Fix the variables set by gsasl authenticator
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1This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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6Exim version 4.93+fixes
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8This is not an official release. It is just a branch, collecting
9proposed bugfixes. Depending on your environment the fixes may be
10necessary to build and/or run Exim successfully.
11
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12JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
13
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14JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
15 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
16 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
17
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18JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
19 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
20 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
21
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22JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
23 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
24
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25JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
26 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
27 was taken.
28
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29JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
30 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
31 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
32 should both provide the file and set the option.
33 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
34
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35JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
36 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
37
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38JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
39 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
40 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
41 Authentication-Results: header.
42
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43JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
44 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
45 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
46 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
47
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48JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
49 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
50 copies while it is still usable.
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55
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56JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
57 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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61 its own TCP segment.
62
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63JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
64 each verb.
65
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66JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
67
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68JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
69
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70JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
71 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
72
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73JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
74 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
75 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
76 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
77 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
78 suitably configured).
79
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81 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
82
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84 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
85 crash could result.
86
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87JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
88 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
89
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90JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
91 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
92 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
93 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
94 to this system.
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96JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
97 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
98 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
99
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100JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
101 output.
102
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103JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
104 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
105
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00c0dd4e 107 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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108 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
109 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
110 input).
111
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113 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
114 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
115 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
116 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
117
7d8d08c4 118HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
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120
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122 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
123 affected.
124
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125JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
126 on some platforms for bit 31.
127
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128JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
129 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
130 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
131 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
132 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
133 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
134 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
135 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
136
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137JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
138
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139JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
140 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
141
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142JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
143 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
144 facility.
145
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146JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
147 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
148 documentation.
149
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150JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
151 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
152 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
153 not do so.
154
59c0959a 155JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
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156 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
157 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
158
159JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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160 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
161 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
162 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
163 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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165JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
166 reject under TFO.
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efad2f41 168JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 169 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
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171
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172JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
173 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
174
6ee11061 175PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
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177JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
178 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
179 one for these; the option was ignored.
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181JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
182 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
183 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
184 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
185
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186JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
187 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
188 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
189 standards.
190
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191JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
192 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
193 error ignored was made.
194
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195JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
196
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197JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
198 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
199 values, to catch one form of exploit.
200
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201JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
202 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
203 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
204
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205JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
206 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
207 causing a segfault.
208
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209JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
210 them in our smtp response.
211
9c6881f8 212JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
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214 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
215 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
216 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
217
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218JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
219 link count into consideration.
220
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221HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
222 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
223
224JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
225 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
226 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
227 surprise.
228
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230
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231JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
232
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233JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
234
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235JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
236 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
237 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
238 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
239
ab0e957b 240HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
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242JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
243 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
244 active.
245
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246JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
247 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
248 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
249
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251 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
252 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
253
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254JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
255 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
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256 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
257 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
258 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
259 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
260 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
261 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
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263JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
264 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
265 resulted in an indefinite loop.
266
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267JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
268 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
269 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
270
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275JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
276 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
277
278JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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279 non-signal-safe functions being used.
280
281JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
282 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
283 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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285JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
286 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
287 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
288
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289JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
290 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
291 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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292 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
293 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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294 messed with.
295
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296PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
297 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
298
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299JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
300 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
301 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
302 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
303 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
304 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
305 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
306
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307JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
308 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
309
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310JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
311 legitimate.
312
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313JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
314 Previously this would segfault.
315
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316JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
317 segfault.
318
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319JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
320 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
321 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
322 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
323 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
324 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
325
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326JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
327
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328JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
329 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
330 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
331 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
332
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333JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
334
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335JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
336 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
337 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
338 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
339
5054c4fd 340JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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342JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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344JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
345 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
346 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
347
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348JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
349 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
350 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
351
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352PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
353
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354JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
355 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
356 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
357 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
358
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359PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
360 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
361 promised '?' replacement.
362
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363PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
364
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365JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
366 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
367 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
368 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
369 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
370
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371JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
372 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
373 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
374
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375JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
376 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
377 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
378
7ea1237c 379JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 380 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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381 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
382
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383JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
384 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
385 hope that is portable enough.
386
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387JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
388 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
389 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
390 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
391
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392JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
393 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
394 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
395
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396JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
397 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
398 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
399 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
400
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401JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
402 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
403
75c121f0 404JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 405 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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406 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
407 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
408
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409JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
410 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
411 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
412
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413JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
414 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
415 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
416 the previous G, M, k.
417
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418JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
419 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
420 it was unset.
421
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422JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
423 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
424 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
425 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
426
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427JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
428 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
429
de6f74f2 430JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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431 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
432 off past the nul-terimation.
433
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434JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
435 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
436 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
437 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
438 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
439
aa6e77af 440JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
aaf3e414 441
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442JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
443 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
444 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
445 actually does fail.
446
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447AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
448 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
449
450JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
451 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
452 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
518b70e9 453
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454JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
455 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
456 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
457
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458JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
459 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
460
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c39c8870 465GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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466 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
467 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
468 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
469 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
470 be defined in redis_servers.
c39c8870 471
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472GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
473 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
474
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475JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
476 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
477 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
478 extant use locations.
479
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480JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
481 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
482
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483JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
484 Previously only the last row was returned.
485
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486JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
487 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
488 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
489 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
490 input.
491
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492JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
493 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
494 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
495 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
496 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
497 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
498 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
499 Main pool for expansions.
500 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
501 active in the testsuite.
502 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
503
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504JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
505 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
506 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
507 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
508 round-robin DNS.
509
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510JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
511 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
512 failure response.
513
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514JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
515 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
516 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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517
518JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
519 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
520 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 521
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522JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
523 rows affected is given instead).
524
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525JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
526 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
527
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528JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
529 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
530 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
531 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
532 for all multi-message initiating connections.
533
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534JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
535 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
536 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
537
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538JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
539 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
540 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
541 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
542 separate.
543
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544JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
545 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
546 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
547 fake-reject.
548
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549HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
550
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551JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
552 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
553
aab9a843 554PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 555 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 556 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 557
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558JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
559 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
560 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
561 and send a quit.
562
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563JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
564 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
565
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566JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
567 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
568 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
569
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570JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
571 for the build is renamed.
572
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573JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
574 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
575 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
576
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577JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
578 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
579 result replacing the original.
580
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581JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
582 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
583 and the resources needed to be freed.
584
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585JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
586
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587JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
588 was not propagated.
589
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590JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
591 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
592 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
593 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
594
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595JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
596 length value. Previously this would segfault.
597
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598HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
599 newer versions of the scanner.
600
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601JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
602 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
603 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
604 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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605 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
606 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
607 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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609JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
610 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
611 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
612 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
613 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
614 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
615 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
616 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
617 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
618 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
619
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620JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
621 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
622
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623JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
624
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625HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
626 allows proper process termination in container environments.
627
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628JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
629 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
630
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631JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
632 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
633 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
634
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635JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
636 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
637 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 638 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 639
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640JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
641 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
642 would be spooled.
643
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644PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
645 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
646
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647HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
648 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
649 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
650 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
651 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
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653JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
654 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
655 lines.
656
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657JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
658 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
659
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660PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
661 suffix list.
662
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663JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
664 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
665 "bare" representation.
666
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667JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
668 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
669 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
670 corrupted the output.
671
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675
676JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
677 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
678 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
679 pairs of long lines into single ones.
680
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681PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
682 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
683
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684JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
685 This permits better logging.
686
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687JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
688 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
689 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
690 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
691 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 692 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 693
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694JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
695 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
696 "exiwhat" output.
697
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698PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
699 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
700 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
701
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702JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
703 than 255 are no longer allowed.
704
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705JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
706 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
707 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
708 client, there is no benefit for these.
709 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
710 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
711 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
712 is used (3.2.4 +).
713
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714PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
715 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
716
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717JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
718 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
719 erroneously found still-pending ones.
720
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721JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
722 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
723
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724JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
725 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
726 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
727 signature and again for transmission.
728
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729JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
730 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 731 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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733JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
734 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
735 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
736 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
737 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
738 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
739 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
740
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741JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
742 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
743 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 744 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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746PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
747 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
748 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
749 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
750 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
751 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
752 processing options.
753
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754JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
755 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
756 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
757 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
758 connections.
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760PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
761 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
762 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
763 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
764 versions.
765
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766JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
767 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
768 inaccessible.
769
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770JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
771 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
772 banner-time rejection.
773
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774JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
775 callout/hold.
776
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777PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
778 is the name of a transport.
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779 Fixes bug 2140.
780
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781HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
782
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783JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
784 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
785
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786JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
787 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
788 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
789 during compilation.
790
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791JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
792 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
793 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 794 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 795
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796JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
797 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
798 initial verify call returned a defer.
799
ad1a76fe 800JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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801 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
802
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803JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
804 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
805
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806JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
807 if present. Previously it was ignored.
808
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809JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
810 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
811
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812JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
813 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
814 extensible.
815
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816PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
817 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
818
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819PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
820 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
821 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
822
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823JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
824 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
825 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
826 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
827
0768462d 828HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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829 and confused the parent.
830
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831JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
832 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
833
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834JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
835 for log purposes.
836
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837JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
838 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
839 out-of-order delivery.
840
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841JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
842 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
843 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
844 error for the HELO.
845
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846JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
847 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
848 desynchronisation.
849
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850JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
851 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
852 one run was done. Bug 2189.
853
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854JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
855 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
856 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
857 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
858 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
859 message is still "Temporary local problem".
860
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861JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
862 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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863 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
864
865HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
866 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
867 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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869JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
870 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
871 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
872 though a different problem.
873
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9427e879 878JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 879 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 880
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881JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
882
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883PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
884 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
885
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886JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
887 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
888
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889JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
890 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
891 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
892 before acknowledging the chunk.
893
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894PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
895 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
896 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
897
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898JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
899 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
900 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
901 should.
902
903JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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904 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
905 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 907JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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908 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
909
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910JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
911 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
912 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
913 body hash calculated value.
914
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915JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
916 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
917 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
918
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919JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
920
921JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
922 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
923
924JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
925 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
926 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
927
928JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
929 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
930 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
931 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
932 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
933 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
934
935JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
936 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
937 past that check, despite the cost.
938
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939JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
940 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
941 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
942
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943PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
944 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
945 TLS library to consume.
946
da88acae
PP
947PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
948
f6ef9370
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949PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
950
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951JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
952 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
953 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
954 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
955 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
956 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
957 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
958
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959PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
960
961PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
962
963PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
964 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
965 should be warning-free.
966
8b2b9480
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967JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
968
969HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
970 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
971
d953610f
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972HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
973 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
974 general solution here.
975
7dc5f827
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976PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
977 already-broken messages in the queue.
978
4bb432cb
PP
979JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
980
3b1a84c8
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981JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
982
902fbd69 983
8d042305
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984Exim version 4.88
985-----------------
4c57a40e 986
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987JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
988 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 989
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990JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
991 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
992 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
993
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994JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
995 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
996 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
997 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
998 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
999 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1000 if one fails this test.
1001 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1002 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1003
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1004JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1005 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1006
23bb6982 1007JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 1008 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 1009
0bd1b1ed 1010JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 1011 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 1012
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1013JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1014 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1015
05392bbc
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1016JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1017 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1018
1a6230a3
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1019JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1020
cfab9d68
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1021JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1022 certificate).
1023
98c82a3d
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1024JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1025 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1026 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1027 connection after a verify cache hit.
1028 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1029
1030JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1031 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1032
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1033JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1034 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1035 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1036 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1037 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1038
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1039JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1040 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1041
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1042JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1043 Previously they were not counted.
1044
ef3a1a30
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1045JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1046 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1047 that needed the lookup.
1048
4c04137d 1049JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
27b9e5f4
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1050 distinguished as "(=".
1051
1435d4b2
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1052JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1053 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1054
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1055JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1056
1057JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1058 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 1059
4c04137d 1060JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
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1061 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1062
1c788856
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1063JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1064 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1065 compatible.
1066
e3b1f624
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1067JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1068 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1069 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1070 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1071
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1072JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1073
f59aaaaa 1074JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
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1075 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1076 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 1077
d1f9fb42
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1078JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1079 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1080 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1081 be lost.
1082
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1083JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1084 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1085 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1086 itself :(
1087
ddf1b11a
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1088JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1089 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1090 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1091
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1092JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1093 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1094 options.
1095
ae5afa61
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1096JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1097
317e40ac
PP
1098PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1099 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1100
8b0fb68e
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1101PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1102 are not in the system include path.
1103
ad7fc6eb 1104JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 1105 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
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1106 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1107 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1108
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1109JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1110 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1111 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1112
5ddc9771
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1113JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1114
8d73599f
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1115HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1116 an incoming connection.
1117
446415f5
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1118HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1119 to rspamd.
1120
8e53a4fc
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1121HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1122 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1123
87cb4a16 1124JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1125 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
87cb4a16
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1126
1127
0d9b78be
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1128Exim version 4.87
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1131JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1132 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1133 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1134 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1135
6c6d6e48
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1136TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1137 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1138
ac881e27
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1139TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1140 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1141 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1142 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1143 outgoing I= field.
