662 testing.
3663
b3f69ca8
JJ
3664JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3665 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3666
3667JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3668 in 4.61-PH/06
3669
424a1c63
PH
3670PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3671 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3672 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3673 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3674 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3675 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3676 bounce message.
3677
7a100415
PH
3678PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3679 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3680 when Exim was called.
3681
19b9dc85
PH
3682PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3683 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3684
309bd837
PH
3685PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3686 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3687 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3688 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3689
59e82a2a
PH
3690PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3691 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3692 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3693 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3694 changes:
3695
3696 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3697 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3698 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3699
3700 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3701 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3702 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3703
9edc04ce
PH
3704PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3705 feature).
3706
1349e1e5
PH
3707PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3708 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3709 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3710 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3711 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3712 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3713 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3714 values from the SRV records were lost.
3715
ea49d0e1
PH
3716PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3717 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3718 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3719
064a94c9
PH
3720PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3721 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3722 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3723
727071f8
PH
3724PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3725 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3726 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3727 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3728 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3729 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3730 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3731 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3732 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3733 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3734
f78eb7c6
PH
3735PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3736 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3737 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3738
21c28500
PH
3739PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3740 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3741
3742PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3743 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3744 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3745 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3746 is given.
3747
1688f43b
PH
3748PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3749 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3750 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3751
3752PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3753 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3754 PH/23 above applies.
3755
9675b384
PH
3756PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3757 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3758 (for which there is an explicit test).
3759
6a3f1455
PH
3760PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3761
dac79d3e
PH
3762PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3763 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3764 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3765 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3766 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3767
5977a0b3
PH
3768PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3769 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3770 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3771 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3772
c91535f3
PH
3773PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3774 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3775 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3776
0d46a8c8
PH
3777PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3778
278c6e6c
PH
3779PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3780
2cbb4081
PH
3781PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3782 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3783 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3784
3eef829e
PH
3785PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3786 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3787 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3788 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3789 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3790
1ab95fa6
PH
3791PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3792 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3793 the message gets confusing).
3794
230205fc
PH
3795PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3796 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3797 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3798 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3799
75e0e026
PH
3800PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3801 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3802 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3803 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3804 same order.
3805
3806PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3807 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3808 the different processes.
3809
145396a6
PH
3810PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3811
3cd34f13
PH
3812PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3813
11121d3d
JJ
3814JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3815 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3816
3817JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3818 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3819
3820JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3821 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3822 messages matching specified criteria.
3823
8def5aaf
PH
3824PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3825
929ba01c
PH
3826PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3827 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3828
2632889e
PH
3829PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3830 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3831 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3832 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3833 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3834 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3835 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3836 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3837 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3838 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3839
944a9c55
PH
3840PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3841 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3842 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3843
4a23603b
PH
3844PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3845
4730f942
PH
3846PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3847 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3848 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3849 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3850 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3851 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3852 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3853 the variable.
3854
30dba1e6
PH
3855PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3856 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3857
382afc6b
PH
3858PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3859
a86229cf
PH
3860PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3861
50c99ba6
PH
3862PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3863
d35e429d
PH
3864PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3865 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3866 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3867 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3868 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3869 size of the count of files.
3870
f90d018c
PH
3871PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3872
75def545
PH
3873PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3874 used in LMTP mode:
3875
3876 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3877 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3878 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3879 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3880
3881 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3882 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3883 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3884
3885PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3886 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3887 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3888 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3889 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3890
c46782ef
PH
3891PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3892 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3893
71fafd95
PH
3894PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3895 will now be deprecated.
3896
2c5db4fd
PH
3897PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3898
9cf6b11a
JJ
3899JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3900 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3901 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3902
3903JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3904 with very large, slow to parse queues
3905
3906JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3907
3908JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3909
898d150f
PH
3910PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3911 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3912 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3913 SMTP output lines.
3914
46218253
PH
3915PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3916 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3917 Sieve code now uses this.
3918
e97957bc
PH
3919PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3920 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3921
81e509d7
PH
3922PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3923 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3924
3d240ff7
PH
3925PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3926
b37c4101
PH
3927PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3928 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3929 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3930 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3931 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3932
79378e0f
PH
3933PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3934 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3935 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3936 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3937
e49c7bb4
PH
3938PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3939
d114ec46
PH
3940PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3941
f3d7df6c
PH
3942PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3943 is preferred over IPv4.
3944
715ab376
PH
3945PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3946 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3947 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3948 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3949 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3950 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3951 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3952
6b31b150
PH
3953PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3954 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3955 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3956
3957PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3958
d515a917
PH
3959PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3960 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3961 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3962 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3963 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3964 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3965 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3966 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3967 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3968 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3969 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3970
9b8fadde
PH
3971PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3972 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3973 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3974
214e2000 3975
5de37277
PH
3976Exim version 4.60
3977-----------------
3978
cc38ddbf
PH
3979PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3980
3981 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3982 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3983
3984 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3985 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3986 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3987
72fdd6ae
PH
3988PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3989
3990 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3991 not a single digit.
3992
3993 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3994 string.
3995
3996 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3997 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3998 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3999 silly things.
4000
4001 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4002 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4003
4004 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4005 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 4006
cb741023
PH
4007PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4008 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4009 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4010
f174f16e
PH
4011PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4012 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 4013
c25242d7
PH
4014PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4015 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4016
4017 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4018
4019 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4020 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4021 this:
4022
4023 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4024
82c19f95
PH
4025PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4026 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4027 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4028 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4029 identical. For example:
4030
4031 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4032
4033 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4034 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4035 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4036
d7ffbc12
PH
4037PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4038 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4039 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4040 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4041
9f526266
PH
4042PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4043 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4044 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4045 message.
4046
87fcc8b9
PH
4047PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4048
4049 o fixes some comments
4050 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4051 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4052 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4053 and documents the missing references header update
4054
4055 and most important:
4056
4057 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4058 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4059 result)
4060
456682f5
PH
4061PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4062 Electronic Mail") by including:
4063
4064 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4065
4066 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4067 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4068 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4069 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4070 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4071
4072 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4073
4074 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4075
4076 The auto-replied keyword:
4077
4078 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4079 message by an automatic process,
4080
4081 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4082
4083 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4084 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4085
4086 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4087 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4088 other messages.
