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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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8Exim version 4.92
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11JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
13
14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
16
17JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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21JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
24
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25JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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30 messed with.
31
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32PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
34
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35JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
42
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43JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
45
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46JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
47 legitimate.
48
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49JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
51
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52JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
53 segfault.
54
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55JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
56 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
57 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
58 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
59 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
60 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
61
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62JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
63
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64JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
65 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
66 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
67 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
68
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69JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
70
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71JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
72 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
73 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
74 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
75
5054c4fd 76JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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78JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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80JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
81 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
82 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
83
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84JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
85 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
86 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
87
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88PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
89
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90JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
91 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
92 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
93 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
94
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95PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
96 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
97 promised '?' replacement.
98
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99PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
100
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101JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
102 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
103 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
104 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
105 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
106
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107JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
108 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
109 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
110
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111JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
112 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
113 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
114
7ea1237c 115JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 116 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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117 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
118
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119JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
120 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
121 hope that is portable enough.
122
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123JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
124 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
125 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
126 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
127
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128JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
129 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
130 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
131
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132JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
133 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
134 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
135 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
136
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137JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
138 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
139
75c121f0 140JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 141 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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142 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
143 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
144
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145JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
146 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
147 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
148
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149JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
150 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
151 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
152 the previous G, M, k.
153
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c39c8870 158GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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159 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
160 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
161 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
162 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
163 be defined in redis_servers.
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165GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
166 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
167
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168JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
169 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
170 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
171 extant use locations.
172
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173JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
174 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
175
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176JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
177 Previously only the last row was returned.
178
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179JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
180 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
181 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
182 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
183 input.
184
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185JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
186 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
187 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
188 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
189 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
190 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
191 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
192 Main pool for expansions.
193 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
194 active in the testsuite.
195 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
196
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197JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
198 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
199 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
200 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
201 round-robin DNS.
202
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203JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
204 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
205 failure response.
206
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207JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
208 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
209 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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211JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
212 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
213 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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215JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
216 rows affected is given instead).
217
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218JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
219 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
220
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221JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
222 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
223 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
224 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
225 for all multi-message initiating connections.
226
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227JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
228 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
229 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
230
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231JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
232 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
233 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
234 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
235 separate.
236
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237JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
238 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
239 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
240 fake-reject.
241
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242HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
243
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244JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
245 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
246
aab9a843 247PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 248 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 249 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
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251JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
252 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
253 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
254 and send a quit.
255
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256JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
257 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
258
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259JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
260 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
261 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
262
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263JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
264 for the build is renamed.
265
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266JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
267 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
268 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
269
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270JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
271 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
272 result replacing the original.
273
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274JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
275 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
276 and the resources needed to be freed.
277
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278JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
279
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280JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
281 was not propagated.
282
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283JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
284 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
285 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
286 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
287
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288JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
289 length value. Previously this would segfault.
290
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291HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
292 newer versions of the scanner.
293
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294JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
295 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
296 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
297 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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298 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
299 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
300 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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302JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
303 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
304 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
305 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
306 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
307 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
308 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
309 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
310 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
311 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
312
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313JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
314 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
315
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316JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
317
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318HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
319 allows proper process termination in container environments.
320
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321JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
322 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
323
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324JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
325 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
326 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
327
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328JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
329 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
330 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 331 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
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333JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
334 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
335 would be spooled.
336
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337PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
338 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
339
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340HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
341 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
342 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
343 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
344 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
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346JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
347 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
348 lines.
349
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350JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
351 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
352
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353PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
354 suffix list.
355
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356JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
357 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
358 "bare" representation.
359
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360JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
361 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
362 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
363 corrupted the output.
364
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369JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
370 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
371 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
372 pairs of long lines into single ones.
373
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374PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
375 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
376
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377JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
378 This permits better logging.
379
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380JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
381 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
382 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
383 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
384 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 385 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 386
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387JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
388 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
389 "exiwhat" output.
390
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391PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
392 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
393 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
394
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395JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
396 than 255 are no longer allowed.
397
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398JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
399 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
400 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
401 client, there is no benefit for these.
402 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
403 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
404 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
405 is used (3.2.4 +).
406
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407PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
408 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
409
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410JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
411 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
412 erroneously found still-pending ones.
413
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414JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
415 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
416
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417JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
418 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
419 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
420 signature and again for transmission.
421
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422JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
423 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 424 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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426JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
427 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
428 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
429 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
430 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
431 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
432 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
433
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434JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
435 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
436 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 437 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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439PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
440 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
441 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
442 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
443 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
444 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
445 processing options.
446
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447JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
448 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
449 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
450 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
451 connections.
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453PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
454 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
455 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
456 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
457 versions.
458
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459JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
460 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
461 inaccessible.
462
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463JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
464 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
465 banner-time rejection.
466
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467JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
468 callout/hold.
469
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470PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
471 is the name of a transport.
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472 Fixes bug 2140.
473
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474HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
475
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476JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
477 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
478
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479JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
480 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
481 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
482 during compilation.
483
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484JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
485 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
486 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 487 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 488
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489JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
490 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
491 initial verify call returned a defer.
492
ad1a76fe 493JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
14de8063
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494 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
495
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496JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
497 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
498
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499JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
500 if present. Previously it was ignored.
501
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502JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
503 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
504
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505JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
506 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
507 extensible.
508
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509PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
510 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
511
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512PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
513 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
514 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
515
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516JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
517 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
518 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
519 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
520
0768462d 521HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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522 and confused the parent.
523
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524JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
525 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
526
9e0ed81f
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527JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
528 for log purposes.
529
2540f2f8
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530JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
531 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
532 out-of-order delivery.
533
e5ab0ba9
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534JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
535 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
536 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
537 error for the HELO.
538
e99a3a6c
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539JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
540 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
541 desynchronisation.
542
18067c75
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543JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
544 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
545 one run was done. Bug 2189.
546
72934ba7
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547JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
548 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
549 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
550 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
551 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
552 message is still "Temporary local problem".
553
625667b6
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554JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
555 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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556 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
557
558HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
559 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
560 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 561
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562JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
563 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
564 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
565 though a different problem.
566
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9427e879 571JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 572 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 573
7b283890
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574JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
575
4c57a40e
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576PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
577 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
578
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579JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
580 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
581
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582JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
583 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
584 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
585 before acknowledging the chunk.
586
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587PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
588 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
589 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
590
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591JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
592 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
593 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
594 should.
595
596JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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597 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
598 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 599
bd8fbe36 600JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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601 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
602
bd8fbe36
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603JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
604 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
605 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
606 body hash calculated value.
607
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608JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
609 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
610 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
611
44e6651b
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612JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
613
614JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
615 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
616
617JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
618 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
619 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
620
621JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
622 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
623 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
624 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
625 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
626 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
627
628JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
629 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
630 past that check, despite the cost.
631
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632JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
633 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
634 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
635
f700ea4d
PP
636PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
637 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
638 TLS library to consume.
639
da88acae
PP
640PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
641
f6ef9370
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642PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
643
90341c71
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644JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
645 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
646 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
647 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
648 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
649 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
650 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
651
1ec2ab36
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652PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
653
654PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
655
656PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
657 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
658 should be warning-free.
659
8b2b9480
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660JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
661
662HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
663 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
664
d953610f
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665HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
666 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
667 general solution here.
668
7dc5f827
PP
669PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
670 already-broken messages in the queue.
671
4bb432cb
PP
672JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
673
3b1a84c8
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674JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
675
902fbd69 676
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680JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
681 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 682
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683JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
684 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
685 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
686
4b0fe319
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687JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
688 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
689 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
690 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
691 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
692 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
693 if one fails this test.
694 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
695 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
696
789f8a4f
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697JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
698 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
699
23bb6982 700JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 701 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 702
0bd1b1ed 703JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 704 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 705
20b9a2dc
JH
706JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
707 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
708
05392bbc
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709JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
710 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
711
1a6230a3
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712JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
713
cfab9d68
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714JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
715 certificate).
716
98c82a3d
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717JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
718 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
719 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
720 connection after a verify cache hit.
721 Do not update it with the verify result either.
722
723JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
724 when routing results in more than one destination address.
725
ae8386f0
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726JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
727 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
728 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
729 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
730 when the cutthrough connection is made).
731
0d9fa8c0
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732JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
733 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
734
3581f321
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735JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
736 Previously they were not counted.
737
ef3a1a30
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738JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
739 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
740 that needed the lookup.
741
4c04137d 742JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
27b9e5f4
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743 distinguished as "(=".
744
1435d4b2
JH
745JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
746 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
747
eea0defe
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748JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
749
750JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
751 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 752
4c04137d 753JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
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754 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
755
1c788856
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756JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
757 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
758 compatible.
759
e3b1f624
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760JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
761 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
762 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
763 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
764
a57ce043
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765JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
766
f59aaaaa 767JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
JH
768 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
769 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 770
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771JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
772 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
773 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
774 be lost.
775
92b0827a
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776JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
777 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
778 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
779 itself :(
780
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781JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
782 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
783 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
784
3cc3f762
JH
785JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
786 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
787 options.
788
ae5afa61
JH
789JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
790
317e40ac
PP
791PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
792 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
793
8b0fb68e
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794PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
795 are not in the system include path.
796
ad7fc6eb 797JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 798 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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799 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
800 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 801
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802JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
803 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
804 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
805
5ddc9771
JH
806JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
807
8d73599f
JH
808HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
809 an incoming connection.
810
446415f5
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811HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
812 to rspamd.
813
8e53a4fc
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814HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
815 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 816
87cb4a16 817JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 818 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
87cb4a16
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819
820
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824JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
825 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
826 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
827 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 828
6c6d6e48
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829TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
830 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
831
ac881e27
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832TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
833 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
834 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
835 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
836 outgoing I= field.
837
c8899c20
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838JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
839 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
840 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
841 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
842 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
843 check on the next write.
844
f1b81d81
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845HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
846 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
847 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
848 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
849 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
850
f38917cc
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851JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
852 mime_regex ACL conditions.
853
895fbaf2
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854JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
855 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
856 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
857
805bb5c3
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858JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
859 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
860 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
861 an authenticate fail is not an error.
862
56c2a7be
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863HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
864 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
865
4c04137d 866JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
14b3c5bc
JH
867 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
868
6f6dedcc
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869JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
870 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
871 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
872 distinct.
873
0f557e90
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874JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
875
876JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
877
ec0eb1a3
JH
878JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
879
41e93589
JH
880JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
881 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
882
98b98887 883JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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884 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
885
98b98887
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886JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
887
858e91c2
JH
888JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
889 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
890
891JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
892
6ff55e50
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893JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
894 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
895
3b957582
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896JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
897
23f3dc67
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898JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
899 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 900 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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901 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
902 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
903 they will retry in-clear.
904 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
905 at installation time.
906
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907HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
908 with the $config_file variable.
909
5ef5dd52
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910JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
911 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
912 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
913 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 914 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 915
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916GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
917 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
918 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
919 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
920 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
921
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922JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
923
7f06582c
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924JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
925 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
926 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
927 list order is no longer honoured.
928
4c04137d 929JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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930 for DKIM processing.
931
f0989ec0
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932JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
933 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 934
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935JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
936 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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937 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
938 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 939
8c5d388a
JH
940JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
941 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
942
2d8d625b
JH
943JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
944 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
945
0cbf2b82
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946JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
947 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
948
f2f2c91b
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949JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
950
ce325893
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951JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
952 cached by the daemon.
953
de78e2d5
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954JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
955 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
956
379ba7d0
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957JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
958 keys are given for lookup.
959
f444c2c7
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960JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
961 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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962 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
963 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 964
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965JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
966 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
967 server-side so match that on older versions.
968
07c73177 969JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 970 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 971 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 972
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973JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
974 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
975
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976JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
977 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
978 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 979 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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980 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
981 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
982 initial truncated version.
983
ab9152ff 984JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 985
67e87fcf
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986JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
987
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988JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
989 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
990
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991JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
992
bc3c7bb7 993HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 994
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995JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
996 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
997 induced overflows.
998
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999JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1000 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1001 stage.
1002
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1003JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1004 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1005
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1006JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1007 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1008 former class.
1009
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1010JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1011 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1012 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1013
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1014JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1015 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1016 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1017 extraction. Accept either.
1018
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4c57a40e 1022
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1023JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1024 expanded.
1025
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1026JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1027
ad07e9ad
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1028JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1029 it.