1144
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1145JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1146 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1147 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1148 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1149 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1150 check on the next write.
1151
f1b81d81
HSHR
1152HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1153 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1154 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1155 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1156 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1157
f38917cc
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1158JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1159 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1160
895fbaf2
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1161JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1162 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1163 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1164
805bb5c3
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1165JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1166 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1167 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1168 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1169
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1170HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1171 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1172
4c04137d 1173JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
14b3c5bc
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1174 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1175
6f6dedcc
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1176JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1177 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1178 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1179 distinct.
1180
0f557e90
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1181JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1182
1183JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1184
ec0eb1a3
JH
1185JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1186
41e93589
JH
1187JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1188 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1189
98b98887 1190JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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1191 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1192
98b98887
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1193JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1194
858e91c2
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1195JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1196 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1197
1198JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1199
6ff55e50
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1200JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1201 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1202
3b957582
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1203JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1204
23f3dc67
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1205JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1206 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1207 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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1208 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1209 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1210 they will retry in-clear.
1211 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1212 at installation time.
1213
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1214HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1215 with the $config_file variable.
1216
5ef5dd52
JB
1217JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1218 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1219 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1220 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1221 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1222
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1223GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1224 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1225 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1226 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1227 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1228
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1229JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1230
7f06582c
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1231JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1232 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1233 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1234 list order is no longer honoured.
1235
4c04137d 1236JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1237 for DKIM processing.
1238
f0989ec0
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1239JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1240 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1241
cee5f132
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1242JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1243 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
e6d2a989
JH
1244 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1245 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1246
8c5d388a
JH
1247JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1248 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1249
2d8d625b
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1250JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1251 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1252
0cbf2b82
JH
1253JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1254 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1255
f2f2c91b
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1256JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1257
ce325893
JH
1258JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1259 cached by the daemon.
1260
de78e2d5
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1261JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1262 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1263
379ba7d0
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1264JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1265 keys are given for lookup.
1266
f444c2c7
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1267JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1268 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1269 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1270 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1271
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1272JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1273 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1274 server-side so match that on older versions.
1275
07c73177 1276JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1277 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1278 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1279
4f6ae5c3
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1280JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1281 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1282
1bc460a6
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1283JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1284 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1285 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1286 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1287 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1288 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1289 initial truncated version.
1290
ab9152ff 1291JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1292
67e87fcf
JH
1293JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1294
ab9152ff
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1295JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1296 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1297
af483912
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1298JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1299
bc3c7bb7 1300HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1301
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1302JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1303 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1304 induced overflows.
1305
59eaad2b
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1306JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1307 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1308 stage.
1309
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1310JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1311 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1312
dc8091e7
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1313JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1314 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1315 former class.
1316
dfe7d917
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1317JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1318 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1319 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1320
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1321JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1322 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1323 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1324 extraction. Accept either.
1325
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1330JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1331 expanded.
1332
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1333JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1334
ad07e9ad
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1335JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1336 it.
1337
01a4a5c5 1338JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1339 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1340 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1341 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1342
cb1d7830 1343JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1344 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1345 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1346
610ff438 1347JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1348 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1349 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1350 TLS connections
610ff438 1351
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1352JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1353 sites use this now.
1354
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1355JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1356 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1357 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1358 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1359 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1360
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1361JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1362 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1363 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1364
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1365JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1366
aeaf5db3
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1367JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1368 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1369
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1370JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1371 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1372
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1373JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1374 /defer_ok option.
1375
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1376JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1377 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1378
fd4d8871 1379JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1380 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1381 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1382
1383JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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1384 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1385 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1386
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1387JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1388 timeout value per server.
1389
2ad78978
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1390JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1391 now have the list separator specified.
1392
8a512ed5 1393JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1394 option values.
8a512ed5 1395
82c0c8ea 1396JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
f69979cf
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1397 under OpenSSL.
1398
cc00f4af
JH
1399JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1400
82c0c8ea
JH
1401JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1402 rather than the verbs used.
1403
b980ed83
JH
1404JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1405 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1406
6c9ed72e
JH
1407JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1408
cfab9d68 1409HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1410 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1411
f846c8f5
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1412JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1413 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1414
fd4c285c
HSHR
1415HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1416 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1417
4c04137d 1418JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1419
d2a2c69b
JH
1420JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1421
8241d8dd
JH
1422JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1423 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1424 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
8241d8dd
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1425 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1426
1f12df4d
JH
1427JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1428
1f155f8e
JH
1429JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1430 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1431
1705dd20
JH
1432JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1433 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1434
038597d2
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1435JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1436
474f71bf
JH
1437JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1438
7137ca4b
JH
1439JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1440
dcb1095c
JH
1441JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1442 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1443
2f460950
JH
1444JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1445 added for tls authenticator.
1446
2f680c0c
HSHR
1447HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1448
9c695f6d 1449
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1451-----------------
4c57a40e 1452
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1453TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1454 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1455 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1456 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1457 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1458 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1459 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1460
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1461TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1462 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1463 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1464 function when detected.
1465
a9b8ec8b
JH
1466JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1467 cause callback expansion.
1468
6286d7c4
TL
1469TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1470 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1471 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1472 instead of bool when processing it.
1473
0f06b4f2 1474JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
d567a64d
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1475 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1476
be36e572
JH
1477JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1478
ac4ef9bd
JH
1479JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1480
0eb51736
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1481TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1482
c713ca4b
TL
1483TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1484 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1485
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1486JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1487 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1488 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1489 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1490 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
bd21a787
WB
1491 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1492
8bc732e8
JH
1493JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1494 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1495 exceeded it.
1496
a7fec7a7
JH
1497JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1498 version 3.3.6 or later.
1499
4c04137d 1500JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
JH
1501 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1502 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1503 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
JH
1504 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1505 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1506 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1507
eca4debb
TL
1508TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1509 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1510
8d692470
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1511JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1512 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1513 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1514 matches.
1515
e9477a08
JH
1516JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1517 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1518 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1519
ad4c5ff9
JH
1520JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1521 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
1522
1523JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1524 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1525 syntax errors.
1526
3394b36a 1527JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1528
1529JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1530 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1531
3394b36a
TL
1532TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1533 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1534 tarball.
1535
ad4c5ff9
JH
1536JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1537
4c04137d 1538JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1539 Bug 1561.
1540
1541JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1542 output list separator was used.
1543
8bc732e8 1544
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1546-----------------
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1547TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1548 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1549 return.
1f0ebb98 1550
a612424f 1551JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1552 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
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1553
1554JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1555
1556TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1557 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1558
1f0ebb98 1559
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1560Exim version 4.83
1561-----------------
1562
1563TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1564
1565 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1566 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1567 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1568 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1569 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1570 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1571
7245734e
TF
1572TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1573 utilities have not been installed.
1574
fd5dad68
JH
1575JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1576 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1577
5428a946
TL
1578TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1579 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1580
a3c86431
TL
1581TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1582 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
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1583 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1584 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1585
aa26e137
JH
1586JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1587
5a1b8443
WB
1588TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1589 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1590
72c9e342
PP
1591PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1592 not dns_use_dnssec.
1593
76f44207
WB
1594JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1595
770747fd
MFM
1596TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1597 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1598 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1599
8ddef691 1600TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1601 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1602 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1603 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1604 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1605 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1606
b9c2e32f
AR
1607JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1608
e45a1c37
JH
1609JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1610 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1611
67d81c10
JH
1612JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1613 failed delivery.
1614
b1f8e4f8
JH
1615JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1616
511a6c14 1617JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1618
1619JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1620 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1621
51c7471d
JH
1622JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1623 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1624
3695be34
TL
1625TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1626
1e06383a
TL
1627JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1628
76146973
JH
1629JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1630 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1631
1632 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1633 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1634 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1635
8c8b8274
TL
1636TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1637 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1638 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1639 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1640
35aba663
JH
1641JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1642
8c51eead 1643JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1644 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1645 lookup).
8c51eead 1646
deae092e
HS
1647TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1648 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1649 Schlichting.
35aba663 1650
fd3b6a4a 1651JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1652 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1653
8d91c6dc
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1654TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1655 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1656
2b4a568d
JH
1657JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1658
d2af03f4
HS
1659TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1660 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1661 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1662
9d1c15ef
JH
1663JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1664 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1665
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JH
1666JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1667 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1668 hosts_request_ocsp.
1669
ed3bba5f 1670JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1671 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1672 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1673
8ccd00b1
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1674JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1675
8ded8589
TL
1676TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1677 Christian Aistleitner.
1678
f2de3a33
JH
1679JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1680
6eb02f88
TL
1681TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1682 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1683
00bff6f6
JH
1684JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1685 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1686
071c51f7
JH
1687JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1688 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1689
a6d4c44e
TF
1690TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1691 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1692
3ae173e7
ACK
1693TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1694 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1695
c13d09b8
TL
1696TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1697 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1698 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1699
0df4ab80
JH
1700JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1701
66be95e0
PP
1702PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1703 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1704 Jasper Wallace.
1705
1bd0d12b
JH
1706JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1707
0de7239e
TL
1708TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1709 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1710 CVE-2014-2972
1711
fd3b6a4a 1712
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1715
1716PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1717
12f69989
PP
1718PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1719 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1720
54c90be1
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1721PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1722 by GnuTLS.
1723
1f4a55da
PP
1724PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1725 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1726 routines.
1727
13363eba 1728PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1729
66645890 1730PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
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1731 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1732 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1733 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1734 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1735
a3fb9793 1736PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1737 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1738 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1739 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1740 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1741 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1742
d27f98fe 1743TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1744
6822b909
TL
1745TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1746
e7568d51
TL
1747TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1748 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1749
ae0e32ee 1750TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1751 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1752 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1753
1754TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1755
e2658fff
TL
1756TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1757
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1758TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1759 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1760
976b7e9f
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1761JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1762
be4a1376
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1763JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1764
ec4b68e5
PP
1765PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1766
d7148a07
NM
1767NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1768 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1769
585121e2 1770JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1771
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TL
1772PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1773 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1774 function.
a5f239e4 1775
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1776PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1777 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1778
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1779JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1780 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1781 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1782
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1783JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1784
3a796370
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1785JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1786
ea722490 1787JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
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1788 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1789
b1b05573
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1790JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1791 Bugzilla 884.
1792
362145b5
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1793JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1794 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1795
3c0a92dc
JH
1796JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1797 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1798
6d7c6175
PP
1799PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1800 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1801 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1802
6f123593
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1803JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1804 authenticators.
1805
c8e2fc1e
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1806JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1807 for control.
1808
005ac57f
PP
1809PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1810
3f1df0e3
PP
1811PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1812 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1813 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1814 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1815
67bd1ab3
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1816TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1817
1818 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1819 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1820 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1821 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1822 the retry rules.
1823
1824 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1825 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1826 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1827
1828 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1829 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1830 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1831 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1832
1ddeb334
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1833 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1834 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1835 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1836 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1837 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1838 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1839 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1840
1841 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1842 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1843
326cdc37
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1844TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1845
1846 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1847
1848 Resent-From: f
1849
1850 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1851 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1852 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1853 username as equal to the username.
1854
1855 This change corrects that bug.
1856
f62514b3
GF
1857GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1858 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1859 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1860
eb505532
TF
1861TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1862
14c7b357
PP
1863PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1864 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1865 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1866 NULL dereference and crash.
1867
94eaf700
PP
1868JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1869
6f5a440a
PP
1870PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1871 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1872 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1873
514ee161
SC
1874SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1875
fd98a5c6
JH
1876JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1877 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1878 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1879 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1880 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1881 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1882 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1883 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1884 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1885 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1886 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1887
035c7f1e
PP
1888PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1889 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1890
ff284120
PP
1891PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1892 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1893 Bugzilla 880.
1894
26e72755
PP
1895PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1896 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1897 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1898 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1899 an empty string is now equivalent.
1900
0fbd9bff
PP
1901PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1902 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1903 not performing validation itself.
1904
700d22f3
PP
1905PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1906 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1907
fcc8e047
JH
1908JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1909 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1910
4c04137d 1911TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1912
8c020188
PP
1913PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1914 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1915 other false fix of the same issue.
1916 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1917 Bugzilla 1363.
1918
d13cdd30
PP
1919PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1920 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1921
e2fbf4a2
PP
1922PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1923 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1924 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1925
f4c1088b
PP
1926PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1927 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1928 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1929
c5c2182f
PP
1930TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1931
73431ca9
JH
1932JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1933
2d07a215
TL
1934TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1935 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1936
a30a8861
TL
1937TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1938 Alexander Miroch.
1939
33382dd9
TL
1940TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1941 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1942 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1943 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1944 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1945
046172e6
TL
1946TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1947 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1948
581d7bee 1949TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1950 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1951 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1952
1953TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1954 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1955 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1956 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1957
237b2cf2
TL
1958TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1959
9fc5a352
TL
1960TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1961 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1962 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1963
b10e4ec2
TL
1964TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1965
e2cebd74
TL
1966TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1967 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1968 interaction.