4089
3e46c1aa
PH
4090PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4091 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4092
49826d12
PH
4093PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4094
eba0c039
PH
4095PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4096 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4097 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4098
a0d6ba8a
PH
4099PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4100 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4101 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4102
f0917727
PH
4103PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4104 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4105 and treats the condition as false.
4106
096fee00
PH
4107PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4108
024bd3c2
PH
4109PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4110 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4111 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4112 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4113 not changing the active code.
4114
4115 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4116 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4117
4118 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4119 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4120
df199fec
PH
4121PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4122 (Bugzilla #53).
4123
d27f1df3
PH
4124PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4125 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4126 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4127 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4128 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4129 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4130 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4131 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4132 the text comparison.
4133
96776534
PH
4134PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4135 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4136 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4137 The same fix has been applied.
4138
5de37277 4139
9a799bc0
PH
4140Exim version 4.54
4141-----------------
4142
4143PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4144 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4145 It now does.
4146
99a4b039
PH
4147PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4148 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4149
4150PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4151
4b233853
PH
4152PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4153 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4154 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4155 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4156 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4157
8857ccfd
PH
4158TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4159 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4160 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4161 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4162 or /domain=).
4163
433a2980
PH
4164PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4165 testing suite.
4166
3e46c1aa 4167
9a799bc0 4168
e3a311ba
TK
4169Exim version 4.53
4170-----------------
4171
4172TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4173 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4174
13b685f9
PH
4175PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4176
395ff96d
PH
4177PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4178
5b68f6e4
PH
4179PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4180 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4181 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4182
1ab52c69
PH
4183PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4184 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4185 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4186
b07e6aa3
PH
4187PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4188 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4189 operating systems.
4190
254e032f
PH
4191PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4192 ${stat: expansion item.
4193
3af76a81
PH
4194PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4195 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4196
2548ba04
PH
4197PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4198 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4199 file for comments.
4200
b6c6011d
PH
4201PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4202
cf39cf57
PH
4203PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4204 setting.
4205
f1513293
PH
4206PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4207 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4208
727549a4
PH
4209TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4210
af46795e
PH
4211PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4212 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4213 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4214 the end of the subprocess.
4215
d7b47fd0
PH
4216PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4217 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4218 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4219 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4220 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4221
ee744174
JJ
4222JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4223
b582ab87
PH
4224TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4225
41a13e0a
PH
4226PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4227 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4228
f625cc5a
PH
4229PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4230
4231PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4232
21f7af35
PH
4233PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4234 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4235 HP-UX compiler.
4236
31480e42
PH
4237PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4238
2d280592
PH
4239PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4240 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4241 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4242
7cd1141b
PH
4243PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4244 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4245
4246PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4247 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4248
750af86e
PH
4249PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4250 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4251
4252 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4253 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4254
4255 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4256 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4257 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4258 contributed by a Radius user.
4259
4260PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4261 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4262
4304270b
TK
4263TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4264 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4265
750af86e
PH
4266PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4267 available.
4268
64ffc24f
PH
4269PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4270 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4271 received.
4272
5dd9625b
PH
4273PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4274 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4275 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4276 header lines when this was not necessary.
4277
5591031b
PH
4278PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4279
ba18e66a
PH
4280PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4281 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4282 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4283 exists".
4284
9cec981f
PH
4285PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4286 -bV or -d is used.
4287
aa2b5c79
PH
4288PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4289 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4290 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4291 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4292
48a53b7f
PH
4293PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4294
1c59d63b
PH
4295PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4296
671012da
TK
4297TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4298
1509d3a8
PH
4299PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4300
4301PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4302 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4303 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4304 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4305 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4306 settings.
4307
4308PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4309
2fe1a124
PH
4310PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4311 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4312 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4313 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4314 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4315 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4316 which is clearly wrong.
4317
8800895a
PH
4318PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4319
ccfdb010
PH
4320PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4321 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4322 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4323 subsequently added.
4324
1130bfb0
PH
4325PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4326 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4327
ebcb507f
PH
4328PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4329
c35e155c
PH
4330PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4331 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4332
95d1f782
PH
4333PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4334 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4335
fd6de02e
PH
4336PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4337 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4338
58de37c5
PH
4339PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4340 recipients, not senders.
4341
261cf466
TF
4342TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4343 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4344
3ee512ff
PH
4345PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4346
e08c430f
PH
4347PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4348
bef5a11f
PH
4349PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4350 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4351 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4352 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4353
7546de58
TF
4354TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4355
e5d5a95f
TF
4356TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4357 clock is set back in time.
4358
2e88a017
TF
4359TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4360 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4361
a5f65aa4
TF
4362TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4363 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4364
e7726cbf
PH
4365PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4366 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4367 (see PH/47 above).
4368
a7fdad5b
TF
4369TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4370 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4371 header rewrites.
4372
6af56900
PH
4373PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4374 type ("H").
4375
0925ede6
PH
4376PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4377
66afa403
TF
4378TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4379 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4380 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4381
0154e85a
TF
4382TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4383 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4384 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4385 helo verification defer as a failure.
4386
16f12c76
PH
4387PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4388 actual error message.
4389
bbe902f0 4390
e5a9dba6
PH
4391Exim version 4.52
4392-----------------
4393
4394TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4395
22c3b60b
PH
4396PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4397 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4398 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4399 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4400
06a9b4b5
PH
4401TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4402
c1ac6996
PH
4403PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4404 can still be requested.
4405
9c7a242c
PH
4406PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4407 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4408 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4409 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4410
87ba3f5f
PH
4411TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4412 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4413 circumstances, but probably never did.
4414
4415PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4416 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4417 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4418 in the header line.
4419
29aba418
TF
4420TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4421
fe0dab11
TF
4422TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4423 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4424
11d337a4
TK
4425TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4426
4427TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4428
415c8f3b
PH
4429PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4430 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4431 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4432 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4433 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4434 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4435
958541e9
PH
4436PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4437 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4438 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4439 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4440 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4441 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4442
c206415f
TK
4443TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4444 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4445
2a4be8f9
PH
4446PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4447 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4448
1cba11c5
SC
4449SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4450 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4451
4c04137d 4452SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4453
4454SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4455
4456SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4457
4458SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4459
4460SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4461
4462SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4463
1005d00e
TK
4464TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4465
4466TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4467 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4468 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4469
4470TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4471 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4472 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4473 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4474
9b4768fa
PH
4475PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4476 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4477 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4478
4479PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4480 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4481 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4482 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4483
0d7eb84a
PH
4484PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4485 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4486 to be made).
