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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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9JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
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13JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
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15JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
17 option.
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19JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
22
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23JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
24
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25JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
26
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27JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
30
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31JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
34
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35JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
37
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38JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
39 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
40 was taken.
41
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42JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
43 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
44 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
45 should both provide the file and set the option.
46 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
47
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48JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
49 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
50
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51JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
52 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
53 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
54 Authentication-Results: header.
55
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56JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
57 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
58 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
59 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
60
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61JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
62 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
63 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
64 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
65 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
66 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
67 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
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69JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
70 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
71 copies while it is still usable.
72
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73JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
74 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
75 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
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77JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
78 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
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79e5ebf9 80WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
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81 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
82 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
79e5ebf9 83 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
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85JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
86 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
87 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
88 information.
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90JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
91 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
92 - the pipe transport command
481e63ca 93 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
7d99cba1 94 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
ed162055 95 - named-queue names
129a5d13 96 - paths used by single-key lookups
9214d2e4 97 Previously this was permitted.
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99JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
100 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
101 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
102 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
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104JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
105 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
106 support larger malloc requests.
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108PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
109 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
110 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
111 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
112
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113JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
114 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
115 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
116 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
117 indeterminate.
118
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119JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
120 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
121 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
122 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
123 data being length-specified.
124
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125JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
126 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
127 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
128 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
129
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130JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
131 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
132 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
133 not being properly tracked.
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135JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
136 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
137 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
138 minute could be seen.
139
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140JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
141 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
142 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
143
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144JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
145 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
146
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147JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
148 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
149 non-pipelined mode.
150
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151JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
152
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153JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
154 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
155
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156JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
157 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
158 filesystem as sufficient validation.
159
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160JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
161 argument is supplied.
162
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163JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
164 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
165 access under Exim's current working directory.
166
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167JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
168 Previously no event was raised.
169
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170JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
171 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
172 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
173 leeway checked.
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179JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
180 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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fc243e94 182JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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183 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
184 its own TCP segment.
185
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186JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
187 each verb.
188
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189JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
190
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191JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
192
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193JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
194 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
195
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196JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
197 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
198 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
199 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
200 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
201 suitably configured).
202
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204 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
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206JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
207 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
208 crash could result.
209
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210JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
211 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
212
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213JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
214 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
215 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
216 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
217 to this system.
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219JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
220 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
221 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
222
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223JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
224 output.
225
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226JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
227 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
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3c55eef2 229JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 230 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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231 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
232 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
233 input).
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235HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
236 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
237 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
238 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
239 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
240
7d8d08c4 241HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
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242 shared (NFS) environment.
243
7d8d08c4 244HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
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245 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
246 affected.
247
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248JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
249 on some platforms for bit 31.
250
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251JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
252 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
253 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
254 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
255 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
256 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
257 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
258 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
259
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260JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
261
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262JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
263 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
264
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265JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
266 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
267 facility.
268
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269JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
270 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
271 documentation.
272
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273JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
274 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
275 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
276 not do so.
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279 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
280 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
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282JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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283 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
284 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
285 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
286 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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288JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
289 reject under TFO.
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efad2f41 291JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 292 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
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293 be requested on all coneections.
294
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295JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
296 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
297
6ee11061 298PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
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300JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
301 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
302 one for these; the option was ignored.
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304JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
305 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
306 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
307 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
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309JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
310 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
311 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
312 standards.
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314JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
315 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
316 error ignored was made.
317
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318JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
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320JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
321 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
322 values, to catch one form of exploit.
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324JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
325 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
326 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
327
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328JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
329 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
330 causing a segfault.
331
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332JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
333 them in our smtp response.
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9c6881f8 335JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
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336 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
337 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
338 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
339 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
340
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341JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
342 link count into consideration.
343
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344HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
345 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
346
347JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
348 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
349 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
350 surprise.
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352HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
353
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354JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
355
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356JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
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358JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
359 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
360 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
361 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
362
ab0e957b 363HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
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365JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
366 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
367 active.
