Malware: fix error logged on a scanner connect fail. Bug 1796
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
8 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
9 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
10 client dropping the TLS connection.
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12TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
13 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
14
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15TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
16 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
17 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
18 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
19 outgoing I= field.
20
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21JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
22 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
23 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
24 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
25 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
26 check on the next write.
27
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28HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
29 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
30 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
31 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
32 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
33
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34JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
35 mime_regex ACL conditions.
36
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37JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
38 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
39 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
40
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41JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
42 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
43 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
44 an authenticate fail is not an error.
45
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46HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
47 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
48
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49JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
50 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
51
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52JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
53 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
54 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
55 distinct.
56
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57JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
58
59JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
60
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61JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
62
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63JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
64 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
65
98b98887 66JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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67 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
68
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69JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
70
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71JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
72 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
73
74JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
75
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76JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
77 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
78
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79JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
80
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81JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
82 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
83 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
84 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
85 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
86 they will retry in-clear.
87 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
88 at installation time.
89
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90HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
91 with the $config_file variable.
92
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93JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
94 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
95 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
96 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
97 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
98
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99GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
100 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
101 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
102 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
103 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
104
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105JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
106
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107JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
108 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
109 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
110 list order is no longer honoured.
111
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112JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
113 for DKIM processing.
114
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115JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
116 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 117
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118JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
119 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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120 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
121 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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123JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
124 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
125
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126JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
127 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
128
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129JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
130 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
131
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132JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
133
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134JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
135 cached by the daemon.
136
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137JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
138 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
139
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140JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
141 keys are given for lookup.
142
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143JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
144 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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145 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
146 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 147
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148JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
149 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
150 server-side so match that on older versions.
151
07c73177 152JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 153 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 154 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 155
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156JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
157 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
158
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159JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
160 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
161 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 162 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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163 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
164 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
165 initial truncated version.
166
ab9152ff 167JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
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169JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
170
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171JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
172 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
173
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174JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
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180JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
181 expanded.
182
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183JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
184
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185JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
186 it.
187
01a4a5c5 188JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 189 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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190 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
191 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
192
cb1d7830 193JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 194 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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195 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
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610ff438 197JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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198 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
199 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
200 TLS connections
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202JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
203 sites use this now.
204
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205JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
206 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
207 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
208 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
209 have a dsn_lasthop option.
210
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211JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
212 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 213 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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215JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
216
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217JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
218 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
219
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220JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
221 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
222
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223JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
224 /defer_ok option.
225
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226JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
227 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
228
fd4d8871 229JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 230 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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231 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
232
233JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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234 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
235 specify a port-range.
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237JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
238 timeout value per server.
239
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240JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
241 now have the list separator specified.
242
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243JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
244 option values.
245
82c0c8ea 246JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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247 under OpenSSL.
248
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249JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
250
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251JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
252 rather than the verbs used.
253
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254JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
255 from 255 to 1024 chars.
256
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257JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
258
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259HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
260 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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262JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
263 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
264
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265HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
266 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
267
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268JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
269
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270JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
271
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272JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
273 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
274 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
275 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
276
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277JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
278
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279JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
280 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
281
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282JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
283 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
284
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285JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
286
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287JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
288
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289JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
290
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291JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
292 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
293
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294JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
295 added for tls authenticator.
296
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300TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
301 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
302 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
303 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
304 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
305 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
306 the script parsing/test process like normal.
307
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308TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
309 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
310 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
311 function when detected.
312
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313JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
314 cause callback expansion.
315
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316TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
317 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
318 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
319 instead of bool when processing it.
320
0f06b4f2 321JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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322 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
323
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324JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
325
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326JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
327
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328TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
329
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330TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
331 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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333JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
334 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
335 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
336 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
337 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
338 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
339
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340JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
341 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
342 exceeded it.
343
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344JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
345 version 3.3.6 or later.
346
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347JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
348 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
349 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 350 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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351 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
352 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
353 option is defined.
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355TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
356 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
357
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358JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
359 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
360 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
361 matches.
362
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363JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
364 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
365 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
366
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367JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
368 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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369
370JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
371 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
372 syntax errors.
373
3394b36a 374JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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376JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
377 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
378
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379TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
380 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
381 tarball.
382
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383JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
384
385JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
386 Bug 1561.
387
388JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
389 output list separator was used.
390
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394TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
395 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
396 return.
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398JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
399 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
400
401JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
402
403TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 404 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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409
410TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
411
412 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
413 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
414 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
415 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
416 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
417 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
418
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419TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
420 utilities have not been installed.
421
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422JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
423 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
424
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425TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
426 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
427
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428TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
429 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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430 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
431 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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433JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
434
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435TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
436 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
437
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438PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
439 not dns_use_dnssec.
440
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441JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
442
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443TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
444 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
445 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
446
8ddef691 447TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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448 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
449 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
450 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
451 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 452 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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454JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
455
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456JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
457 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
458
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459JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
460 failed delivery.
461
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462JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
463
511a6c14 464JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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466JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
467 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
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469JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
470 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
471
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472TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
473
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474JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
475
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476JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
477 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
478
479 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
480 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
481 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
482
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483TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
484 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
485 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
486 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 487
35aba663
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488JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
489
8c51eead 490JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
491 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
492 lookup).
8c51eead 493
deae092e
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494TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
495 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
496 Schlichting.
35aba663 497
fd3b6a4a 498JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 499 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 500
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501TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
502 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
503
2b4a568d
JH
504JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
505
d2af03f4
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506TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
507 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
508 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
509
9d1c15ef
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510JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
511 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
512
44662487
JH
513JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
514 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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515 hosts_request_ocsp.
516
ed3bba5f 517JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 518 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 519 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 520
8ccd00b1
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521JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
522
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523TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
524 Christian Aistleitner.
525
f2de3a33
JH
526JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
527
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528TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
529 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
530
00bff6f6
JH
531JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
532 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
533
071c51f7
JH
534JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
535 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
536
a6d4c44e
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537TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
538 support and error reporting did not work properly.
539
3ae173e7
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540TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
541 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
542
c13d09b8
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543TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
544 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
545 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
546
0df4ab80
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547JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
548
66be95e0
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549PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
550 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
551 Jasper Wallace.
552
1bd0d12b
JH
553JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
554
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555TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
556 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
557 CVE-2014-2972
558
fd3b6a4a 559
2c422e6f 560Exim version 4.82
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562
563PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
564
12f69989
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565PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
566 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
567
54c90be1
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568PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
569 by GnuTLS.
570
1f4a55da
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571PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
572 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
573 routines.
574
13363eba 575PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 576
66645890 577PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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578 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
579 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
580 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
581 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 582
a3fb9793 583PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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584 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
585 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
586 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 587 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 588 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 589
d27f98fe 590TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 591
6822b909
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592TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
593
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594TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
595 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
596
ae0e32ee 597TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 598 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 599 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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600
601TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 602
e2658fff
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603TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
604
83712b39
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605TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
606 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
607
976b7e9f
JH
608JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
609
be4a1376
JH
610JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
611
ec4b68e5
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612PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
613
d7148a07
NM
614NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
615 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 616
585121e2 617JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 618
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619PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
620 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
621 function.
a5f239e4 622
13d08c90
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623PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
624 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
625
bef3ea7f
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626JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
627 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
628 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 629
846726c5
JH
630JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
631
3a796370
JH
632JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
633
ea722490 634JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
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635 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
636
b1b05573
JH
637JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
638 Bugzilla 884.
639
362145b5
JH
640JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
641 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
642
3c0a92dc
JH
643JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
644 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
645
6d7c6175
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646PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
647 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 648 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 649
6f123593
JH
650JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
651 authenticators.
652
c8e2fc1e
JH
653JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
654 for control.
655
005ac57f
PP
656PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
657
3f1df0e3
PP
658PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
659 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
660 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
661 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
662
67bd1ab3
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663TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
664
665 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
666 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
667 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
668 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
669 the retry rules.
670
671 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
672 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
673 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
674
675 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
676 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
677 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
678 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
679
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680 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
681 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
682 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
683 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
684 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
685 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
686 delivery, as in LMTP.
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687
688 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
689 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
690
326cdc37
TF
691TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
692
693 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
694
695 Resent-From: f
696
697 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
698 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
699 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
700 username as equal to the username.
701
702 This change corrects that bug.
703
f62514b3
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704GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
705 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
706 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
707
eb505532
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708TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
709
14c7b357
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710PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
711 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
712 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
713 NULL dereference and crash.
714
94eaf700
PP
715JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
716
6f5a440a
PP
717PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
718 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
719 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
720
514ee161
SC
721SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
722
fd98a5c6
JH
723JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
724 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
725 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
726 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
727 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
728 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
729 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
730 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
731 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
732 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
733 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
734
035c7f1e
PP
735PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
736 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
737
ff284120
PP
738PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
739 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
740 Bugzilla 880.
741
26e72755
PP
742PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
743 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
744 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
745 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
746 an empty string is now equivalent.
747
0fbd9bff
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748PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
749 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
750 not performing validation itself.
751
700d22f3
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752PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
753 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
754
fcc8e047
JH
755JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
756 Bugzilla 321, 823.
757
7142daca
PP
758TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
759
8c020188
PP
760PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
761 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
762 other false fix of the same issue.
763 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
764 Bugzilla 1363.
765
d13cdd30
PP
766PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
767 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
768
e2fbf4a2
PP
769PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
770 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
771 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
772
f4c1088b
PP
773PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
774 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
775 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
776
c5c2182f
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777TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
778
73431ca9
JH
779JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
780
2d07a215
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781TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
782 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
783
a30a8861
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784TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
785 Alexander Miroch.
786
33382dd9
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787TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
788 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
789 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
790 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
791 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 792
046172e6
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793TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
794 the src/util/ subdirectory.
795
581d7bee 796TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 797 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
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798 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
799
800TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
801 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
802 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
803 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
804
237b2cf2
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805TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
806
9fc5a352
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807TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
808 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
809 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 810
b10e4ec2
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811TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
812
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813TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
814 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
815 interaction.
816
817TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
818 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
819
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820TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
821 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
822
e78e6ecf 823
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824Exim version 4.80.1
825-------------------
826
827PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
828 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 829 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 830
ea722490 831
b1770b6e 832Exim version 4.80
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834
835PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
836 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
837 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
838
23c7e742
NM
839NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
840
b322aac8
NM
841NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
842 improved.
843
4a891427
NM
844NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
845
c1e794ba 846PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 847
97753960
PP
848PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
849
850PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
851 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
852
df6303fa
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853PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
854 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
855
7e6a8985
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856PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
857 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
858
f1e05cc7 859PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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860 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
861 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 862
4c287009
PP
863PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
864
b98bb9ac
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865PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
866 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
867
4a6a987a
PP
868PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
869
c45dd180 870PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 871
7db8d074
PP
872PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
873 non-compliant senders.