4487
4488PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4489 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4490 should work with maildirs and everything.
4491
40727bee
TK
4492TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4493 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4494
554d2369
TF
4495TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4496 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4497
1f922db1
PH
4498PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4499 function for BDB 4.3.
4500
ef213c3b
PH
4501PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4502
8ac170f3
PH
4503PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4504 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4505 involved.
4506
b1c749bb
PH
4507PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4508 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4509 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4510 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4511 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4512 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4513
4aac9b49
PH
4514PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4515 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4516 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4517 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4518 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4519 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4520 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4521 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4522
294520c8
TK
4523TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4524 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4525 details.
4526
5bd022fe
PH
4527PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4528 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4529
90e9ce59
PH
4530PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4531 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4532 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4533 test. It is now used for both.
4534
5ea81592
PH
4535PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4536 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4537 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4538 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4539 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4540 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4541
c6c2dc1d
PH
4542PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4543 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4544 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4545 string_vformat().
4546
fffffe4c
PH
4547PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4548 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4549 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4550
9a26b6b2
PH
4551PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4552 experimental DomainKeys support:
4553
4554 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4555 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4556 the control was given.
4557
4558 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4559
4aee0225
PH
4560PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4561
32d668a5
PH
4562PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4563
8187c3f3
PH
4564PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4565 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4566 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4567 db.h files).
4568
ff790e47 4569PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4570 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4571 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4572 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4573 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4574 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4575 course.
ff790e47 4576
5417f6d1
PH
4577PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4578 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4579 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4580 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4581 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4582 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4583
59cf8544
PH
4584PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4585 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4586 do -d+all out of habit.
4587
e7ad8a65
PH
4588PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4589 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4590 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4591
ade42478
PH
4592PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4593 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4594 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4595 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4596 record types that Exim uses.
4597
182ad5cf
PH
4598PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4599 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4600 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4601 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4602 non-existent file that was broken.
4603
b0d9fc80
TK
4604TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4605 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4606
4607TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4608 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4609 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4610
4611TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4612
47c7a64a
PH
4613PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4614 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4615 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4616 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4617 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4618 same time.
4619
a388bce4
SC
4620SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4621 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4622 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4623 at a slight CPU cost.
4624
4625SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4626 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4627
4628SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4629 by Marc Sherman.
4630
0793e4ed
SC
4631SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4632
c58b88df
PH
4633PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4634 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4635
e7ad8a65 4636
7982096b
PH
4637Exim version 4.51
4638-----------------
4639
1a46a8c5
PH
4640TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4641 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4642
2f079f46 4643TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4644
4645TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4646
4647PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4648 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4649
4650PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4651 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4652 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4653 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4654 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4655 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4656 file.
4657
4658PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4659 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4660 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4661 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4662 these two options.
4663
4664PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4665 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4666 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4667 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4668 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4669 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4670 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4671 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4672
4673PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4674 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4675
4676PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4677 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4678 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4679 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4680 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4681 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4682
4683PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4684 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4685 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4686 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4687
4688PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4689 Finch).
4690
4691PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4692 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4693
49c2d5ea
PH
4694PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4695 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4696 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4697 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4698 message.
49c2d5ea 4699
bf759a8b
PH
4700PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4701
83364d30
PH
4702PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4703 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4704
7999bbd7
PH
4705PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4706 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4707 to what was transported.)
4708
7dbf77c9
PH
4709TF/01 Added $received_time.
4710
74e0617f
PH
4711PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4712 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4713 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4714 spamd_address settings.
4715
2f079f46
PH
4716PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4717 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4718 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4719 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4720 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4721
8c841523
PH
4722PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4723
7766a4f0
PH
4724PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4725 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4726 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4727 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4728 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4729
8b417f2c
PH
4730PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4731 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4732
901f42cb
PH
4733PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4734 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4735 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4736 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4737 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4738 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4739 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4740 for failure.
4741
f9b9210e
PH
4742PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4743 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4744 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4745 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4746 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4747 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4748 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4749 "input=".
4750
54cdb463
PH
4751PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4752
cf00dad6
PH
4753PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4754 driver and ACL definitions.
4755
acb1b346
PH
4756PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4757 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4758
c5ddb310
PH
4759PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4760 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4761 understands it better than I do:
4762
4763 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4764 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4765
4766 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4767 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4768 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4769 => three warnings about OTP not working
4770 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4771
4772 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4773 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4774 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4775 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4776 for each call.)
4777 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4778 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4779
4780 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4781 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4782 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4783
31619da6
PH
4784PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4785 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4786 specified.
4787
bebaf0fc
PH
4788PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4789 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4790 "Linux".
4791
475fe28a
PH
4792PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4793 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4794 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4795
4796 warn !verify = sender
4797 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4798
4799 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4800 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4801
7e8bec7a
PH
4802PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4803
4804 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4805 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4806
4807 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4808 nomenclature these days.)
4809
e4a89c47
PH
4810PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4811 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4812
5ca2a9a1
PH
4813PH/30 In these circumstances:
4814 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4815 . First host does not offer TLS;
4816 . First host accepts first address;
4817 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4818 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4819 . Second host accepts second address.
4820 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4821 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4822 address.
7e8bec7a 4823
c688b954
PH
4824PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4825 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4826 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4827 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4828 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4829
fed77020
PH
4830PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4831 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4832
7fe1560f
PH
4833PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4834 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4835
ebb6e6d5
PH
4836PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4837 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4838 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4839
9c4e8f60
PH
4840PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4841 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4842 overlooked.
4843
4844PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4845
d7174846
PH
4846PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4847 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4848 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4849 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4850 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4851 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4852 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4853
4854 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4855 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4856 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4857 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4858 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4859
4860 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4861 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4862 routed further.
4863
cfe75fc3
PH
4864PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4865 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4866 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4867 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4868 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4869 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4870
be22d70e
PH
4871PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4872
0612b098
PH
4873PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4874 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4875 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4876 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4877 printable escape sequences.