1030
01a4a5c5 1031JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1032 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1033 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1034 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1035
cb1d7830 1036JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1037 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1038 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1039
610ff438 1040JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1041 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1042 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1043 TLS connections
610ff438 1044
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1045JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1046 sites use this now.
1047
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1048JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1049 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1050 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1051 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1052 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1053
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1054JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1055 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1056 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1057
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1058JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1059
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1060JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1061 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1062
5032d1cf
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1063JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1064 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1065
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1066JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1067 /defer_ok option.
1068
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1069JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1070 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1071
fd4d8871 1072JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1073 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1074 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1075
1076JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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1077 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1078 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1079
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1080JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1081 timeout value per server.
1082
2ad78978
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1083JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1084 now have the list separator specified.
1085
8a512ed5 1086JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1087 option values.
8a512ed5 1088
82c0c8ea 1089JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1090 under OpenSSL.
1091
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1092JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1093
82c0c8ea
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1094JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1095 rather than the verbs used.
1096
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1097JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1098 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1099
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1100JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1101
cfab9d68 1102HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1103 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1104
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1105JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1106 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1107
fd4c285c
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1108HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1109 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1110
4c04137d 1111JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1112
d2a2c69b
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1113JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1114
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1115JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1116 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1117 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1118 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1119
1f12df4d
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1120JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1121
1f155f8e
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1122JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1123 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1124
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1125JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1126 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1127
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1128JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1129
474f71bf
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1130JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1131
7137ca4b
JH
1132JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1133
dcb1095c
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1134JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1135 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1136
2f460950
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1137JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1138 added for tls authenticator.
1139
2f680c0c
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1140HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1141
9c695f6d 1142
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1146TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1147 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1148 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1149 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1150 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1151 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1152 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1153
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1154TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1155 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1156 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1157 function when detected.
1158
a9b8ec8b
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1159JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1160 cause callback expansion.
1161
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1162TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1163 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1164 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1165 instead of bool when processing it.
1166
0f06b4f2 1167JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1168 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1169
be36e572
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1170JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1171
ac4ef9bd
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1172JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1173
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1174TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1175
c713ca4b
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1176TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1177 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1178
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1179JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1180 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1181 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1182 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1183 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1184 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1185
8bc732e8
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1186JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1187 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1188 exceeded it.
1189
a7fec7a7
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1190JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1191 version 3.3.6 or later.
1192
4c04137d 1193JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1194 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1195 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1196 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1197 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1198 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1199 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1200
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1201TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1202 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1203
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1204JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1205 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1206 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1207 matches.
1208
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1209JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1210 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1211 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1212
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1213JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1214 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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1215
1216JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1217 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1218 syntax errors.
1219
3394b36a 1220JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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1221
1222JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1223 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1224
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1225TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1226 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1227 tarball.
1228
ad4c5ff9
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1229JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1230
4c04137d 1231JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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1232 Bug 1561.
1233
1234JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1235 output list separator was used.
1236
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1240TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1241 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1242 return.
1f0ebb98 1243
a612424f 1244JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1245 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1246
1247JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1248
1249TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1250 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1251
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1255
1256TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1257
1258 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1259 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1260 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1261 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1262 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1263 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1264
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1265TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1266 utilities have not been installed.
1267
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1268JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1269 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1270
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1271TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1272 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1273
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1274TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1275 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1276 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1277 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1278
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1279JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1280
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1281TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1282 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1283
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1284PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1285 not dns_use_dnssec.
1286
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1287JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1288
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1289TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1290 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1291 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1292
8ddef691 1293TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1294 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1295 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1296 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1297 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1298 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1299
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1300JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1301
e45a1c37
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1302JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1303 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1304
67d81c10
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1305JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1306 failed delivery.
1307
b1f8e4f8
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1308JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1309
511a6c14 1310JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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1311
1312JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1313 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1314
51c7471d
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1315JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1316 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1317
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1318TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1319
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1320JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1321
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1322JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1323 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1324
1325 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1326 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1327 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1328
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1329TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1330 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1331 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1332 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1333
35aba663
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1334JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1335
8c51eead 1336JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1337 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1338 lookup).
8c51eead 1339
deae092e
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1340TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1341 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1342 Schlichting.
35aba663 1343
fd3b6a4a 1344JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1345 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1346
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1347TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1348 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1349
2b4a568d
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1350JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1351
d2af03f4
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1352TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1353 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1354 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1355
9d1c15ef
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1356JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1357 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1358
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1359JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1360 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1361 hosts_request_ocsp.
1362
ed3bba5f 1363JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1364 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1365 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1366
8ccd00b1
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1367JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1368
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1369TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1370 Christian Aistleitner.
1371
f2de3a33
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1372JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1373
6eb02f88
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1374TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1375 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1376
00bff6f6
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1377JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1378 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1379
071c51f7
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1380JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1381 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1382
a6d4c44e
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1383TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1384 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1385
3ae173e7
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1386TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1387 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1388
c13d09b8
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1389TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1390 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1391 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1392
0df4ab80
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1393JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1394
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1395PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1396 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1397 Jasper Wallace.
1398
1bd0d12b
JH
1399JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1400
0de7239e
TL
1401TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1402 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1403 CVE-2014-2972
1404
fd3b6a4a 1405
2c422e6f 1406Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1407-----------------
1408
1409PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1410
12f69989
PP
1411PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1412 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1413
54c90be1
PP
1414PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1415 by GnuTLS.
1416
1f4a55da
PP
1417PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1418 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1419 routines.
1420
13363eba 1421PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1422
66645890 1423PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1424 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1425 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1426 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1427 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1428
a3fb9793 1429PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1430 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1431 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1432 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1433 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1434 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1435
d27f98fe 1436TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1437
6822b909
TL
1438TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1439
e7568d51
TL
1440TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1441 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1442
ae0e32ee 1443TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1444 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1445 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1446
1447TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1448
e2658fff
TL
1449TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1450
83712b39
TL
1451TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1452 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1453
976b7e9f
JH
1454JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1455
be4a1376
JH
1456JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1457
ec4b68e5
PP
1458PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1459
d7148a07
NM
1460NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1461 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1462
585121e2 1463JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1464
2519e60d
TL
1465PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1466 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1467 function.
a5f239e4 1468
13d08c90
PP
1469PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1470 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1471
bef3ea7f
JH
1472JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1473 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1474 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1475
846726c5
JH
1476JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1477
3a796370
JH
1478JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1479
ea722490 1480JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1481 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1482
b1b05573
JH
1483JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1484 Bugzilla 884.
1485
362145b5
JH
1486JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1487 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1488
3c0a92dc
JH
1489JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1490 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1491
6d7c6175
PP
1492PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1493 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1494 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1495
6f123593
JH
1496JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1497 authenticators.
1498
c8e2fc1e
JH
1499JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1500 for control.
1501
005ac57f
PP
1502PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1503
3f1df0e3
PP
1504PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1505 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1506 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1507 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1508
67bd1ab3
TF
1509TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1510
1511 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1512 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1513 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1514 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1515 the retry rules.
1516
1517 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1518 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1519 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1520
1521 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1522 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1523 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1524 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1525
1ddeb334
TF
1526 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1527 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1528 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1529 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1530 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1531 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1532 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1533
1534 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1535 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1536
326cdc37
TF
1537TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1538
1539 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1540
1541 Resent-From: f
1542
1543 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1544 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1545 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1546 username as equal to the username.
1547
1548 This change corrects that bug.
1549
f62514b3
GF
1550GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1551 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1552 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1553
eb505532
TF
1554TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1555
14c7b357
PP
1556PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1557 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1558 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1559 NULL dereference and crash.
1560
94eaf700
PP
1561JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1562
6f5a440a
PP
1563PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1564 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1565 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1566
514ee161
SC
1567SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1568
fd98a5c6
JH
1569JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1570 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1571 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1572 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1573 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1574 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1575 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1576 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1577 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1578 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1579 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1580
035c7f1e
PP
1581PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1582 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1583
ff284120
PP
1584PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1585 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1586 Bugzilla 880.
1587
26e72755
PP
1588PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1589 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1590 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1591 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1592 an empty string is now equivalent.
1593
0fbd9bff
PP
1594PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1595 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1596 not performing validation itself.
1597
700d22f3
PP
1598PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1599 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1600
fcc8e047
JH
1601JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1602 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1603
4c04137d 1604TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1605
8c020188
PP
1606PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1607 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1608 other false fix of the same issue.
1609 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1610 Bugzilla 1363.
1611
d13cdd30
PP
1612PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1613 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1614
e2fbf4a2
PP
1615PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1616 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1617 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1618
f4c1088b
PP
1619PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1620 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1621 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1622
c5c2182f
PP
1623TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1624
73431ca9
JH
1625JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1626
2d07a215
TL
1627TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1628 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1629
a30a8861
TL
1630TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1631 Alexander Miroch.
1632
33382dd9
TL
1633TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1634 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1635 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1636 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1637 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1638
046172e6
TL
1639TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1640 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1641
581d7bee 1642TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1643 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1644 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1645
1646TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1647 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1648 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1649 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1650
237b2cf2
TL
1651TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1652
9fc5a352
TL
1653TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1654 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1655 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1656
b10e4ec2
TL
1657TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1658
e2cebd74
TL
1659TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1660 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1661 interaction.
1662
1663TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1664 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1665
2519e60d
TL
1666TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1667 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1668
e78e6ecf 1669
4263f395
PP
1670Exim version 4.80.1
1671-------------------
1672
1673PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1674 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1675 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1676
ea722490 1677
b1770b6e 1678Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1679-----------------
1680
1681PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1682 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1683 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1684
23c7e742
NM
1685NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1686
b322aac8
NM
1687NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1688 improved.
1689
4a891427
NM
1690NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1691
c1e794ba 1692PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1693
97753960
PP
1694PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1695
1696PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1697 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1698
df6303fa
PP
1699PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1700 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1701
7e6a8985
PP
1702PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1703 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1704
f1e05cc7 1705PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1706 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1707 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1708
4c287009
PP
1709PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1710
b98bb9ac
PP
1711PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1712 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1713
4a6a987a
PP
1714PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1715
c45dd180 1716PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1717
7db8d074
PP
1718PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1719 non-compliant senders.
1720 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1721
eae0036b 1722NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1723 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1724 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1725
dec5017e
PP
1726PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1727 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1728 in spool file corruption.
1729
c80c5570
PP
1730PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1731 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1732 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1733 "Got SSL error 2".
1734
076b11e2
PP
1735TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1736 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1737 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1738
5407bfff
JH
1739JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1740 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1741
9e45c72b
PP
1742JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1743
e74376d8
PP
1744PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1745 diagnostics.
1746 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1747
4c04137d 1748PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1749 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1750 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1751
7be682ca
PP
1752PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1753 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1754 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1755 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1756
ef840681
PP
1757PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1758 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1759
5bfb4cdf
PP
1760PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1761 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1762 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1763 resolver implementation change.
1764
c6e95d22
PP
1765PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1766 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1767
9cbad13b
PP
1768PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1769
9ee44efb
PP
1770PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1771
6a6084f8
PP
1772PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1773 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1774
12dd53c7
PP
1775PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1776 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1777
9e45c72b 1778JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1779 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1780
17c76198
PP
1781PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1782 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1783 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1784 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1785 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1786
53947857 1787PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1788
eae0036b 1789PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1790 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1791 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1792
9e45c72b 1793JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1794
7390e768
PP
1795PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1796 read-only, out of scope).
1797 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1798
08488c86
PP
1799PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1800 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1801 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1802 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1803
6475bd82
PP
1804PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1805
81f91683
PP
1806PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1807 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1808 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1809 real issues in debug logging.
1810
5779e6aa
PP
1811PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1812 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1813
3375e053
PP
1814PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1815 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1816 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1817
1818PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1819 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1820 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1821 problems.
3375e053 1822
9d26b8c0
PP
1823PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1824 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1825
57eb9e91 1826PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1827 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1828 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1829 needs to override this, it can.
1830
16880d1a
PP
1831PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1832 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1833 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1834
a799883d
PP
1835PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1836 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1837 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1838 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1839
3ecab157 1840PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1841
0599f9cf 1842
867fcbf5
PP
1843Exim version 4.77
1844-----------------
1845
1846PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1847 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1848
f1a29782
TF
1849TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1850
ab42bd23
TK
1851TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1852 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1853
0ca0cf52
TF
1854TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1855 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1856
921b12ca
TF
1857TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1858 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1859 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1860
1861 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1862 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1863 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1864 not safe for signals.