874 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
875
eae0036b 876NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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877 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
878 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
879
dec5017e
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880PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
881 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
882 in spool file corruption.
883
c80c5570
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884PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
885 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
886 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
887 "Got SSL error 2".
888
076b11e2
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889TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
890 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
891 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
892
5407bfff
JH
893JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
894 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
895
9e45c72b
PP
896JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
897
e74376d8
PP
898PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
899 diagnostics.
900 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
901
da3ad30d
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902PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
903 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
904 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
905
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906PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
907 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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908 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
909 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 910
ef840681
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911PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
912 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
913
5bfb4cdf
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914PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
915 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
916 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
917 resolver implementation change.
918
c6e95d22
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919PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
920 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
921
9cbad13b
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922PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
923
9ee44efb
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924PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
925
6a6084f8
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926PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
927 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
928
12dd53c7
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929PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
930 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
931
9e45c72b 932JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
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933 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
934
17c76198
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935PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
936 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
937 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
938 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 939 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 940
53947857 941PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 942
eae0036b 943PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
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944 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
945 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 946
9e45c72b 947JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 948
7390e768
PP
949PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
950 read-only, out of scope).
951 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
952
08488c86
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953PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
954 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
955 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
956 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
957
6475bd82
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958PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
959
81f91683
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960PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
961 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
962 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
963 real issues in debug logging.
964
5779e6aa
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965PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
966 assignment on my part. Fixed.
967
3375e053
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968PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
969 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
970 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
971
972PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
973 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
974 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
975 problems.
3375e053 976
9d26b8c0
PP
977PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
978 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
979
57eb9e91 980PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
981 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
982 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
983 needs to override this, it can.
984
16880d1a
PP
985PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
986 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
987 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
988
a799883d
PP
989PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
990 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
991 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
992 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
993
3ecab157 994PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 995
0599f9cf 996
867fcbf5
PP
997Exim version 4.77
998-----------------
999
1000PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1001 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1002
f1a29782
TF
1003TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1004
ab42bd23
TK
1005TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1006 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1007
0ca0cf52
TF
1008TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1009 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1010
921b12ca
TF
1011TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1012 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1013 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1014
1015 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1016 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1017 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1018 not safe for signals.
1019
1020 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1021 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1022 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1023 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1024 exiwhat.
1025
c99ce5c9
TF
1026TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1027
1028 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1029 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1030 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1031 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1032 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1033
1034 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1035 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1036 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1037 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1038 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1039 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1040
1041 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1042 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1043 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1044 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1045
1046 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1047 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1048 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1049 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1050
1051 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1052 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1053 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1054 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1055 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1056 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1057 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1058 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1059 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1060
1061 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1062 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1063 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1064 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1065
1066 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1067 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1068 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1069 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1070 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1071 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1072 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1073 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1074 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1075 details in the main documentation.
1076
3634fc25
TF
1077TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1078
792e8a19
TF
1079TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1080
5901f0ab
TF
1081TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1082 repository when doing development or release builds.
1083
7f2a2a43
PP
1084PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1085 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1086
061b7ebd
PP
1087PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1088 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1089 Bugzilla 97.
1090
e12f8c32
PP
1091PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1092
9e949f00 1093PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1094 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1095
1096PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1097 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1098
555ae6af 1099PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1100 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1101
1102PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1103 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1104
6f7fe114
PP
1105PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1106 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1107
c566dd90
PP
1108PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1109 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1110 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1111 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1112
d6cc7c78 1113PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1114 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1115 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1116
0d0e4455
PP
1117PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1118
3399bb60 1119PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1120
1121PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1122 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1123
0ca0cf52 1124
10906672
PP
1125Exim version 4.76
1126-----------------
1127
1128PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1129
754a0503
PP
1130PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1131 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1132
c0c7b2da
PP
1133PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1134
e97d1f08
PP
1135PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1136
084c1d8c
PP
1137PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1138 Bugzilla 1098.
1139
4e7ee012
PP
1140PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1141 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1142
c8d52a00
PP
1143TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1144 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1145
54e7ce4a
PP
1146PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1147 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1148
5ee6f336
PP
1149PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1150 Bugzilla 1104.
1151
c8d52a00 1152TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1153 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1154
1155TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1156 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1157 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1158 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1159
1160PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1161 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1162
10906672 1163
aa097c4c
NM
1164Exim version 4.75
1165-----------------
1166
4c9ef03a 1167NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1168 Bugzilla 1073
1169
7f3d9eff
TF
1170TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1171 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1172 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1173
159f52d2
TF
1174TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1175 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1176
0cc9542a
PP
1177PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1178 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1179 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1180
f7274286
PP
1181PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1182 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1183
7b797365
PP
1184PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1185 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1186
caacae52
NM
1187NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1188 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1189
09dcaba9
NM
1190NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1191 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1192
bc19a55b
PP
1193PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1194 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1195
bd4c9759
NM
1196NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1197 Fixes bug 943.
1198
b72aab72
PP
1199PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1200 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1201
2fe76745
PP
1202PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1203 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1204
76aa570c
PP
1205PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1206 SQL string expansion failure details.
1207 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1208
f1e5fef5
PP
1209PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1210 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1211
4d805ee9
PP
1212PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1213 extern declarations in function scope.
1214 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1215
cd59ab18
PP
1216PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1217 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1218 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1219 a kernel bug).
1220
332f5cf3
PP
1221PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1222 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1223
29cfeb94
PP
1224PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1225 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1226
660242ad
PP
1227PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1228 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1229
bc4bc4c5
PP
1230PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1231 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1232
2e64baa9
NM
1233NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1234 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1235 Dennis Davis.
1236
bddd7526
PP
1237PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1238
6bac1a9a
PP
1239PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1240
552193f0
NM
1241NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1242 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1243
1b587e48
TF
1244TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1245 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1246
aa097c4c 1247
8c07b69f
TF
1248Exim version 4.74
1249-----------------
1250
1251TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1252 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1253
c0ea85ab
TF
1254TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1255 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1256
0761d44e
TF
1257TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1258
0a349494
PP
1259DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1260 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1261 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1262
1263PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1264 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1265 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1266
fea24b2e
PP
1267PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1268 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1269 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1270 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1271
6545de78
PP
1272PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1273 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1274 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1275 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1276
1670ef10
PP
1277PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1278 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1279 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1280 arbitrary files.
1281
c0886197
PP
1282PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1283 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1284
b7487bce
PP
1285PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1286 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1287 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1288 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1289 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1290
8c07b69f 1291
97fd1e48 1292Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1293-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1294
1295PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1296 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1297 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1298
6901c596
PP
1299PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1300 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1301
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1302JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1303
77bb000f
PP
1304PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1305
a29e5231
PP
1306PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1307
ec5a0394 1308PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1309
55c75993
PP
1310PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1311
453a6645 1312PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1313 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1314 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1315 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1316
8544e77a
PP
1317PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1318 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1319 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1320 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1321 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1322
83e029d5
PP
1323PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1324
ed7f7860
PP
1325PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1326
7d9f747b
PP
1327PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1328
4b2241d2
PP
1329PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1330
10385c15
PP
1331PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1332
dbc4b90d
PP
1333PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1334
532be449
PP
1335PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1336
6a8de854 1337PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1338 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1339 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1340
5dc43717
JJ
1341JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1342
1343JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1344 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1345
3346ab01
PP
1346PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1347 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1348
491fab4c
PP
1349PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1350 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1351 Notification from John Horne.
1352
13eb9497
PP
1353PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1354 compatible.
1355
1356PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1357 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1358 it normally works.
1359
7f36d675
DW
1360DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1361 access.
1362
c1d94452
DW
1363DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1364 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1365 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1366
e2f5dc15
DW
1367DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1368 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1369 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1370 configuration file.
1371
cd25e41d
DW
1372DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1373 option (effectively making it always true).
1374
261dc43e
DW
1375DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1376 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1377
fa32850b
DW
1378DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1379 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1380
79d4bc3d
PP
1381PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1382 run-time user, instead of root.
1383
43236f35 1384PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1385 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1386
fb08281f
DW
1387DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1388 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1389 arguments.
3346ab01 1390
74935b98
DW
1391DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1392 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1393 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1394
90b6341f
DW
1395DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1396
57730b52
ML
1397NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1398
66581d1e 1399
465e92cf
JJ
1400Exim version 4.72
1401-----------------
1402
453a6645
PP
1403JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1404 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1405 typos
465e92cf 1406
453a6645
PP
1407JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1408 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1409 (Finput)
edae0343 1410
9bd3e22c
NM
1411NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1412 Patch from Alain Williams
1413
bb576ff7
NM
1414NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1415
5a1a5845
NM
1416NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1417 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1418
981a9fad
NM
1419NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1420 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1421
7fc497ee
NM
1422NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1423
1a41defa
JJ
1424JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1425
a466095c 1426NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1427 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1428
94a6bd0b
NM
1429TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1430
1431TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1432
1433MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1434 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1435 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1436
c1b141a8
NM
1437NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1438 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1439
b26eacf1 1440NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1441 Patch by Simon Arlott
1442
179c5980 1443PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1444 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1445
9bd3e22c 1446
7c6d71af
NM
1447Exim version 4.71
1448-----------------
1449
7d9f747b 1450TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1451
f013fb92
NM
1452NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1453
0eb8eedd
NM
1454NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1455
663ee6d9
NM
1456NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1457
177ebd9b
NM
1458NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1459
7c6d71af 1460
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NM
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1462-----------------
1463
cdd3bb85 1464TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1465 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1466
1467TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1468 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1469 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1470
1471TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1472 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1473 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1474
1475TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1476 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1477
210f147e
NM
1478NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1479 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1480 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1481 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1482
deafd5b3
NM
1483NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1484 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1485 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1486
089793a4
TF
1487TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1488
5f16ca82
TF
1489TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1490
dae9d94e 1491NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1492 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1493
7d9f747b 1494NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1495
06864c44
TF
1496TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1497 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1498 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1499 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1500
65a7d8c3 1501NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1502 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1503
23510047 1504TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1505
7d9f747b 1506NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1507
7d8eec3a 1508NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1509 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1510
89dec7b6
TF
1511TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1512 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1513
a99de90c
TF
1514TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1515 that they are available at delivery time.
1516
e2803e40
TF
1517TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1518
7199e1ee
TF
1519TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1520 incoming_port log selectors.
1521
e276e04b
TF
1522TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1523 setting expands to an empty string.