368
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369JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
370 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
371 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
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373JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
374 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
375 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
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377JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
378 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
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379 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
380 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
381 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
382 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
383 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
384 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
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386JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
387 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
388 resulted in an indefinite loop.
389
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390JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
391 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
392 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
393
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398JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
399 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
400
401JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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402 non-signal-safe functions being used.
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404JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
405 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
406 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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408JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
409 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
410 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
411
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412JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
413 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
414 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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415 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
416 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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417 messed with.
418
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420 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
421
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422JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
423 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
424 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
425 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
426 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
427 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
428 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
429
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430JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
431 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
432
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433JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
434 legitimate.
435
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436JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
437 Previously this would segfault.
438
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439JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
440 segfault.
441
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442JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
443 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
444 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
445 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
446 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
447 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
448
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449JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
450
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451JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
452 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
453 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
454 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
455
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456JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
457
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458JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
459 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
460 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
461 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
462
5054c4fd 463JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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465JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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467JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
468 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
469 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
470
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471JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
472 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
473 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
474
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475PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
476
8a6b4e02
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477JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
478 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
479 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
480 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
481
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482PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
483 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
484 promised '?' replacement.
485
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486PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
487
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488JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
489 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
490 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
491 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
492 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
493
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494JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
495 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
496 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
497
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498JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
499 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
500 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
501
7ea1237c 502JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 503 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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504 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
505
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506JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
507 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
508 hope that is portable enough.
509
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510JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
511 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
512 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
513 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
514
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515JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
516 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
517 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
518
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519JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
520 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
521 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
522 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
523
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524JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
525 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
526
75c121f0 527JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 528 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
75c121f0
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529 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
530 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
531
e30f4f43
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532JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
533 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
534 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
535
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536JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
537 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
538 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
539 the previous G, M, k.
540
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541JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
542 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
543 it was unset.
544
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545JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
546 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
547 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
548 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
549
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550JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
551 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
552
de6f74f2 553JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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554 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
555 off past the nul-terimation.
556
de6f74f2
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557JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
558 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
559 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
560 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
561 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
562
aa6e77af 563JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
aaf3e414 564
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565JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
566 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
567 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
568 actually does fail.
569
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570AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
571 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
572
573JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
574 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
575 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
518b70e9 576
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577JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
578 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
579 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
580
ae63862b
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581JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
582 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
583
9723f966 584
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585Exim version 4.91
586-----------------
459fca58 587
c39c8870 588GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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589 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
590 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
591 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
592 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
593 be defined in redis_servers.
c39c8870 594
0800ef83
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595GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
596 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
597
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598JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
599 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
600 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
601 extant use locations.
602
944e8b37
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603JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
604 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
605
bbfb5dcd
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606JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
607 Previously only the last row was returned.
608
a05d3e34
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609JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
610 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
611 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
612 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
613 input.
614
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615JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
616 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
617 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
618 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
619 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
620 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
621 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
622 Main pool for expansions.
623 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
624 active in the testsuite.
625 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
626
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627JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
628 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
629 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
630 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
631 round-robin DNS.
632
5b6f7658
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633JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
634 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
635 failure response.
636
c11d665d
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637JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
638 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
639 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
e5ba8aa7
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640
641JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
642 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
643 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 644
ba0e37b1
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645JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
646 rows affected is given instead).
647
96508de1
JH
648JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
649 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
650
06fdb9f7
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651JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
652 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
653 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
654 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
655 for all multi-message initiating connections.
656
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657JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
658 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
659 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
660
f1fed05b
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661JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
662 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
663 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
664 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
665 separate.
666
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667JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
668 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
669 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
670 fake-reject.
671
cf3cd306
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672HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
673
744976d4
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674JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
675 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
676
aab9a843 677PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 678 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 679 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 680
83d2a861
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681JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
682 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
683 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
684 and send a quit.