1865
1866 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1867 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1868 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1869 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1870 exiwhat.
1871
c99ce5c9
TF
1872TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1873
1874 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1875 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1876 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1877 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1878 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1879
1880 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1881 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1882 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1883 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1884 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1885 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1886
1887 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1888 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1889 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1890 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1891
1892 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1893 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1894 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1895 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1896
1897 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1898 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1899 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1900 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1901 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1902 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1903 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1904 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1905 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1906
1907 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1908 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1909 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1910 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1911
1912 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1913 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1914 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1915 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1916 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1917 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1918 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1919 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1920 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1921 details in the main documentation.
1922
3634fc25
TF
1923TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1924
792e8a19
TF
1925TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1926
5901f0ab
TF
1927TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1928 repository when doing development or release builds.
1929
7f2a2a43
PP
1930PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1931 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1932
061b7ebd
PP
1933PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1934 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1935 Bugzilla 97.
1936
e12f8c32
PP
1937PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1938
9e949f00 1939PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1940 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1941
1942PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1943 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1944
555ae6af 1945PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1946 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1947
1948PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1949 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1950
6f7fe114
PP
1951PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1952 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1953
c566dd90
PP
1954PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1955 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1956 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1957 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1958
d6cc7c78 1959PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1960 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1961 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1962
0d0e4455
PP
1963PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1964
3399bb60 1965PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1966
1967PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1968 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1969
0ca0cf52 1970
10906672
PP
1971Exim version 4.76
1972-----------------
1973
1974PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1975
754a0503
PP
1976PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1977 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1978
c0c7b2da
PP
1979PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1980
e97d1f08
PP
1981PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1982
084c1d8c
PP
1983PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1984 Bugzilla 1098.
1985
4e7ee012
PP
1986PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1987 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1988
c8d52a00
PP
1989TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1990 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1991
54e7ce4a
PP
1992PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1993 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1994
5ee6f336
PP
1995PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1996 Bugzilla 1104.
1997
c8d52a00 1998TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1999 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2000
2001TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2002 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2003 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2004 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2005
2006PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2007 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2008
10906672 2009
aa097c4c
NM
2010Exim version 4.75
2011-----------------
2012
4c04137d 2013NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2014 Bugzilla 1073
2015
7f3d9eff
TF
2016TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2017 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2018 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2019
159f52d2
TF
2020TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2021 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2022
0cc9542a
PP
2023PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2024 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2025 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2026
f7274286
PP
2027PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2028 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2029
7b797365
PP
2030PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2031 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2032
caacae52
NM
2033NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2034 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2035
09dcaba9
NM
2036NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2037 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2038
bc19a55b
PP
2039PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2040 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2041
bd4c9759
NM
2042NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2043 Fixes bug 943.
2044
b72aab72
PP
2045PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2046 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2047
2fe76745
PP
2048PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2049 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2050
76aa570c
PP
2051PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2052 SQL string expansion failure details.
2053 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2054
f1e5fef5
PP
2055PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2056 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2057
4d805ee9
PP
2058PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2059 extern declarations in function scope.
2060 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2061
cd59ab18
PP
2062PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2063 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2064 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2065 a kernel bug).
2066
332f5cf3
PP
2067PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2068 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2069
29cfeb94
PP
2070PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2071 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2072
660242ad
PP
2073PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2074 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2075
bc4bc4c5
PP
2076PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2077 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2078
2e64baa9
NM
2079NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2080 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2081 Dennis Davis.
2082
4c04137d 2083PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2084
6bac1a9a
PP
2085PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2086
552193f0
NM
2087NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2088 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2089
1b587e48
TF
2090TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2091 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2092
aa097c4c 2093
8c07b69f
TF
2094Exim version 4.74
2095-----------------
2096
2097TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2098 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2099
c0ea85ab
TF
2100TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2101 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2102
0761d44e
TF
2103TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2104
0a349494
PP
2105DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2106 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2107 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2108
2109PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2110 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2111 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2112
fea24b2e
PP
2113PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2114 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2115 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2116 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2117
6545de78
PP
2118PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2119 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2120 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2121 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2122
1670ef10
PP
2123PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2124 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2125 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2126 arbitrary files.
2127
c0886197
PP
2128PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2129 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2130
b7487bce
PP
2131PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2132 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2133 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2134 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2135 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2136
8c07b69f 2137
97fd1e48 2138Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2139-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2140
2141PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2142 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2143 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2144
6901c596
PP
2145PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2146 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2147
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2148JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2149
77bb000f
PP
2150PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2151
a29e5231
PP
2152PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2153
ec5a0394 2154PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2155
55c75993
PP
2156PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2157
453a6645 2158PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2159 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2160 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2161 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2162
8544e77a
PP
2163PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2164 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2165 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2166 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2167 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2168
83e029d5
PP
2169PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2170
ed7f7860
PP
2171PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2172
7d9f747b
PP
2173PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2174
4b2241d2
PP
2175PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2176
10385c15
PP
2177PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2178
dbc4b90d
PP
2179PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2180
532be449
PP
2181PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2182
6a8de854 2183PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2184 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2185 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2186
5dc43717
JJ
2187JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2188
2189JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2190 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2191
3346ab01
PP
2192PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2193 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2194
491fab4c
PP
2195PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2196 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2197 Notification from John Horne.
2198
13eb9497
PP
2199PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2200 compatible.
2201
2202PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2203 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2204 it normally works.
2205
7f36d675
DW
2206DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2207 access.
2208
c1d94452
DW
2209DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2210 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2211 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2212
e2f5dc15
DW
2213DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2214 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2215 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2216 configuration file.
2217
cd25e41d
DW
2218DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2219 option (effectively making it always true).
2220
261dc43e
DW
2221DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2222 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2223
fa32850b
DW
2224DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2225 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2226
79d4bc3d
PP
2227PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2228 run-time user, instead of root.
2229
43236f35 2230PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2231 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2232
fb08281f
DW
2233DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2234 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2235 arguments.
3346ab01 2236
74935b98
DW
2237DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2238 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2239 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2240
90b6341f
DW
2241DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2242
57730b52
ML
2243NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2244
66581d1e 2245
465e92cf
JJ
2246Exim version 4.72
2247-----------------
2248
453a6645
PP
2249JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2250 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2251 typos
465e92cf 2252
453a6645
PP
2253JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2254 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2255 (Finput)
edae0343 2256
9bd3e22c
NM
2257NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2258 Patch from Alain Williams
2259
bb576ff7
NM
2260NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2261
5a1a5845
NM
2262NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2263 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2264
981a9fad
NM
2265NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2266 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2267
7fc497ee
NM
2268NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2269
1a41defa
JJ
2270JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2271
a466095c 2272NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2273 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2274
94a6bd0b
NM
2275TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2276
2277TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2278
2279MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2280 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2281 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2282
c1b141a8
NM
2283NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2284 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2285
b26eacf1 2286NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2287 Patch by Simon Arlott
2288
179c5980 2289PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2290 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2291
9bd3e22c 2292
7c6d71af
NM
2293Exim version 4.71
2294-----------------
2295
7d9f747b 2296TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2297
f013fb92
NM
2298NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2299
0eb8eedd
NM
2300NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2301
663ee6d9
NM
2302NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2303
177ebd9b
NM
2304NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2305
7c6d71af 2306
210f147e
NM
2307Exim version 4.70
2308-----------------
2309
cdd3bb85 2310TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2311 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2312
2313TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2314 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2315 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2316
2317TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2318 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2319 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2320
2321TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2322 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2323
210f147e
NM
2324NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2325 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2326 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2327 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2328
deafd5b3
NM
2329NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2330 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2331 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2332
089793a4
TF
2333TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2334
5f16ca82
TF
2335TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2336
dae9d94e 2337NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2338 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2339
7d9f747b 2340NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2341
06864c44
TF
2342TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2343 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2344 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2345 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2346
65a7d8c3 2347NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2348 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2349
23510047 2350TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2351
7d9f747b 2352NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2353
7d8eec3a 2354NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2355 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2356
89dec7b6
TF
2357TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2358 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2359
a99de90c
TF
2360TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2361 that they are available at delivery time.
2362
e2803e40
TF
2363TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2364
7199e1ee
TF
2365TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2366 incoming_port log selectors.
2367
e276e04b
TF
2368TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2369 setting expands to an empty string.
2370
ce552449 2371NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2372 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2373
e765a0f1 2374NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2375 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2376
4f054c63 2377NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2378 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2379
7d9f747b
PP
2380NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2381 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2382
7d9f747b
PP
2383NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2384 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2385
b52bc06e 2386NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2387 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2388
447de4b0
NM
2389NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2390
4c69d561 2391NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2392 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2393
d5c39246 2394NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2395 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2396
0b23848a
TK
2397TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2398
8f3414a1 2399NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2400 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2401
fb6f955d
NM
2402NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2403
2404NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2405
7d9f747b
PP
2406NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2407 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2408
7d9f747b
PP
2409NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2410 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2411
7d9f747b
PP
2412NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2413 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2414
7d9f747b
PP
2415NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2416 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2417
7d9f747b
PP
2418NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2419 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2420
7d9f747b
PP
2421NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2422 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2423
7d9f747b
PP
2424NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2425 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2426
7d9f747b 2427NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2428 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2429
7d9f747b 2430NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2431
7d9f747b
PP
2432NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2433 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2434
7d9f747b 2435NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2436
7d9f747b 2437NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2438
7d9f747b 2439NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2440
7d9f747b 2441NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2442
17792b53 2443NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2444 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2445
7d9f747b
PP
2446NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2447 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2448
91576cec 2449NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2450 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2451
7d9f747b
PP
2452NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2453 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2454
7d9f747b 2455NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2456
7d9f747b 2457NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2458
7d9f747b 2459NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2460
7d9f747b 2461NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2462
deafd5b3 2463
47db1125
NM
2464Exim version 4.69
2465-----------------
2466
4b3504d0
TK
2467TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2468 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2469 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2470
2471 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2472 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2473 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2474 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2475 build errors in sieve.c.
2476
81ea09ca
NM
2477NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2478 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2479 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2480
f13cddcb
SC
2481SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2482
7d9f747b 2483NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2484
7d9f747b 2485NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2486
7d9f747b 2487NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2488
2489
eb4c0de6
PH
2490Exim version 4.68
2491-----------------
2492
2493PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2494
6a3bceb1
PH
2495PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2496 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2497 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2498 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2499 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2500 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2501 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2502 for iplsearch lookups.
2503
2504 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2505 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2506 previously such lookups could never work.
2507
4c04137d 2508 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2509 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2510 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2511
2e30fa9d
TK
2512TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2513 version.
2514
0806a9c5
MH
2515MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2516 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2517 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2518 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2519 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2520 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2521
ae276964
TK
2522TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2523 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2524
0f2cbd1b
MH
2525MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2526 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2527 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2528 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2529 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2530 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2531
2b85bce7
PH
2532PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2533 local_scan API.
2534
93655c46
PH
2535PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2536
6c512171
PH
2537PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2538 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2539 encrypted.
2540
2541PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2542 by clients under certain conditions.
2543
aa6dc513
PH
2544PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2545 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2546
a96603a0
PH
2547PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2548
8f240103
PH
2549PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2550 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2551
2552PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2553
d677b2f2
PH
2554PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2555
d52120f2
PH
2556PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2557
64f2600a
PH
2558PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2559 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2560
8669f003
PH
2561PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2562
a4dc33a8
PH
2563PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2564 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2565
d6a60c0f
PH
2566PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2567
8f128379
PH
2568PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2569
8932dffe
PH
2570PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2571 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2572 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2573 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2574
ddea74fa 2575PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2576 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2577 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2578
ddea74fa 2579PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2580 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2581
ddea74fa
PH
2582PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2583
ce9f225c
PH
2584PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2585
19897d52
PH
2586PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2587
bc64a74d
PH
2588PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2589 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2590 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2591
eb4c0de6 2592
b4ed4da0
PH
2593Exim version 4.67
2594-----------------
2595
22ad45c9
MH
2596MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2597 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2598 Jan Srzednicki.
2599
b4ed4da0
PH
2600PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2601 issue a MAIL command.
2602
431b7361
PH
2603PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2604
2605 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2606
2607 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2608 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2609 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2610 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2611 item. This has been fixed.