1524
ce552449 1525NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1526 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1527
e765a0f1 1528NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1529 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1530
4f054c63 1531NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1532 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1533
7d9f747b
PP
1534NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1535 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1536
7d9f747b
PP
1537NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1538 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1539
b52bc06e 1540NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1541 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1542
447de4b0
NM
1543NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1544
4c69d561 1545NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1546 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1547
d5c39246 1548NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1549 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1550
0b23848a
TK
1551TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1552
8f3414a1 1553NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1554 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1555
fb6f955d
NM
1556NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1557
1558NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1559
7d9f747b
PP
1560NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1561 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1562
7d9f747b
PP
1563NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1564 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1565
7d9f747b
PP
1566NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1567 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1568
7d9f747b
PP
1569NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1570 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1571
7d9f747b
PP
1572NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1573 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1574
7d9f747b
PP
1575NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1576 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1577
7d9f747b
PP
1578NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1579 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1580
7d9f747b 1581NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1582 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1583
7d9f747b 1584NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1585
7d9f747b
PP
1586NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1587 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1588
7d9f747b 1589NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1590
7d9f747b 1591NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1592
7d9f747b 1593NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1594
7d9f747b 1595NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1596
17792b53 1597NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1598 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1599
7d9f747b
PP
1600NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1601 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1602
91576cec 1603NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1604 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1605
7d9f747b
PP
1606NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1607 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1608
7d9f747b 1609NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1610
7d9f747b 1611NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1612
7d9f747b 1613NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1614
7d9f747b 1615NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1616
deafd5b3 1617
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NM
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1619-----------------
1620
4b3504d0
TK
1621TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1622 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1623 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1624
1625 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1626 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1627 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1628 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1629 build errors in sieve.c.
1630
81ea09ca
NM
1631NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1632 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1633 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1634
f13cddcb
SC
1635SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1636
7d9f747b 1637NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1638
7d9f747b 1639NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1640
7d9f747b 1641NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1642
1643
eb4c0de6
PH
1644Exim version 4.68
1645-----------------
1646
1647PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1648
6a3bceb1
PH
1649PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1650 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1651 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1652 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1653 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1654 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1655 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1656 for iplsearch lookups.
1657
1658 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1659 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1660 previously such lookups could never work.
1661
1662 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1663 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1664 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1665
2e30fa9d
TK
1666TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1667 version.
1668
0806a9c5
MH
1669MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1670 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1671 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1672 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1673 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1674 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1675
ae276964
TK
1676TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1677 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1678
0f2cbd1b
MH
1679MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1680 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1681 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1682 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1683 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1684 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1685
2b85bce7
PH
1686PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1687 local_scan API.
1688
93655c46
PH
1689PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1690
6c512171
PH
1691PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1692 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1693 encrypted.
1694
1695PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1696 by clients under certain conditions.
1697
aa6dc513
PH
1698PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1699 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1700
a96603a0
PH
1701PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1702
8f240103
PH
1703PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1704 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1705
1706PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1707
d677b2f2
PH
1708PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1709
d52120f2
PH
1710PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1711
64f2600a
PH
1712PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1713 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1714
8669f003
PH
1715PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1716
a4dc33a8
PH
1717PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1718 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1719
d6a60c0f
PH
1720PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1721
8f128379
PH
1722PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1723
8932dffe
PH
1724PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1725 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1726 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1727 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1728
ddea74fa 1729PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1730 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1731 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1732
ddea74fa 1733PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1734 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1735
ddea74fa
PH
1736PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1737
ce9f225c
PH
1738PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1739
19897d52
PH
1740PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1741
bc64a74d
PH
1742PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1743 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1744 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1745
eb4c0de6 1746
b4ed4da0
PH
1747Exim version 4.67
1748-----------------
1749
22ad45c9
MH
1750MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1751 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1752 Jan Srzednicki.
1753
b4ed4da0
PH
1754PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1755 issue a MAIL command.
1756
431b7361
PH
1757PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1758
1759 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1760
1761 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1762 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1763 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1764 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1765 item. This has been fixed.
1766
1767PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1768 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1769
83da1223
PH
1770PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1771 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1772
54fc8428
PH
1773PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1774 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1775 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1776
34c5e8dd
SC
1777SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1778
bbe15da8
PH
1779PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1780 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1781 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1782 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1783 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1784
0e8a9471
MH
1785MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1786 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1787 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1788
f0872424
PH
1789PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1790 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1791 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1792 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1793
b01dd148
PH
1794PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1795
6bf342e1
PH
1796PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1797
273f34d0
PH
1798PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1799 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1800 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1801 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1802 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1803
cf8b11a5
PH
1804PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1805
41c7c167
PH
1806PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1807 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1808 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1809 values).
1810
9c57cbc0
PH
1811PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1812
f3f065bb
PH
1813PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1814
047bdd8c
PH
1815PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1816
0ce9abe6
PH
1817PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1818
0e22dfd1
PH
1819PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1820
4c590bd1
PH
1821PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1822 no_callout_flush is set.
1823
09945f1e
PH
1824PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1825 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1826 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1827 fixed.
1828
c51b8e75
PH
1829PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1830
e28326d8
PH
1831PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1832 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1833 other ACL rejections are.
1834
75b1493f
PH
1835PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1836 with slight modification.
1837
7c5214ec
PH
1838PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1839 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1840
4311097e
PH
1841PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1842 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1843 connection.
1844
29f89cad
PH
1845PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1846 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1847
5e687460
SC
1848SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1849
c3611384
PH
1850PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1851 expansion side effects.
1852
5a11a7b4
PH
1853PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1854 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1855 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1856 be the same.
1857
0e20aff9
MH
1858MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1859 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1860 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1861
ca86f471
PH
1862PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1863 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1864 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1865 were accidentally chopped off.
1866
a14e5636
PH
1867PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1868 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1869 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1870 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1871 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1872 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1873 pipelining has not been advertised.
1874
ec95d1a6
PH
1875PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1876
42855d71
PH
1877PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1878 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1879 This has been fixed.
1880
57c2c631
PH
1881PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1882 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1883 reported on Solaris.
1884
58c01c94
PH
1885PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1886 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1887 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1888 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1889 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1890 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1891 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1892
dee5a20a
PH
1893PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1894 cpus.
1895
d2ee6114
PH
1896PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1897
b2d5182b
PH
1898PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1899
79749a79
PH
1900PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1901 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1902 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1903 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1904 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1905 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1906
c456d9bb
PH
1907PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1908 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1909 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1910 host_all_ignored option.
1911
cd9868ec
PH
1912PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1913 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1914 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1915 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1916 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1917 is what is supposed to happen).
1918
ebeaf996
PH
1919PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1920 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1921 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1922 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1923 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1924 uses the Exim user.
1925
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1926PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1927 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1928 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1929 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1930 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1931 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1932 users.
1933
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1934PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1935
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1936SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1937 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1938 (Jez Hancock).
1939 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1940 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1941
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SC
1942SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1943
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PH
1944PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1945
58eb016e 1946PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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1947 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1948 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1949 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1950 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1951 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1952 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1953 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1954 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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PH
1955 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1956 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1957
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PH
1958PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1959 advertised in response to EHLO.
1960
b4ed4da0 1961
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1962Exim version 4.66
1963-----------------
1964
1965PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1966 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1967
1968 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1969 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1970
1971 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1972 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1973 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1974
1975 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1976 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1977 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1978 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1979 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1980
1981
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1982Exim version 4.65
1983-----------------
1984
1985TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1986 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1987 versions. (#438)
1988
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1989MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1990 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1991 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1992
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1993PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1994 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1995 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1996 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1997 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1998 rather than extend the field.
1999
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2001Exim version 4.64
2002-----------------
aa41d2de 2003
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2004TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2005 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2006 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2007 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2008 these files.
2009
2010TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2011 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2012 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2013
2014TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2015 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2016 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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2017
2018TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2019 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2020 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2021 in the field name.
2022
2b1c6e3a
PH
2023PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2024 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2025 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2026 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2027 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2028 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2029 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2030 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2031 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2032 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2033 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2034
1f872c80
PH
2035PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2036 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2037
2038PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2039 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2040 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2041 ignores EPIPE as well.
2042
d203e649
PH
2043PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2044 (quoted-printable decoding).
2045
cc2ed8f7 2046PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2047 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2048
ddfcd446
PH
2049PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2050
d45b1de8
PH
2051PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2052
2053PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2054
38a0a95f 2055PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2056 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2057
a2405d83
JJ
2058JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2059 in 4.64-PH/09.
2060
2061JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2062 miscellaneous code fixes
2063
6ea85e9a
PH
2064PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2065 rejections.
2066
26da7e20
PH
2067PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2068 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2069 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2070 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2071 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2072 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2073 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2074 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2075
14aa5a05 2076PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2077 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2078 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2079 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2080 function.
2081 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2082 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2083 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2084 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2085 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2086 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2087 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2088 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2089 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2090
ff75a1f7
PH
2091PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2092 decoding.
2093
e6f6568e
PH
2094PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2095 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2096 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2097 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2098 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2099 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2100 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2101 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2102
d6f6e0dc
PH
2103PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2104 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2105 list.
2106
322050c2
PH
2107PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2108 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2109 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2110 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2111 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2112 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2113 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2114 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2115 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2116 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2117 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2118 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2119 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2120
08955dd3
PH
2121PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2122 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2123 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2124 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2125 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2126 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2127 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2128
1eccaa59
PH
2129PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2130 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2131 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2132 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2133 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2134 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2135 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2136 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2137 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2138 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2139
602e59e5
PH
2140PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2141 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2142 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2143 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2144 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2145
411ef850
PH
2146PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2147 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2148 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2149 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2150 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2151 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2152 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2153
7befa435
PH
2154PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2155 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2156 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2157 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2158 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2159 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2160 been verified.
2161
48da4259 2162PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2163 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2164 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2165 and authorization.)
2166
48da4259
PH
2167PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2168 if any retry times were supplied.
2169
d1d5595c
PH
2170PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2171 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2172 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2173
0ef732d9
PH
2174PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2175
328895cc
PH
2176PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2177
fd700877
PH
2178PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2179 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2180 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2181 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2182 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2183 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2184
8dce1a6f
PH
2185PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2186 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2187
17af4a17
PH
2188PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2189 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2190 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2191
2192PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2193 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2194 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2195 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2196 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2197 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2198 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2199 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2200 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2201
2202 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2203 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2204 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2205 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2206 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2207 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2208 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2209 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2210 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2211
2212 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2213 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2214 hammering the server.
2215
c1114884
PH
2216PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2217 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2218
7a0743eb
PH
2219PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2220
0d85fa3f
PH
2221PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2222 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2223 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2224
1bf43b78
PH
2225PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2226 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2227 one case where this was not true.
2228
520de300
PH
2229PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2230 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2231 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2232 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2233 fails.
2234
48c7f9e2
PH
2235PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2236 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2237 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2238 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2239 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2240 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2241 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2242 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2243 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2244 smtp transport.
2245
99ea1c86
PH
2246PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2247 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2248 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2249 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2250
a2042e78
PH
2251PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2252 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2253
4fbcfc2e
PH
2254PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2255 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2256 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2257
aa41d2de
PH
2258PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2259
af561417
PH
2260PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2261
3cc66b45
PH
2262PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2263
194cc0e4
PH
2264PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2265 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2266 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2267 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2268
a401ddaa
PH
2269PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2270 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2271
4e88a19f
PH
2272PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2273 be meaningful with "accept".