685
6741531c
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686JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
687 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
688
85e03244
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689JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
690 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
691 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
692
c0635b6d
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693JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
694 for the build is renamed.
695
b808677c
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696JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
697 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
698 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
699
6678c382
JH
700JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
701 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
702 result replacing the original.
703
dec766a1
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704JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
705 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
706 and the resources needed to be freed.
707
15ae19f9
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708JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
709
e6532c4a
JH
710JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
711 was not propagated.
712
2556b3c6
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713JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
714 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
715 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
716 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
717
fc8cd529
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718JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
719 length value. Previously this would segfault.
720
71bb51e0
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721HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
722 newer versions of the scanner.
723
e04bfa34
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724JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
725 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
726 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
727 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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728 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
729 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
730 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 731
ecce6d9a
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732JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
733 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
734 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
735 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
736 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
737 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
738 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
739 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
740 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
741 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
742
c9cf9ac4
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743JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
744 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
745
b3b37076
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746JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
747
830832c9
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748HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
749 allows proper process termination in container environments.
750
f64e8b5f
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751JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
752 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
753
8f0776b5
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754JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
755 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
756 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
757
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758JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
759 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
760 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 761 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 762
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763JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
764 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
765 would be spooled.
766
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767PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
768 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
769
eb445b04
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770HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
771 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
772 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
773 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
774 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 775
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776JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
777 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
778 lines.
779
a28050f8
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780JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
781 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
782
ddd16464
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783PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
784 suffix list.
785
321ef002
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786JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
787 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
788 "bare" representation.
789
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790JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
791 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
792 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
793 corrupted the output.
794
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798
799JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
800 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
801 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
802 pairs of long lines into single ones.
803
856d1e16
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804PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
805 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
806
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807JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
808 This permits better logging.
809
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810JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
811 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
812 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
813 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
814 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 815 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 816
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817JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
818 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
819 "exiwhat" output.
820
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821PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
822 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
823 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
824
8d909960
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825JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
826 than 255 are no longer allowed.
827
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828JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
829 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
830 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
831 client, there is no benefit for these.
832 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
833 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
834 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
835 is used (3.2.4 +).
836
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837PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
838 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
839
4c2471ca
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840JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
841 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
842 erroneously found still-pending ones.
843
4e910c01
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844JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
845 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
846
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847JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
848 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
849 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
850 signature and again for transmission.
851
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852JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
853 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 854 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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856JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
857 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
858 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
859 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
860 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
861 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
862 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
863
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864JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
865 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
866 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 867 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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869PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
870 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
871 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
872 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
873 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
874 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
875 processing options.
876
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877JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
878 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
879 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
880 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
881 connections.
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883PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
884 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
885 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
886 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
887 versions.
888
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889JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
890 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
891 inaccessible.
892
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893JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
894 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
895 banner-time rejection.
896
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897JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
898 callout/hold.
899
8e041ae0
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900PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
901 is the name of a transport.
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902 Fixes bug 2140.
903
35a04365
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904HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
905
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906JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
907 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
908
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909JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
910 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
911 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
912 during compilation.
913
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914JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
915 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
916 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 917 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 918
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919JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
920 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
921 initial verify call returned a defer.
922
ad1a76fe 923JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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924 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
925
ad1a76fe
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926JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
927 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
928
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929JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
930 if present. Previously it was ignored.
931
f2ed27cf
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932JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
933 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
934
7eb0e5d2
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935JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
936 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
937 extensible.
938
4f9f4be4
939PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
940 Patch provided by Jaroslav Škarvada.
941
dc4de9cc
PP
942PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
943 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
944 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
945
ea18931d
JH
946JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
947 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
948 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
949 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
950
0768462d 951HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
2cee425a
HSHR
952 and confused the parent.
953
848214f7
JH
954JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
955 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
956
9e0ed81f
JH
957JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
958 for log purposes.
959
2540f2f8
JH
960JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
961 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
962 out-of-order delivery.
963
e5ab0ba9
JH
964JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
965 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
966 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
967 error for the HELO.