1969
1970TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1971 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1972
2519e60d
TL
1973TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1974 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1975
e78e6ecf 1976
4263f395
PP
1977Exim version 4.80.1
1978-------------------
1979
1980PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1981 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1982 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1983
ea722490 1984
b1770b6e 1985Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1986-----------------
1987
1988PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1989 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1990 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1991
23c7e742
NM
1992NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1993
b322aac8
NM
1994NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1995 improved.
1996
4a891427
NM
1997NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1998
c1e794ba 1999PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 2000
97753960
PP
2001PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2002
2003PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2004 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2005
df6303fa
PP
2006PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2007 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2008
7e6a8985
PP
2009PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2010 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2011
f1e05cc7 2012PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
2013 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2014 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 2015
4c287009
PP
2016PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2017
b98bb9ac
PP
2018PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2019 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2020
4a6a987a
PP
2021PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2022
c45dd180 2023PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 2024
7db8d074
PP
2025PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2026 non-compliant senders.
2027 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2028
eae0036b 2029NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 2030 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
2031 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2032
dec5017e
PP
2033PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2034 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2035 in spool file corruption.
2036
c80c5570
PP
2037PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2038 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2039 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2040 "Got SSL error 2".
2041
076b11e2
PP
2042TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2043 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2044 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2045
5407bfff
JH
2046JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2047 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2048
9e45c72b
PP
2049JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2050
e74376d8
PP
2051PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2052 diagnostics.
2053 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2054
4c04137d 2055PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
2056 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2057 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2058
7be682ca
PP
2059PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2060 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
2061 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2062 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 2063
ef840681
PP
2064PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2065 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2066
5bfb4cdf
PP
2067PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2068 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2069 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2070 resolver implementation change.
2071
c6e95d22
PP
2072PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2073 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2074
9cbad13b
PP
2075PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2076
9ee44efb
PP
2077PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2078
6a6084f8
PP
2079PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2080 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2081
12dd53c7
PP
2082PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2083 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2084
9e45c72b 2085JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
2086 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2087
17c76198
PP
2088PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2089 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2090 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2091 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 2092 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 2093
53947857 2094PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 2095
eae0036b 2096PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
2097 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2098 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 2099
9e45c72b 2100JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 2101
7390e768
PP
2102PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2103 read-only, out of scope).
2104 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2105
08488c86
PP
2106PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2107 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2108 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2109 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2110
6475bd82
PP
2111PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2112
81f91683
PP
2113PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2114 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2115 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2116 real issues in debug logging.
2117
5779e6aa
PP
2118PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2119 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2120
3375e053
PP
2121PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2122 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2123 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2124
2125PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2126 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2127 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2128 problems.
3375e053 2129
9d26b8c0
PP
2130PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2131 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2132
57eb9e91 2133PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2134 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2135 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2136 needs to override this, it can.
2137
16880d1a
PP
2138PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2139 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2140 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2141
a799883d
PP
2142PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2143 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2144 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2145 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2146
3ecab157 2147PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2148
0599f9cf 2149
867fcbf5
PP
2150Exim version 4.77
2151-----------------
2152
2153PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2154 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2155
f1a29782
TF
2156TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2157
ab42bd23
TK
2158TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2159 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2160
0ca0cf52
TF
2161TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2162 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2163
921b12ca
TF
2164TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2165 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2166 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2167
2168 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2169 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2170 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2171 not safe for signals.
2172
2173 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2174 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2175 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2176 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2177 exiwhat.
2178
c99ce5c9
TF
2179TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2180
2181 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2182 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2183 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2184 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2185 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2186
2187 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2188 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2189 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2190 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2191 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2192 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2193
2194 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2195 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2196 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2197 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2198
2199 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2200 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2201 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2202 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2203
2204 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2205 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2206 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2207 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2208 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2209 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2210 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2211 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2212 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2213
2214 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2215 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2216 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2217 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2218
2219 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2220 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2221 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2222 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2223 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2224 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2225 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2226 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2227 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2228 details in the main documentation.
2229
3634fc25
TF
2230TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2231
792e8a19
TF
2232TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2233
5901f0ab
TF
2234TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2235 repository when doing development or release builds.
2236
7f2a2a43
PP
2237PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2238 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2239
061b7ebd
PP
2240PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2241 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2242 Bugzilla 97.
2243
e12f8c32
PP
2244PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2245
9e949f00 2246PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2247 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2248
2249PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2250 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2251
555ae6af 2252PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2253 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2254
2255PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2256 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2257
6f7fe114
PP
2258PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2259 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2260
c566dd90
PP
2261PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2262 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2263 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2264 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2265
d6cc7c78 2266PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2267 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2268 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2269
0d0e4455
PP
2270PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2271
3399bb60 2272PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2273
2274PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2275 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2276
0ca0cf52 2277
10906672
PP
2278Exim version 4.76
2279-----------------
2280
2281PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2282
754a0503
PP
2283PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2284 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2285
c0c7b2da
PP
2286PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2287
e97d1f08
PP
2288PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2289
084c1d8c
PP
2290PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2291 Bugzilla 1098.
2292
4e7ee012
PP
2293PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2294 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2295
c8d52a00
PP
2296TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2297 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2298
54e7ce4a
PP
2299PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2300 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2301
5ee6f336
PP
2302PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2303 Bugzilla 1104.
2304
c8d52a00 2305TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2306 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2307
2308TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2309 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2310 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2311 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2312
2313PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2314 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2315
10906672 2316
aa097c4c
NM
2317Exim version 4.75
2318-----------------
2319
4c04137d 2320NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2321 Bugzilla 1073
2322
7f3d9eff
TF
2323TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2324 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2325 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2326
159f52d2
TF
2327TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2328 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2329
0cc9542a
PP
2330PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2331 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2332 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2333
f7274286
PP
2334PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2335 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2336
7b797365
PP
2337PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2338 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2339
caacae52
NM
2340NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2341 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2342
09dcaba9
NM
2343NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2344 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2345
bc19a55b
PP
2346PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2347 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2348
bd4c9759
NM
2349NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2350 Fixes bug 943.
2351
b72aab72
PP
2352PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2353 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2354
2fe76745
PP
2355PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2356 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2357
76aa570c
PP
2358PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2359 SQL string expansion failure details.
2360 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2361
f1e5fef5
PP
2362PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2363 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2364
4d805ee9
PP
2365PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2366 extern declarations in function scope.
2367 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2368
cd59ab18
PP
2369PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2370 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2371 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2372 a kernel bug).
2373
332f5cf3
PP
2374PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2375 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2376
29cfeb94
PP
2377PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2378 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2379
660242ad
PP
2380PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2381 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2382
bc4bc4c5
PP
2383PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2384 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2385
2e64baa9
NM
2386NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2387 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2388 Dennis Davis.
2389
4c04137d 2390PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2391
6bac1a9a
PP
2392PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2393
552193f0
NM
2394NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2395 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2396
1b587e48
TF
2397TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2398 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2399
aa097c4c 2400
8c07b69f
TF
2401Exim version 4.74
2402-----------------
2403
2404TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2405 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2406
c0ea85ab
TF
2407TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2408 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2409
0761d44e
TF
2410TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2411
0a349494
PP
2412DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2413 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2414 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2415
2416PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2417 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2418 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2419
fea24b2e
PP
2420PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2421 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2422 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2423 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2424
6545de78
PP
2425PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2426 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2427 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2428 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2429
1670ef10
PP
2430PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2431 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2432 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2433 arbitrary files.
2434
c0886197
PP
2435PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2436 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2437
b7487bce
PP
2438PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2439 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2440 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2441 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2442 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2443
8c07b69f 2444
97fd1e48 2445Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2446-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2447
2448PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2449 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2450 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2451
6901c596
PP
2452PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2453 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2454
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2455JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2456
77bb000f
PP
2457PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2458
a29e5231
PP
2459PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2460
ec5a0394 2461PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2462
55c75993
PP
2463PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2464
453a6645 2465PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2466 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2467 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2468 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2469
8544e77a
PP
2470PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2471 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2472 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2473 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2474 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2475
83e029d5
PP
2476PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2477
ed7f7860
PP
2478PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2479
7d9f747b
PP
2480PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2481
4b2241d2
PP
2482PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2483
10385c15
PP
2484PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2485
dbc4b90d
PP
2486PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2487
532be449
PP
2488PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2489
6a8de854 2490PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2491 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2492 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2493
5dc43717
JJ
2494JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2495
2496JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2497 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2498
3346ab01
PP
2499PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2500 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2501
491fab4c
PP
2502PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2503 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2504 Notification from John Horne.
2505
13eb9497
PP
2506PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2507 compatible.
2508
2509PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2510 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2511 it normally works.
2512
7f36d675
DW
2513DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2514 access.
2515
c1d94452
DW
2516DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2517 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2518 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2519
e2f5dc15
DW
2520DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2521 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2522 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2523 configuration file.
2524
cd25e41d
DW
2525DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2526 option (effectively making it always true).
2527
261dc43e
DW
2528DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2529 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2530
fa32850b
DW
2531DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2532 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2533
79d4bc3d
PP
2534PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2535 run-time user, instead of root.
2536
43236f35 2537PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2538 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2539
fb08281f
DW
2540DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2541 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2542 arguments.
3346ab01 2543
74935b98
DW
2544DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2545 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2546 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2547
90b6341f
DW
2548DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2549
57730b52
ML
2550NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2551
66581d1e 2552
465e92cf
JJ
2553Exim version 4.72
2554-----------------
2555
453a6645
PP
2556JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2557 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2558 typos
465e92cf 2559
453a6645
PP
2560JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2561 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2562 (Finput)
edae0343 2563
9bd3e22c
NM
2564NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2565 Patch from Alain Williams
2566
bb576ff7
NM
2567NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2568
5a1a5845
NM
2569NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2570 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2571
981a9fad
NM
2572NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2573 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2574
7fc497ee
NM
2575NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2576
1a41defa
JJ
2577JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2578
a466095c 2579NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2580 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2581
94a6bd0b
NM
2582TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2583
2584TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2585
2586MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2587 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2588 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2589
c1b141a8
NM
2590NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2591 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2592
b26eacf1 2593NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2594 Patch by Simon Arlott
2595
179c5980 2596PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2597 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2598
9bd3e22c 2599
7c6d71af
NM
2600Exim version 4.71
2601-----------------
2602
7d9f747b 2603TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2604
f013fb92
NM
2605NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2606
0eb8eedd
NM
2607NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2608
663ee6d9
NM
2609NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2610
177ebd9b
NM
2611NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2612
7c6d71af 2613
210f147e
NM
2614Exim version 4.70
2615-----------------
2616
cdd3bb85 2617TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2618 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2619
2620TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2621 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2622 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2623
2624TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2625 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2626 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2627
2628TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2629 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2630
210f147e
NM
2631NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2632 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2633 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2634 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2635
deafd5b3
NM
2636NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2637 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2638 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2639
089793a4
TF
2640TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2641
5f16ca82
TF
2642TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2643
dae9d94e 2644NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2645 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2646
7d9f747b 2647NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2648
06864c44
TF
2649TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2650 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2651 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2652 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2653
65a7d8c3 2654NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2655 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2656
23510047 2657TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2658
7d9f747b 2659NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2660
7d8eec3a 2661NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2662 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2663
89dec7b6
TF
2664TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2665 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2666
a99de90c
TF
2667TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2668 that they are available at delivery time.
2669
e2803e40
TF
2670TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2671
7199e1ee
TF
2672TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2673 incoming_port log selectors.
2674
e276e04b
TF
2675TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2676 setting expands to an empty string.
2677
ce552449 2678NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2679 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2680
e765a0f1 2681NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2682 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2683
4f054c63 2684NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2685 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2686
7d9f747b
PP
2687NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2688 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2689
7d9f747b
PP
2690NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2691 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2692
b52bc06e 2693NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2694 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2695
447de4b0
NM
2696NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2697
4c69d561 2698NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2699 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2700
d5c39246 2701NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2702 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2703
0b23848a
TK
2704TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2705
8f3414a1 2706NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2707 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2708
fb6f955d
NM
2709NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2710
2711NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2712
7d9f747b
PP
2713NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2714 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2715
7d9f747b
PP
2716NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2717 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2718
7d9f747b
PP
2719NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2720 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2721
7d9f747b
PP
2722NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2723 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2724
7d9f747b
PP
2725NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2726 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2727
7d9f747b
PP
2728NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2729 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2730
7d9f747b
PP
2731NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2732 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2733
7d9f747b 2734NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2735 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2736
7d9f747b 2737NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2738
7d9f747b
PP
2739NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2740 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2741
7d9f747b 2742NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2743
7d9f747b 2744NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2745
7d9f747b 2746NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2747
7d9f747b 2748NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2749
17792b53 2750NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2751 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2752
7d9f747b
PP
2753NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2754 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2755
91576cec 2756NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2757 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2758
7d9f747b
PP
2759NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2760 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2761
7d9f747b 2762NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2763
7d9f747b 2764NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2765
7d9f747b 2766NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2767
7d9f747b 2768NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2769
deafd5b3 2770
47db1125
NM
2771Exim version 4.69
2772-----------------
2773
4b3504d0
TK
2774TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2775 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2776 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2777
2778 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2779 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2780 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2781 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2782 build errors in sieve.c.