2274
d7d7b289
SC
2275SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2276 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2277
2278SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2279 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2280 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2281
2282SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2283 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2284 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2285 there is data to show.
2286 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2287
2288SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2289 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2290 as well as the number of messages.
2291
2292SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2293 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2294 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2295
2296SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2297 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2298 have a flag are now skipped.
2299
2300SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2301 Added the -emptyok flag.
2302
2303SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2304 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2305
0ea2a468
JJ
2306JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2307 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2308 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2309
2310JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2311 match 4.64-PH/13
2312
2313JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2314 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2315
2316JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2317
2318JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2319 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2320
8a10f5a4
PH
2321PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2322
30e18802
PH
2323PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2324 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2325 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2326 contravention of the specifications.
2327
55728a4f
PH
2328PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2329 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2330 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2331
d7837193
PH
2332PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2333 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2334 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2335
87054a31
PH
2336PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2337
ea2c01d2
MH
2338MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2339 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2340 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2341 some point in the past.
2342
e4fa6968
PH
2343PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2344 transport during callout processing was broken.
2345
56f5d9bd
PH
2346PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2347 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2348
922e1c28
PH
2349PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2350 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2351
21eb6e72
PH
2352PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2353 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2354
a0540757
PH
2355PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2356
944e9e9c 2357
478be7b0
SC
2358Exim version 4.63
2359-----------------
2360
2361SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2362 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2363
2364SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2365 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2366 there is data to show.
2367 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2368
2369SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2370 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2371
2b965a65
TF
2372TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2373 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2374
45b91596
PH
2375TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2376 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2377
c59f5781
TF
2378TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2379 submissions from trusted users.
2380
90fc3069
TF
2381TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2382 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2383
6083aca0
TF
2384TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2385 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2386 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2387 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2388 there is now a framework to start from.
2389
765b530f
PH
2390PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2391 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2392 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2393
4e167a8c
PH
2394PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2395
4608d683
PH
2396PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2397
b8dc3e4a
PH
2398PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2399
5418e93b
PH
2400PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2401 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2402 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2403
b4a9bda2
PH
2404PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2405 libradius.
2406
45b91596
PH
2407PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2408 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2409 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2410
5547e2c5
PH
2411PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2412 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2413 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2414 its arguments.
2415
dbcef0ea
PH
2416PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2417 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2418 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2419 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2420 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2421
25257489
PH
2422PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2423 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2424
c816d124
PH
2425PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2426
a9ccd69a
PH
2427PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2428 operations in malware.c.
2429
75fa1910
PH
2430PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2431 signatures.
2432
a7d7aa58
PH
2433PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2434 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2435 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2436 all.
2437
42119b09
PH
2438PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2439 statements to "add_header".
2440
41609df5
PH
2441PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2442 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2443
a5bd321b
PH
2444PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2445 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2446 latter.
2447
e85a7ad5 2448PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2449 so that it is now:
2450
e85a7ad5
PH
2451 ${if or { \
2452 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2453 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2454 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2455 }{no}{yes}}
2456
e85a7ad5
PH
2457 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2458 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2459
d8fe1c03
PH
2460PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2461 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2462
16282d2b
PH
2463PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2464 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2465 any possible encoding problems.
2466
35d40a98
PH
2467PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2468 but not after initializing Perl.
2469
034d99ab
PH
2470PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2471 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2472 apparently, which is not desirable.
2473
6ec97b1b
PH
2474PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2475 queries.
2476
e22ca4ac
JJ
2477JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2478 --not options
2479
2480JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2481
33d73e3b
PH
2482PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2483 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2484 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2485 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2486
9ecb03f3
PH
2487PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2488 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2489 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2490
084efe8d
PH
2491PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2492 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2493 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2494 0.12.
2495
366fc9f0
PH
2496PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2497 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2498 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2499 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2500 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2501
c59f5781 2502
c887c79e
TF
2503Exim version 4.62
2504-----------------
2505
2506TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2507 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2508
1cce3af8
PH
2509PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2510 patch).
2511
afb3eaaf
PH
2512PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2513 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2514 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2515 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2516 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2517 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2518 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2519 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2520 451 error is used.
2521
e173618b
PH
2522PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2523
dd16e114
PH
2524PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2525 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2526 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2527
f7fd3850
PH
2528PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2529 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2530 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2531 odd errors.
2532
d87df92c
PH
2533PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2534 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2535
7e9f683d
PH
2536PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2537 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2538 option (which defaults to 0600).
2539
bfad5236
PH
2540PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2541
01c490df
PH
2542PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2543 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2544 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2545 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2546 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2547 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2548 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2549
d6629cdc
PH
2550PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2551
1cce3af8 2552
214e2000
PH
2553Exim version 4.61
2554-----------------
2555
2556PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2557 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2558 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2559 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2560 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2561 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2562 addresses as local.
2563
f9daeae0
PH
2564PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2565 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2566
7e66e54d
PH
2567PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2568
c8ea1597
PH
2569PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2570 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2571 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2572 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2573 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2574 grumble.
2575
911f6fde
PH
2576PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2577 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2578
47ca6d6c
PH
2579PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2580 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2581 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2582 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2583 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2584
ed0e9820
PH
2585PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2586 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2587 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2588 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2589
eff37e47
PH
2590PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2591 be the same on different OS.
2592
1921d2ea
PH
2593PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2594 testing.
2595
b3f69ca8
JJ
2596JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2597 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2598
2599JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2600 in 4.61-PH/06
2601
424a1c63
PH
2602PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2603 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2604 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2605 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2606 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2607 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2608 bounce message.
2609
7a100415
PH
2610PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2611 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2612 when Exim was called.
2613
19b9dc85
PH
2614PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2615 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2616
309bd837
PH
2617PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2618 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2619 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2620 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2621
59e82a2a
PH
2622PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2623 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2624 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2625 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2626 changes:
2627
2628 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2629 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2630 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2631
2632 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2633 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2634 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2635
9edc04ce
PH
2636PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2637 feature).
2638
1349e1e5
PH
2639PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2640 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2641 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2642 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2643 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2644 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2645 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2646 values from the SRV records were lost.
2647
ea49d0e1
PH
2648PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2649 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2650 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2651
064a94c9
PH
2652PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2653 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2654 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2655
727071f8
PH
2656PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2657 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2658 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2659 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2660 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2661 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2662 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2663 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2664 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2665 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2666
f78eb7c6
PH
2667PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2668 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2669 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2670
21c28500
PH
2671PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2672 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2673
2674PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2675 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2676 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2677 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2678 is given.
2679
1688f43b
PH
2680PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2681 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2682 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2683
2684PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2685 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2686 PH/23 above applies.
2687
9675b384
PH
2688PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2689 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2690 (for which there is an explicit test).
2691
6a3f1455
PH
2692PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2693
dac79d3e
PH
2694PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2695 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2696 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2697 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2698 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2699
5977a0b3
PH
2700PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2701 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2702 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2703 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2704
c91535f3
PH
2705PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2706 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2707 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2708
0d46a8c8
PH
2709PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2710
278c6e6c
PH
2711PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2712
2cbb4081
PH
2713PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2714 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2715 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2716
3eef829e
PH
2717PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2718 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2719 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2720 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2721 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2722
1ab95fa6
PH
2723PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2724 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2725 the message gets confusing).
2726
230205fc
PH
2727PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2728 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2729 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2730 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2731
75e0e026
PH
2732PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2733 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2734 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2735 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2736 same order.
2737
2738PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2739 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2740 the different processes.
2741
145396a6
PH
2742PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2743
3cd34f13
PH
2744PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2745
11121d3d
JJ
2746JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2747 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2748
2749JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2750 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2751
2752JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2753 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2754 messages matching specified criteria.
2755
8def5aaf
PH
2756PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2757
929ba01c
PH
2758PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2759 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2760
2632889e
PH
2761PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2762 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2763 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2764 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2765 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2766 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2767 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2768 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2769 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2770 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2771
944a9c55
PH
2772PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2773 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2774 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2775
4a23603b
PH
2776PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2777
4730f942
PH
2778PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2779 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2780 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2781 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2782 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2783 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2784 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2785 the variable.
2786
30dba1e6
PH
2787PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2788 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2789
382afc6b
PH
2790PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2791
a86229cf
PH
2792PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2793
50c99ba6
PH
2794PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2795
d35e429d
PH
2796PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2797 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2798 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2799 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2800 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2801 size of the count of files.
2802
f90d018c
PH
2803PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2804
75def545
PH
2805PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2806 used in LMTP mode:
2807
2808 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2809 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2810 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2811 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2812
2813 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2814 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2815 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2816
2817PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2818 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2819 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2820 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2821 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2822
c46782ef
PH
2823PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2824 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2825
71fafd95
PH
2826PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2827 will now be deprecated.
2828
2c5db4fd
PH
2829PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2830
9cf6b11a
JJ
2831JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2832 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2833 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2834
2835JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2836 with very large, slow to parse queues
2837
2838JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2839
2840JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2841
898d150f
PH
2842PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2843 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2844 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2845 SMTP output lines.
2846
46218253
PH
2847PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2848 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2849 Sieve code now uses this.
2850
e97957bc
PH
2851PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2852 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2853
81e509d7
PH
2854PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2855 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2856
3d240ff7
PH
2857PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2858
b37c4101
PH
2859PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2860 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2861 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2862 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2863 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2864
79378e0f
PH
2865PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2866 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2867 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2868 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2869
e49c7bb4
PH
2870PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2871
d114ec46
PH
2872PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2873
f3d7df6c
PH
2874PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2875 is preferred over IPv4.
2876
715ab376
PH
2877PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2878 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2879 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2880 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2881 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2882 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2883 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2884
6b31b150
PH
2885PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2886 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2887 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2888
2889PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2890
d515a917
PH
2891PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2892 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2893 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2894 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2895 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2896 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2897 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2898 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2899 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2900 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2901 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2902
9b8fadde
PH
2903PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2904 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2905 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2906
214e2000 2907
5de37277
PH
2908Exim version 4.60
2909-----------------
2910
cc38ddbf
PH
2911PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2912
2913 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2914 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2915
2916 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2917 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2918 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2919
72fdd6ae
PH
2920PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2921
2922 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2923 not a single digit.
2924
2925 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2926 string.
2927
2928 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2929 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2930 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2931 silly things.
2932
2933 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2934 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2935
2936 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2937 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2938
cb741023
PH
2939PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2940 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2941 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2942
f174f16e
PH
2943PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2944 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2945
c25242d7
PH
2946PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2947 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2948
2949 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2950
2951 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2952 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2953 this:
2954
2955 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2956
82c19f95
PH
2957PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2958 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2959 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2960 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2961 identical. For example:
2962
2963 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2964
2965 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2966 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2967 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2968
d7ffbc12
PH
2969PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2970 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2971 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2972 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2973
9f526266
PH
2974PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2975 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2976 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2977 message.