2612
2613PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2614 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2615
83da1223
PH
2616PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2617 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2618
54fc8428
PH
2619PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2620 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2621 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2622
34c5e8dd
SC
2623SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2624
bbe15da8
PH
2625PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2626 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2627 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2628 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2629 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2630
0e8a9471
MH
2631MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2632 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2633 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2634
f0872424
PH
2635PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2636 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2637 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2638 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2639
b01dd148
PH
2640PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2641
6bf342e1
PH
2642PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2643
273f34d0
PH
2644PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2645 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2646 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2647 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2648 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2649
cf8b11a5
PH
2650PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2651
41c7c167
PH
2652PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2653 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2654 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2655 values).
2656
9c57cbc0
PH
2657PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2658
f3f065bb
PH
2659PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2660
047bdd8c
PH
2661PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2662
0ce9abe6
PH
2663PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2664
0e22dfd1
PH
2665PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2666
4c590bd1
PH
2667PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2668 no_callout_flush is set.
2669
09945f1e
PH
2670PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2671 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2672 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2673 fixed.
2674
c51b8e75
PH
2675PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2676
e28326d8 2677PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2678 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2679 other ACL rejections are.
2680
75b1493f
PH
2681PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2682 with slight modification.
2683
7c5214ec
PH
2684PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2685 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2686
4311097e
PH
2687PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2688 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2689 connection.
2690
29f89cad
PH
2691PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2692 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2693
5e687460
SC
2694SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2695
c3611384
PH
2696PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2697 expansion side effects.
2698
5a11a7b4
PH
2699PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2700 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2701 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2702 be the same.
2703
0e20aff9
MH
2704MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2705 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2706 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2707
ca86f471
PH
2708PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2709 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2710 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2711 were accidentally chopped off.
2712
a14e5636
PH
2713PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2714 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2715 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2716 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2717 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2718 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2719 pipelining has not been advertised.
2720
ec95d1a6
PH
2721PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2722
42855d71
PH
2723PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2724 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2725 This has been fixed.
2726
57c2c631
PH
2727PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2728 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2729 reported on Solaris.
2730
58c01c94
PH
2731PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2732 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2733 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2734 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2735 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2736 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2737 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2738
dee5a20a
PH
2739PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2740 cpus.
2741
d2ee6114
PH
2742PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2743
b2d5182b
PH
2744PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2745
79749a79
PH
2746PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2747 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2748 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2749 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2750 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2751 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2752
c456d9bb
PH
2753PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2754 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2755 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2756 host_all_ignored option.
2757
cd9868ec
PH
2758PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2759 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2760 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2761 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2762 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2763 is what is supposed to happen).
2764
ebeaf996
PH
2765PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2766 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2767 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2768 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2769 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2770 uses the Exim user.
2771
2679d413
PH
2772PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2773 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2774 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2775 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2776 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2777 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2778 users.
2779
84024b72
PH
2780PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2781
8005d38e
SC
2782SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2783 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2784 (Jez Hancock).
2785 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2786 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2787
3298c6c6
SC
2788SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2789
a43a27c5
PH
2790PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2791
58eb016e 2792PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2793 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2794 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2795 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2796 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2797 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2798 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2799 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2800 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2801 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2802 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2803
b43a74ea
PH
2804PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2805 advertised in response to EHLO.
2806
b4ed4da0 2807
5dd1517f
PH
2808Exim version 4.66
2809-----------------
2810
2811PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2812 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2813
2814 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2815 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2816
2817 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2818 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2819 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2820
2821 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2822 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2823 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2824 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2825 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2826
2827
93cfa765
TK
2828Exim version 4.65
2829-----------------
2830
2831TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2832 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2833 versions. (#438)
2834
d6066548
MH
2835MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2836 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2837 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2838
4362ff0d
PH
2839PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2840 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2841 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2842 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2843 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2844 rather than extend the field.
2845
93cfa765 2846
944e9e9c
TF
2847Exim version 4.64
2848-----------------
aa41d2de 2849
21d74bd9
TK
2850TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2851 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2852 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2853 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2854 these files.
2855
2856TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2857 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2858 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2859
2860TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2861 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2862 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2863
2864TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2865 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2866 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2867 in the field name.
2868
2b1c6e3a
PH
2869PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2870 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2871 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2872 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2873 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2874 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2875 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2876 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2877 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2878 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2879 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2880
1f872c80
PH
2881PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2882 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2883
2884PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2885 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2886 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2887 ignores EPIPE as well.
2888
d203e649
PH
2889PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2890 (quoted-printable decoding).
2891
cc2ed8f7 2892PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2893 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2894
ddfcd446
PH
2895PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2896
d45b1de8
PH
2897PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2898
2899PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2900
38a0a95f 2901PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2902 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2903
a2405d83
JJ
2904JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2905 in 4.64-PH/09.
2906
2907JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2908 miscellaneous code fixes
2909
6ea85e9a
PH
2910PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2911 rejections.
2912
26da7e20
PH
2913PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2914 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2915 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2916 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2917 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2918 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2919 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2920 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2921
14aa5a05 2922PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2923 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2924 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2925 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2926 function.
2927 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2928 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2929 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2930 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2931 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2932 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2933 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2934 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2935 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2936
ff75a1f7
PH
2937PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2938 decoding.
2939
e6f6568e
PH
2940PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2941 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2942 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2943 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2944 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2945 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2946 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2947 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2948
d6f6e0dc
PH
2949PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2950 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2951 list.
2952
322050c2
PH
2953PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2954 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2955 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2956 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2957 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2958 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2959 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2960 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2961 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2962 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2963 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2964 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2965 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2966
08955dd3
PH
2967PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2968 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2969 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2970 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2971 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2972 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2973 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2974
1eccaa59
PH
2975PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2976 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2977 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2978 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2979 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2980 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2981 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2982 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2983 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2984 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2985
602e59e5
PH
2986PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2987 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2988 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2989 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2990 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2991
411ef850
PH
2992PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2993 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2994 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2995 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2996 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2997 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2998 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2999
7befa435
PH
3000PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3001 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3002 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3003 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3004 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3005 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3006 been verified.
3007
48da4259 3008PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3009 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3010 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3011 and authorization.)
3012
48da4259
PH
3013PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3014 if any retry times were supplied.
3015
d1d5595c
PH
3016PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3017 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3018 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3019
0ef732d9
PH
3020PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3021
328895cc
PH
3022PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3023
fd700877
PH
3024PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3025 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3026 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3027 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3028 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3029 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3030
8dce1a6f
PH
3031PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3032 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3033
17af4a17
PH
3034PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3035 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3036 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3037
3038PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3039 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3040 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3041 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3042 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3043 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3044 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3045 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3046 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3047
3048 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3049 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3050 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3051 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3052 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3053 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3054 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3055 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3056 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3057
3058 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3059 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3060 hammering the server.
3061
c1114884
PH
3062PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3063 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3064
7a0743eb
PH
3065PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3066
0d85fa3f
PH
3067PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3068 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3069 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3070
1bf43b78
PH
3071PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3072 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3073 one case where this was not true.
3074
520de300
PH
3075PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3076 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3077 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3078 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3079 fails.
3080
48c7f9e2
PH
3081PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3082 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3083 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3084 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3085 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3086 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3087 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3088 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3089 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3090 smtp transport.
3091
99ea1c86
PH
3092PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3093 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3094 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3095 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3096
a2042e78
PH
3097PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3098 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3099
4fbcfc2e
PH
3100PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3101 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3102 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3103
aa41d2de
PH
3104PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3105
af561417
PH
3106PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3107
3cc66b45
PH
3108PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3109
194cc0e4
PH
3110PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3111 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3112 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3113 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3114
a401ddaa
PH
3115PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3116 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3117
4e88a19f
PH
3118PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3119 be meaningful with "accept".
3120
d7d7b289
SC
3121SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3122 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3123
3124SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3125 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3126 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3127
3128SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3129 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3130 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3131 there is data to show.
3132 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3133
3134SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3135 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3136 as well as the number of messages.
3137
3138SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3139 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3140 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3141
3142SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3143 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3144 have a flag are now skipped.
3145
3146SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3147 Added the -emptyok flag.
3148
3149SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3150 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3151
0ea2a468
JJ
3152JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3153 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3154 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3155
3156JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3157 match 4.64-PH/13
3158
3159JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3160 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3161
3162JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3163
3164JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3165 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3166
8a10f5a4
PH
3167PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3168
30e18802
PH
3169PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3170 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3171 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3172 contravention of the specifications.
3173
55728a4f
PH
3174PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3175 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3176 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3177
d7837193
PH
3178PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3179 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3180 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3181
87054a31
PH
3182PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3183
ea2c01d2
MH
3184MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3185 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3186 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3187 some point in the past.
3188
e4fa6968
PH
3189PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3190 transport during callout processing was broken.
3191
56f5d9bd
PH
3192PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3193 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3194
922e1c28
PH
3195PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3196 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3197
21eb6e72
PH
3198PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3199 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3200
a0540757
PH
3201PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3202
944e9e9c 3203
478be7b0
SC
3204Exim version 4.63
3205-----------------
3206
3207SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3208 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3209
3210SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3211 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3212 there is data to show.
3213 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3214
3215SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3216 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3217
2b965a65
TF
3218TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3219 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3220
45b91596
PH
3221TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3222 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3223
c59f5781
TF
3224TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3225 submissions from trusted users.
3226
90fc3069
TF
3227TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3228 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3229
6083aca0
TF
3230TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3231 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3232 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3233 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3234 there is now a framework to start from.
3235
765b530f
PH
3236PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3237 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3238 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3239
4e167a8c
PH
3240PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3241
4608d683
PH
3242PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3243
b8dc3e4a
PH
3244PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3245
5418e93b
PH
3246PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3247 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3248 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3249
b4a9bda2
PH
3250PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3251 libradius.
3252
45b91596
PH
3253PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3254 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3255 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3256
5547e2c5
PH
3257PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3258 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3259 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3260 its arguments.
3261
dbcef0ea
PH
3262PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3263 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3264 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3265 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3266 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3267
25257489
PH
3268PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3269 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3270
c816d124
PH
3271PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3272
a9ccd69a
PH
3273PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3274 operations in malware.c.
3275
75fa1910
PH
3276PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3277 signatures.
3278
a7d7aa58
PH
3279PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3280 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3281 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3282 all.
3283
42119b09
PH
3284PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3285 statements to "add_header".
3286
41609df5
PH
3287PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3288 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3289
a5bd321b
PH
3290PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3291 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3292 latter.
3293
e85a7ad5 3294PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3295 so that it is now:
3296
e85a7ad5
PH
3297 ${if or { \
3298 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3299 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3300 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3301 }{no}{yes}}
3302
e85a7ad5
PH
3303 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3304 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3305
d8fe1c03
PH
3306PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3307 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3308
16282d2b
PH
3309PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3310 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3311 any possible encoding problems.
3312
35d40a98
PH
3313PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3314 but not after initializing Perl.
3315
034d99ab
PH
3316PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3317 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3318 apparently, which is not desirable.
3319
6ec97b1b
PH
3320PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3321 queries.
3322
e22ca4ac
JJ
3323JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3324 --not options
3325
3326JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3327
33d73e3b
PH
3328PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3329 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3330 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3331 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3332
9ecb03f3
PH
3333PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3334 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3335 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3336
084efe8d
PH
3337PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3338 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3339 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3340 0.12.
3341
366fc9f0
PH
3342PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3343 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3344 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3345 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3346 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3347
c59f5781 3348
c887c79e
TF
3349Exim version 4.62
3350-----------------
3351
3352TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3353 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3354
1cce3af8
PH
3355PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3356 patch).
3357
afb3eaaf
PH
3358PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3359 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3360 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3361 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3362 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3363 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3364 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3365 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3366 451 error is used.
3367
e173618b
PH
3368PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3369
dd16e114
PH
3370PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3371 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3372 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3373
f7fd3850
PH
3374PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3375 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3376 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3377 odd errors.
3378
d87df92c
PH
3379PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3380 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3381
7e9f683d
PH
3382PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3383 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3384 option (which defaults to 0600).
3385
bfad5236
PH
3386PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3387
01c490df
PH
3388PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3389 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3390 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3391 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3392 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3393 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3394 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3395
d6629cdc
PH
3396PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3397
1cce3af8 3398
214e2000
PH
3399Exim version 4.61
3400-----------------
3401
3402PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3403 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3404 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3405 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3406 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3407 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3408 addresses as local.