2783
81ea09ca
NM
2784NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2785 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2786 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2787
f13cddcb
SC
2788SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2789
7d9f747b 2790NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2791
7d9f747b 2792NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2793
7d9f747b 2794NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2795
2796
eb4c0de6
PH
2797Exim version 4.68
2798-----------------
2799
2800PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2801
6a3bceb1
PH
2802PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2803 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2804 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2805 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2806 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2807 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2808 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2809 for iplsearch lookups.
2810
2811 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2812 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2813 previously such lookups could never work.
2814
4c04137d 2815 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2816 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2817 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2818
2e30fa9d
TK
2819TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2820 version.
2821
0806a9c5
MH
2822MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2823 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2824 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2825 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2826 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2827 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2828
ae276964
TK
2829TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2830 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2831
0f2cbd1b
MH
2832MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2833 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2834 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2835 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2836 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2837 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2838
2b85bce7
PH
2839PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2840 local_scan API.
2841
93655c46
PH
2842PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2843
6c512171
PH
2844PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2845 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2846 encrypted.
2847
2848PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2849 by clients under certain conditions.
2850
aa6dc513
PH
2851PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2852 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2853
a96603a0
PH
2854PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2855
8f240103
PH
2856PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2857 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2858
2859PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2860
d677b2f2
PH
2861PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2862
d52120f2
PH
2863PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2864
64f2600a
PH
2865PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2866 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2867
8669f003
PH
2868PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2869
a4dc33a8
PH
2870PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2871 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2872
d6a60c0f
PH
2873PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2874
8f128379
PH
2875PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2876
8932dffe
PH
2877PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2878 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2879 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2880 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2881
ddea74fa 2882PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2883 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2884 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2885
ddea74fa 2886PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2887 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2888
ddea74fa
PH
2889PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2890
ce9f225c
PH
2891PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2892
19897d52
PH
2893PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2894
bc64a74d
PH
2895PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2896 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2897 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2898
eb4c0de6 2899
b4ed4da0
PH
2900Exim version 4.67
2901-----------------
2902
22ad45c9
MH
2903MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2904 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2905 Jan Srzednicki.
2906
b4ed4da0
PH
2907PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2908 issue a MAIL command.
2909
431b7361
PH
2910PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2911
2912 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2913
2914 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2915 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2916 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2917 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2918 item. This has been fixed.
2919
2920PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2921 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2922
83da1223
PH
2923PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2924 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2925
54fc8428
PH
2926PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2927 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2928 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2929
34c5e8dd
SC
2930SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2931
bbe15da8
PH
2932PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2933 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2934 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2935 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2936 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2937
0e8a9471
MH
2938MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2939 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2940 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2941
f0872424
PH
2942PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2943 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2944 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2945 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2946
b01dd148
PH
2947PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2948
6bf342e1
PH
2949PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2950
273f34d0
PH
2951PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2952 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2953 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2954 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2955 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2956
cf8b11a5
PH
2957PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2958
41c7c167
PH
2959PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2960 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2961 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2962 values).
2963
9c57cbc0
PH
2964PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2965
f3f065bb
PH
2966PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2967
047bdd8c
PH
2968PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2969
0ce9abe6
PH
2970PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2971
0e22dfd1
PH
2972PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2973
4c590bd1
PH
2974PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2975 no_callout_flush is set.
2976
09945f1e
PH
2977PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2978 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2979 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2980 fixed.
2981
c51b8e75
PH
2982PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2983
e28326d8 2984PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2985 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2986 other ACL rejections are.
2987
75b1493f
PH
2988PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2989 with slight modification.
2990
7c5214ec
PH
2991PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2992 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2993
4311097e
PH
2994PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2995 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2996 connection.
2997
29f89cad
PH
2998PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2999 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3000
5e687460
SC
3001SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3002
c3611384
PH
3003PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3004 expansion side effects.
3005
5a11a7b4
PH
3006PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3007 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3008 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3009 be the same.
3010
0e20aff9
MH
3011MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3012 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3013 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3014
ca86f471
PH
3015PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3016 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3017 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3018 were accidentally chopped off.
3019
a14e5636
PH
3020PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3021 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3022 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3023 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3024 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3025 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3026 pipelining has not been advertised.
3027
ec95d1a6
PH
3028PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3029
42855d71
PH
3030PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3031 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3032 This has been fixed.
3033
57c2c631
PH
3034PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3035 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3036 reported on Solaris.
3037
58c01c94
PH
3038PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3039 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3040 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3041 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3042 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3043 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3044 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3045
dee5a20a
PH
3046PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3047 cpus.
3048
d2ee6114
PH
3049PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3050
b2d5182b
PH
3051PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3052
79749a79
PH
3053PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3054 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
3055 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3056 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3057 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3058 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 3059
c456d9bb
PH
3060PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3061 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3062 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3063 host_all_ignored option.
3064
cd9868ec
PH
3065PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3066 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3067 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3068 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3069 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3070 is what is supposed to happen).
3071
ebeaf996
PH
3072PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3073 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3074 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3075 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3076 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3077 uses the Exim user.
3078
2679d413
PH
3079PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3080 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3081 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3082 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3083 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3084 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3085 users.
3086
84024b72
PH
3087PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3088
8005d38e
SC
3089SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3090 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3091 (Jez Hancock).
3092 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3093 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3094
3298c6c6
SC
3095SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3096
a43a27c5
PH
3097PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3098
58eb016e 3099PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
3100 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3101 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3102 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3103 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3104 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3105 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3106 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3107 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3108 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3109 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3110
b43a74ea
PH
3111PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3112 advertised in response to EHLO.
3113
b4ed4da0 3114
5dd1517f
PH
3115Exim version 4.66
3116-----------------
3117
3118PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3119 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3120
3121 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3122 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3123
3124 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3125 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3126 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3127
3128 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3129 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3130 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3131 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3132 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3133
3134
93cfa765
TK
3135Exim version 4.65
3136-----------------
3137
3138TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3139 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3140 versions. (#438)
3141
d6066548
MH
3142MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3143 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3144 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3145
4362ff0d
PH
3146PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3147 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3148 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3149 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3150 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3151 rather than extend the field.
3152
93cfa765 3153
944e9e9c
TF
3154Exim version 4.64
3155-----------------
aa41d2de 3156
21d74bd9
TK
3157TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3158 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3159 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3160 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3161 these files.
3162
3163TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3164 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3165 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3166
3167TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3168 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3169 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3170
3171TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3172 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3173 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3174 in the field name.
3175
2b1c6e3a
PH
3176PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3177 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3178 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3179 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3180 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3181 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3182 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3183 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3184 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3185 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3186 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3187
1f872c80
PH
3188PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3189 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3190
3191PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3192 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3193 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3194 ignores EPIPE as well.
3195
d203e649
PH
3196PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3197 (quoted-printable decoding).
3198
cc2ed8f7 3199PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3200 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3201
ddfcd446
PH
3202PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3203
d45b1de8
PH
3204PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3205
3206PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3207
38a0a95f 3208PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3209 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3210
a2405d83
JJ
3211JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3212 in 4.64-PH/09.
3213
3214JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3215 miscellaneous code fixes
3216
6ea85e9a
PH
3217PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3218 rejections.
3219
26da7e20
PH
3220PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3221 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3222 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3223 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3224 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3225 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3226 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3227 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3228
14aa5a05 3229PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3230 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3231 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3232 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3233 function.
3234 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3235 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3236 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3237 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3238 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3239 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3240 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3241 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3242 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3243
ff75a1f7
PH
3244PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3245 decoding.
3246
e6f6568e
PH
3247PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3248 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3249 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3250 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3251 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3252 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3253 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3254 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3255
d6f6e0dc
PH
3256PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3257 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3258 list.
3259
322050c2
PH
3260PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3261 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3262 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3263 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3264 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3265 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3266 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3267 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3268 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3269 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3270 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3271 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3272 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3273
08955dd3
PH
3274PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3275 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3276 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3277 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3278 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3279 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3280 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3281
1eccaa59
PH
3282PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3283 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3284 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3285 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3286 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3287 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3288 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3289 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3290 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3291 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3292
602e59e5
PH
3293PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3294 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3295 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3296 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3297 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3298
411ef850
PH
3299PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3300 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3301 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3302 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3303 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3304 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3305 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3306
7befa435
PH
3307PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3308 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3309 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3310 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3311 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3312 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3313 been verified.
3314
48da4259 3315PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3316 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3317 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3318 and authorization.)
3319
48da4259
PH
3320PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3321 if any retry times were supplied.
3322
d1d5595c
PH
3323PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3324 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3325 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3326
0ef732d9
PH
3327PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3328
328895cc
PH
3329PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3330
fd700877
PH
3331PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3332 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3333 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3334 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3335 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3336 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3337
8dce1a6f
PH
3338PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3339 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3340
17af4a17
PH
3341PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3342 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3343 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3344
3345PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3346 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3347 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3348 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3349 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3350 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3351 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3352 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3353 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3354
3355 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3356 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3357 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3358 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3359 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3360 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3361 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3362 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3363 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3364
3365 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3366 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3367 hammering the server.
3368
c1114884
PH
3369PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3370 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3371
7a0743eb
PH
3372PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3373
0d85fa3f
PH
3374PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3375 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3376 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3377
1bf43b78
PH
3378PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3379 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3380 one case where this was not true.
3381
520de300
PH
3382PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3383 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3384 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3385 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3386 fails.
3387
48c7f9e2
PH
3388PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3389 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3390 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3391 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3392 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3393 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3394 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3395 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3396 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3397 smtp transport.
3398
99ea1c86
PH
3399PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3400 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3401 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3402 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3403
a2042e78
PH
3404PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3405 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3406
4fbcfc2e
PH
3407PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3408 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3409 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3410
aa41d2de
PH
3411PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3412
af561417
PH
3413PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3414
3cc66b45
PH
3415PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3416
194cc0e4
PH
3417PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3418 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3419 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3420 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3421
a401ddaa
PH
3422PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3423 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3424
4e88a19f
PH
3425PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3426 be meaningful with "accept".
3427
d7d7b289
SC
3428SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3429 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3430
3431SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3432 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3433 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3434
3435SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3436 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3437 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3438 there is data to show.
3439 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3440
3441SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3442 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3443 as well as the number of messages.
3444
3445SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3446 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3447 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3448
3449SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3450 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3451 have a flag are now skipped.
3452
3453SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3454 Added the -emptyok flag.
3455
3456SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3457 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3458
0ea2a468
JJ
3459JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3460 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3461 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3462
3463JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3464 match 4.64-PH/13
3465
3466JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3467 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3468
3469JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3470
3471JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3472 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3473
8a10f5a4
PH
3474PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3475
30e18802
PH
3476PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3477 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3478 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3479 contravention of the specifications.
3480
55728a4f
PH
3481PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3482 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3483 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3484
d7837193
PH
3485PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3486 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3487 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3488
87054a31
PH
3489PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3490
ea2c01d2
MH
3491MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3492 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3493 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3494 some point in the past.
3495
e4fa6968
PH
3496PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3497 transport during callout processing was broken.
3498
56f5d9bd
PH
3499PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3500 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3501
922e1c28
PH
3502PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3503 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3504
21eb6e72
PH
3505PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3506 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3507
a0540757
PH
3508PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3509
944e9e9c 3510
478be7b0
SC
3511Exim version 4.63
3512-----------------
3513
3514SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3515 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3516
3517SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3518 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3519 there is data to show.
3520 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3521
3522SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3523 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3524
2b965a65
TF
3525TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3526 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3527
45b91596
PH
3528TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3529 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3530
c59f5781
TF
3531TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3532 submissions from trusted users.
3533
90fc3069
TF
3534TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3535 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3536
6083aca0
TF
3537TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3538 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3539 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3540 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3541 there is now a framework to start from.
3542
765b530f
PH
3543PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3544 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3545 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3546
4e167a8c
PH
3547PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3548
4608d683
PH
3549PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3550
b8dc3e4a
PH
3551PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3552
5418e93b
PH
3553PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3554 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3555 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3556
b4a9bda2
PH
3557PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3558 libradius.
3559
45b91596
PH
3560PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3561 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3562 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3563
5547e2c5
PH
3564PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3565 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3566 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3567 its arguments.
3568
dbcef0ea
PH
3569PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3570 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3571 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3572 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3573 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3574
25257489
PH
3575PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3576 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3577
c816d124
PH
3578PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3579
a9ccd69a
PH
3580PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3581 operations in malware.c.