2978
87fcc8b9
PH
2979PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2980
2981 o fixes some comments
2982 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2983 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2984 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2985 and documents the missing references header update
2986
2987 and most important:
2988
2989 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2990 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2991 result)
2992
456682f5
PH
2993PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2994 Electronic Mail") by including:
2995
2996 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2997
2998 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2999 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3000 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3001 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3002 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3003
3004 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3005
3006 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3007
3008 The auto-replied keyword:
3009
3010 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3011 message by an automatic process,
3012
3013 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3014
3015 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3016 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3017
3018 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3019 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3020 other messages.
3021
3e46c1aa
PH
3022PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3023 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3024
49826d12
PH
3025PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3026
eba0c039
PH
3027PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3028 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3029 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3030
a0d6ba8a
PH
3031PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3032 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3033 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3034
f0917727
PH
3035PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3036 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3037 and treats the condition as false.
3038
096fee00
PH
3039PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3040
024bd3c2
PH
3041PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3042 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3043 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3044 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3045 not changing the active code.
3046
3047 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3048 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3049
3050 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3051 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3052
df199fec
PH
3053PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3054 (Bugzilla #53).
3055
d27f1df3
PH
3056PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3057 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3058 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3059 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3060 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3061 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3062 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3063 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3064 the text comparison.
3065
96776534
PH
3066PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3067 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3068 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3069 The same fix has been applied.
3070
5de37277 3071
9a799bc0
PH
3072Exim version 4.54
3073-----------------
3074
3075PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3076 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3077 It now does.
3078
99a4b039
PH
3079PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3080 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3081
3082PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3083
4b233853
PH
3084PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3085 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3086 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3087 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3088 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3089
8857ccfd
PH
3090TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3091 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3092 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3093 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3094 or /domain=).
3095
433a2980
PH
3096PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3097 testing suite.
3098
3e46c1aa 3099
9a799bc0 3100
e3a311ba
TK
3101Exim version 4.53
3102-----------------
3103
3104TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3105 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3106
13b685f9
PH
3107PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3108
395ff96d
PH
3109PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3110
5b68f6e4
PH
3111PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3112 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3113 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3114
1ab52c69
PH
3115PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3116 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3117 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3118
b07e6aa3
PH
3119PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3120 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3121 operating systems.
3122
254e032f
PH
3123PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3124 ${stat: expansion item.
3125
3af76a81
PH
3126PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3127 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3128
2548ba04
PH
3129PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3130 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3131 file for comments.
3132
b6c6011d
PH
3133PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3134
cf39cf57
PH
3135PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3136 setting.
3137
f1513293
PH
3138PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3139 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3140
727549a4
PH
3141TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3142
af46795e
PH
3143PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3144 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3145 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3146 the end of the subprocess.
3147
d7b47fd0
PH
3148PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3149 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3150 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3151 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3152 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3153
ee744174
JJ
3154JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3155
b582ab87
PH
3156TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3157
41a13e0a
PH
3158PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3159 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3160
f625cc5a
PH
3161PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3162
3163PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3164
21f7af35
PH
3165PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3166 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3167 HP-UX compiler.
3168
31480e42
PH
3169PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3170
2d280592
PH
3171PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3172 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3173 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3174
7cd1141b
PH
3175PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3176 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3177
3178PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3179 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3180
750af86e
PH
3181PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3182 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3183
3184 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3185 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3186
3187 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3188 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3189 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3190 contributed by a Radius user.
3191
3192PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3193 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3194
4304270b
TK
3195TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3196 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3197
750af86e
PH
3198PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3199 available.
3200
64ffc24f
PH
3201PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3202 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3203 received.
3204
5dd9625b
PH
3205PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3206 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3207 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3208 header lines when this was not necessary.
3209
5591031b
PH
3210PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3211
ba18e66a
PH
3212PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3213 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3214 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3215 exists".
3216
9cec981f
PH
3217PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3218 -bV or -d is used.
3219
aa2b5c79
PH
3220PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3221 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3222 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3223 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3224
48a53b7f
PH
3225PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3226
1c59d63b
PH
3227PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3228
671012da
TK
3229TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3230
1509d3a8
PH
3231PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3232
3233PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3234 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3235 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3236 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3237 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3238 settings.
3239
3240PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3241
2fe1a124
PH
3242PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3243 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3244 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3245 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3246 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3247 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3248 which is clearly wrong.
3249
8800895a
PH
3250PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3251
ccfdb010
PH
3252PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3253 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3254 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3255 subsequently added.
3256
1130bfb0
PH
3257PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3258 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3259
ebcb507f
PH
3260PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3261
c35e155c
PH
3262PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3263 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3264
95d1f782
PH
3265PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3266 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3267
fd6de02e
PH
3268PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3269 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3270
58de37c5
PH
3271PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3272 recipients, not senders.
3273
261cf466
TF
3274TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3275 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3276
3ee512ff
PH
3277PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3278
e08c430f
PH
3279PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3280
bef5a11f
PH
3281PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3282 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3283 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3284 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3285
7546de58
TF
3286TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3287
e5d5a95f
TF
3288TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3289 clock is set back in time.
3290
2e88a017
TF
3291TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3292 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3293
a5f65aa4
TF
3294TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3295 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3296
e7726cbf
PH
3297PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3298 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3299 (see PH/47 above).
3300
a7fdad5b
TF
3301TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3302 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3303 header rewrites.
3304
6af56900
PH
3305PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3306 type ("H").
3307
0925ede6
PH
3308PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3309
66afa403
TF
3310TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3311 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3312 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3313
0154e85a
TF
3314TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3315 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3316 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3317 helo verification defer as a failure.
3318
16f12c76
PH
3319PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3320 actual error message.
3321
bbe902f0 3322
e5a9dba6
PH
3323Exim version 4.52
3324-----------------
3325
3326TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3327
22c3b60b
PH
3328PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3329 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3330 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3331 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3332
06a9b4b5
PH
3333TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3334
c1ac6996
PH
3335PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3336 can still be requested.
3337
9c7a242c
PH
3338PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3339 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3340 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3341 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3342
87ba3f5f
PH
3343TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3344 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3345 circumstances, but probably never did.
3346
3347PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3348 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3349 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3350 in the header line.
3351
29aba418
TF
3352TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3353
fe0dab11
TF
3354TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3355 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3356
11d337a4
TK
3357TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3358
3359TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3360
415c8f3b
PH
3361PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3362 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3363 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3364 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3365 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3366 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3367
958541e9
PH
3368PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3369 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3370 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3371 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3372 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3373 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3374
c206415f
TK
3375TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3376 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3377
2a4be8f9
PH
3378PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3379 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3380
1cba11c5
SC
3381SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3382 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3383
3384SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3385
3386SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3387
3388SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3389
3390SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3391
3392SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3393
3394SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3395
1005d00e
TK
3396TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3397
3398TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3399 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3400 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3401
3402TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3403 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3404 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3405 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3406
9b4768fa
PH
3407PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3408 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3409 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3410
3411PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3412 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3413 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3414 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3415
0d7eb84a
PH
3416PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3417 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3418 to be made).
3419
3420PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3421 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3422 should work with maildirs and everything.
3423
40727bee
TK
3424TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3425 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3426
554d2369
TF
3427TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3428 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3429
1f922db1
PH
3430PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3431 function for BDB 4.3.
3432
ef213c3b
PH
3433PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3434
8ac170f3
PH
3435PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3436 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3437 involved.
3438
b1c749bb
PH
3439PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3440 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3441 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3442 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3443 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3444 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3445
4aac9b49
PH
3446PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3447 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3448 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3449 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3450 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3451 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3452 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3453 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3454
294520c8
TK
3455TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3456 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3457 details.
3458
5bd022fe
PH
3459PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3460 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3461
90e9ce59
PH
3462PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3463 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3464 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3465 test. It is now used for both.
3466
5ea81592
PH
3467PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3468 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3469 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3470 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3471 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3472 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3473
c6c2dc1d
PH
3474PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3475 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3476 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3477 string_vformat().
3478
fffffe4c
PH
3479PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3480 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3481 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3482
9a26b6b2
PH
3483PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3484 experimental DomainKeys support:
3485
3486 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3487 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3488 the control was given.
3489
3490 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3491
4aee0225
PH
3492PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3493
32d668a5
PH
3494PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3495
8187c3f3
PH
3496PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3497 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3498 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3499 db.h files).
3500
ff790e47 3501PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3502 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3503 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3504 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3505 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3506 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3507 course.
ff790e47 3508
5417f6d1
PH
3509PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3510 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3511 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3512 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3513 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3514 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3515
59cf8544
PH
3516PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3517 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3518 do -d+all out of habit.
3519
e7ad8a65
PH
3520PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3521 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3522 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3523
ade42478
PH
3524PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3525 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3526 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3527 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3528 record types that Exim uses.
3529
182ad5cf
PH
3530PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3531 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3532 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3533 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3534 non-existent file that was broken.
3535
b0d9fc80
TK
3536TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3537 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3538
3539TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3540 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3541 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3542
3543TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3544
47c7a64a
PH
3545PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3546 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3547 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3548 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3549 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3550 same time.
3551
a388bce4
SC
3552SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3553 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3554 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3555 at a slight CPU cost.
3556
3557SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3558 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3559
3560SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3561 by Marc Sherman.
3562
0793e4ed
SC
3563SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3564
c58b88df
PH
3565PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3566 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3567
e7ad8a65 3568
7982096b
PH
3569Exim version 4.51
3570-----------------
3571
1a46a8c5
PH
3572TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3573 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3574
2f079f46 3575TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3576
3577TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3578
3579PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3580 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3581
3582PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3583 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3584 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3585 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3586 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3587 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3588 file.
3589
3590PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3591 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3592 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3593 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3594 these two options.
3595
3596PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3597 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3598 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3599 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3600 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3601 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3602 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3603 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3604
3605PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3606 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3607
3608PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3609 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3610 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3611 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3612 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3613 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3614
3615PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3616 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3617 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3618 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3619
3620PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3621 Finch).
3622
3623PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3624 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3625
49c2d5ea
PH
3626PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3627 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3628 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3629 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3630 message.
49c2d5ea 3631
bf759a8b
PH
3632PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3633
83364d30
PH
3634PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3635 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3636
7999bbd7
PH
3637PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3638 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3639 to what was transported.)
3640
7dbf77c9
PH
3641TF/01 Added $received_time.
3642
74e0617f
PH
3643PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3644 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3645 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3646 spamd_address settings.
3647
2f079f46
PH
3648PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3649 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3650 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3651 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3652 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3653
8c841523
PH
3654PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3655
7766a4f0
PH
3656PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3657 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3658 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3659 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3660 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3661
8b417f2c
PH
3662PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3663 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3664
901f42cb
PH
3665PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3666 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3667 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3668 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3669 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3670 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3671 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3672 for failure.