4878
2e0c1448
PH
4879PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4880 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4881 body only.
4882
447d236c
PH
4883PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4884 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4885 are as follows:
4886
4887 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4888 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4889 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4890 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4891 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4892
4893 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4894 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4895 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4896
d20976dc
PH
4897PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4898
f656d135
PH
4899PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4900 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4901 play with."
4902
2e2a30b4
PH
4903PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4904 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4905 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4906 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4907 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4908 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4909 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4910 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4911 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4912 the log output.
4913
9176e9f0
PH
4914PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4915 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4916 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4917 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4918 "make".
4919
7982096b 4920
bbe902f0
PH
4921A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4922----------------------------------------
4923
4924Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4925changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4926needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4927in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4928that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4929release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4930from 4.43.
4931
4932I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
49334.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4934those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4935historical information.
4936
4937
f7b63901 4938Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4939-----------------
4940
5fe762f6
PH
4941 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4942
139059f6 4943 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4944 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4945
7086e875
PH
4946 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4947 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4948 place.
4949
35af9f61
PH
4950 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4951 filter fails to execute.
4952
b668c215
PH
4953 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4954 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4955 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4956 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4957 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4958
a494b1e1
PH
4959 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4960
4961 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4962 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4963 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4964 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4965
c5fcb476
PH
4966 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4967 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4968 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4969 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4970 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4971
69358f02
PH
4972 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4973
5be20824
PH
497410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4975
eb2c0248
PH
497611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4977 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4978 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4979 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4980
2a3eea10
PH
498112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4982 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4983 sender verification.
4984
498513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4986 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4987
23c7ff99
PH
498814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4989
4deaf07d
PH
499015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4991 connection timeout.
4992
926e1192
PH
499316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4994 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4995
650edc6f
PH
499617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4997 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4998
2c7db3f5
PH
499918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5000 information about exactly what failed.
5001
3d235903
PH
500219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5003
7c7ad977
PH
500420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5005 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5006 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5007
981756db
PH
500821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5009 It is now set to "smtps".
5010
d4eb88df
PH
501122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5012 ignore_target_hosts.
5013
501423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5015 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5016 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5017 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5018 "[x.x.x.x]".
5019
7d468ab8
PH
502024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5021 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5022 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5023
502425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5025 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5026 wake it up if nothing else does.
5027
62c0818f
PH
502826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5029 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5030 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5031 end up negative.
5032
26034054
PH
503327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5034 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5035
af66f652
PH
503628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5037
90af77f4
PH
503829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5039 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5040 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5041 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5042 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5043 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5044 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5045 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5046
d8ef3577
PH
504730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5048 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5049 than one IP address.
5050
5cb8cbc6
PH
505131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5052 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5053 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5054 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5055
14702f5b
PH
505632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5057 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5058 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5059 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5060 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5061 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5062
063b1e99
PH
506333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5064 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5065 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5066 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5067
652e1b65
PH
506834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5069 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5070 respected.
5071
6f0c9a4f
PH
507235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5073 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5074 $sender_host_address.
5075
33397d19
PH
507636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5077 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5078 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5079 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5080 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5081 very small.
5082
7bb56e1f
PH
508337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5084
5085 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5086 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5087
ea3bc19b
PH
5088 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5089 just the host names, not the priorities.
5090
5091 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5092 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5093 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5094
ea3bc19b 5095 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5096 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5097
0bcb2a0e
PH
509838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5099 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5100 domain.
5101
2ac0e484
PH
510239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5103
4e1fde53
PH
510440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5105 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5106
de365ded
PH
510741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5108 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5109 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5110
f05da2e8
PH
511142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5112
d6453af2
PH
511343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5114
f7b63901
PH
511544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5116
511745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5118 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5119 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5120 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5121 because the tests only now provoked it.
5122
a444213a
PH
512346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5124 (this can affect the format of dates).
5125
0ec020ea
PH
512647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5127 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5128 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5129 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5130
b1206957
PH
513148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5132
513349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5134 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5135 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5136 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5137
26dd5a95
PH
513850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5139 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5140 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5141
343b2385
PH
514251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5143 autoreply.
5144
1c5466b9
PH
514552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5146 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5147 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5148 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5149 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5150 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5151 is going on).
5152
55ee9ee3
PH
515353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5154 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5155 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5156 the line.
5157
d38f8232
PH
515854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5159 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5160 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5161
5162 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5163 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5164 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5165 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5166 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5167 so I produce this patch..."
5168
3295e65b
PH
5169 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5170 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5171 is not defined.
5172
7102e136
PH
517355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5174 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5175 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5176 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5177 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5178
3ca0ba97
PH
517956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5180
c2bcbe20
PH
518157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5182 long debug lines gets shown.
5183
18ce445d
PH
518458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5185 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5186
1f5b4c3d
PH
518759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5188
5189 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5190 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5191 of $primary_hostname.
5192
b975ba52
PH
519360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5194 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5195 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5196 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5197 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5198 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5199 by change 4.50/55 above.
5200
5201 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5202 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5203 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5204 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5205 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5206 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5207 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5208
520961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5210 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5211 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5212 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5213
17ffcae7
PH
521462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5215 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5216
d95f9fdb
PH
521763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5218 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5219 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5220 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5221 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5222
86b8287f
PH
522364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5224 This has been fixed.
5225
60dc5e56
PH
522665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5227 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5228 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5229 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5230 the caching.)
5231
533244af
PH
523266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5233
a5a28604
PH
523467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5235 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5236 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5237 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5238
7e634d24
PH
523968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5240 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5241
3e11c26b
PH
524269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5243 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5244 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5245
6729cf78
PH
524670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5247 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5248 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5249 message there.
5250
00f00ca5
PH
525171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5252 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5253 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5254
c9bdd01c
PH
525572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5256 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5257 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5258 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5259
d43194df
PH
526073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5261 during host lookups.
5262
fe5b5d0b
PH
526374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5264 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5265
5266 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5267
76a2d7ba
PH
526875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5269 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5270 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5271 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5272 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5273 background.
5274
527576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5276 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5277
04f7d5b9
PH
527877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5279 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5280 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5281
bc60667e
PH
528278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5283
bb6e88ff
PH
528479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5285 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5286 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5287 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5288 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5289 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5290 process earlier.