3582
75fa1910
PH
3583PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3584 signatures.
3585
a7d7aa58
PH
3586PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3587 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3588 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3589 all.
3590
42119b09
PH
3591PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3592 statements to "add_header".
3593
41609df5
PH
3594PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3595 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3596
a5bd321b
PH
3597PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3598 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3599 latter.
3600
e85a7ad5 3601PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3602 so that it is now:
3603
e85a7ad5
PH
3604 ${if or { \
3605 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3606 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3607 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3608 }{no}{yes}}
3609
e85a7ad5
PH
3610 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3611 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3612
d8fe1c03
PH
3613PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3614 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3615
16282d2b
PH
3616PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3617 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3618 any possible encoding problems.
3619
35d40a98
PH
3620PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3621 but not after initializing Perl.
3622
034d99ab
PH
3623PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3624 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3625 apparently, which is not desirable.
3626
6ec97b1b
PH
3627PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3628 queries.
3629
e22ca4ac
JJ
3630JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3631 --not options
3632
3633JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3634
33d73e3b
PH
3635PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3636 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3637 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3638 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3639
9ecb03f3
PH
3640PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3641 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3642 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3643
084efe8d
PH
3644PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3645 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3646 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3647 0.12.
3648
366fc9f0
PH
3649PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3650 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3651 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3652 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3653 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3654
c59f5781 3655
c887c79e
TF
3656Exim version 4.62
3657-----------------
3658
3659TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3660 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3661
1cce3af8
PH
3662PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3663 patch).
3664
afb3eaaf
PH
3665PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3666 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3667 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3668 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3669 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3670 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3671 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3672 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3673 451 error is used.
3674
e173618b
PH
3675PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3676
dd16e114
PH
3677PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3678 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3679 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3680
f7fd3850
PH
3681PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3682 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3683 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3684 odd errors.
3685
d87df92c
PH
3686PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3687 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3688
7e9f683d
PH
3689PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3690 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3691 option (which defaults to 0600).
3692
bfad5236
PH
3693PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3694
01c490df
PH
3695PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3696 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3697 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3698 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3699 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3700 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3701 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3702
d6629cdc
PH
3703PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3704
1cce3af8 3705
214e2000
PH
3706Exim version 4.61
3707-----------------
3708
3709PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3710 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3711 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3712 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3713 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3714 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3715 addresses as local.
3716
f9daeae0
PH
3717PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3718 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3719
7e66e54d
PH
3720PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3721
c8ea1597
PH
3722PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3723 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3724 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3725 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3726 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3727 grumble.
3728
911f6fde
PH
3729PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3730 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3731
47ca6d6c
PH
3732PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3733 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3734 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3735 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3736 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3737
ed0e9820
PH
3738PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3739 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3740 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3741 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3742
eff37e47
PH
3743PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3744 be the same on different OS.
3745
1921d2ea
PH
3746PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3747 testing.
3748
b3f69ca8
JJ
3749JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3750 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3751
3752JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3753 in 4.61-PH/06
3754
424a1c63
PH
3755PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3756 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3757 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3758 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3759 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3760 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3761 bounce message.
3762
7a100415
PH
3763PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3764 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3765 when Exim was called.
3766
19b9dc85
PH
3767PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3768 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3769
309bd837
PH
3770PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3771 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3772 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3773 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3774
59e82a2a
PH
3775PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3776 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3777 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3778 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3779 changes:
3780
3781 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3782 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3783 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3784
3785 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3786 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3787 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3788
9edc04ce
PH
3789PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3790 feature).
3791
1349e1e5
PH
3792PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3793 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3794 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3795 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3796 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3797 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3798 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3799 values from the SRV records were lost.
3800
ea49d0e1
PH
3801PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3802 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3803 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3804
064a94c9
PH
3805PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3806 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3807 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3808
727071f8
PH
3809PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3810 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3811 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3812 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3813 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3814 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3815 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3816 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3817 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3818 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3819
f78eb7c6
PH
3820PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3821 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3822 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3823
21c28500
PH
3824PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3825 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3826
3827PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3828 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3829 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3830 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3831 is given.
3832
1688f43b
PH
3833PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3834 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3835 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3836
3837PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3838 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3839 PH/23 above applies.
3840
9675b384
PH
3841PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3842 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3843 (for which there is an explicit test).
3844
6a3f1455
PH
3845PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3846
dac79d3e
PH
3847PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3848 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3849 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3850 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3851 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3852
5977a0b3
PH
3853PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3854 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3855 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3856 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3857
c91535f3
PH
3858PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3859 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3860 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3861
0d46a8c8
PH
3862PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3863
278c6e6c
PH
3864PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3865
2cbb4081
PH
3866PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3867 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3868 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3869
3eef829e
PH
3870PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3871 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3872 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3873 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3874 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3875
1ab95fa6
PH
3876PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3877 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3878 the message gets confusing).
3879
230205fc
PH
3880PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3881 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3882 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3883 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3884
75e0e026
PH
3885PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3886 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3887 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3888 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3889 same order.
3890
3891PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3892 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3893 the different processes.
3894
145396a6
PH
3895PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3896
3cd34f13
PH
3897PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3898
11121d3d
JJ
3899JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3900 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3901
3902JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3903 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3904
3905JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3906 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3907 messages matching specified criteria.
3908
8def5aaf
PH
3909PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3910
929ba01c
PH
3911PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3912 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3913
2632889e
PH
3914PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3915 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3916 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3917 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3918 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3919 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3920 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3921 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3922 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3923 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3924
944a9c55
PH
3925PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3926 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3927 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3928
4a23603b
PH
3929PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3930
4730f942
PH
3931PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3932 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3933 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3934 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3935 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3936 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3937 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3938 the variable.
3939
30dba1e6
PH
3940PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3941 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3942
382afc6b
PH
3943PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3944
a86229cf
PH
3945PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3946
50c99ba6
PH
3947PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3948
d35e429d
PH
3949PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3950 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3951 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3952 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3953 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3954 size of the count of files.
3955
f90d018c
PH
3956PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3957
75def545
PH
3958PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3959 used in LMTP mode:
3960
3961 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3962 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3963 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3964 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3965
3966 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3967 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3968 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3969
3970PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3971 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3972 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3973 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3974 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3975
c46782ef
PH
3976PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3977 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3978
71fafd95
PH
3979PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3980 will now be deprecated.
3981
2c5db4fd
PH
3982PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3983
9cf6b11a
JJ
3984JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3985 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3986 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3987
3988JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3989 with very large, slow to parse queues
3990
3991JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3992
3993JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3994
898d150f
PH
3995PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3996 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3997 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3998 SMTP output lines.
3999
46218253
PH
4000PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4001 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4002 Sieve code now uses this.
4003
e97957bc
PH
4004PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4005 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4006
81e509d7
PH
4007PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4008 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4009
3d240ff7
PH
4010PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4011
b37c4101
PH
4012PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4013 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4014 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4015 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4016 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4017
79378e0f
PH
4018PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4019 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4020 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4021 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4022
e49c7bb4
PH
4023PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4024
d114ec46
PH
4025PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4026
f3d7df6c
PH
4027PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4028 is preferred over IPv4.
4029
715ab376
PH
4030PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4031 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4032 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4033 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4034 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4035 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4036 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4037
6b31b150
PH
4038PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4039 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4040 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4041
4042PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4043
d515a917
PH
4044PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4045 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4046 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4047 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4048 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4049 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4050 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4051 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4052 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4053 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4054 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4055
9b8fadde
PH
4056PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4057 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4058 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4059
214e2000 4060
5de37277
PH
4061Exim version 4.60
4062-----------------
4063
cc38ddbf
PH
4064PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4065
4066 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4067 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4068
4069 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4070 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4071 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 4072
72fdd6ae
PH
4073PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4074
4075 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4076 not a single digit.
4077
4078 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4079 string.
4080
4081 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4082 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4083 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4084 silly things.
4085
4086 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4087 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4088
4089 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4090 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 4091
cb741023
PH
4092PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4093 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4094 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4095
f174f16e
PH
4096PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4097 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 4098
c25242d7
PH
4099PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4100 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4101
4102 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4103
4104 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4105 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4106 this:
4107
4108 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4109
82c19f95
PH
4110PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4111 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4112 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4113 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4114 identical. For example:
4115
4116 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4117
4118 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4119 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4120 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4121
d7ffbc12
PH
4122PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4123 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4124 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4125 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4126
9f526266
PH
4127PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4128 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4129 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4130 message.
4131
87fcc8b9
PH
4132PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4133
4134 o fixes some comments
4135 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4136 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4137 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4138 and documents the missing references header update
4139
4140 and most important:
4141
4142 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4143 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4144 result)
4145
456682f5
PH
4146PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4147 Electronic Mail") by including:
4148
4149 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4150
4151 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4152 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4153 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4154 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4155 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4156
4157 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4158
4159 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4160
4161 The auto-replied keyword:
4162
4163 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4164 message by an automatic process,
4165
4166 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4167
4168 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4169 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4170
4171 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4172 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4173 other messages.
4174
3e46c1aa
PH
4175PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4176 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4177
49826d12
PH
4178PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4179
eba0c039
PH
4180PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4181 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4182 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4183
a0d6ba8a
PH
4184PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4185 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4186 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4187
f0917727
PH
4188PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4189 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4190 and treats the condition as false.
4191
096fee00
PH
4192PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4193
024bd3c2
PH
4194PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4195 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4196 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4197 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4198 not changing the active code.
4199
4200 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4201 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4202
4203 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4204 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4205
df199fec
PH
4206PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4207 (Bugzilla #53).
4208
d27f1df3
PH
4209PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4210 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4211 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4212 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4213 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4214 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4215 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4216 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4217 the text comparison.
4218
96776534
PH
4219PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4220 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4221 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4222 The same fix has been applied.
4223
5de37277 4224
9a799bc0
PH
4225Exim version 4.54
4226-----------------
4227
4228PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4229 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4230 It now does.
4231
99a4b039
PH
4232PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4233 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4234
4235PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4236
4b233853
PH
4237PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4238 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4239 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4240 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4241 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4242
8857ccfd
PH
4243TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4244 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4245 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4246 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4247 or /domain=).
4248
433a2980
PH
4249PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4250 testing suite.
4251
3e46c1aa 4252
9a799bc0 4253
e3a311ba
TK
4254Exim version 4.53
4255-----------------
4256
4257TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4258 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4259
13b685f9
PH
4260PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4261
395ff96d
PH
4262PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4263
5b68f6e4
PH
4264PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4265 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4266 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4267
1ab52c69
PH
4268PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4269 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4270 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4271
b07e6aa3
PH
4272PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4273 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4274 operating systems.
4275
254e032f
PH
4276PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4277 ${stat: expansion item.
4278
3af76a81
PH
4279PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4280 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4281
2548ba04
PH
4282PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4283 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4284 file for comments.
4285
b6c6011d
PH
4286PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4287
cf39cf57
PH
4288PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4289 setting.
4290
f1513293
PH
4291PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4292 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4293
727549a4
PH
4294TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4295
af46795e
PH
4296PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4297 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4298 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4299 the end of the subprocess.
4300
d7b47fd0
PH
4301PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4302 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4303 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4304 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4305 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4306
ee744174
JJ
4307JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4308
b582ab87
PH
4309TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4310
41a13e0a
PH
4311PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4312 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4313
f625cc5a
PH
4314PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4315
4316PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4317
21f7af35
PH
4318PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4319 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4320 HP-UX compiler.
4321
31480e42
PH
4322PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4323
2d280592
PH
4324PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4325 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4326 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4327
7cd1141b
PH
4328PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4329 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4330
4331PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4332 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4333
750af86e
PH
4334PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4335 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4336
4337 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4338 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4339
4340 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4341 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4342 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4343 contributed by a Radius user.
4344
4345PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4346 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4347
4304270b
TK
4348TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4349 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4350
750af86e
PH
4351PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4352 available.
4353
64ffc24f
PH
4354PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4355 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4356 received.
4357
5dd9625b
PH
4358PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4359 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4360 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4361 header lines when this was not necessary.
4362
5591031b
PH
4363PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4364
ba18e66a
PH
4365PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4366 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4367 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4368 exists".
4369
9cec981f
PH
4370PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4371 -bV or -d is used.
4372
aa2b5c79
PH
4373PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4374 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4375 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4376 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4377
48a53b7f
PH
4378PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4379
1c59d63b
PH
4380PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4381
671012da
TK
4382TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4383
1509d3a8
PH
4384PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4385
4386PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4387 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4388 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4389 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4390 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4391 settings.
4392
4393PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4394
2fe1a124
PH
4395PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4396 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4397 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4398 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4399 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4400 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4401 which is clearly wrong.
4402
8800895a
PH
4403PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4404
ccfdb010
PH
4405PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4406 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4407 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4408 subsequently added.
4409
1130bfb0
PH
4410PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4411 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4412
ebcb507f
PH
4413PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4414
c35e155c
PH
4415PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4416 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4417
95d1f782
PH
4418PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4419 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4420
fd6de02e
PH
4421PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4422 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4423
58de37c5
PH
4424PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4425 recipients, not senders.