968
e99a3a6c
JH
969JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
970 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
971 desynchronisation.
972
18067c75
JH
973JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
974 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
975 one run was done. Bug 2189.
976
72934ba7
JH
977JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
978 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
979 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
980 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
981 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
982 message is still "Temporary local problem".
983
625667b6
JH
984JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
985 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
b488395f
JH
986 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
987
988HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
989 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
990 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 991
d21bf202
JH
992JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
993 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
994 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
995 though a different problem.
996
acfc18c3 997
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4c57a40e 1000
9427e879 1001JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 1002 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 1003
7b283890
JH
1004JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1005
4c57a40e
PP
1006PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1007 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1008
5d036699
JH
1009JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1010 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1011
f4630439
JH
1012JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1013 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1014 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1015 before acknowledging the chunk.
1016
f988ce57
JS
1017PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1018 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1019 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1020
bd8fbe36
JH
1021JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1022 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1023 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1024 should.
1025
1026JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
b895f4b2
JH
1027 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1028 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 1029
bd8fbe36 1030JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
JH
1031 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1032
bd8fbe36
JH
1033JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1034 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1035 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1036 body hash calculated value.
1037
eea19017
JH
1038JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1039 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1040 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1041
44e6651b
JH
1042JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1043
1044JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1045 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1046
1047JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1048 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1049 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1050
1051JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1052 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1053 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1054 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1055 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1056 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1057
1058JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1059 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1060 past that check, despite the cost.
1061
b6040544
JH
1062JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1063 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1064 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1065
f700ea4d
PP
1066PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1067 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1068 TLS library to consume.
1069
da88acae
PP
1070PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1071
f6ef9370
PP
1072PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1073
90341c71
JH
1074JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1075 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1076 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1077 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1078 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1079 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1080 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1081
1ec2ab36
PP
1082PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1083
1084PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1085
1086PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1087 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1088 should be warning-free.
1089
8b2b9480
PP
1090JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1091
1092HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1093 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1094
d953610f
HSHR
1095HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1096 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1097 general solution here.
1098
7dc5f827
PP
1099PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1100 already-broken messages in the queue.
1101
4bb432cb
PP
1102JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1103
3b1a84c8
PP
1104JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1105
902fbd69 1106
8d042305
JH
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4c57a40e 1109
9094b84b
JH
1110JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1111 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 1112
03d5892b
JH
1113JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1114 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1115 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1116
4b0fe319
JH
1117JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1118 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1119 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1120 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1121 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1122 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1123 if one fails this test.
1124 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1125 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1126
789f8a4f
JH
1127JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1128 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1129
23bb6982 1130JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 1131 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 1132
0bd1b1ed 1133JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 1134 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 1135
20b9a2dc
JH
1136JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1137 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1138
05392bbc
JH
1139JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1140 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1141
1a6230a3
JH
1142JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1143
cfab9d68
JH
1144JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1145 certificate).
1146
98c82a3d
JH
1147JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1148 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1149 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1150 connection after a verify cache hit.
1151 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1152
1153JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1154 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1155
ae8386f0
JH
1156JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1157 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1158 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1159 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1160 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1161
0d9fa8c0
JH
1162JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1163 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1164
3581f321
JH
1165JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1166 Previously they were not counted.
1167
ef3a1a30
JH
1168JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1169 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1170 that needed the lookup.
1171
4c04137d 1172JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
27b9e5f4
JH
1173 distinguished as "(=".
1174
1435d4b2
JH
1175JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1176 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1177
eea0defe
JB
1178JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1179
1180JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1181 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 1182
4c04137d 1183JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
TM
1184 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1185
1c788856
JH
1186JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1187 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1188 compatible.
1189
e3b1f624
JH
1190JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1191 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1192 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1193 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1194
a57ce043
JH
1195JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1196
f59aaaaa 1197JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
JH
1198 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1199 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 1200
d1f9fb42
JH
1201JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1202 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1203 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1204 be lost.