3673
f9b9210e
PH
3674PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3675 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3676 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3677 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3678 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3679 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3680 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3681 "input=".
3682
54cdb463
PH
3683PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3684
cf00dad6
PH
3685PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3686 driver and ACL definitions.
3687
acb1b346
PH
3688PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3689 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3690
c5ddb310
PH
3691PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3692 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3693 understands it better than I do:
3694
3695 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3696 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3697
3698 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3699 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3700 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3701 => three warnings about OTP not working
3702 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3703
3704 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3705 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3706 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3707 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3708 for each call.)
3709 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3710 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3711
3712 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3713 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3714 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3715
31619da6
PH
3716PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3717 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3718 specified.
3719
bebaf0fc
PH
3720PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3721 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3722 "Linux".
3723
475fe28a
PH
3724PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3725 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3726 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3727
3728 warn !verify = sender
3729 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3730
3731 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3732 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3733
7e8bec7a
PH
3734PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3735
3736 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3737 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3738
3739 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3740 nomenclature these days.)
3741
e4a89c47
PH
3742PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3743 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3744
5ca2a9a1
PH
3745PH/30 In these circumstances:
3746 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3747 . First host does not offer TLS;
3748 . First host accepts first address;
3749 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3750 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3751 . Second host accepts second address.
3752 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3753 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3754 address.
7e8bec7a 3755
c688b954
PH
3756PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3757 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3758 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3759 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3760 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3761
fed77020
PH
3762PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3763 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3764
7fe1560f
PH
3765PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3766 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3767
ebb6e6d5
PH
3768PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3769 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3770 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3771
9c4e8f60
PH
3772PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3773 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3774 overlooked.
3775
3776PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3777
d7174846
PH
3778PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3779 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3780 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3781 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3782 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3783 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3784 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3785
3786 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3787 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3788 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3789 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3790 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3791
3792 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3793 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3794 routed further.
3795
cfe75fc3
PH
3796PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3797 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3798 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3799 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3800 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3801 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3802
be22d70e
PH
3803PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3804
0612b098
PH
3805PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3806 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3807 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3808 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3809 printable escape sequences.
3810
2e0c1448
PH
3811PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3812 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3813 body only.
3814
447d236c
PH
3815PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3816 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3817 are as follows:
3818
3819 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3820 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3821 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3822 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3823 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3824
3825 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3826 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3827 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3828
d20976dc
PH
3829PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3830
f656d135
PH
3831PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3832 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3833 play with."
3834
2e2a30b4
PH
3835PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3836 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3837 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3838 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3839 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3840 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3841 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3842 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3843 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3844 the log output.
3845
9176e9f0
PH
3846PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3847 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3848 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3849 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3850 "make".
3851
7982096b 3852
bbe902f0
PH
3853A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3854----------------------------------------
3855
3856Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3857changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3858needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3859in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3860that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3861release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3862from 4.43.
3863
3864I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
38654.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3866those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3867historical information.
3868
3869
f7b63901 3870Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3871-----------------
3872
5fe762f6
PH
3873 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3874
139059f6 3875 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3876 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3877
7086e875
PH
3878 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3879 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3880 place.
3881
35af9f61
PH
3882 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3883 filter fails to execute.
3884
b668c215
PH
3885 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3886 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3887 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3888 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3889 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3890
a494b1e1
PH
3891 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3892
3893 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3894 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3895 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3896 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3897
c5fcb476
PH
3898 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3899 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3900 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3901 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3902 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3903
69358f02
PH
3904 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3905
5be20824
PH
390610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3907
eb2c0248
PH
390811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3909 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3910 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3911 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3912
2a3eea10
PH
391312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3914 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3915 sender verification.
3916
391713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3918 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3919
23c7ff99
PH
392014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3921
4deaf07d
PH
392215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3923 connection timeout.
3924
926e1192
PH
392516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3926 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3927
650edc6f
PH
392817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3929 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3930
2c7db3f5
PH
393118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3932 information about exactly what failed.
3933
3d235903
PH
393419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3935
7c7ad977
PH
393620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3937 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3938 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3939
981756db
PH
394021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3941 It is now set to "smtps".
3942
d4eb88df
PH
394322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3944 ignore_target_hosts.
3945
394623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3947 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3948 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3949 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3950 "[x.x.x.x]".
3951
7d468ab8
PH
395224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3953 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3954 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3955
395625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3957 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3958 wake it up if nothing else does.
3959
62c0818f
PH
396026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3961 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3962 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3963 end up negative.
3964
26034054
PH
396527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3966 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3967
af66f652
PH
396828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3969
90af77f4
PH
397029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3971 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3972 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3973 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3974 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3975 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3976 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3977 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3978
d8ef3577
PH
397930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3980 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3981 than one IP address.
3982
5cb8cbc6
PH
398331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3984 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3985 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3986 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3987
14702f5b
PH
398832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3989 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3990 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3991 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3992 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3993 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3994
063b1e99
PH
399533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3996 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3997 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3998 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3999
652e1b65
PH
400034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4001 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4002 respected.
4003
6f0c9a4f
PH
400435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4005 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4006 $sender_host_address.
4007
33397d19
PH
400836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4009 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4010 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4011 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4012 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4013 very small.
4014
7bb56e1f
PH
401537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4016
4017 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4018 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4019
ea3bc19b
PH
4020 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4021 just the host names, not the priorities.
4022
4023 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4024 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4025 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4026
ea3bc19b 4027 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4028 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4029
0bcb2a0e
PH
403038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4031 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4032 domain.
4033
2ac0e484
PH
403439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4035
4e1fde53
PH
403640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4037 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4038
de365ded
PH
403941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4040 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4041 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4042
f05da2e8
PH
404342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4044
d6453af2
PH
404543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4046
f7b63901
PH
404744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4048
404945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4050 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4051 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4052 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4053 because the tests only now provoked it.
4054
a444213a
PH
405546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4056 (this can affect the format of dates).
4057
0ec020ea
PH
405847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4059 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4060 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4061 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4062
b1206957
PH
406348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4064
406549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4066 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4067 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4068 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4069
26dd5a95
PH
407050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4071 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4072 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4073
343b2385
PH
407451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4075 autoreply.
4076
1c5466b9
PH
407752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4078 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4079 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4080 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4081 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4082 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4083 is going on).
4084
55ee9ee3
PH
408553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4086 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4087 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4088 the line.
4089
d38f8232
PH
409054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4091 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4092 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4093
4094 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4095 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4096 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4097 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4098 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4099 so I produce this patch..."
4100
3295e65b
PH
4101 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4102 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4103 is not defined.
4104
7102e136
PH
410555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4106 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4107 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4108 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4109 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4110
3ca0ba97
PH
411156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4112
c2bcbe20
PH
411357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4114 long debug lines gets shown.
4115
18ce445d
PH
411658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4117 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4118
1f5b4c3d
PH
411959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4120
4121 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4122 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4123 of $primary_hostname.
4124
b975ba52
PH
412560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4126 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4127 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4128 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4129 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4130 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4131 by change 4.50/55 above.
4132
4133 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4134 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4135 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4136 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4137 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4138 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4139 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4140
414161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4142 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4143 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4144 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4145
17ffcae7
PH
414662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4147 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4148
d95f9fdb
PH
414963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4150 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4151 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4152 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4153 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4154
86b8287f
PH
415564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4156 This has been fixed.
4157
60dc5e56
PH
415865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4159 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4160 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4161 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4162 the caching.)
4163
533244af
PH
416466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4165
a5a28604
PH
416667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4167 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4168 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4169 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4170
7e634d24
PH
417168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4172 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4173
3e11c26b
PH
417469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4175 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4176 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4177
6729cf78
PH
417870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4179 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4180 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4181 message there.
4182
00f00ca5
PH
418371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4184 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4185 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4186
c9bdd01c
PH
418772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4188 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4189 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4190 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4191
d43194df
PH
419273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4193 during host lookups.
4194
fe5b5d0b
PH
419574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4196 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4197
4198 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4199
76a2d7ba
PH
420075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4201 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4202 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4203 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4204 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4205 background.
4206
420776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4208 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4209
04f7d5b9
PH
421077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4211 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4212 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4213
bc60667e
PH
421478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4215
bb6e88ff
PH
421679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4217 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4218 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4219 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4220 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4221 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4222 process earlier.
4223
1e70f85b
PH
422480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4225 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4226 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4227 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4228 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4229
423081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4231 tables).
4232
4e01f9d6
PH
423382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4234
1ee1cef2
PH
423583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4236 "vacation" handling.
4237
6e2b4ccc
PH
423884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4239 OS variants using glibc.
4240
8e669ac1
PH
424185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4242
495ae4b0 4243
bbe902f0
PH
4244----------------------------------------------------
4245See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4246----------------------------------------------------
4247
4248
4249Exim version 4.44
4250-----------------
4251
4252 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4253 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4254 transport
4255
4256 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4257 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4258 place.
4259
4260 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4261 filter fails to execute.
4262
4263 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4264 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4265 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4266 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4267 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4268
4269 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4270 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4271 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4272 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4273
4274 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4275 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4276 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4277 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4278 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4279
4280 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4281
4282 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4283 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4284 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4285 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4286
4287 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4288 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4289 sender verification.
4290
429110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4292 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4293
429411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4295 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4296
429712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4298 ignore_target_hosts.
4299
430013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4301 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4302 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4303 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4304 "[x.x.x.x]".
4305
430614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4307 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4308 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4309
431015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4311 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4312 wake it up if nothing else does.
4313
431416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4315 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4316 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4317 end up negative.
4318
431917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4320 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4321
ea3a6f44 432218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4323
432419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4325 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4326 empty pattern.
4327
432820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4329 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4330 one IP address.
4331
ea3a6f44
NM
433221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4333 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4334 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4335 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4336 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4337 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4338
ea3a6f44
NM
433922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4340 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4341 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4342
434323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4344 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4345 $sender_host_address.
4346
434724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4348
ea3a6f44
NM
434925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4350 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4351 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4352
435326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4354 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4355
ea3a6f44
NM
435627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4357 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4358
ea3a6f44
NM
435928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4360 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4361 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4362 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4363
436429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4365 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4366 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4367
ea3a6f44
NM
436830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4369 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4370 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4371 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4372
ea3a6f44
NM
437331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4374 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4375 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4376
ea3a6f44
NM
437731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4378 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4379
ea3a6f44
NM
438032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4381 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4382 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4383 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4384 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4385 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4386 is going on).
bbe902f0 4387
ea3a6f44
NM
438833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4389 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4390 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4391 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4392 CAN-2005-0021
4393
ea3a6f44
NM
439434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4395 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4396 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4397 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4398 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4399 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4400 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4401
4402 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4403 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4404 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4405 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4406 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4407 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4408 CAN-2005-0021
4409
ea3a6f44
NM
441035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4411 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4412 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4413 CAN-2005-0022
4414
ea3a6f44
NM
441536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4416 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4417 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4418 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4419 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4420
ea3a6f44
NM
442137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4422 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4423 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4424 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4425 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4426
ea3a6f44
NM
442738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4428 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4429 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4430 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4431 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4432
4433
495ae4b0
PH
4434Exim version 4.43
4435-----------------
4436
4437 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4438 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4439 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4440 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4441 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4442 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4443 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4444
4445 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4446 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4447 the delivery.