4426
261cf466
TF
4427TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4428 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4429
3ee512ff
PH
4430PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4431
e08c430f
PH
4432PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4433
bef5a11f
PH
4434PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4435 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4436 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4437 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4438
7546de58
TF
4439TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4440
e5d5a95f
TF
4441TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4442 clock is set back in time.
4443
2e88a017
TF
4444TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4445 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4446
a5f65aa4
TF
4447TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4448 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4449
e7726cbf
PH
4450PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4451 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4452 (see PH/47 above).
4453
a7fdad5b
TF
4454TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4455 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4456 header rewrites.
4457
6af56900
PH
4458PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4459 type ("H").
4460
0925ede6
PH
4461PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4462
66afa403
TF
4463TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4464 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4465 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4466
0154e85a
TF
4467TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4468 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4469 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4470 helo verification defer as a failure.
4471
16f12c76
PH
4472PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4473 actual error message.
4474
bbe902f0 4475
e5a9dba6
PH
4476Exim version 4.52
4477-----------------
4478
4479TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4480
22c3b60b
PH
4481PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4482 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4483 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4484 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4485
06a9b4b5
PH
4486TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4487
c1ac6996
PH
4488PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4489 can still be requested.
4490
9c7a242c
PH
4491PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4492 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4493 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4494 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4495
87ba3f5f
PH
4496TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4497 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4498 circumstances, but probably never did.
4499
4500PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4501 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4502 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4503 in the header line.
4504
29aba418
TF
4505TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4506
fe0dab11
TF
4507TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4508 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4509
11d337a4
TK
4510TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4511
4512TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4513
415c8f3b
PH
4514PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4515 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4516 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4517 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4518 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4519 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4520
958541e9
PH
4521PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4522 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4523 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4524 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4525 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4526 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4527
c206415f
TK
4528TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4529 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4530
2a4be8f9
PH
4531PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4532 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4533
1cba11c5
SC
4534SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4535 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4536
4c04137d 4537SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4538
4539SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4540
4541SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4542
4543SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4544
4545SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4546
4547SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4548
1005d00e
TK
4549TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4550
4551TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4552 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4553 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4554
4555TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4556 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4557 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4558 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4559
9b4768fa
PH
4560PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4561 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4562 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4563
4564PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4565 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4566 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4567 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4568
0d7eb84a
PH
4569PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4570 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4571 to be made).
4572
4573PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4574 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4575 should work with maildirs and everything.
4576
40727bee
TK
4577TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4578 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4579
554d2369
TF
4580TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4581 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4582
1f922db1
PH
4583PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4584 function for BDB 4.3.
4585
ef213c3b
PH
4586PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4587
8ac170f3
PH
4588PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4589 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4590 involved.
4591
b1c749bb
PH
4592PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4593 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4594 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4595 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4596 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4597 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4598
4aac9b49
PH
4599PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4600 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4601 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4602 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4603 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4604 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4605 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4606 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4607
294520c8
TK
4608TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4609 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4610 details.
4611
5bd022fe
PH
4612PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4613 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4614
90e9ce59
PH
4615PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4616 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4617 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4618 test. It is now used for both.
4619
5ea81592
PH
4620PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4621 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4622 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4623 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4624 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4625 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4626
c6c2dc1d
PH
4627PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4628 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4629 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4630 string_vformat().
4631
fffffe4c
PH
4632PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4633 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4634 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4635
9a26b6b2
PH
4636PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4637 experimental DomainKeys support:
4638
4639 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4640 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4641 the control was given.
4642
4643 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4644
4aee0225
PH
4645PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4646
32d668a5
PH
4647PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4648
8187c3f3
PH
4649PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4650 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4651 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4652 db.h files).
4653
ff790e47 4654PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4655 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4656 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4657 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4658 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4659 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4660 course.
ff790e47 4661
5417f6d1
PH
4662PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4663 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4664 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4665 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4666 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4667 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4668
59cf8544
PH
4669PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4670 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4671 do -d+all out of habit.
4672
e7ad8a65
PH
4673PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4674 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4675 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4676
ade42478
PH
4677PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4678 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4679 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4680 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4681 record types that Exim uses.
4682
182ad5cf
PH
4683PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4684 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4685 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4686 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4687 non-existent file that was broken.
4688
b0d9fc80
TK
4689TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4690 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4691
4692TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4693 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4694 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4695
4696TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4697
47c7a64a
PH
4698PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4699 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4700 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4701 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4702 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4703 same time.
4704
a388bce4
SC
4705SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4706 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4707 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4708 at a slight CPU cost.
4709
4710SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4711 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4712
4713SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4714 by Marc Sherman.
4715
0793e4ed
SC
4716SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4717
c58b88df
PH
4718PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4719 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4720
e7ad8a65 4721
7982096b
PH
4722Exim version 4.51
4723-----------------
4724
1a46a8c5
PH
4725TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4726 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4727
2f079f46 4728TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4729
4730TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4731
4732PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4733 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4734
4735PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4736 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4737 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4738 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4739 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4740 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4741 file.
4742
4743PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4744 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4745 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4746 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4747 these two options.
4748
4749PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4750 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4751 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4752 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4753 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4754 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4755 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4756 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4757
4758PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4759 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4760
4761PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4762 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4763 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4764 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4765 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4766 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4767
4768PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4769 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4770 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4771 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4772
4773PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4774 Finch).
4775
4776PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4777 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4778
49c2d5ea
PH
4779PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4780 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4781 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4782 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4783 message.
49c2d5ea 4784
bf759a8b
PH
4785PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4786
83364d30
PH
4787PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4788 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4789
7999bbd7
PH
4790PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4791 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4792 to what was transported.)
4793
7dbf77c9
PH
4794TF/01 Added $received_time.
4795
74e0617f
PH
4796PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4797 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4798 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4799 spamd_address settings.
4800
2f079f46
PH
4801PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4802 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4803 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4804 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4805 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4806
8c841523
PH
4807PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4808
7766a4f0
PH
4809PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4810 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4811 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4812 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4813 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4814
8b417f2c
PH
4815PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4816 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4817
901f42cb
PH
4818PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4819 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4820 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4821 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4822 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4823 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4824 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4825 for failure.
4826
f9b9210e
PH
4827PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4828 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4829 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4830 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4831 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4832 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4833 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4834 "input=".
4835
54cdb463
PH
4836PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4837
cf00dad6
PH
4838PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4839 driver and ACL definitions.
4840
acb1b346
PH
4841PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4842 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4843
c5ddb310
PH
4844PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4845 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4846 understands it better than I do:
4847
4848 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4849 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4850
4851 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4852 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4853 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4854 => three warnings about OTP not working
4855 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4856
4857 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4858 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4859 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4860 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4861 for each call.)
4862 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4863 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4864
4865 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4866 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4867 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4868
31619da6
PH
4869PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4870 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4871 specified.
4872
bebaf0fc
PH
4873PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4874 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4875 "Linux".
4876
475fe28a
PH
4877PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4878 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4879 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4880
4881 warn !verify = sender
4882 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4883
4884 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4885 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4886
7e8bec7a
PH
4887PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4888
4889 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4890 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4891
4892 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4893 nomenclature these days.)
4894
e4a89c47
PH
4895PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4896 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4897
5ca2a9a1
PH
4898PH/30 In these circumstances:
4899 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4900 . First host does not offer TLS;
4901 . First host accepts first address;
4902 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4903 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4904 . Second host accepts second address.
4905 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4906 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4907 address.
7e8bec7a 4908
c688b954
PH
4909PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4910 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4911 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4912 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4913 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4914
fed77020
PH
4915PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4916 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4917
7fe1560f
PH
4918PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4919 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4920
ebb6e6d5
PH
4921PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4922 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4923 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4924
9c4e8f60
PH
4925PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4926 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4927 overlooked.
4928
4929PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4930
d7174846
PH
4931PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4932 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4933 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4934 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4935 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4936 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4937 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4938
4939 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4940 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4941 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4942 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4943 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4944
4945 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4946 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4947 routed further.
4948
cfe75fc3
PH
4949PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4950 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4951 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4952 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4953 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4954 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4955
be22d70e
PH
4956PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4957
0612b098
PH
4958PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4959 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4960 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4961 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4962 printable escape sequences.
4963
2e0c1448
PH
4964PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4965 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4966 body only.
4967
447d236c
PH
4968PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4969 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4970 are as follows:
4971
4972 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4973 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4974 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4975 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4976 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4977
4978 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4979 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4980 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4981
d20976dc
PH
4982PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4983
f656d135
PH
4984PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4985 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4986 play with."
4987
2e2a30b4
PH
4988PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4989 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4990 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4991 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4992 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4993 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4994 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4995 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4996 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4997 the log output.
4998
9176e9f0
PH
4999PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5000 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5001 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5002 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5003 "make".
5004
7982096b 5005
bbe902f0
PH
5006A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5007----------------------------------------
5008
5009Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5010changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5011needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5012in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5013that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5014release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5015from 4.43.
5016
5017I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
50184.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5019those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5020historical information.
5021
5022
f7b63901 5023Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
5024-----------------
5025
5fe762f6
PH
5026 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5027
139059f6 5028 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 5029 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 5030
7086e875
PH
5031 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5032 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5033 place.
5034
35af9f61
PH
5035 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5036 filter fails to execute.
5037
b668c215
PH
5038 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5039 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5040 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5041 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5042 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5043
a494b1e1
PH
5044 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5045
5046 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5047 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5048 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5049 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 5050
c5fcb476
PH
5051 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5052 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5053 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5054 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5055 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5056
69358f02
PH
5057 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5058
5be20824
PH
505910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5060
eb2c0248
PH
506111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5062 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5063 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5064 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5065
2a3eea10
PH
506612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5067 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5068 sender verification.
5069
507013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5071 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5072
23c7ff99
PH
507314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5074
4deaf07d
PH
507515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5076 connection timeout.
5077
926e1192
PH
507816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5079 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5080
650edc6f
PH
508117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5082 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5083
2c7db3f5
PH
508418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5085 information about exactly what failed.
5086
3d235903
PH
508719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5088
7c7ad977
PH
508920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5090 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5091 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5092
981756db
PH
509321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5094 It is now set to "smtps".
5095
d4eb88df
PH
509622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5097 ignore_target_hosts.
5098
509923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5100 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5101 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5102 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5103 "[x.x.x.x]".
5104
7d468ab8
PH
510524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5106 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5107 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5108
510925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5110 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5111 wake it up if nothing else does.
5112
62c0818f
PH
511326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5114 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5115 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5116 end up negative.
5117
26034054
PH
511827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5119 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5120
af66f652
PH
512128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5122
90af77f4
PH
512329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5124 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5125 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5126 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5127 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5128 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5129 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5130 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5131
d8ef3577
PH
513230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5133 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5134 than one IP address.
5135
5cb8cbc6
PH
513631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5137 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5138 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5139 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5140
14702f5b
PH
514132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5142 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5143 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5144 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5145 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5146 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5147
063b1e99
PH
514833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5149 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5150 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5151 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5152
652e1b65
PH
515334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5154 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5155 respected.
5156
6f0c9a4f
PH
515735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5158 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5159 $sender_host_address.
5160
33397d19
PH
516136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5162 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5163 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5164 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5165 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5166 very small.
5167
7bb56e1f
PH
516837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5169
5170 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5171 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5172
ea3bc19b
PH
5173 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5174 just the host names, not the priorities.
5175
5176 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5177 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5178 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5179
ea3bc19b 5180 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5181 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5182
0bcb2a0e
PH
518338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5184 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5185 domain.
5186
2ac0e484
PH
518739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5188
4e1fde53
PH
518940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5190 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5191
de365ded
PH
519241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5193 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5194 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5195
f05da2e8
PH
519642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5197
d6453af2
PH
519843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5199
f7b63901
PH
520044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5201
520245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5203 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5204 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5205 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5206 because the tests only now provoked it.
5207
a444213a
PH
520846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5209 (this can affect the format of dates).
5210
0ec020ea
PH
521147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5212 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5213 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5214 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5215
b1206957
PH
521648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5217
521849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5219 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5220 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5221 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5222
26dd5a95
PH
522350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5224 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5225 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5226
343b2385
PH
522751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5228 autoreply.
5229
1c5466b9
PH
523052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5231 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5232 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5233 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5234 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5235 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5236 is going on).
5237
55ee9ee3
PH
523853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5239 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5240 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5241 the line.
5242
d38f8232
PH
524354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5244 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5245 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5246
5247 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5248 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5249 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5250 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5251 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5252 so I produce this patch..."
5253
3295e65b
PH
5254 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5255 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5256 is not defined.
5257
7102e136
PH
525855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5259 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5260 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5261 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5262 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5263
3ca0ba97
PH
526456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5265
c2bcbe20
PH
526657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5267 long debug lines gets shown.