1205
92b0827a
JH
1206JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1207 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1208 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1209 itself :(
1210
ddf1b11a
JH
1211JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1212 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1213 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1214
3cc3f762
JH
1215JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1216 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1217 options.
1218
ae5afa61
JH
1219JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1220
317e40ac
PP
1221PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1222 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1223
8b0fb68e
PP
1224PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1225 are not in the system include path.
1226
ad7fc6eb 1227JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 1228 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
JH
1229 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1230 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1231
ee5b1e28
JH
1232JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1233 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1234 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1235
5ddc9771
JH
1236JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1237
8d73599f
JH
1238HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1239 an incoming connection.
1240
446415f5
HSHR
1241HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1242 to rspamd.
1243
8e53a4fc
HSHR
1244HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1245 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1246
87cb4a16 1247JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1248 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
87cb4a16
JH
1249
1250
0d9b78be
JH
1251Exim version 4.87
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4c57a40e 1253
82d14d6a
JH
1254JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1255 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1256 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1257 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1258
6c6d6e48
TF
1259TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1260 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1261
ac881e27
TF
1262TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1263 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1264 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1265 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1266 outgoing I= field.
1267
c8899c20
JH
1268JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1269 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1270 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1271 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1272 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1273 check on the next write.
1274
f1b81d81
HSHR
1275HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1276 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1277 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1278 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1279 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1280
f38917cc
JH
1281JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1282 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1283
895fbaf2
JH
1284JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1285 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1286 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1287
805bb5c3
JH
1288JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1289 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1290 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1291 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1292
56c2a7be
HSHR
1293HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1294 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1295
4c04137d 1296JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
14b3c5bc
JH
1297 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1298
6f6dedcc
JH
1299JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1300 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1301 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1302 distinct.
1303
0f557e90
JH
1304JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1305
1306JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1307
ec0eb1a3
JH
1308JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1309
41e93589
JH
1310JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1311 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1312
98b98887 1313JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
376d2ec0
JH
1314 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1315
98b98887
JH
1316JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1317
858e91c2
JH
1318JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1319 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1320
1321JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1322
6ff55e50
JH
1323JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1324 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1325
3b957582
JB
1326JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1327
23f3dc67
JH
1328JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1329 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1330 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
23f3dc67
JH
1331 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1332 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1333 they will retry in-clear.
1334 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1335 at installation time.
1336
240c288f
JH
1337HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1338 with the $config_file variable.
1339
5ef5dd52
JB
1340JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1341 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1342 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1343 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1344 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1345
e161710d
GF
1346GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1347 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1348 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1349 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1350 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1351
a159f203
JH
1352JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1353
7f06582c
JH
1354JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1355 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1356 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1357 list order is no longer honoured.
1358
4c04137d 1359JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
abe1010c
JH
1360 for DKIM processing.
1361
f0989ec0
JH
1362JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1363 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1364
cee5f132
JH
1365JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1366 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
e6d2a989
JH
1367 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1368 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1369
8c5d388a
JH
1370JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1371 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1372
2d8d625b
JH
1373JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1374 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1375
0cbf2b82
JH
1376JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1377 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1378
f2f2c91b
JH
1379JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1380
ce325893
JH
1381JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1382 cached by the daemon.
1383
de78e2d5
JH
1384JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1385 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1386
379ba7d0
JH
1387JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1388 keys are given for lookup.
1389
f444c2c7
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1390JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1391 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1392 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1393 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1394
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1395JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1396 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1397 server-side so match that on older versions.
1398
07c73177 1399JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1400 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1401 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1402
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1403JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1404 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1405
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1406JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1407 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1408 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1409 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1410 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1411 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1412 initial truncated version.
1413
ab9152ff 1414JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1415
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1416JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1417
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1418JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1419 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1420
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1421JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1422
bc3c7bb7 1423HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1424
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1425JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1426 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1427 induced overflows.
1428
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1429JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1430 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1431 stage.