3409
f9daeae0
PH
3410PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3411 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3412
7e66e54d
PH
3413PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3414
c8ea1597
PH
3415PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3416 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3417 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3418 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3419 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3420 grumble.
3421
911f6fde
PH
3422PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3423 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3424
47ca6d6c
PH
3425PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3426 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3427 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3428 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3429 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3430
ed0e9820
PH
3431PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3432 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3433 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3434 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3435
eff37e47
PH
3436PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3437 be the same on different OS.
3438
1921d2ea
PH
3439PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3440 testing.
3441
b3f69ca8
JJ
3442JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3443 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3444
3445JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3446 in 4.61-PH/06
3447
424a1c63
PH
3448PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3449 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3450 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3451 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3452 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3453 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3454 bounce message.
3455
7a100415
PH
3456PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3457 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3458 when Exim was called.
3459
19b9dc85
PH
3460PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3461 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3462
309bd837
PH
3463PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3464 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3465 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3466 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3467
59e82a2a
PH
3468PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3469 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3470 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3471 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3472 changes:
3473
3474 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3475 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3476 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3477
3478 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3479 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3480 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3481
9edc04ce
PH
3482PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3483 feature).
3484
1349e1e5
PH
3485PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3486 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3487 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3488 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3489 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3490 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3491 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3492 values from the SRV records were lost.
3493
ea49d0e1
PH
3494PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3495 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3496 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3497
064a94c9
PH
3498PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3499 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3500 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3501
727071f8
PH
3502PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3503 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3504 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3505 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3506 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3507 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3508 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3509 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3510 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3511 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3512
f78eb7c6
PH
3513PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3514 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3515 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3516
21c28500
PH
3517PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3518 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3519
3520PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3521 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3522 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3523 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3524 is given.
3525
1688f43b
PH
3526PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3527 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3528 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3529
3530PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3531 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3532 PH/23 above applies.
3533
9675b384
PH
3534PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3535 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3536 (for which there is an explicit test).
3537
6a3f1455
PH
3538PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3539
dac79d3e
PH
3540PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3541 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3542 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3543 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3544 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3545
5977a0b3
PH
3546PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3547 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3548 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3549 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3550
c91535f3
PH
3551PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3552 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3553 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3554
0d46a8c8
PH
3555PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3556
278c6e6c
PH
3557PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3558
2cbb4081
PH
3559PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3560 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3561 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3562
3eef829e
PH
3563PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3564 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3565 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3566 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3567 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3568
1ab95fa6
PH
3569PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3570 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3571 the message gets confusing).
3572
230205fc
PH
3573PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3574 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3575 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3576 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3577
75e0e026
PH
3578PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3579 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3580 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3581 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3582 same order.
3583
3584PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3585 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3586 the different processes.
3587
145396a6
PH
3588PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3589
3cd34f13
PH
3590PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3591
11121d3d
JJ
3592JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3593 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3594
3595JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3596 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3597
3598JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3599 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3600 messages matching specified criteria.
3601
8def5aaf
PH
3602PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3603
929ba01c
PH
3604PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3605 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3606
2632889e
PH
3607PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3608 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3609 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3610 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3611 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3612 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3613 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3614 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3615 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3616 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3617
944a9c55
PH
3618PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3619 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3620 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3621
4a23603b
PH
3622PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3623
4730f942
PH
3624PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3625 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3626 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3627 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3628 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3629 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3630 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3631 the variable.
3632
30dba1e6
PH
3633PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3634 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3635
382afc6b
PH
3636PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3637
a86229cf
PH
3638PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3639
50c99ba6
PH
3640PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3641
d35e429d
PH
3642PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3643 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3644 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3645 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3646 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3647 size of the count of files.
3648
f90d018c
PH
3649PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3650
75def545
PH
3651PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3652 used in LMTP mode:
3653
3654 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3655 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3656 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3657 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3658
3659 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3660 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3661 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3662
3663PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3664 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3665 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3666 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3667 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3668
c46782ef
PH
3669PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3670 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3671
71fafd95
PH
3672PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3673 will now be deprecated.
3674
2c5db4fd
PH
3675PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3676
9cf6b11a
JJ
3677JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3678 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3679 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3680
3681JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3682 with very large, slow to parse queues
3683
3684JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3685
3686JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3687
898d150f
PH
3688PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3689 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3690 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3691 SMTP output lines.
3692
46218253
PH
3693PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3694 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3695 Sieve code now uses this.
3696
e97957bc
PH
3697PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3698 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3699
81e509d7
PH
3700PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3701 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3702
3d240ff7
PH
3703PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3704
b37c4101
PH
3705PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3706 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3707 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3708 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3709 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3710
79378e0f
PH
3711PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3712 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3713 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3714 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3715
e49c7bb4
PH
3716PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3717
d114ec46
PH
3718PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3719
f3d7df6c
PH
3720PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3721 is preferred over IPv4.
3722
715ab376
PH
3723PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3724 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3725 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3726 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3727 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3728 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3729 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3730
6b31b150
PH
3731PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3732 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3733 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3734
3735PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3736
d515a917
PH
3737PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3738 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3739 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3740 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3741 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3742 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3743 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3744 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3745 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3746 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3747 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3748
9b8fadde
PH
3749PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3750 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3751 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3752
214e2000 3753
5de37277
PH
3754Exim version 4.60
3755-----------------
3756
cc38ddbf
PH
3757PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3758
3759 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3760 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3761
3762 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3763 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3764 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3765
72fdd6ae
PH
3766PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3767
3768 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3769 not a single digit.
3770
3771 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3772 string.
3773
3774 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3775 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3776 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3777 silly things.
3778
3779 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3780 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3781
3782 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3783 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3784
cb741023
PH
3785PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3786 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3787 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3788
f174f16e
PH
3789PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3790 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3791
c25242d7
PH
3792PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3793 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3794
3795 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3796
3797 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3798 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3799 this:
3800
3801 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3802
82c19f95
PH
3803PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3804 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3805 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3806 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3807 identical. For example:
3808
3809 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3810
3811 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3812 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3813 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3814
d7ffbc12
PH
3815PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3816 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3817 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3818 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3819
9f526266
PH
3820PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3821 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3822 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3823 message.
3824
87fcc8b9
PH
3825PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3826
3827 o fixes some comments
3828 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3829 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3830 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3831 and documents the missing references header update
3832
3833 and most important:
3834
3835 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3836 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3837 result)
3838
456682f5
PH
3839PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3840 Electronic Mail") by including:
3841
3842 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3843
3844 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3845 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3846 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3847 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3848 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3849
3850 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3851
3852 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3853
3854 The auto-replied keyword:
3855
3856 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3857 message by an automatic process,
3858
3859 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3860
3861 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3862 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3863
3864 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3865 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3866 other messages.
3867
3e46c1aa
PH
3868PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3869 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3870
49826d12
PH
3871PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3872
eba0c039
PH
3873PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3874 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3875 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3876
a0d6ba8a
PH
3877PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3878 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3879 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3880
f0917727
PH
3881PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3882 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3883 and treats the condition as false.
3884
096fee00
PH
3885PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3886
024bd3c2
PH
3887PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3888 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3889 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3890 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3891 not changing the active code.
3892
3893 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3894 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3895
3896 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3897 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3898
df199fec
PH
3899PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3900 (Bugzilla #53).
3901
d27f1df3
PH
3902PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3903 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3904 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3905 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3906 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3907 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3908 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3909 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3910 the text comparison.
3911
96776534
PH
3912PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3913 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3914 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3915 The same fix has been applied.
3916
5de37277 3917
9a799bc0
PH
3918Exim version 4.54
3919-----------------
3920
3921PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3922 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3923 It now does.
3924
99a4b039
PH
3925PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3926 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3927
3928PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3929
4b233853
PH
3930PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3931 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3932 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3933 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3934 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3935
8857ccfd
PH
3936TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3937 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3938 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3939 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3940 or /domain=).
3941
433a2980
PH
3942PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3943 testing suite.
3944
3e46c1aa 3945
9a799bc0 3946
e3a311ba
TK
3947Exim version 4.53
3948-----------------
3949
3950TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3951 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3952
13b685f9
PH
3953PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3954
395ff96d
PH
3955PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3956
5b68f6e4
PH
3957PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3958 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3959 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3960
1ab52c69
PH
3961PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3962 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3963 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3964
b07e6aa3
PH
3965PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3966 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3967 operating systems.
3968
254e032f
PH
3969PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3970 ${stat: expansion item.
3971
3af76a81
PH
3972PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3973 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3974
2548ba04
PH
3975PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3976 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3977 file for comments.
3978
b6c6011d
PH
3979PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3980
cf39cf57
PH
3981PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3982 setting.
3983
f1513293
PH
3984PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3985 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3986
727549a4
PH
3987TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3988
af46795e
PH
3989PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3990 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3991 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3992 the end of the subprocess.
3993
d7b47fd0
PH
3994PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3995 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3996 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3997 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3998 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3999
ee744174
JJ
4000JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4001
b582ab87
PH
4002TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4003
41a13e0a
PH
4004PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4005 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4006
f625cc5a
PH
4007PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4008
4009PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4010
21f7af35
PH
4011PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4012 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4013 HP-UX compiler.
4014
31480e42
PH
4015PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4016
2d280592
PH
4017PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4018 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4019 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4020
7cd1141b
PH
4021PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4022 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4023
4024PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4025 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4026
750af86e
PH
4027PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4028 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4029
4030 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4031 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4032
4033 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4034 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4035 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4036 contributed by a Radius user.
4037
4038PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4039 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4040
4304270b
TK
4041TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4042 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4043
750af86e
PH
4044PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4045 available.
4046
64ffc24f
PH
4047PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4048 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4049 received.
4050
5dd9625b
PH
4051PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4052 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4053 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4054 header lines when this was not necessary.
4055
5591031b
PH
4056PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4057
ba18e66a
PH
4058PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4059 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4060 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4061 exists".
4062
9cec981f
PH
4063PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4064 -bV or -d is used.
4065
aa2b5c79
PH
4066PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4067 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4068 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4069 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4070
48a53b7f
PH
4071PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4072
1c59d63b
PH
4073PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4074
671012da
TK
4075TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4076
1509d3a8
PH
4077PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4078
4079PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4080 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4081 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4082 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4083 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4084 settings.
4085
4086PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4087
2fe1a124
PH
4088PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4089 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4090 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4091 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4092 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4093 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4094 which is clearly wrong.
4095
8800895a
PH
4096PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4097
ccfdb010
PH
4098PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4099 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4100 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4101 subsequently added.
4102
1130bfb0
PH
4103PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4104 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4105
ebcb507f
PH
4106PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4107
c35e155c
PH
4108PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4109 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4110
95d1f782
PH
4111PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4112 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4113
fd6de02e
PH
4114PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4115 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4116
58de37c5
PH
4117PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4118 recipients, not senders.
4119
261cf466
TF
4120TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4121 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4122
3ee512ff
PH
4123PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4124
e08c430f
PH
4125PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4126
bef5a11f
PH
4127PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4128 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4129 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4130 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4131
7546de58
TF
4132TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4133
e5d5a95f
TF
4134TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4135 clock is set back in time.
4136
2e88a017
TF
4137TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4138 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4139
a5f65aa4
TF
4140TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4141 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4142
e7726cbf
PH
4143PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4144 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4145 (see PH/47 above).
4146
a7fdad5b
TF
4147TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4148 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4149 header rewrites.
4150
6af56900
PH
4151PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4152 type ("H").
4153
0925ede6
PH
4154PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4155
66afa403
TF
4156TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4157 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4158 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4159
0154e85a
TF
4160TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4161 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4162 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4163 helo verification defer as a failure.
4164
16f12c76
PH
4165PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4166 actual error message.
4167
bbe902f0 4168
e5a9dba6
PH
4169Exim version 4.52
4170-----------------
4171
4172TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4173
22c3b60b
PH
4174PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4175 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4176 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4177 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4178
06a9b4b5
PH
4179TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4180
c1ac6996
PH
4181PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4182 can still be requested.
4183
9c7a242c
PH
4184PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4185 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4186 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4187 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4188
87ba3f5f
PH
4189TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4190 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4191 circumstances, but probably never did.
4192
4193PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4194 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4195 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4196 in the header line.