5268
18ce445d
PH
526958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5270 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5271
1f5b4c3d
PH
527259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5273
5274 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5275 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5276 of $primary_hostname.
5277
b975ba52
PH
527860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5279 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5280 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5281 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5282 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5283 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5284 by change 4.50/55 above.
5285
5286 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5287 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5288 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5289 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5290 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5291 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5292 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5293
529461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5295 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5296 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5297 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5298
17ffcae7
PH
529962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5300 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5301
d95f9fdb
PH
530263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5303 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5304 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5305 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5306 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5307
86b8287f
PH
530864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5309 This has been fixed.
5310
60dc5e56
PH
531165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5312 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5313 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5314 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5315 the caching.)
5316
533244af
PH
531766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5318
a5a28604
PH
531967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5320 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5321 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5322 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5323
7e634d24
PH
532468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5325 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5326
3e11c26b
PH
532769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5328 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5329 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5330
6729cf78
PH
533170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5332 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5333 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5334 message there.
5335
00f00ca5
PH
533671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5337 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5338 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5339
c9bdd01c
PH
534072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5341 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5342 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5343 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5344
d43194df
PH
534573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5346 during host lookups.
5347
fe5b5d0b
PH
534874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5349 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5350
5351 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5352
76a2d7ba
PH
535375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5354 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5355 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5356 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5357 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5358 background.
5359
536076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5361 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5362
04f7d5b9
PH
536377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5364 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5365 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5366
bc60667e
PH
536778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5368
bb6e88ff
PH
536979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5370 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5371 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5372 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5373 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5374 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5375 process earlier.
5376
1e70f85b
PH
537780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5378 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5379 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5380 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5381 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5382
538381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5384 tables).
5385
4e01f9d6
PH
538682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5387
1ee1cef2
PH
538883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5389 "vacation" handling.
5390
6e2b4ccc
PH
539184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5392 OS variants using glibc.
5393
8e669ac1
PH
539485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5395
495ae4b0 5396
bbe902f0
PH
5397----------------------------------------------------
5398See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5399----------------------------------------------------
5400
5401
5402Exim version 4.44
5403-----------------
5404
5405 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5406 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5407 transport
5408
5409 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5410 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5411 place.
5412
5413 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5414 filter fails to execute.
5415
5416 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5417 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5418 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5419 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5420 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5421
5422 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5423 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5424 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5425 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5426
5427 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5428 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5429 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5430 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5431 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5432
5433 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5434
5435 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5436 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5437 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5438 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5439
5440 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5441 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5442 sender verification.
5443
544410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5445 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5446
544711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5448 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5449
545012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5451 ignore_target_hosts.
5452
545313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5454 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5455 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5456 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5457 "[x.x.x.x]".
5458
545914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5460 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5461 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5462
546315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5464 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5465 wake it up if nothing else does.
5466
546716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5468 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5469 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5470 end up negative.
5471
547217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5473 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5474
ea3a6f44 547518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5476
547719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5478 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5479 empty pattern.
5480
548120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5482 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5483 one IP address.
5484
ea3a6f44
NM
548521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5486 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5487 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5488 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5489 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5490 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5491
ea3a6f44
NM
549222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5493 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5494 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5495
549623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5497 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5498 $sender_host_address.
5499
550024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5501
ea3a6f44
NM
550225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5503 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5504 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5505
550626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5507 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5508
ea3a6f44
NM
550927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5510 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5511
ea3a6f44
NM
551228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5513 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5514 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5515 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5516
551729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5518 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5519 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5520
ea3a6f44
NM
552130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5522 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5523 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5524 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5525
ea3a6f44
NM
552631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5527 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5528 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5529
ea3a6f44
NM
553031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5531 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5532
ea3a6f44
NM
553332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5534 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5535 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5536 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5537 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5538 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5539 is going on).
bbe902f0 5540
ea3a6f44
NM
554133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5542 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5543 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5544 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5545 CAN-2005-0021
5546
ea3a6f44
NM
554734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5548 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5549 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5550 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5551 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5552 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5553 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5554
5555 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5556 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5557 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5558 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5559 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5560 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5561 CAN-2005-0021
5562
ea3a6f44
NM
556335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5564 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5565 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5566 CAN-2005-0022
5567
ea3a6f44
NM
556836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5569 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5570 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5571 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5572 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5573
ea3a6f44
NM
557437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5575 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5576 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5577 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5578 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5579
ea3a6f44
NM
558038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5581 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5582 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5583 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5584 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5585
5586
495ae4b0
PH
5587Exim version 4.43
5588-----------------
5589
5590 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5591 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5592 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5593 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5594 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5595 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5596 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5597
5598 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5599 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5600 the delivery.
5601
5602 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5603
5604 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5605
5606 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5607 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5608 to local_scan().
5609
5610 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5611 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5612 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5613 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5614 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5615
5616 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5617 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5618
5619 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5620
5621 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5622
562310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5624 header_sender only.
5625
562611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5627 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5628
562912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5630 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5631 affecting debugging statements).
5632
563313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5634
563514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5636 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5637 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5638 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5639 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5640 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5641 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5642 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5643 after the received time, and all would be well.
5644
564515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5646 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5647 condition in an expansion string.
5648
564916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5650
565117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5652 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5653 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5654 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5655 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5656 job under whatever limits there are.
5657
565818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5659
566019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5661 space).
5662
566320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5664 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5665 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5666 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5667 return path is set.
5668
566921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5670 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5671 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5672 binary data in such strings.
5673
567422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5675
567623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5677 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5678 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5679 failure, which is pointless.
5680
568124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5682
568325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5684
568526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5686 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5687 Sender: header lines.
5688
568927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5690 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5691 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5692
569328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5694 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5695 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5696 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5697 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5698 happens.
5699
570029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5701 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5702 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5703 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5704 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5705
570630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5707 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5708 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5709 1024.
5710
571131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5712 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5713
571432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5715 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5716
571733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5718
571932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5720
572133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5722
572334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5724 syntax error.
5725
572635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5727
572836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5729
573037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5731 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5732 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5733 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5734
573538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5736 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5737
5738
5739Exim version 4.42
5740-----------------
5741
5742 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5743 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5744 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5745 it was not quoted.
5746 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5747 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5748 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5749 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5750 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5751 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5752
5753 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5754 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5755 verification failure".
5756
5757 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5758 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5759 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5760 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5761
5762 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5763 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5764 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5765 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5766 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5767 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5768 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5769 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5770 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5771 treated as a timeout.
5772
5773 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5774 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5775 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5776 not set for Exim filters).
5777
5778 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5779 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5780 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5781
5782 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5783
5784 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5785 try to make them clearer.
5786
5787 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5788 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5789
5790 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5791
5792 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5793
579410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5795 only the Cygwin environment.
5796
579711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5798 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5799 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5800 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5801 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5802
580312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5804 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5805 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5806 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5807 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5808 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5809 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5810
581113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5812 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5813
581414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5815
5816 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5817 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5818 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5819
5820 To: susanne@some.where
5821
5822 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5823 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5824 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5825 of addresses in From: header lines).
5826
5827 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5828 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5829 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5830
5831 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5832 treated as non-personal.
5833
5834 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5835 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5836
583715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5838
583916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5840
584117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5842 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5843 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5844
584518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5846 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5847
584819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5849 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5850 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5851 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5852 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5853 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5854
585520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5856 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5857 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5858 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5859 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5860 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5861 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5862 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5863
5864 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5865
586621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5867 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5868
586922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5870 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5871 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5872
587323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5874 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5875
587624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5877 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5878 rather than long int.
5879
588025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5881
588226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5883
5884
5885Exim version 4.41
5886-----------------
5887
5888 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5889 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5890 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5891 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5892 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5893 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5894
5895
5896Exim version 4.40
5897-----------------
5898
5899 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5900 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5901
5902 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5903 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5904 socklen_t is defined.
5905
5906 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5907 always exist.
5908
5909 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5910 configured.
5911
5912 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5913 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5914 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5915 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5916 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5917
5918 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5919 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5920 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5921 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5922
5923 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5924 of flapping under certain conditions.
5925
5926 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5927 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5928 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5929
5930 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5931
593210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5933
593411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5935 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5936 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5937 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5938
593912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5940 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5941 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5942 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5943 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5944 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5945 preserved with the message after it was received.
5946
594713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5948 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5949 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5950 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5951 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5952 test suite worked just fine.
5953
595414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5955 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5956 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5957
595815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5959 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5960 string.
5961
596216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5963 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5964 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5965 does not fully solve it.
5966
596717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5968 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5969 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5970 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5971 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5972
597318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5974 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5975 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5976
597719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5978 string, for example:
5979
5980 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5981
5982 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5983 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5984 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5985 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5986 the routers could not see them.
5987
598820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5989 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5990
599121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5992 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5993 output).
5994
599522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5996 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5997 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5998 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5999 that needed quoting.
6000
600123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6002 was not being matched caselessly.
6003
600424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6005 backslashes.
6006
600725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6008 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6009 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6010 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6011 when use_sender is false.
6012
601326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6014
601527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6016
601728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6018
601929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6020 the configuration file.
6021
602230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6023 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6024
602531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6026
602732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6028 bytes in the message body.
6029
603033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6031 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6032 delivery.
6033
603434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6035
603635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6037
603836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6039 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6040 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6041 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6042 another IP address.
6043
6044
6045Exim version 4.34
6046-----------------
6047
6048 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6049 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6050
6051 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6052 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6053 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6054 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6055 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6056
6057 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6058 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6059
6060 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6061 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6062 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6063
6064 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6065 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6066 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6067
6068 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6069 for routers.
6070
6071 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6072 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6073 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6074 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6075 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6076 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6077 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6078
6079
6080Exim version 4.33
6081-----------------
6082
6083 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6084 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6085 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6086 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6087 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6088 default (and expected) setting.
6089
6090 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6091 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6092 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6093 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6094
6095 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6096 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6097
6098 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6099 in domain lists.
6100
6101 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6102 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6103 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6104 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6105 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6106 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6107
6108 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6109 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6110 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6111
6112 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6113 part (NOT match_host).
6114
6115 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6116
6117 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6118 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6119 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6120 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6121 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6122 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6123 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6124 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6125 the same named file.
6126
612710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6128 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6129 when Exim is built.
6130
613111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6132 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6133 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6134 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6135 a host name.
6136
613712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6138 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6139 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6140
614113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6142
614314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6144
614515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6146
614716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6148 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6149
615017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6151 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6152 before starting the TLS session.
6153
615418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6155
615619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6157 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6158
615920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6160 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6161 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6162 colon in the middle).
6163
6164
6165Exim version 4.32
6166-----------------
6167
6168 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6169 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6170 multiple configurations are in use.
6171
6172 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6173 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6174 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6175 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6176 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6177 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6178
6179 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6180 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6181
6182 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6183 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6184 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6185
6186 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6187 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6188 occurs.
6189
6190 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6191 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6192
6193 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6194
6195 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6196 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6197
6198 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6199
6200 -prval:sval
6201
6202 is equivalent to
6203
6204 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6205
6206 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6207 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6208 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6209 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6210 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6211
621210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6213 Exim's behaviour:
6214
6215 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6216 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6217 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6218 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6219 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6220 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6221
6222 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6223 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6224 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6225 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6226 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6227 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6228 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6229 string.
6230
6231 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6232 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6233 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6234 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6235 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6236
623711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6238
623912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6240 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6241 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6242
624313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6244
624514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6246 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6247 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6248 information.
6249
625015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6251 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6252
625316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6254 Three changes have been made:
6255
6256 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6257 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6258 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6259 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6260 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6261
6262 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6263 been restored.
6264
6265 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6266 the modified behaviour.
6267
6268
6269Exim version 4.31
6270-----------------
6271
6272 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6273 Larry Rosenman.
6274
6275 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6276 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6277
6278 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6279 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6280 try to track down a specific problem.
6281
6282 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6283 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6284 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6285
6286 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6287 warning.
6288
6289 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6290 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6291 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6292 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6293 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6294 some earlier ones do not.
6295
6296 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6297
6298 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6299 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6300 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6301 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6302 address literals are enabled, of course).
6303
6304 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6305
630610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6307 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6308 by a command such as
6309
6310 exim -f "" ...
6311
6312 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6313
631411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6315
631612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6317 remained set. It is now erased.
6318
631913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6320 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6321
632214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6323 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6324 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6325 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6326 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6327 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6328 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6329 appropriate error code.
6330
633115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6332 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6333 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6334 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6335 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6336 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6337
633816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6339 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6340 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6341
634217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6343 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6344 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6345 terminate the header.
6346
634718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6348 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6349 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6350
635119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6352 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6353 (4.30/29). In particular:
6354
6355 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6356 imposed.
6357
6358 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6359 to write a maildirsize file.
6360
6361 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6362 the transport, the new value overrides.
6363
6364 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6365 count.
6366
636720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6368 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6369 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6370 space or a tab.
6371
637221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6373 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6374 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6375 the fallback hosts.
6376
637722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6378 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6379 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6380
638123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6382 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6383 using a union.