5291
1e70f85b
PH
529280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5293 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5294 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5295 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5296 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5297
529881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5299 tables).
5300
4e01f9d6
PH
530182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5302
1ee1cef2
PH
530383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5304 "vacation" handling.
5305
6e2b4ccc
PH
530684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5307 OS variants using glibc.
5308
8e669ac1
PH
530985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5310
495ae4b0 5311
bbe902f0
PH
5312----------------------------------------------------
5313See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5314----------------------------------------------------
5315
5316
5317Exim version 4.44
5318-----------------
5319
5320 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5321 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5322 transport
5323
5324 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5325 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5326 place.
5327
5328 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5329 filter fails to execute.
5330
5331 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5332 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5333 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5334 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5335 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5336
5337 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5338 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5339 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5340 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5341
5342 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5343 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5344 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5345 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5346 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5347
5348 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5349
5350 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5351 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5352 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5353 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5354
5355 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5356 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5357 sender verification.
5358
535910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5360 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5361
536211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5363 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5364
536512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5366 ignore_target_hosts.
5367
536813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5369 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5370 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5371 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5372 "[x.x.x.x]".
5373
537414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5375 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5376 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5377
537815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5379 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5380 wake it up if nothing else does.
5381
538216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5383 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5384 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5385 end up negative.
5386
538717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5388 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5389
ea3a6f44 539018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5391
539219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5393 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5394 empty pattern.
5395
539620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5397 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5398 one IP address.
5399
ea3a6f44
NM
540021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5401 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5402 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5403 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5404 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5405 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5406
ea3a6f44
NM
540722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5408 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5409 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5410
541123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5412 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5413 $sender_host_address.
5414
541524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5416
ea3a6f44
NM
541725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5418 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5419 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5420
542126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5422 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5423
ea3a6f44
NM
542427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5425 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5426
ea3a6f44
NM
542728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5428 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5429 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5430 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5431
543229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5433 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5434 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5435
ea3a6f44
NM
543630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5437 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5438 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5439 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5440
ea3a6f44
NM
544131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5442 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5443 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5444
ea3a6f44
NM
544531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5446 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5447
ea3a6f44
NM
544832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5449 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5450 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5451 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5452 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5453 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5454 is going on).
bbe902f0 5455
ea3a6f44
NM
545633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5457 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5458 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5459 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5460 CAN-2005-0021
5461
ea3a6f44
NM
546234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5463 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5464 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5465 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5466 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5467 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5468 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5469
5470 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5471 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5472 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5473 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5474 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5475 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5476 CAN-2005-0021
5477
ea3a6f44
NM
547835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5479 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5480 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5481 CAN-2005-0022
5482
ea3a6f44
NM
548336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5484 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5485 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5486 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5487 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5488
ea3a6f44
NM
548937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5490 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5491 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5492 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5493 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5494
ea3a6f44
NM
549538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5496 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5497 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5498 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5499 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5500
5501
495ae4b0
PH
5502Exim version 4.43
5503-----------------
5504
5505 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5506 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5507 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5508 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5509 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5510 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5511 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5512
5513 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5514 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5515 the delivery.
5516
5517 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5518
5519 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5520
5521 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5522 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5523 to local_scan().
5524
5525 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5526 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5527 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5528 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5529 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5530
5531 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5532 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5533
5534 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5535
5536 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5537
553810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5539 header_sender only.
5540
554111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5542 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5543
554412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5545 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5546 affecting debugging statements).
5547
554813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5549
555014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5551 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5552 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5553 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5554 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5555 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5556 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5557 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5558 after the received time, and all would be well.
5559
556015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5561 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5562 condition in an expansion string.
5563
556416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5565
556617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5567 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5568 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5569 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5570 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5571 job under whatever limits there are.
5572
557318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5574
557519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5576 space).
5577
557820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5579 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5580 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5581 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5582 return path is set.
5583
558421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5585 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5586 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5587 binary data in such strings.
5588
558922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5590
559123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5592 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5593 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5594 failure, which is pointless.
5595
559624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5597
559825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5599
560026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5601 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5602 Sender: header lines.
5603
560427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5605 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5606 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5607
560828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5609 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5610 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5611 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5612 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5613 happens.
5614
561529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5616 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5617 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5618 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5619 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5620
562130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5622 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5623 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5624 1024.
5625
562631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5627 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5628
562932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5630 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5631
563233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5633
563432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5635
563633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5637
563834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5639 syntax error.
5640
564135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5642
564336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5644
564537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5646 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5647 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5648 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5649
565038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5651 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5652
5653
5654Exim version 4.42
5655-----------------
5656
5657 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5658 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5659 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5660 it was not quoted.
5661 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5662 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5663 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5664 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5665 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5666 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5667
5668 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5669 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5670 verification failure".
5671
5672 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5673 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5674 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5675 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5676
5677 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5678 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5679 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5680 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5681 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5682 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5683 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5684 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5685 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5686 treated as a timeout.
5687
5688 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5689 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5690 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5691 not set for Exim filters).
5692
5693 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5694 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5695 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5696
5697 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5698
5699 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5700 try to make them clearer.
5701
5702 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5703 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5704
5705 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5706
5707 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5708
570910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5710 only the Cygwin environment.
5711
571211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5713 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5714 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5715 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5716 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5717
571812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5719 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5720 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5721 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5722 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5723 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5724 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5725
572613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5727 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5728
572914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5730
5731 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5732 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5733 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5734
5735 To: susanne@some.where
5736
5737 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5738 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5739 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5740 of addresses in From: header lines).
5741
5742 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5743 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5744 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5745
5746 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5747 treated as non-personal.
5748
5749 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5750 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5751
575215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5753
575416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5755
575617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5757 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5758 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5759
576018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5761 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5762
576319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5764 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5765 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5766 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5767 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5768 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5769
577020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5771 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5772 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5773 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5774 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5775 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5776 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5777 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5778
5779 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5780
578121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5782 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5783
578422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5785 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5786 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5787
578823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5789 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5790
579124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5792 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5793 rather than long int.