4197
29aba418
TF
4198TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4199
fe0dab11
TF
4200TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4201 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4202
11d337a4
TK
4203TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4204
4205TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4206
415c8f3b
PH
4207PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4208 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4209 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4210 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4211 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4212 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4213
958541e9
PH
4214PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4215 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4216 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4217 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4218 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4219 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4220
c206415f
TK
4221TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4222 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4223
2a4be8f9
PH
4224PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4225 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4226
1cba11c5
SC
4227SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4228 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4229
4c04137d 4230SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4231
4232SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4233
4234SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4235
4236SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4237
4238SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4239
4240SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4241
1005d00e
TK
4242TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4243
4244TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4245 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4246 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4247
4248TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4249 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4250 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4251 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4252
9b4768fa
PH
4253PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4254 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4255 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4256
4257PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4258 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4259 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4260 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4261
0d7eb84a
PH
4262PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4263 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4264 to be made).
4265
4266PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4267 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4268 should work with maildirs and everything.
4269
40727bee
TK
4270TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4271 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4272
554d2369
TF
4273TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4274 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4275
1f922db1
PH
4276PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4277 function for BDB 4.3.
4278
ef213c3b
PH
4279PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4280
8ac170f3
PH
4281PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4282 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4283 involved.
4284
b1c749bb
PH
4285PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4286 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4287 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4288 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4289 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4290 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4291
4aac9b49
PH
4292PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4293 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4294 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4295 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4296 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4297 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4298 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4299 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4300
294520c8
TK
4301TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4302 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4303 details.
4304
5bd022fe
PH
4305PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4306 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4307
90e9ce59
PH
4308PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4309 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4310 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4311 test. It is now used for both.
4312
5ea81592
PH
4313PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4314 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4315 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4316 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4317 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4318 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4319
c6c2dc1d
PH
4320PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4321 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4322 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4323 string_vformat().
4324
fffffe4c
PH
4325PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4326 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4327 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4328
9a26b6b2
PH
4329PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4330 experimental DomainKeys support:
4331
4332 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4333 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4334 the control was given.
4335
4336 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4337
4aee0225
PH
4338PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4339
32d668a5
PH
4340PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4341
8187c3f3
PH
4342PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4343 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4344 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4345 db.h files).
4346
ff790e47 4347PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4348 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4349 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4350 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4351 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4352 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4353 course.
ff790e47 4354
5417f6d1
PH
4355PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4356 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4357 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4358 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4359 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4360 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4361
59cf8544
PH
4362PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4363 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4364 do -d+all out of habit.
4365
e7ad8a65
PH
4366PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4367 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4368 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4369
ade42478
PH
4370PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4371 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4372 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4373 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4374 record types that Exim uses.
4375
182ad5cf
PH
4376PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4377 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4378 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4379 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4380 non-existent file that was broken.
4381
b0d9fc80
TK
4382TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4383 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4384
4385TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4386 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4387 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4388
4389TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4390
47c7a64a
PH
4391PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4392 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4393 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4394 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4395 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4396 same time.
4397
a388bce4
SC
4398SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4399 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4400 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4401 at a slight CPU cost.
4402
4403SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4404 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4405
4406SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4407 by Marc Sherman.
4408
0793e4ed
SC
4409SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4410
c58b88df
PH
4411PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4412 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4413
e7ad8a65 4414
7982096b
PH
4415Exim version 4.51
4416-----------------
4417
1a46a8c5
PH
4418TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4419 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4420
2f079f46 4421TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4422
4423TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4424
4425PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4426 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4427
4428PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4429 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4430 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4431 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4432 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4433 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4434 file.
4435
4436PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4437 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4438 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4439 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4440 these two options.
4441
4442PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4443 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4444 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4445 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4446 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4447 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4448 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4449 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4450
4451PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4452 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4453
4454PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4455 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4456 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4457 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4458 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4459 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4460
4461PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4462 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4463 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4464 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4465
4466PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4467 Finch).
4468
4469PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4470 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4471
49c2d5ea
PH
4472PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4473 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4474 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4475 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4476 message.
49c2d5ea 4477
bf759a8b
PH
4478PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4479
83364d30
PH
4480PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4481 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4482
7999bbd7
PH
4483PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4484 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4485 to what was transported.)
4486
7dbf77c9
PH
4487TF/01 Added $received_time.
4488
74e0617f
PH
4489PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4490 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4491 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4492 spamd_address settings.
4493
2f079f46
PH
4494PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4495 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4496 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4497 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4498 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4499
8c841523
PH
4500PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4501
7766a4f0
PH
4502PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4503 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4504 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4505 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4506 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4507
8b417f2c
PH
4508PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4509 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4510
901f42cb
PH
4511PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4512 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4513 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4514 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4515 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4516 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4517 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4518 for failure.
4519
f9b9210e
PH
4520PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4521 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4522 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4523 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4524 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4525 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4526 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4527 "input=".
4528
54cdb463
PH
4529PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4530
cf00dad6
PH
4531PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4532 driver and ACL definitions.
4533
acb1b346
PH
4534PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4535 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4536
c5ddb310
PH
4537PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4538 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4539 understands it better than I do:
4540
4541 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4542 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4543
4544 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4545 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4546 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4547 => three warnings about OTP not working
4548 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4549
4550 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4551 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4552 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4553 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4554 for each call.)
4555 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4556 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4557
4558 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4559 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4560 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4561
31619da6
PH
4562PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4563 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4564 specified.
4565
bebaf0fc
PH
4566PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4567 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4568 "Linux".
4569
475fe28a
PH
4570PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4571 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4572 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4573
4574 warn !verify = sender
4575 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4576
4577 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4578 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4579
7e8bec7a
PH
4580PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4581
4582 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4583 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4584
4585 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4586 nomenclature these days.)
4587
e4a89c47
PH
4588PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4589 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4590
5ca2a9a1
PH
4591PH/30 In these circumstances:
4592 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4593 . First host does not offer TLS;
4594 . First host accepts first address;
4595 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4596 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4597 . Second host accepts second address.
4598 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4599 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4600 address.
7e8bec7a 4601
c688b954
PH
4602PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4603 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4604 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4605 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4606 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4607
fed77020
PH
4608PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4609 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4610
7fe1560f
PH
4611PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4612 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4613
ebb6e6d5
PH
4614PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4615 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4616 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4617
9c4e8f60
PH
4618PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4619 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4620 overlooked.
4621
4622PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4623
d7174846
PH
4624PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4625 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4626 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4627 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4628 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4629 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4630 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4631
4632 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4633 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4634 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4635 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4636 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4637
4638 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4639 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4640 routed further.
4641
cfe75fc3
PH
4642PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4643 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4644 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4645 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4646 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4647 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4648
be22d70e
PH
4649PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4650
0612b098
PH
4651PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4652 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4653 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4654 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4655 printable escape sequences.
4656
2e0c1448
PH
4657PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4658 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4659 body only.
4660
447d236c
PH
4661PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4662 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4663 are as follows:
4664
4665 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4666 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4667 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4668 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4669 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4670
4671 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4672 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4673 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4674
d20976dc
PH
4675PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4676
f656d135
PH
4677PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4678 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4679 play with."
4680
2e2a30b4
PH
4681PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4682 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4683 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4684 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4685 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4686 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4687 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4688 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4689 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4690 the log output.
4691
9176e9f0
PH
4692PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4693 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4694 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4695 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4696 "make".
4697
7982096b 4698
bbe902f0
PH
4699A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4700----------------------------------------
4701
4702Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4703changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4704needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4705in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4706that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4707release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4708from 4.43.
4709
4710I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
47114.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4712those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4713historical information.
4714
4715
f7b63901 4716Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4717-----------------
4718
5fe762f6
PH
4719 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4720
139059f6 4721 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4722 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4723
7086e875
PH
4724 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4725 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4726 place.
4727
35af9f61
PH
4728 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4729 filter fails to execute.
4730
b668c215
PH
4731 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4732 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4733 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4734 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4735 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4736
a494b1e1
PH
4737 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4738
4739 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4740 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4741 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4742 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4743
c5fcb476
PH
4744 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4745 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4746 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4747 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4748 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4749
69358f02
PH
4750 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4751
5be20824
PH
475210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4753
eb2c0248
PH
475411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4755 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4756 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4757 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4758
2a3eea10
PH
475912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4760 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4761 sender verification.
4762
476313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4764 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4765
23c7ff99
PH
476614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4767
4deaf07d
PH
476815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4769 connection timeout.
4770
926e1192
PH
477116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4772 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4773
650edc6f
PH
477417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4775 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4776
2c7db3f5
PH
477718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4778 information about exactly what failed.
4779
3d235903
PH
478019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4781
7c7ad977
PH
478220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4783 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4784 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4785
981756db
PH
478621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4787 It is now set to "smtps".
4788
d4eb88df
PH
478922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4790 ignore_target_hosts.
4791
479223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4793 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4794 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4795 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4796 "[x.x.x.x]".
4797
7d468ab8
PH
479824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4799 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4800 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4801
480225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4803 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4804 wake it up if nothing else does.
4805
62c0818f
PH
480626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4807 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4808 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4809 end up negative.
4810
26034054
PH
481127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4812 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4813
af66f652
PH
481428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4815
90af77f4
PH
481629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4817 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4818 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4819 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4820 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4821 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4822 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4823 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4824
d8ef3577
PH
482530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4826 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4827 than one IP address.
4828
5cb8cbc6
PH
482931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4830 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4831 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4832 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4833
14702f5b
PH
483432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4835 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4836 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4837 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4838 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4839 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4840
063b1e99
PH
484133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4842 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4843 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4844 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4845
652e1b65
PH
484634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4847 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4848 respected.
4849
6f0c9a4f
PH
485035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4851 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4852 $sender_host_address.
4853
33397d19
PH
485436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4855 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4856 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4857 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4858 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4859 very small.
4860
7bb56e1f
PH
486137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4862
4863 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4864 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4865
ea3bc19b
PH
4866 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4867 just the host names, not the priorities.
4868
4869 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4870 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4871 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4872
ea3bc19b 4873 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4874 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4875
0bcb2a0e
PH
487638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4877 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4878 domain.
4879
2ac0e484
PH
488039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4881
4e1fde53
PH
488240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4883 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4884
de365ded
PH
488541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4886 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4887 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4888
f05da2e8
PH
488942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4890
d6453af2
PH
489143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4892
f7b63901
PH
489344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4894
489545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4896 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4897 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4898 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4899 because the tests only now provoked it.
4900
a444213a
PH
490146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4902 (this can affect the format of dates).
4903
0ec020ea
PH
490447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4905 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4906 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4907 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4908
b1206957
PH
490948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4910
491149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4912 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4913 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4914 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4915
26dd5a95
PH
491650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4917 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4918 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4919
343b2385
PH
492051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4921 autoreply.
4922
1c5466b9
PH
492352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4924 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4925 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4926 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4927 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4928 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4929 is going on).
4930
55ee9ee3
PH
493153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4932 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4933 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4934 the line.
4935
d38f8232
PH
493654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4937 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4938 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4939
4940 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4941 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4942 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4943 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4944 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4945 so I produce this patch..."
4946
3295e65b
PH
4947 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4948 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4949 is not defined.
4950
7102e136
PH
495155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4952 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4953 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4954 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4955 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4956
3ca0ba97
PH
495756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4958
c2bcbe20
PH
495957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4960 long debug lines gets shown.
4961
18ce445d
PH
496258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4963 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4964
1f5b4c3d
PH
496559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4966
4967 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4968 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4969 of $primary_hostname.
4970
b975ba52
PH
497160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4972 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4973 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4974 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4975 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4976 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4977 by change 4.50/55 above.
4978
4979 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4980 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4981 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4982 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4983 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4984 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4985 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4986
498761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4988 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4989 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4990 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4991
17ffcae7
PH
499262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4993 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4994
d95f9fdb
PH
499563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4996 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4997 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4998 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4999 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5000
86b8287f
PH
500164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5002 This has been fixed.
5003
60dc5e56
PH
500465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5005 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5006 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5007 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5008 the caching.)
5009
533244af
PH
501066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5011
a5a28604
PH
501267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5013 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5014 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5015 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5016
7e634d24
PH
501768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5018 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5019
3e11c26b
PH
502069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5021 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5022 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5023
6729cf78
PH
502470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5025 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5026 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5027 message there.
5028
00f00ca5
PH
502971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5030 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5031 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5032
c9bdd01c
PH
503372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5034 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5035 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5036 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5037
d43194df
PH
503873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5039 during host lookups.