4448
4449 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4450
4451 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4452
4453 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4454 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4455 to local_scan().
4456
4457 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4458 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4459 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4460 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4461 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4462
4463 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4464 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4465
4466 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4467
4468 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4469
447010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4471 header_sender only.
4472
447311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4474 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4475
447612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4477 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4478 affecting debugging statements).
4479
448013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4481
448214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4483 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4484 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4485 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4486 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4487 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4488 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4489 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4490 after the received time, and all would be well.
4491
449215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4493 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4494 condition in an expansion string.
4495
449616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4497
449817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4499 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4500 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4501 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4502 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4503 job under whatever limits there are.
4504
450518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4506
450719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4508 space).
4509
451020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4511 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4512 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4513 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4514 return path is set.
4515
451621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4517 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4518 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4519 binary data in such strings.
4520
452122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4522
452323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4524 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4525 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4526 failure, which is pointless.
4527
452824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4529
453025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4531
453226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4533 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4534 Sender: header lines.
4535
453627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4537 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4538 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4539
454028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4541 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4542 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4543 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4544 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4545 happens.
4546
454729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4548 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4549 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4550 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4551 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4552
455330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4554 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4555 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4556 1024.
4557
455831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4559 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4560
456132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4562 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4563
456433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4565
456632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4567
456833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4569
457034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4571 syntax error.
4572
457335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4574
457536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4576
457737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4578 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4579 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4580 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4581
458238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4583 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4584
4585
4586Exim version 4.42
4587-----------------
4588
4589 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4590 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4591 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4592 it was not quoted.
4593 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4594 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4595 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4596 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4597 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4598 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4599
4600 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4601 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4602 verification failure".
4603
4604 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4605 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4606 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4607 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4608
4609 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4610 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4611 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4612 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4613 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4614 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4615 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4616 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4617 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4618 treated as a timeout.
4619
4620 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4621 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4622 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4623 not set for Exim filters).
4624
4625 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4626 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4627 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4628
4629 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4630
4631 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4632 try to make them clearer.
4633
4634 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4635 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4636
4637 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4638
4639 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4640
464110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4642 only the Cygwin environment.
4643
464411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4645 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4646 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4647 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4648 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4649
465012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4651 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4652 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4653 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4654 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4655 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4656 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4657
465813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4659 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4660
466114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4662
4663 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4664 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4665 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4666
4667 To: susanne@some.where
4668
4669 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4670 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4671 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4672 of addresses in From: header lines).
4673
4674 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4675 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4676 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4677
4678 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4679 treated as non-personal.
4680
4681 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4682 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4683
468415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4685
468616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4687
468817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4689 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4690 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4691
469218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4693 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4694
469519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4696 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4697 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4698 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4699 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4700 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4701
470220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4703 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4704 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4705 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4706 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4707 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4708 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4709 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4710
4711 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4712
471321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4714 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4715
471622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4717 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4718 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4719
472023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4721 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4722
472324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4724 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4725 rather than long int.
4726
472725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4728
472926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4730
4731
4732Exim version 4.41
4733-----------------
4734
4735 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4736 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4737 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4738 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4739 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4740 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4741
4742
4743Exim version 4.40
4744-----------------
4745
4746 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4747 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4748
4749 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4750 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4751 socklen_t is defined.
4752
4753 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4754 always exist.
4755
4756 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4757 configured.
4758
4759 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4760 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4761 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4762 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4763 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4764
4765 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4766 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4767 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4768 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4769
4770 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4771 of flapping under certain conditions.
4772
4773 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4774 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4775 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4776
4777 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4778
477910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4780
478111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4782 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4783 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4784 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4785
478612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4787 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4788 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4789 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4790 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4791 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4792 preserved with the message after it was received.
4793
479413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4795 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4796 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4797 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4798 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4799 test suite worked just fine.
4800
480114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4802 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4803 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4804
480515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4806 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4807 string.
4808
480916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4810 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4811 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4812 does not fully solve it.
4813
481417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4815 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4816 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4817 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4818 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4819
482018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4821 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4822 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4823
482419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4825 string, for example:
4826
4827 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4828
4829 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4830 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4831 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4832 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4833 the routers could not see them.
4834
483520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4836 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4837
483821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4839 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4840 output).
4841
484222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4843 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4844 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4845 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4846 that needed quoting.
4847
484823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4849 was not being matched caselessly.
4850
485124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4852 backslashes.
4853
485425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4855 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4856 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4857 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4858 when use_sender is false.
4859
486026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4861
486227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4863
486428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4865
486629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4867 the configuration file.
4868
486930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4870 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4871
487231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4873
487432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4875 bytes in the message body.
4876
487733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4878 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4879 delivery.
4880
488134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4882
488335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4884
488536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4886 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4887 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4888 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4889 another IP address.
4890
4891
4892Exim version 4.34
4893-----------------
4894
4895 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4896 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4897
4898 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4899 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4900 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4901 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4902 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4903
4904 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4905 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4906
4907 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4908 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4909 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4910
4911 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4912 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4913 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4914
4915 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4916 for routers.
4917
4918 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4919 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4920 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4921 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4922 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4923 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4924 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4925
4926
4927Exim version 4.33
4928-----------------
4929
4930 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4931 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4932 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4933 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4934 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4935 default (and expected) setting.
4936
4937 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4938 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4939 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4940 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4941
4942 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4943 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4944
4945 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4946 in domain lists.
4947
4948 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4949 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4950 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4951 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4952 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4953 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4954
4955 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4956 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4957 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4958
4959 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4960 part (NOT match_host).
4961
4962 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4963
4964 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4965 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4966 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4967 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4968 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4969 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4970 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4971 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4972 the same named file.
4973
497410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4975 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4976 when Exim is built.
4977
497811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4979 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4980 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4981 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4982 a host name.
4983
498412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4985 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4986 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4987
498813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4989
499014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4991
499215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4993
499416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4995 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4996
499717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4998 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4999 before starting the TLS session.
5000
500118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5002
500319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5004 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5005
500620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5007 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5008 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5009 colon in the middle).
5010
5011
5012Exim version 4.32
5013-----------------
5014
5015 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5016 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5017 multiple configurations are in use.
5018
5019 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5020 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5021 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5022 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5023 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5024 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5025
5026 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5027 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5028
5029 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5030 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5031 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5032
5033 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5034 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5035 occurs.
5036
5037 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5038 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5039
5040 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5041
5042 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5043 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5044
5045 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5046
5047 -prval:sval
5048
5049 is equivalent to
5050
5051 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5052
5053 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5054 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5055 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5056 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5057 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5058
505910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5060 Exim's behaviour:
5061
5062 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5063 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5064 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5065 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5066 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5067 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5068
5069 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5070 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5071 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5072 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5073 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5074 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5075 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5076 string.
5077
5078 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5079 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5080 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5081 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5082 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5083
508411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5085
508612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5087 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5088 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5089
509013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5091
509214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5093 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5094 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5095 information.
5096
509715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5098 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5099
510016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5101 Three changes have been made:
5102
5103 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5104 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5105 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5106 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5107 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5108
5109 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5110 been restored.
5111
5112 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5113 the modified behaviour.
5114
5115
5116Exim version 4.31
5117-----------------
5118
5119 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5120 Larry Rosenman.
5121
5122 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5123 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5124
5125 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5126 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5127 try to track down a specific problem.
5128
5129 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5130 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5131 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5132
5133 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5134 warning.
5135
5136 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5137 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5138 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5139 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5140 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5141 some earlier ones do not.
5142
5143 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5144
5145 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5146 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5147 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5148 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5149 address literals are enabled, of course).
5150
5151 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5152
515310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5154 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5155 by a command such as
5156
5157 exim -f "" ...
5158
5159 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5160
516111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5162
516312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5164 remained set. It is now erased.
5165
516613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5167 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5168
516914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5170 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5171 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5172 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5173 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5174 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5175 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5176 appropriate error code.
5177
517815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5179 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5180 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5181 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5182 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5183 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5184
518516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5186 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5187 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5188
518917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5190 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5191 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5192 terminate the header.
5193
519418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5195 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5196 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5197
519819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5199 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5200 (4.30/29). In particular:
5201
5202 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5203 imposed.
5204
5205 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5206 to write a maildirsize file.
5207
5208 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5209 the transport, the new value overrides.
5210
5211 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5212 count.
5213
521420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5215 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5216 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5217 space or a tab.
5218
521921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5220 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5221 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5222 the fallback hosts.
5223
522422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5225 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5226 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5227
522823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5229 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5230 using a union.
5231
523224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5233 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5234 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5235
523625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5237
523826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5239
524027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5241
524228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5243 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5244 become corrupted.
5245
524629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5247 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5248 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5249 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5250 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5251 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5252 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5253 too great.
5254
525530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5256 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5257 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5258 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5259 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5260 incorrectly.
5261
526231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5263 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5264 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5265 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5266 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5267 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5268 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5269 cached value only when the same options are set.
5270
527132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5272
527333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5274 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5275 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5276 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5277 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5278
527934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5280 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5281 it is clearly obsolete.
5282
528335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5284 transport.
5285
528636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5287 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5288 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5289 times.
5290
529137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5292 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5293 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5294 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5295 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5296
529738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5298 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5299 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5300 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5301
530239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5303
5304 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5305
5306 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5307 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5308 2^31.
5309
531040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5311 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5312 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5313 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5314 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5315 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5316 $localpart_data.
5317
531841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5319 with the -f command-line option.
5320
532142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5322 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5323 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5324 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5325 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5326 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5327
532843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5329 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5330 line.
5331
533244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5333 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5334 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5335 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5336 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5337 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5338 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5339 buffer is too small.
5340
534145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5342 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5343
534446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5345 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5346 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5347 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5348 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5349 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5350 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5351 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5352 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5353
535447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5355 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5356 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5357
535848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5359 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5360 ACL").
5361
536249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5363 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5364 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5365 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5366 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5367
536850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5369 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5370 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5371 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5372 is set.
5373
537451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5375
537652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5377
537853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5379 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5380
538154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5382 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5383 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5384
538555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5386 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5387 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5388 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5389 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5390
539156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5392 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5393 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5394 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5395 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5396 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5397 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5398
539957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5400 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5401 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5402 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5403 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5404 the test of how many are available.
5405
540658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5407 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5408 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5409 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5410 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5411 new message is started.
5412
541359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5414 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5415
541660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5417 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5418
541961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5420 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5421 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5422 is no long logged.
5423
542462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5425 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5426 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5427 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5428 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5429 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5430 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5431
543263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5433 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5434 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5435 interpreted as octal.