5794
579525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5796
579726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5798
5799
5800Exim version 4.41
5801-----------------
5802
5803 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5804 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5805 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5806 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5807 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5808 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5809
5810
5811Exim version 4.40
5812-----------------
5813
5814 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5815 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5816
5817 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5818 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5819 socklen_t is defined.
5820
5821 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5822 always exist.
5823
5824 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5825 configured.
5826
5827 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5828 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5829 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5830 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5831 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5832
5833 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5834 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5835 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5836 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5837
5838 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5839 of flapping under certain conditions.
5840
5841 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5842 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5843 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5844
5845 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5846
584710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5848
584911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5850 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5851 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5852 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5853
585412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5855 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5856 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5857 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5858 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5859 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5860 preserved with the message after it was received.
5861
586213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5863 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5864 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5865 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5866 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5867 test suite worked just fine.
5868
586914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5870 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5871 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5872
587315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5874 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5875 string.
5876
587716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5878 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5879 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5880 does not fully solve it.
5881
588217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5883 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5884 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5885 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5886 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5887
588818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5889 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5890 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5891
589219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5893 string, for example:
5894
5895 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5896
5897 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5898 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5899 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5900 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5901 the routers could not see them.
5902
590320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5904 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5905
590621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5907 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5908 output).
5909
591022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5911 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5912 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5913 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5914 that needed quoting.
5915
591623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5917 was not being matched caselessly.
5918
591924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5920 backslashes.
5921
592225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5923 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5924 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5925 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5926 when use_sender is false.
5927
592826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5929
593027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5931
593228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5933
593429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5935 the configuration file.
5936
593730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5938 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5939
594031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5941
594232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5943 bytes in the message body.
5944
594533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5946 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5947 delivery.
5948
594934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5950
595135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5952
595336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5954 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5955 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5956 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5957 another IP address.
5958
5959
5960Exim version 4.34
5961-----------------
5962
5963 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5964 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5965
5966 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5967 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5968 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5969 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5970 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5971
5972 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5973 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5974
5975 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5976 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5977 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5978
5979 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5980 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5981 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5982
5983 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5984 for routers.
5985
5986 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5987 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5988 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5989 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5990 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5991 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5992 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5993
5994
5995Exim version 4.33
5996-----------------
5997
5998 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5999 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6000 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6001 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6002 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6003 default (and expected) setting.
6004
6005 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6006 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6007 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6008 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6009
6010 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6011 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6012
6013 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6014 in domain lists.
6015
6016 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6017 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6018 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6019 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6020 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6021 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6022
6023 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6024 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6025 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6026
6027 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6028 part (NOT match_host).
6029
6030 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6031
6032 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6033 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6034 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6035 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6036 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6037 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6038 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6039 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6040 the same named file.
6041
604210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6043 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6044 when Exim is built.
6045
604611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6047 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6048 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6049 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6050 a host name.
6051
605212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6053 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6054 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6055
605613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6057
605814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6059
606015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6061
606216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6063 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6064
606517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6066 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6067 before starting the TLS session.
6068
606918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6070
607119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6072 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6073
607420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6075 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6076 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6077 colon in the middle).
6078
6079
6080Exim version 4.32
6081-----------------
6082
6083 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6084 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6085 multiple configurations are in use.
6086
6087 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6088 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6089 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6090 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6091 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6092 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6093
6094 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6095 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6096
6097 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6098 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6099 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6100
6101 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6102 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6103 occurs.
6104
6105 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6106 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6107
6108 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6109
6110 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6111 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6112
6113 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6114
6115 -prval:sval
6116
6117 is equivalent to
6118
6119 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6120
6121 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6122 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6123 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6124 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6125 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6126
612710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6128 Exim's behaviour:
6129
6130 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6131 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6132 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6133 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6134 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6135 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6136
6137 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6138 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6139 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6140 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6141 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6142 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6143 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6144 string.
6145
6146 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6147 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6148 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6149 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6150 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6151
615211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6153
615412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6155 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6156 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6157
615813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6159
616014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6161 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6162 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6163 information.
6164
616515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6166 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6167
616816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6169 Three changes have been made:
6170
6171 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6172 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6173 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6174 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6175 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6176
6177 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6178 been restored.
6179
6180 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6181 the modified behaviour.
6182
6183
6184Exim version 4.31
6185-----------------
6186
6187 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6188 Larry Rosenman.
6189
6190 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6191 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6192
6193 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6194 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6195 try to track down a specific problem.
6196
6197 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6198 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6199 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6200
6201 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6202 warning.
6203
6204 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6205 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6206 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6207 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6208 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6209 some earlier ones do not.
6210
6211 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6212
6213 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6214 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6215 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6216 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6217 address literals are enabled, of course).
6218
6219 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6220
622110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6222 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6223 by a command such as
6224
6225 exim -f "" ...
6226
6227 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6228
622911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6230
623112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6232 remained set. It is now erased.
6233
623413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6235 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6236
623714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6238 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6239 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6240 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6241 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6242 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6243 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6244 appropriate error code.
6245
624615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6247 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6248 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6249 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6250 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6251 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6252
625316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6254 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6255 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6256
625717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6258 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6259 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6260 terminate the header.
6261
626218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6263 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6264 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6265
626619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6267 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6268 (4.30/29). In particular:
6269
6270 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6271 imposed.
6272
6273 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6274 to write a maildirsize file.
6275
6276 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6277 the transport, the new value overrides.
6278
6279 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6280 count.
6281
628220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6283 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6284 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6285 space or a tab.
6286
628721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6288 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6289 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6290 the fallback hosts.
6291
629222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6293 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6294 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6295
629623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6297 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6298 using a union.
6299
630024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6301 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6302 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6303
630425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6305
630626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6307
630827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6309
631028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6311 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6312 become corrupted.
6313
631429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6315 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6316 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6317 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6318 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6319 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6320 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6321 too great.
6322
632330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6324 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6325 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6326 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6327 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6328 incorrectly.
6329
633031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6331 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6332 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6333 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6334 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6335 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6336 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6337 cached value only when the same options are set.
6338
633932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6340
634133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6342 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6343 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6344 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6345 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6346
634734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6348 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6349 it is clearly obsolete.
6350
635135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6352 transport.
6353
635436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6355 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6356 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6357 times.