5040
fe5b5d0b
PH
504174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5042 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5043
5044 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5045
76a2d7ba
PH
504675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5047 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5048 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5049 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5050 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5051 background.
5052
505376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5054 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5055
04f7d5b9
PH
505677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5057 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5058 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5059
bc60667e
PH
506078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5061
bb6e88ff
PH
506279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5063 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5064 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5065 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5066 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5067 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5068 process earlier.
5069
1e70f85b
PH
507080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5071 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5072 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5073 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5074 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5075
507681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5077 tables).
5078
4e01f9d6
PH
507982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5080
1ee1cef2
PH
508183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5082 "vacation" handling.
5083
6e2b4ccc
PH
508484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5085 OS variants using glibc.
5086
8e669ac1
PH
508785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5088
495ae4b0 5089
bbe902f0
PH
5090----------------------------------------------------
5091See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5092----------------------------------------------------
5093
5094
5095Exim version 4.44
5096-----------------
5097
5098 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5099 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5100 transport
5101
5102 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5103 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5104 place.
5105
5106 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5107 filter fails to execute.
5108
5109 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5110 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5111 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5112 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5113 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5114
5115 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5116 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5117 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5118 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5119
5120 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5121 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5122 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5123 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5124 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5125
5126 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5127
5128 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5129 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5130 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5131 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5132
5133 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5134 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5135 sender verification.
5136
513710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5138 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5139
514011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5141 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5142
514312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5144 ignore_target_hosts.
5145
514613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5147 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5148 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5149 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5150 "[x.x.x.x]".
5151
515214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5153 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5154 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5155
515615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5157 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5158 wake it up if nothing else does.
5159
516016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5161 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5162 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5163 end up negative.
5164
516517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5166 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5167
ea3a6f44 516818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5169
517019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5171 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5172 empty pattern.
5173
517420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5175 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5176 one IP address.
5177
ea3a6f44
NM
517821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5179 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5180 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5181 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5182 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5183 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5184
ea3a6f44
NM
518522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5186 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5187 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5188
518923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5190 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5191 $sender_host_address.
5192
519324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5194
ea3a6f44
NM
519525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5196 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5197 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5198
519926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5200 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5201
ea3a6f44
NM
520227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5203 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5204
ea3a6f44
NM
520528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5206 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5207 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5208 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5209
521029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5211 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5212 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5213
ea3a6f44
NM
521430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5215 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5216 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5217 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5218
ea3a6f44
NM
521931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5220 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5221 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5222
ea3a6f44
NM
522331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5224 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5225
ea3a6f44
NM
522632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5227 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5228 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5229 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5230 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5231 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5232 is going on).
bbe902f0 5233
ea3a6f44
NM
523433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5235 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5236 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5237 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5238 CAN-2005-0021
5239
ea3a6f44
NM
524034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5241 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5242 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5243 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5244 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5245 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5246 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5247
5248 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5249 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5250 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5251 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5252 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5253 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5254 CAN-2005-0021
5255
ea3a6f44
NM
525635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5257 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5258 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5259 CAN-2005-0022
5260
ea3a6f44
NM
526136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5262 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5263 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5264 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5265 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5266
ea3a6f44
NM
526737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5268 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5269 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5270 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5271 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5272
ea3a6f44
NM
527338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5274 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5275 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5276 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5277 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5278
5279
495ae4b0
PH
5280Exim version 4.43
5281-----------------
5282
5283 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5284 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5285 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5286 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5287 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5288 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5289 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5290
5291 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5292 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5293 the delivery.
5294
5295 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5296
5297 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5298
5299 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5300 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5301 to local_scan().
5302
5303 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5304 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5305 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5306 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5307 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5308
5309 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5310 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5311
5312 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5313
5314 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5315
531610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5317 header_sender only.
5318
531911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5320 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5321
532212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5323 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5324 affecting debugging statements).
5325
532613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5327
532814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5329 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5330 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5331 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5332 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5333 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5334 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5335 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5336 after the received time, and all would be well.
5337
533815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5339 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5340 condition in an expansion string.
5341
534216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5343
534417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5345 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5346 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5347 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5348 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5349 job under whatever limits there are.
5350
535118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5352
535319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5354 space).
5355
535620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5357 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5358 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5359 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5360 return path is set.
5361
536221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5363 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5364 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5365 binary data in such strings.
5366
536722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5368
536923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5370 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5371 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5372 failure, which is pointless.
5373
537424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5375
537625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5377
537826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5379 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5380 Sender: header lines.
5381
538227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5383 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5384 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5385
538628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5387 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5388 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5389 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5390 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5391 happens.
5392
539329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5394 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5395 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5396 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5397 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5398
539930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5400 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5401 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5402 1024.
5403
540431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5405 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5406
540732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5408 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5409
541033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5411
541232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5413
541433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5415
541634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5417 syntax error.
5418
541935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5420
542136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5422
542337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5424 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5425 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5426 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5427
542838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5429 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5430
5431
5432Exim version 4.42
5433-----------------
5434
5435 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5436 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5437 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5438 it was not quoted.
5439 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5440 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5441 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5442 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5443 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5444 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5445
5446 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5447 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5448 verification failure".
5449
5450 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5451 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5452 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5453 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5454
5455 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5456 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5457 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5458 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5459 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5460 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5461 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5462 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5463 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5464 treated as a timeout.
5465
5466 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5467 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5468 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5469 not set for Exim filters).
5470
5471 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5472 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5473 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5474
5475 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5476
5477 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5478 try to make them clearer.
5479
5480 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5481 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5482
5483 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5484
5485 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5486
548710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5488 only the Cygwin environment.
5489
549011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5491 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5492 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5493 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5494 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5495
549612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5497 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5498 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5499 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5500 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5501 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5502 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5503
550413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5505 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5506
550714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5508
5509 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5510 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5511 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5512
5513 To: susanne@some.where
5514
5515 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5516 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5517 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5518 of addresses in From: header lines).
5519
5520 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5521 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5522 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5523
5524 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5525 treated as non-personal.
5526
5527 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5528 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5529
553015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5531
553216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5533
553417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5535 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5536 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5537
553818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5539 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5540
554119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5542 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5543 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5544 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5545 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5546 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5547
554820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5549 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5550 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5551 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5552 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5553 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5554 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5555 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5556
5557 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5558
555921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5560 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5561
556222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5563 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5564 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5565
556623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5567 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5568
556924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5570 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5571 rather than long int.
5572
557325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5574
557526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5576
5577
5578Exim version 4.41
5579-----------------
5580
5581 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5582 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5583 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5584 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5585 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5586 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5587
5588
5589Exim version 4.40
5590-----------------
5591
5592 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5593 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5594
5595 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5596 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5597 socklen_t is defined.
5598
5599 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5600 always exist.
5601
5602 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5603 configured.
5604
5605 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5606 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5607 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5608 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5609 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5610
5611 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5612 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5613 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5614 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5615
5616 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5617 of flapping under certain conditions.
5618
5619 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5620 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5621 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5622
5623 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5624
562510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5626
562711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5628 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5629 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5630 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5631
563212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5633 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5634 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5635 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5636 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5637 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5638 preserved with the message after it was received.
5639
564013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5641 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5642 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5643 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5644 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5645 test suite worked just fine.
5646
564714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5648 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5649 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5650
565115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5652 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5653 string.
5654
565516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5656 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5657 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5658 does not fully solve it.
5659
566017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5661 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5662 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5663 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5664 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5665
566618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5667 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5668 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5669
567019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5671 string, for example:
5672
5673 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5674
5675 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5676 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5677 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5678 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5679 the routers could not see them.
5680
568120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5682 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5683
568421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5685 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5686 output).
5687
568822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5689 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5690 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5691 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5692 that needed quoting.
5693
569423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5695 was not being matched caselessly.
5696
569724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5698 backslashes.
5699
570025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5701 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5702 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5703 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5704 when use_sender is false.
5705
570626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5707
570827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5709
571028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5711
571229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5713 the configuration file.
5714
571530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5716 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5717
571831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5719
572032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5721 bytes in the message body.
5722
572333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5724 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5725 delivery.
5726
572734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5728
572935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5730
573136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5732 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5733 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5734 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5735 another IP address.
5736
5737
5738Exim version 4.34
5739-----------------
5740
5741 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5742 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5743
5744 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5745 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5746 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5747 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5748 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5749
5750 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5751 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5752
5753 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5754 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5755 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5756
5757 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5758 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5759 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5760
5761 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5762 for routers.
5763
5764 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5765 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5766 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5767 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5768 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5769 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5770 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5771
5772
5773Exim version 4.33
5774-----------------
5775
5776 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5777 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5778 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5779 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5780 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5781 default (and expected) setting.
5782
5783 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5784 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5785 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5786 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5787
5788 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5789 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5790
5791 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5792 in domain lists.
5793
5794 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5795 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5796 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5797 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5798 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5799 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5800
5801 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5802 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5803 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5804
5805 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5806 part (NOT match_host).
5807
5808 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5809
5810 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5811 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5812 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5813 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5814 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5815 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5816 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5817 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5818 the same named file.
5819
582010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5821 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5822 when Exim is built.
5823
582411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5825 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5826 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5827 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5828 a host name.
5829
583012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5831 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5832 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5833
583413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5835
583614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5837
583815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5839
584016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5841 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5842
584317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5844 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5845 before starting the TLS session.
5846
584718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5848
584919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5850 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5851
585220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5853 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5854 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5855 colon in the middle).
5856
5857
5858Exim version 4.32
5859-----------------
5860
5861 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5862 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5863 multiple configurations are in use.
5864
5865 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5866 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5867 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5868 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5869 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5870 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5871
5872 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5873 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5874
5875 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5876 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5877 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5878
5879 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5880 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5881 occurs.
5882
5883 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5884 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5885
5886 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5887
5888 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5889 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5890
5891 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5892
5893 -prval:sval
5894
5895 is equivalent to
5896
5897 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5898
5899 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5900 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5901 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5902 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5903 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5904
590510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5906 Exim's behaviour:
5907
5908 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5909 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5910 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5911 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5912 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5913 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5914
5915 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5916 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5917 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5918 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5919 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5920 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5921 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5922 string.
5923
5924 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5925 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5926 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5927 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5928 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5929
593011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5931
593212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5933 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5934 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5935
593613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5937
593814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5939 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5940 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5941 information.
5942
594315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5944 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5945
594616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5947 Three changes have been made:
5948
5949 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5950 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5951 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5952 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5953 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5954
5955 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5956 been restored.
5957
5958 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5959 the modified behaviour.
5960
5961
5962Exim version 4.31
5963-----------------
5964
5965 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5966 Larry Rosenman.
5967
5968 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5969 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5970
5971 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5972 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5973 try to track down a specific problem.
5974
5975 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5976 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5977 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5978
5979 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5980 warning.
5981
5982 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5983 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5984 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5985 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5986 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5987 some earlier ones do not.
5988
5989 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5990
5991 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5992 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5993 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5994 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5995 address literals are enabled, of course).
5996
5997 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5998
599910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6000 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6001 by a command such as
6002
6003 exim -f "" ...
6004
6005 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6006
600711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6008
600912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6010 remained set. It is now erased.
6011
601213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6013 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6014
601514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6016 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6017 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6018 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6019 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6020 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6021 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6022 appropriate error code.
6023
602415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6025 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6026 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6027 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6028 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6029 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6030
603116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6032 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6033 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6034
603517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6036 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6037 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6038 terminate the header.
6039
604018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6041 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6042 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6043
604419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6045 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6046 (4.30/29). In particular:
6047
6048 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6049 imposed.
6050
6051 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6052 to write a maildirsize file.
6053
6054 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6055 the transport, the new value overrides.
6056
6057 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6058 count.
6059
606020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6061 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6062 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6063 space or a tab.
6064
606521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6066 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6067 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6068 the fallback hosts.
6069
607022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6071 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6072 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6073
607423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6075 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6076 using a union.
6077
607824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6079 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6080 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6081
608225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6083
608426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6085
608627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6087
608828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6089 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6090 become corrupted.
6091
609229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6093 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6094 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6095 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6096 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6097 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6098 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6099 too great.
6100
610130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6102 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6103 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6104 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6105 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6106 incorrectly.
6107
610831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6109 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6110 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6111 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6112 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6113 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6114 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6115 cached value only when the same options are set.
6116
611732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6118
611933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6120 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6121 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6122 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6123 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6124
612534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6126 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6127 it is clearly obsolete.