5436
543764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5438 setting.
5439
544065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5441 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5442 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5443 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5444 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5445 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5446
544766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5448 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5449 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5450 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5451
5452 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5453 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5454 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5455 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5456
5457 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5458 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5459 is a bug fix.
5460
5461 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5462 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5463
546467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5465
546668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5467 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5468 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5469 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5470
547169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5472 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5473 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5474 supplied", which is not helpful.
5475
547670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5477 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5478 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5479
548071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5481 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5482 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5483 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5484 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5485 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5486 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5487 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5488
548972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5490 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5491 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5492 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5493 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5494
549573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5496 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5497 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5498 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5499 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5500 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5501
550274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5503 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5504 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5505
550675. Added write_rejectlog option.
5507
550876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5509 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5510 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5511 variables.
5512
551377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5514
551578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5516 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5517 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5518 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5519 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5520 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5521 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5522 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5523
552479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5525 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5526 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5527 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5528 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5529
553080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5531 Haardt.
5532
553381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5534 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5535 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5536 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5537 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5538 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5539 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5540 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5541 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5542
5543
5544Exim version 4.30
5545-----------------
5546
5547 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5548 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5549 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5550
5551 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5552 fixed.
5553
5554 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5555 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5556 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5557
5558 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5559 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5560 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5561 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5562 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5563 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5564
5565 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5566 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5567 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5568 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5569 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5570 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5571 the Exim test suite.
5572
5573 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5574 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5575 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5576 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5577
5578 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5579 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5580 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5581 specify it in this variable.
5582
5583 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5584 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5585 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5586 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5587
5588 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5589 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5590 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5591 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5592
5593 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5594 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5595 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5596 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5597 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5598
5599 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5600
560110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5602 they are logged.
5603
560411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5605 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5606 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5607 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5608 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5609
561012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5611 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5612
561313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5614 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5615 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5616 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5617 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5618
561914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5620 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5621
562215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5623 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5624 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5625
562616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5627 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5628
562917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5630 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5631
563218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5633 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5634 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5635
563619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5637 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5638
563920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5640 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5641 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5642 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5643
564421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5645
564622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5647 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5648 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5649 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5650
565123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5652
565324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5654 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5655
565625. Added .include_if_exists.
5657
565826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5659 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5660 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5661 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5662 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5663 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5664
566527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5666
566728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5668 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5669 this.
5670
567129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5672
567330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5674 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5675
5676 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5677 550 Sender verify failed
5678
5679 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5680 the final line of the response.
5681
568231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5683 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5684 all other user lookups.
5685
568632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5687 delivery time.
5688
568933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5690 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5691 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5692 result into an int without checking.
5693
569434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5695 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5696 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5697
569835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5699 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5700 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5701 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5702
570336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5704 correctly.
5705
570637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5707 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5708
570938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5710 to the empty sender.
5711
571239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5713 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5714 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5715 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5716 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5717 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5718 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5719 panic log.
5720
572140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5722 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5723 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5724 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5725 used.
5726
572741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5728 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5729
573042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5731 timestamps.
5732
573343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5734 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5735
573644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5737
573845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5739 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5740 logs.
5741
574246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5743 as soon as it is encountered.
5744
574547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5746
574748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5748 rewritten to "<>".
5749
575049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5751 recognizes a tab character.
5752
575350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5754 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5755 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5756 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5757
575851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5759
576052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5761 crash.
5762
576353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5764
576554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5766
576755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5768 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5769 2822.
5770
577156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5772 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5773 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5774 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5775 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5776
577757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5778 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5779
578058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5781 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5782 list (.included file names were always shown).
5783
578459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5785 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5786 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5787 root at that time.
5788
578960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5790 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5791
579261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5793
579462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5795
579663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5797
579864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5799 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5800 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5801 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5802 failures to open the logs.
5803
580465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5805 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5806 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5807 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5808 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5809 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5810 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5811
5812
5813Exim version 4.24
5814-----------------
5815
5816 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5817 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5818 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5819 change 4.23/1.
5820
5821 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5822 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5823 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5824
5825 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5826 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5827 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5828
5829 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5830 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5831 causing some misleading effects.
5832
5833 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5834 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5835 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5836
5837 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5838 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5839 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5840 queue-runner function directly.
5841
5842
5843Exim version 4.23
5844-----------------
5845
5846 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5847 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5848
5849 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5850 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5851 was always written to the default place.
5852
5853 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5854 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5855 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5856
5857 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5858
5859 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5860
5861 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5862 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5863 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5864
5865 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5866 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5867 must start.
5868
5869 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5870 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5871 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5872
5873 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5874 command line option is disabled.
5875
5876 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5877 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5878
5879 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5880
5881 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5882
5883 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5884 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5885
588610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5887
588811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5889 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5890 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5891 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5892 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5893 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5894
589512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5896 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5897 timeout.
5898
589913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5900 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5901
590214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5903 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5904
590515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5906 received was valid base64.
5907
590816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5909 name of the variable that was being set.
5910
591117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5912
591318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5914 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5915 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5916 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5917 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5918 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5919
592019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5921
592220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5923 nor realm was specified.
5924
592521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5926 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5927 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5928 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5929
593022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5931 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5932 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5933
593423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5935 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5936 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5937
593824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5939 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5940 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5941 some systems use these upper case variants.
5942
594325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5944 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5945 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5946 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5947
594826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5949
595027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5951 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5952
595328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5954 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5955 expansion variable.
5956
595729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5958
595930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5960 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5961 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5962 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5963
596431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5965 using it.
5966
596732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5968 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5969 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5970
597133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5972 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5973
597434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5975 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5976 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5977 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5978
597935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5980 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5981 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5982
598336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5984
598537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5986 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5987 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5988 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5989 aborted.
5990
599138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5992 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5993 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5994
599539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5996
599740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5998 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5999
600041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6001 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6002
600342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6004 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6005 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6006 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6007 when emails are that large.
6008
6009
6010
6011Exim version 4.22
6012-----------------
6013
6014 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6015 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6016
6017 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6018 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6019 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6020
6021 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6022 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6023 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6024
6025 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6026 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6027 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6028 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6029 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6030
6031 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6032 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6033 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6034 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6035 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6036 ever.
6037
6038 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6039 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6040 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6041 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6042 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6043 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6044 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6045 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6046 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6047 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6048 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6049 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6050 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6051 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6052
6053 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6054 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6055 parameterised it.
6056
6057 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6058 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6059 error should be diagnosed.
6060
6061 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6062 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6063 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6064 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6065 appeared instead of "NULL".
6066
606710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6068 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6069 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6070 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6071 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6072 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6073 proceeds).
6074
6075 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6076 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6077 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6078
6079
6080Exim version 4.21
6081-----------------
6082
6083 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6084 or receiver verification errors.
6085
6086 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6087 name.
6088
6089 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6090 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6091 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6092 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6093
6094 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6095 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6096 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6097 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6098 shouldn't happen again.
6099
6100 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6101 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6102 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6103
6104 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6105 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6106
6107 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6108
6109 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6110 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6111
6112 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6113 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6114 RFC.
6115
611610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6117 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6118 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6119
612011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6121 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6122 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6123 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6124
612512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6126 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6127 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6128 to define what should happen).
6129
613013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6131 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6132 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6133
613414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6135
613615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6137
613816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6139 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6140
614117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6142 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6143 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6144 structure in all cases.
6145
6146 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6147 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6148 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6149 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6150
615118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6152 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6153 domain name.
6154
615519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6156 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6157
615820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6159 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6160
616121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6162 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6163 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6164
616522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6166 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6167 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6168
616923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6170 the book and for uniformity.
6171
617224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6173
617425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6175 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6176 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6177 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6178 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6179 non-existent command as the problem.
6180
618126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6182 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6183 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6184
618527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6186
618728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6188 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6189 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6190
619129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6192 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6193 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6194 timestamps using strftime().
6195
619630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6197 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6198
619932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6200 transport-time rewrites.
6201
620233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6203 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6204 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6205 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6206
620734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6208 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6209
621035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6211 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6212 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6213 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6214 comma and a space.
6215
621636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6217 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6218 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6219 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6220 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6221 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6222 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6223
622437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6225 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6226 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6227 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6228 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6229
623038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6231 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6232 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6233 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6234 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6235 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6236 remaining text gets split now.
6237
623839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6239 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6240 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6241 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6242
624340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6244 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6245 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6246 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6247 $return_path.
6248
624941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6250 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6251 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6252 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6253 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6254 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6255 passed through if needed.
6256
625742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6258 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6259 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6260 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6261 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6262 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6263
626443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6265 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6266 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6267 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6268 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6269
627044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6271 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6272 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6273 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6274 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6275
627645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6277 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6278 noticed.
6279
628046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6281 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6282 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6283 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6284 mayhem of various kinds.
6285
628647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6287 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6288 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6289 the right test for positive values.
6290
629148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6292 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6293 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6294 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6295 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6296 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6297 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6298 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6299 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6300 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6301 envelope.
6302
630349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6304 module.
6305
630650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6307 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6308 forbidding it.
6309
631051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6311 the existing equality matching.
6312
631352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6314 dealing with inode numbers.
6315
631653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6317 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6318 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6319
632054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6321 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6322 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6323 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6324 local_scan().
6325
632655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6327 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6328 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6329 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6330 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6331 relay addresses has also been removed.
6332
633356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6334
633557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6336 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6337 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6338
633958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6340 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6341 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6342 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6343 processing applies to CR:
6344
6345 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6346 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6347
6348 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6349 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6350 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6351 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6352
635359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6354 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6355 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6356
635760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6358 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6359 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6360 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6361 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6362 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6363 arisen.
6364
636561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6366 program routers.
6367
636862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6369 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6370 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6371 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6372 adds:
6373
6374 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6375
6376 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6377
6378 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6379
638063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6381 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6382 not considered personal.
6383
638464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6385
638665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6387
638866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6389
639067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6391 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6392 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6393 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6394 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6395 header lines, and spool format errors.
6396
639768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6398 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6399 for more flexibility.
6400
640169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6402 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6403 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6404
640570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6406 Sabourenkov.
6407
640871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6409 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6410 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6411 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6412 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6413 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6414 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6415 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6416 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6417
641872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6419 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6420 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6421 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6422 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6423 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6424 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6425
642673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6427 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6428 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6429
643074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6431 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6432 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6433 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6434 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6435 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6436 instead of killing the process with assert().
6437
643875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6439 than Unicode encoding.
6440
644176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6442 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6443 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6444 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6445
644677. Added process_log_path.
6447
644878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6449 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6450
645179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6452 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6453
645480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6455 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6456 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6457
645881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6459 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6460 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6461 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6462 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6463 were applied:
6464
6465 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6466 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6467 as invalid.
6468
646982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6470 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6471 they will be used during message reception.
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6473
6474Exim version 4.20
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6476
6477The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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