6358
635937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6360 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6361 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6362 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6363 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6364
636538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6366 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6367 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6368 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6369
637039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6371
6372 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6373
6374 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6375 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6376 2^31.
6377
637840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6379 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6380 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6381 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6382 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6383 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6384 $localpart_data.
6385
638641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6387 with the -f command-line option.
6388
638942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6390 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6391 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6392 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6393 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6394 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6395
639643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6397 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6398 line.
6399
640044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6401 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6402 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6403 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6404 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6405 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6406 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6407 buffer is too small.
6408
640945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6410 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6411
641246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6413 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6414 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6415 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6416 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6417 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6418 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6419 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6420 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6421
642247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6423 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6424 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6425
642648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6427 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6428 ACL").
6429
643049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6431 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6432 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6433 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6434 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6435
643650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6437 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6438 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6439 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6440 is set.
6441
644251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6443
644452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6445
644653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6447 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6448
644954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6450 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6451 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6452
645355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6454 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6455 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6456 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6457 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6458
645956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6460 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6461 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6462 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6463 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6464 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6465 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6466
646757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6468 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6469 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6470 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6471 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6472 the test of how many are available.
6473
647458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6475 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6476 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6477 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6478 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6479 new message is started.
6480
648159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6482 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6483
648460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6485 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6486
648761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6488 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6489 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6490 is no long logged.
6491
649262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6493 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6494 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6495 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6496 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6497 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6498 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6499
650063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6501 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6502 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6503 interpreted as octal.
6504
650564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6506 setting.
6507
650865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6509 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6510 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6511 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6512 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6513 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6514
651566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6516 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6517 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6518 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6519
6520 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6521 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6522 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6523 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6524
6525 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6526 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6527 is a bug fix.
6528
6529 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6530 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6531
653267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6533
653468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6535 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6536 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6537 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6538
653969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6540 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6541 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6542 supplied", which is not helpful.
6543
654470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6545 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6546 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6547
654871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6549 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6550 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6551 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6552 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6553 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6554 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6555 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6556
655772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6558 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6559 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6560 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6561 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6562
656373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6564 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6565 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6566 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6567 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6568 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6569
657074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6571 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6572 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6573
657475. Added write_rejectlog option.
6575
657676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6577 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6578 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6579 variables.
6580
658177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6582
658378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6584 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6585 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6586 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6587 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6588 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6589 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6590 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6591
659279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6593 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6594 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6595 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6596 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6597
659880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6599 Haardt.
6600
660181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6602 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6603 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6604 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6605 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6606 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6607 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6608 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6609 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6610
6611
6612Exim version 4.30
6613-----------------
6614
6615 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6616 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6617 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6618
6619 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6620 fixed.
6621
6622 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6623 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6624 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6625
6626 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6627 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6628 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6629 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6630 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6631 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6632
6633 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6634 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6635 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6636 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6637 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6638 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6639 the Exim test suite.
6640
6641 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6642 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6643 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6644 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6645
6646 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6647 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6648 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6649 specify it in this variable.
6650
6651 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6652 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6653 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6654 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6655
6656 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6657 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6658 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6659 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6660
6661 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6662 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6663 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6664 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6665 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6666
6667 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6668
666910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6670 they are logged.
6671
667211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6673 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6674 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6675 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6676 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6677
667812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6679 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6680
668113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6682 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6683 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6684 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6685 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6686
668714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6688 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6689
669015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6691 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6692 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6693
669416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6695 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6696
669717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6698 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6699
670018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6701 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6702 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6703
670419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6705 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6706
670720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6708 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6709 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6710 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6711
671221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6713
671422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6715 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6716 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6717 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6718
671923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6720
672124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6722 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6723
672425. Added .include_if_exists.
6725
672626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6727 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6728 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6729 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6730 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6731 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6732
673327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6734
673528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6736 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6737 this.
6738
673929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6740
674130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6742 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6743
6744 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6745 550 Sender verify failed
6746
6747 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6748 the final line of the response.
6749
675031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6751 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6752 all other user lookups.
6753
675432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6755 delivery time.
6756
675733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6758 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6759 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6760 result into an int without checking.
6761
676234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6763 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6764 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6765
676635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6767 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6768 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6769 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6770
677136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6772 correctly.
6773
677437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6775 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6776
677738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6778 to the empty sender.
6779
678039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6781 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6782 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6783 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6784 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6785 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6786 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6787 panic log.
6788
678940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6790 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6791 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6792 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6793 used.
6794
679541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6796 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6797
679842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6799 timestamps.
6800
680143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6802 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6803
680444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6805
680645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6807 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6808 logs.
6809
681046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6811 as soon as it is encountered.
6812
681347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6814
681548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6816 rewritten to "<>".
6817
681849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6819 recognizes a tab character.
6820
682150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6822 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6823 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6824 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6825
682651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6827
682852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6829 crash.
6830
683153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6832
683354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6834
683555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6836 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6837 2822.
6838
683956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6840 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6841 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6842 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6843 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6844
684557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6846 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6847
684858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6849 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6850 list (.included file names were always shown).
6851
685259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6853 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6854 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6855 root at that time.
6856
685760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6858 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6859
686061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6861
686262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6863
686463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6865
686664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6867 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6868 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6869 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6870 failures to open the logs.
6871
687265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6873 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6874 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6875 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6876 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6877 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6878 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6879
6880
6881Exim version 4.24
6882-----------------
6883
6884 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6885 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6886 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6887 change 4.23/1.
6888
6889 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6890 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6891 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6892
6893 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6894 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6895 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6896
6897 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6898 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6899 causing some misleading effects.
6900
6901 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6902 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6903 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6904
6905 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6906 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6907 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6908 queue-runner function directly.
6909
6910
6911Exim version 4.23
6912-----------------
6913
6914 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6915 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6916
6917 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6918 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6919 was always written to the default place.
6920
6921 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6922 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6923 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6924
6925 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6926
6927 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6928
6929 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6930 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6931 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6932
6933 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6934 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6935 must start.
6936
6937 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6938 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6939 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6940
6941 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6942 command line option is disabled.
6943
6944 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6945 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6946
6947 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6948
6949 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6950
6951 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6952 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6953
695410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6955
695611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6957 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6958 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6959 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6960 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6961 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6962
696312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6964 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6965 timeout.