6128
612935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6130 transport.
6131
613236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6133 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6134 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6135 times.
6136
613737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6138 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6139 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6140 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6141 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6142
614338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6144 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6145 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6146 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6147
614839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6149
6150 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6151
6152 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6153 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6154 2^31.
6155
615640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6157 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6158 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6159 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6160 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6161 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6162 $localpart_data.
6163
616441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6165 with the -f command-line option.
6166
616742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6168 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6169 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6170 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6171 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6172 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6173
617443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6175 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6176 line.
6177
617844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6179 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6180 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6181 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6182 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6183 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6184 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6185 buffer is too small.
6186
618745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6188 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6189
619046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6191 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6192 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6193 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6194 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6195 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6196 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6197 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6198 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6199
620047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6201 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6202 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6203
620448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6205 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6206 ACL").
6207
620849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6209 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6210 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6211 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6212 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6213
621450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6215 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6216 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6217 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6218 is set.
6219
622051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6221
622252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6223
622453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6225 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6226
622754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6228 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6229 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6230
623155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6232 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6233 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6234 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6235 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6236
623756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6238 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6239 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6240 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6241 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6242 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6243 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6244
624557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6246 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6247 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6248 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6249 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6250 the test of how many are available.
6251
625258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6253 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6254 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6255 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
6256 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6257 new message is started.
6258
625959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6260 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6261
626260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6263 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6264
626561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6266 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6267 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6268 is no long logged.
6269
627062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6271 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6272 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6273 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6274 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6275 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6276 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6277
627863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6279 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6280 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6281 interpreted as octal.
6282
628364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6284 setting.
6285
628665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6287 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6288 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6289 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6290 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6291 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6292
629366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6294 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6295 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6296 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6297
6298 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6299 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6300 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6301 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6302
6303 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6304 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6305 is a bug fix.
6306
6307 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6308 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6309
631067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6311
631268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6313 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6314 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6315 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6316
631769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6318 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6319 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6320 supplied", which is not helpful.
6321
632270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6323 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6324 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6325
632671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6327 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6328 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6329 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6330 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6331 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6332 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6333 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6334
633572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6336 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6337 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6338 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6339 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6340
634173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6342 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6343 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6344 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6345 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6346 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6347
634874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6349 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6350 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6351
635275. Added write_rejectlog option.
6353
635476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6355 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6356 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6357 variables.
6358
635977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6360
636178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6362 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6363 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6364 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6365 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6366 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6367 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6368 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6369
637079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6371 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6372 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6373 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6374 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6375
637680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6377 Haardt.
6378
637981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6380 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6381 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6382 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6383 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6384 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6385 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6386 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6387 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6388
6389
6390Exim version 4.30
6391-----------------
6392
6393 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6394 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6395 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6396
6397 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6398 fixed.
6399
6400 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6401 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6402 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6403
6404 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6405 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6406 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6407 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6408 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6409 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6410
6411 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6412 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6413 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6414 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6415 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6416 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6417 the Exim test suite.
6418
6419 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6420 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6421 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6422 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6423
6424 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6425 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6426 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6427 specify it in this variable.
6428
6429 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6430 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6431 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6432 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6433
6434 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6435 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6436 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6437 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6438
6439 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6440 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6441 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6442 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6443 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6444
6445 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6446
644710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6448 they are logged.
6449
645011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6451 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6452 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6453 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6454 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6455
645612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6457 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6458
645913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6460 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6461 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6462 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6463 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6464
646514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6466 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6467
646815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6469 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6470 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6471
647216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6473 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6474
647517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6476 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6477
647818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6479 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6480 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6481
648219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6483 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6484
648520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6486 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6487 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6488 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6489
649021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6491
649222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6493 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6494 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6495 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6496
649723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6498
649924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6500 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6501
650225. Added .include_if_exists.
6503
650426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6505 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6506 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6507 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6508 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6509 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6510
651127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6512
651328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6514 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6515 this.
6516
651729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6518
651930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6520 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6521
6522 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6523 550 Sender verify failed
6524
6525 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6526 the final line of the response.
6527
652831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6529 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6530 all other user lookups.
6531
653232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6533 delivery time.
6534
653533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6536 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6537 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6538 result into an int without checking.
6539
654034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6541 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6542 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6543
654435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6545 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6546 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6547 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6548
654936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6550 correctly.
6551
655237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6553 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6554
655538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6556 to the empty sender.
6557
655839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6559 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6560 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6561 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6562 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6563 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6564 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6565 panic log.
6566
656740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6568 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6569 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6570 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6571 used.
6572
657341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6574 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6575
657642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6577 timestamps.
6578
657943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6580 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6581
658244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6583
658445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6585 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6586 logs.
6587
658846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6589 as soon as it is encountered.
6590
659147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6592
659348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6594 rewritten to "<>".
6595
659649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6597 recognizes a tab character.
6598
659950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6600 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6601 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6602 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6603
660451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6605
660652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6607 crash.
6608
660953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6610
661154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6612
661355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6614 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6615 2822.
6616
661756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6618 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6619 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6620 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6621 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6622
662357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6624 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6625
662658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6627 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6628 list (.included file names were always shown).
6629
663059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6631 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6632 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6633 root at that time.
6634
663560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6636 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6637
663861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6639
664062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6641
664263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6643
664464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6645 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6646 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6647 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6648 failures to open the logs.
6649
665065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6651 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6652 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6653 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6654 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6655 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6656 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6657
6658
6659Exim version 4.24
6660-----------------
6661
6662 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6663 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6664 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6665 change 4.23/1.
6666
6667 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6668 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6669 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6670
6671 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6672 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6673 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6674
6675 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6676 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6677 causing some misleading effects.
6678
6679 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6680 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6681 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6682
6683 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6684 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6685 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6686 queue-runner function directly.
6687
6688
6689Exim version 4.23
6690-----------------
6691
6692 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6693 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6694
6695 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6696 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6697 was always written to the default place.
6698
6699 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6700 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6701 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6702
6703 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6704
6705 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6706
6707 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6708 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6709 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6710
6711 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6712 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6713 must start.
6714
6715 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6716 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6717 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6718
6719 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6720 command line option is disabled.
6721
6722 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6723 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6724
6725 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6726
6727 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6728
6729 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6730 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6731
673210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6733
673411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6735 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6736 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6737 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6738 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6739 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6740
674112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6742 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6743 timeout.
6744
674513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6746 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6747
674814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6749 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6750
675115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6752 received was valid base64.
6753
675416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6755 name of the variable that was being set.
6756
675717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6758
675918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6760 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6761 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6762 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6763 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6764 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6765
676619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6767
676820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6769 nor realm was specified.
6770
677121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6772 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6773 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6774 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6775
677622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6777 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6778 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6779
678023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6781 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6782 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6783
678424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6785 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6786 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6787 some systems use these upper case variants.
6788
678925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6790 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6791 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6792 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6793
679426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6795
679627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6797 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6798
679928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6800 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6801 expansion variable.
6802
680329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6804
680530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6806 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6807 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6808 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6809
681031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6811 using it.
6812
681332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6814 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6815 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6816
681733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6818 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6819
682034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6821 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6822 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6823 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6824
682535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6826 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6827 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6828
682936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6830
683137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6832 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6833 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6834 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6835 aborted.
6836
683738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6838 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6839 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6840
684139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6842
684340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6844 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6845
684641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6847 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6848
684942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6850 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6851 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6852 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6853 when emails are that large.
6854
6855
6856
6857Exim version 4.22
6858-----------------
6859
6860 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6861 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6862
6863 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6864 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6865 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6866
6867 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6868 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6869 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6870
6871 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6872 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6873 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6874 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6875 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6876
6877 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6878 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6879 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6880 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6881 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6882 ever.
6883
6884 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6885 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6886 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6887 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6888 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6889 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6890 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6891 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6892 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6893 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6894 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6895 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6896 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6897 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6898
6899 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6900 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6901 parameterised it.
6902
6903 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6904 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6905 error should be diagnosed.
6906
6907 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6908 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6909 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6910 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6911 appeared instead of "NULL".
6912
691310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6914 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6915 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6916 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6917 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6918 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6919 proceeds).
6920
6921 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6922 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6923 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6924
6925
6926Exim version 4.21
6927-----------------
6928
6929 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6930 or receiver verification errors.
6931
6932 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6933 name.
6934
6935 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6936 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6937 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6938 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6939
6940 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6941 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6942 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6943 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6944 shouldn't happen again.
6945
6946 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6947 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6948 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6949
6950 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6951 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6952
6953 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6954
6955 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6956 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6957
6958 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6959 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6960 RFC.
6961
696210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6963 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6964 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6965
696611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6967 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6968 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6969 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6970
697112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6972 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6973 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6974 to define what should happen).
6975
697613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6977 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6978 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6979
698014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6981
698215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6983
698416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6985 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6986
4c04137d 698717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6988 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6989 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6990 structure in all cases.
6991
6992 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6993 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6994 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6995 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6996
699718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6998 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6999 domain name.
7000
700119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7002 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7003
700420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7005 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7006
700721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7008 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7009 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7010
701122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7012 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7013 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7014
701523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7016 the book and for uniformity.
7017
701824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7019
702025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7021 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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7022 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7023 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7024 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7025 non-existent command as the problem.
7026
702726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7028 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7029 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7030
703127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7032
703328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7034 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7035 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7036
703729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7038 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7039 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7040 timestamps using strftime().
7041
704230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7043 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7044
704532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7046 transport-time rewrites.
7047
704833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7049 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7050 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7051 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7052
705334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7054 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7055
705635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7057 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7058 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7059 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7060 comma and a space.
7061
706236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7063 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7064 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7065 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7066 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7067 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7068 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7069
707037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7071 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7072 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7073 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7074 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7075
707638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7077 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7078 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7079 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7080 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7081 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7082 remaining text gets split now.
7083
708439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7085 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7086 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7087 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7088
708940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7090 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7091 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7092 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7093 $return_path.
7094
709541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7096 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7097 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7098 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7099 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7100 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7101 passed through if needed.
7102
710342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7104 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7105 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7106 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7107 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7108 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7109
711043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7111 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7112 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7113 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7114 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7115
711644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7117 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7118 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7119 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7120 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7121
712245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7123 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7124 noticed.
7125
712646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7127 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7128 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7129 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7130 mayhem of various kinds.
7131
713247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7133 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7134 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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7135 the right test for positive values.
7136
713748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7138 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7139 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7140 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7141 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7142 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7143 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7144 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7145 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7146 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7147 envelope.
7148
714949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7150 module.
7151
715250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7153 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7154 forbidding it.
7155
715651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7157 the existing equality matching.
7158
715952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7160 dealing with inode numbers.
7161
716253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7163 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7164 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7165
716654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7167 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7168 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7169 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7170 local_scan().
7171
717255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7173 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7174 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7175 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7176 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7177 relay addresses has also been removed.
7178
717956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7180
718157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7182 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7183 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7184
718558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7186 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7187 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7188 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7189 processing applies to CR:
7190
7191 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7192 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7193
7194 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7195 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7196 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7197 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7198
719959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7200 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7201 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7202
720360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7204 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7205 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7206 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7207 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7208 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7209 arisen.
7210
721161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7212 program routers.
7213
721462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7215 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7216 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7217 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7218 adds:
7219
7220 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7221
7222 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7223
7224 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7225
722663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7227 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7228 not considered personal.
7229
723064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7231
723265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7233
723466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7235
723667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7237 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7238 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7239 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7240 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7241 header lines, and spool format errors.
7242
724368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7244 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7245 for more flexibility.
7246
724769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7248 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7249 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7250
725170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7252 Sabourenkov.
7253
725471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7255 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7256 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7257 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7258 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7259 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7260 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7261 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7262 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7263
726472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7265 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7266 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7267 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7268 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7269 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7270 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7271
727273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7273 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7274 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7275
727674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7277 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7278 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7279 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7280 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7281 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7282 instead of killing the process with assert().
7283
728475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7285 than Unicode encoding.
7286
728776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7288 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7289 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7290 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7291
729277. Added process_log_path.
7293
729478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7295 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7296
729779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7298 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7299
730080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7301 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7302 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7303
730481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7305 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7306 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7307 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7308 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7309 were applied:
7310
7311 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7312 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7313 as invalid.
7314
731582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7316 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7317 they will be used during message reception.
7318
7319
7320Exim version 4.20
7321-----------------
7322
7323The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7324
7325****