6384
638524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6386 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6387 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6388
638925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6390
639126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6392
639327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6394
639528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6396 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6397 become corrupted.
6398
639929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6400 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6401 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6402 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6403 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6404 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6405 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6406 too great.
6407
640830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6409 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6410 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6411 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6412 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6413 incorrectly.
6414
641531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6416 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6417 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6418 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6419 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6420 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6421 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6422 cached value only when the same options are set.
6423
642432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6425
642633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6427 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6428 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6429 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6430 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6431
643234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6433 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6434 it is clearly obsolete.
6435
643635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6437 transport.
6438
643936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6440 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6441 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6442 times.
6443
644437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6445 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6446 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6447 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6448 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6449
645038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6451 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6452 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6453 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6454
645539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6456
6457 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6458
6459 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6460 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6461 2^31.
6462
646340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6464 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6465 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6466 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6467 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6468 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6469 $localpart_data.
6470
647141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6472 with the -f command-line option.
6473
647442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6475 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6476 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6477 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6478 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6479 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6480
648143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6482 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6483 line.
6484
648544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6486 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6487 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6488 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6489 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6490 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6491 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6492 buffer is too small.
6493
649445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6495 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6496
649746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6498 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6499 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6500 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6501 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6502 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6503 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6504 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6505 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6506
650747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6508 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6509 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6510
651148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6512 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6513 ACL").
6514
651549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6516 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6517 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6518 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6519 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6520
652150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6522 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6523 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6524 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6525 is set.
6526
652751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6528
652952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6530
653153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6532 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6533
653454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6535 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6536 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6537
653855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6539 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6540 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6541 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6542 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6543
654456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6545 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6546 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6547 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6548 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6549 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6550 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6551
655257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6553 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6554 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6555 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6556 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6557 the test of how many are available.
6558
655958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6560 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6561 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6562 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6563 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6564 new message is started.
6565
656659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6567 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6568
656960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6570 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6571
657261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6573 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6574 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6575 is no long logged.
6576
657762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6578 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6579 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6580 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6581 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6582 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6583 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6584
658563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6586 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6587 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6588 interpreted as octal.
6589
659064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6591 setting.
6592
659365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6594 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6595 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6596 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6597 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6598 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6599
660066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6601 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6602 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6603 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6604
6605 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6606 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6607 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6608 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6609
6610 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6611 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6612 is a bug fix.
6613
6614 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6615 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6616
661767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6618
661968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6620 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6621 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6622 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6623
662469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6625 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6626 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6627 supplied", which is not helpful.
6628
662970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6630 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6631 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6632
663371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6634 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6635 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6636 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6637 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6638 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6639 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6640 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6641
664272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6643 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6644 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6645 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6646 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6647
664873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6649 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6650 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6651 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6652 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6653 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6654
665574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6656 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6657 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6658
665975. Added write_rejectlog option.
6660
666176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6662 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6663 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6664 variables.
6665
666677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6667
666878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6669 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6670 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6671 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6672 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6673 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6674 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6675 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6676
667779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6678 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6679 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6680 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6681 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6682
668380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6684 Haardt.
6685
668681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6687 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6688 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6689 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6690 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6691 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6692 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6693 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6694 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6695
6696
6697Exim version 4.30
6698-----------------
6699
6700 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6701 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6702 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6703
6704 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6705 fixed.
6706
6707 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6708 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6709 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6710
6711 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6712 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6713 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6714 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6715 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6716 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6717
6718 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6719 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6720 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6721 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6722 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6723 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6724 the Exim test suite.
6725
6726 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6727 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6728 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6729 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6730
6731 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6732 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6733 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6734 specify it in this variable.
6735
6736 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6737 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6738 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6739 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6740
6741 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6742 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6743 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6744 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6745
6746 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6747 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6748 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6749 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6750 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6751
6752 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6753
675410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6755 they are logged.
6756
675711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6758 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6759 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6760 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6761 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6762
676312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6764 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6765
676613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6767 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6768 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6769 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6770 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6771
677214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6773 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6774
677515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6776 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6777 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6778
677916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6780 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6781
678217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6783 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6784
678518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6786 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6787 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6788
678919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6790 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6791
679220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6793 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6794 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6795 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6796
679721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6798
679922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6800 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6801 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6802 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6803
680423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6805
680624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6807 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6808
680925. Added .include_if_exists.
6810
681126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6812 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6813 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6814 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6815 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6816 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6817
681827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6819
682028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6821 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6822 this.
6823
682429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6825
682630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6827 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6828
6829 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6830 550 Sender verify failed
6831
6832 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6833 the final line of the response.
6834
683531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6836 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6837 all other user lookups.
6838
683932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6840 delivery time.
6841
684233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6843 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6844 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6845 result into an int without checking.
6846
684734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6848 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6849 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6850
685135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6852 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6853 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6854 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6855
685636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6857 correctly.
6858
685937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6860 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6861
686238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6863 to the empty sender.
6864
686539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6866 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6867 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6868 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6869 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6870 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6871 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6872 panic log.
6873
687440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6875 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6876 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6877 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6878 used.
6879
688041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6881 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6882
688342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6884 timestamps.
6885
688643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6887 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6888
688944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6890
689145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6892 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6893 logs.
6894
689546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6896 as soon as it is encountered.
6897
689847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6899
690048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6901 rewritten to "<>".
6902
690349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6904 recognizes a tab character.
6905
690650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6907 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6908 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6909 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6910
691151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6912
691352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6914 crash.
6915
691653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6917
691854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6919
692055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6921 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6922 2822.
6923
692456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6925 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6926 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6927 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6928 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6929
693057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6931 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6932
693358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6934 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6935 list (.included file names were always shown).
6936
693759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6938 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6939 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6940 root at that time.
6941
694260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6943 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6944
694561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6946
694762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6948
694963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6950
695164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6952 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6953 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6954 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6955 failures to open the logs.
6956
695765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6958 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6959 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6960 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6961 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6962 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6963 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6964
6965
6966Exim version 4.24
6967-----------------
6968
6969 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6970 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6971 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6972 change 4.23/1.
6973
6974 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6975 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6976 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6977
6978 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6979 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6980 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6981
6982 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6983 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6984 causing some misleading effects.
6985
6986 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6987 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6988 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6989
6990 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6991 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6992 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6993 queue-runner function directly.
6994
6995
6996Exim version 4.23
6997-----------------
6998
6999 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7000 HEADERS_CHARSET.
7001
7002 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7003 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7004 was always written to the default place.
7005
7006 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7007 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7008 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7009
7010 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7011
7012 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7013
7014 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7015 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7016 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7017
7018 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7019 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7020 must start.
7021
7022 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7023 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7024 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7025
7026 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7027 command line option is disabled.
7028
7029 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7030 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7031
7032 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7033
7034 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7035
7036 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7037 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7038
703910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7040
704111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7042 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7043 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7044 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7045 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7046 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7047
704812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7049 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7050 timeout.
7051
705213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7053 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7054
705514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7056 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7057
705815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7059 received was valid base64.
7060
706116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7062 name of the variable that was being set.
7063
706417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7065
706618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7067 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7068 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7069 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7070 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7071 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7072
707319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7074
707520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7076 nor realm was specified.
7077
707821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7079 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7080 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7081 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7082
708322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7084 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7085 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7086
708723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7088 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7089 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7090
709124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7092 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7093 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7094 some systems use these upper case variants.
7095
709625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7097 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7098 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7099 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7100
710126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7102
710327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7104 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7105
710628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7107 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7108 expansion variable.
7109
711029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7111
711230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7113 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7114 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7115 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7116
711731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7118 using it.
7119
712032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7121 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7122 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7123
712433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7125 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7126
712734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7128 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7129 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7130 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7131
713235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7133 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7134 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7135
713636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7137
713837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7139 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7140 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7141 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7142 aborted.
7143
714438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7145 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7146 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7147
714839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7149
715040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7151 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7152
715341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7154 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7155
715642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7157 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7158 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7159 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7160 when emails are that large.
7161
7162
7163
7164Exim version 4.22
7165-----------------
7166
7167 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7168 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7169
7170 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7171 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7172 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7173
7174 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7175 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7176 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7177
7178 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7179 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7180 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7181 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7182 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7183
7184 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7185 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7186 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7187 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7188 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7189 ever.
7190
7191 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7192 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7193 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7194 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7195 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7196 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7197 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7198 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7199 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7200 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7201 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7202 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7203 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7204 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7205
7206 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7207 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7208 parameterised it.
7209
7210 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7211 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7212 error should be diagnosed.
7213
7214 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7215 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7216 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7217 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7218 appeared instead of "NULL".
7219
722010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7221 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7222 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7223 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7224 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7225 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7226 proceeds).
7227
7228 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7229 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7230 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7231
7232
7233Exim version 4.21
7234-----------------
7235
7236 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7237 or receiver verification errors.
7238
7239 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7240 name.
7241
7242 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7243 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7244 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7245 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7246
7247 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7248 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7249 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7250 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7251 shouldn't happen again.
7252
7253 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7254 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7255 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7256
7257 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7258 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7259
7260 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7261
7262 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7263 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7264
7265 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7266 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7267 RFC.
7268
726910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7270 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7271 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7272
727311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7274 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7275 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7276 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7277
727812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7279 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7280 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7281 to define what should happen).
7282
728313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7284 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7285 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7286
728714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7288
728915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7290
729116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7292 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7293
4c04137d 729417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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7295 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7296 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7297 structure in all cases.
7298
7299 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7300 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7301 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7302 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7303
730418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7305 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7306 domain name.
7307
730819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7309 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7310
731120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7312 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7313
731421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7315 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7316 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7317
731822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7319 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7320 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7321
732223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7323 the book and for uniformity.
7324
732524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7326
732725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7328 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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7329 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7330 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7331 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7332 non-existent command as the problem.
7333
733426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7335 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7336 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7337
733827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7339
734028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7341 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7342 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7343
734429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7345 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7346 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7347 timestamps using strftime().
7348
734930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7350 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7351
735232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7353 transport-time rewrites.
7354
735533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7356 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7357 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7358 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7359
736034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7361 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7362
736335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7364 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7365 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7366 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7367 comma and a space.
7368
736936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7370 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7371 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7372 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7373 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7374 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7375 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7376
737737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7378 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7379 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7380 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7381 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7382
738338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7384 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7385 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7386 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7387 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7388 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7389 remaining text gets split now.
7390
739139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7392 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7393 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7394 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7395
739640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7397 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7398 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7399 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7400 $return_path.
7401
740241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7403 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7404 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7405 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7406 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7407 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7408 passed through if needed.
7409
741042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7411 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7412 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7413 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7414 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7415 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7416
741743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7418 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7419 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7420 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7421 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7422
742344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7424 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7425 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7426 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7427 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7428
742945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7430 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7431 noticed.
7432
743346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7434 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7435 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7436 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7437 mayhem of various kinds.
7438
743947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7440 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7441 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7442 the right test for positive values.
7443
744448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7445 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7446 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7447 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7448 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7449 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7450 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7451 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7452 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7453 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7454 envelope.
7455
745649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7457 module.
7458
745950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7460 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7461 forbidding it.
7462
746351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7464 the existing equality matching.
7465
746652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7467 dealing with inode numbers.
7468
746953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7470 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7471 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7472
747354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7474 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7475 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7476 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7477 local_scan().
7478
747955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7480 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7481 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7482 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7483 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7484 relay addresses has also been removed.
7485
748656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7487
748857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7489 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7490 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7491
749258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7493 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7494 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7495 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7496 processing applies to CR:
7497
7498 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7499 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7500
7501 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7502 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7503 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7504 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7505
750659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7507 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7508 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7509
751060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7511 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7512 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7513 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7514 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7515 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7516 arisen.
7517
751861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7519 program routers.
7520
752162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7522 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7523 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7524 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7525 adds:
7526
7527 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7528
7529 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7530
7531 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7532
753363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7534 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7535 not considered personal.
7536
753764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7538
753965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7540
754166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7542
754367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7544 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7545 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7546 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7547 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7548 header lines, and spool format errors.
7549
755068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7551 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7552 for more flexibility.
7553
755469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7555 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7556 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7557
755870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7559 Sabourenkov.
7560
756171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7562 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7563 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7564 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7565 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7566 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7567 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7568 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7569 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7570
757172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7572 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7573 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7574 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7575 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7576 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7577 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7578
757973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7580 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7581 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7582
758374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7584 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7585 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7586 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7587 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7588 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7589 instead of killing the process with assert().
7590
759175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7592 than Unicode encoding.
7593
759476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7595 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7596 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7597 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7598
759977. Added process_log_path.
7600
760178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7602 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7603
760479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7605 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7606
760780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7608 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7609 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7610
761181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7612 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7613 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7614 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7615 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7616 were applied:
7617
7618 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7619 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7620 as invalid.
7621
762282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7623 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7624 they will be used during message reception.
7625
7626
7627Exim version 4.20
7628-----------------
7629
7630The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7631
7632****