6966
696713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6968 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6969
697014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6971 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6972
697315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6974 received was valid base64.
6975
697616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6977 name of the variable that was being set.
6978
697917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6980
698118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6982 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6983 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6984 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6985 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6986 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6987
698819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6989
699020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6991 nor realm was specified.
6992
699321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6994 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6995 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6996 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6997
699822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6999 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7000 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7001
700223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7003 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7004 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7005
700624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7007 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7008 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7009 some systems use these upper case variants.
7010
701125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7012 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7013 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7014 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7015
701626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7017
701827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7019 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7020
702128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7022 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7023 expansion variable.
7024
702529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7026
702730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7028 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7029 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7030 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7031
703231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7033 using it.
7034
703532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7036 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7037 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7038
703933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7040 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7041
704234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7043 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7044 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7045 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7046
704735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7048 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7049 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7050
705136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7052
705337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7054 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7055 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7056 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7057 aborted.
7058
705938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7060 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7061 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7062
706339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7064
706540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7066 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7067
706841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7069 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7070
707142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7072 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7073 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7074 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7075 when emails are that large.
7076
7077
7078
7079Exim version 4.22
7080-----------------
7081
7082 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7083 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7084
7085 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7086 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7087 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7088
7089 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7090 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7091 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7092
7093 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7094 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7095 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7096 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7097 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7098
7099 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7100 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7101 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7102 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7103 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7104 ever.
7105
7106 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7107 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7108 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7109 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7110 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7111 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7112 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7113 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7114 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7115 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7116 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7117 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7118 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7119 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7120
7121 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7122 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7123 parameterised it.
7124
7125 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7126 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7127 error should be diagnosed.
7128
7129 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7130 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7131 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7132 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7133 appeared instead of "NULL".
7134
713510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7136 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7137 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7138 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7139 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7140 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7141 proceeds).
7142
7143 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7144 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7145 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7146
7147
7148Exim version 4.21
7149-----------------
7150
7151 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7152 or receiver verification errors.
7153
7154 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7155 name.
7156
7157 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7158 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7159 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7160 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7161
7162 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7163 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7164 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7165 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7166 shouldn't happen again.
7167
7168 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7169 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7170 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7171
7172 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7173 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7174
7175 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7176
7177 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7178 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7179
7180 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7181 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7182 RFC.
7183
718410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7185 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7186 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7187
718811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7189 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7190 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7191 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7192
719312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7194 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7195 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7196 to define what should happen).
7197
719813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7199 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7200 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7201
720214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7203
720415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7205
720616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7207 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7208
4c04137d 720917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
7210 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7211 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7212 structure in all cases.
7213
7214 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7215 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7216 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7217 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7218
721918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7220 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7221 domain name.
7222
722319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7224 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7225
722620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7227 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7228
722921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7230 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7231 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7232
723322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7234 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7235 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7236
723723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7238 the book and for uniformity.
7239
724024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7241
724225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7243 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
7244 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7245 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7246 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7247 non-existent command as the problem.
7248
724926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7250 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7251 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7252
725327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7254
725528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7256 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7257 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7258
725929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7260 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7261 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7262 timestamps using strftime().
7263
726430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7265 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7266
726732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7268 transport-time rewrites.
7269
727033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7271 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7272 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7273 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7274
727534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7276 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7277
727835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7279 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7280 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7281 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7282 comma and a space.
7283
728436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7285 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7286 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7287 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7288 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7289 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7290 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7291
729237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7293 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7294 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7295 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7296 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7297
729838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7299 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7300 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7301 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7302 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7303 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7304 remaining text gets split now.
7305
730639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7307 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7308 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7309 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7310
731140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7312 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7313 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7314 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7315 $return_path.
7316
731741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7318 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7319 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7320 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7321 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7322 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7323 passed through if needed.
7324
732542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7326 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7327 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7328 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7329 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7330 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7331
733243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7333 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7334 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7335 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7336 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7337
733844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7339 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7340 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7341 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7342 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7343
734445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7345 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7346 noticed.
7347
734846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7349 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7350 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7351 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7352 mayhem of various kinds.
7353
735447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7355 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7356 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
7357 the right test for positive values.
7358
735948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7360 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7361 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7362 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7363 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7364 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7365 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7366 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7367 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7368 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7369 envelope.
7370
737149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7372 module.
7373
737450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7375 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7376 forbidding it.
7377
737851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7379 the existing equality matching.
7380
738152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7382 dealing with inode numbers.
7383
738453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7385 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7386 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7387
738854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7389 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7390 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7391 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7392 local_scan().
7393
739455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7395 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7396 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7397 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7398 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7399 relay addresses has also been removed.
7400
740156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7402
740357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7404 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7405 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7406
740758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7408 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7409 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7410 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7411 processing applies to CR:
7412
7413 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7414 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7415
7416 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7417 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7418 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7419 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7420
742159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7422 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7423 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7424
742560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7426 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7427 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7428 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7429 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7430 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7431 arisen.
7432
743361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7434 program routers.
7435
743662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7437 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7438 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7439 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7440 adds:
7441
7442 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7443
7444 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7445
7446 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7447
744863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7449 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7450 not considered personal.
7451
745264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7453
745465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7455
745666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7457
745867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7459 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7460 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7461 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7462 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7463 header lines, and spool format errors.
7464
746568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7466 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7467 for more flexibility.
7468
746969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7470 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7471 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7472
747370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7474 Sabourenkov.
7475
747671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7477 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7478 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7479 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7480 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7481 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7482 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7483 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7484 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7485
748672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7487 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7488 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7489 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7490 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7491 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7492 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7493
749473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7495 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7496 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7497
749874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7499 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7500 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7501 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7502 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7503 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7504 instead of killing the process with assert().
7505
750675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7507 than Unicode encoding.
7508
750976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7510 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7511 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7512 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7513
751477. Added process_log_path.
7515
751678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7517 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7518
751979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7520 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7521
752280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7523 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7524 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7525
752681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7527 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7528 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7529 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7530 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7531 were applied:
7532
7533 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7534 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7535 as invalid.
7536
753782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7538 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7539 they will be used during message reception.
7540
7541
7542Exim version 4.20
7543-----------------
7544
7545The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7546
7547****