1432
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1433JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1434 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1435
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1436JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1437 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1438 former class.
1439
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1440JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1441 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1442 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1443
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1444JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1445 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1446 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1447 extraction. Accept either.
1448
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1453JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1454 expanded.
1455
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1456JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1457
ad07e9ad
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1458JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1459 it.
1460
01a4a5c5 1461JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1462 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1463 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1464 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1465
cb1d7830 1466JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1467 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1468 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1469
610ff438 1470JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1471 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1472 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1473 TLS connections
610ff438 1474
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1475JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1476 sites use this now.
1477
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1478JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1479 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1480 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1481 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1482 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1483
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1484JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1485 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1486 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1487
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1488JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1489
aeaf5db3
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1490JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1491 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1492
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1493JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1494 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1495
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1496JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1497 /defer_ok option.
1498
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1499JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1500 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1501
fd4d8871 1502JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1503 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1504 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1505
1506JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1507 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1508 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1509
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1510JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1511 timeout value per server.
1512
2ad78978
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1513JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1514 now have the list separator specified.
1515
8a512ed5 1516JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1517 option values.
8a512ed5 1518
82c0c8ea 1519JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1520 under OpenSSL.
1521
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1522JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1523
82c0c8ea
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1524JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1525 rather than the verbs used.
1526
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1527JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1528 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1529
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1530JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1531
cfab9d68 1532HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1533 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1534
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1535JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1536 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1537
fd4c285c
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1538HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1539 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1540
4c04137d 1541JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1542
d2a2c69b
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1543JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1544
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1545JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1546 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1547 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1548 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1549
1f12df4d
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1550JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1551
1f155f8e
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1552JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1553 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1554
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1555JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1556 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1557
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1558JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1559
474f71bf
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1560JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1561
7137ca4b
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1562JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1563
dcb1095c
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1564JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1565 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1566
2f460950
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1567JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1568 added for tls authenticator.
1569
2f680c0c
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1570HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1571
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1576TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1577 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1578 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1579 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1580 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1581 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1582 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1583
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1584TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1585 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1586 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1587 function when detected.
1588
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1589JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1590 cause callback expansion.
1591
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1592TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1593 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1594 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1595 instead of bool when processing it.
1596
0f06b4f2 1597JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1598 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1599
be36e572
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1600JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1601
ac4ef9bd
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1602JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1603
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1604TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1605
c713ca4b
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1606TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1607 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1608
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1609JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1610 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1611 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1612 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1613 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1614 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1615
8bc732e8
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1616JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1617 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1618 exceeded it.
1619
a7fec7a7
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1620JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1621 version 3.3.6 or later.
1622
4c04137d 1623JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1624 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1625 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1626 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1627 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1628 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1629 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1630
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1631TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1632 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1633
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1634JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1635 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1636 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1637 matches.
1638
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1639JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1640 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1641 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1642
ad4c5ff9
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1643JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1644 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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1645
1646JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1647 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1648 syntax errors.
1649
3394b36a 1650JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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1651
1652JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1653 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1654
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1655TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1656 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1657 tarball.
1658
ad4c5ff9
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1659JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1660
4c04137d 1661JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
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1662 Bug 1561.
1663
1664JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1665 output list separator was used.
1666
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1670TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1671 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1672 return.
1f0ebb98 1673
a612424f 1674JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1675 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1676
1677JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1678
1679TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1680 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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1685
1686TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1687
1688 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1689 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1690 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1691 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1692 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1693 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1694
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1695TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1696 utilities have not been installed.
1697
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1698JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1699 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1700
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1701TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1702 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1703
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1704TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1705 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1706 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1707 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1708
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1709JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1710
5a1b8443
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1711TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1712 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1713
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1714PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1715 not dns_use_dnssec.
1716
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1717JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1718
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1719TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1720 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1721 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1722
8ddef691 1723TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1724 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1725 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1726 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1727 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1728 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1729
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1730JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1731
e45a1c37
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1732JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1733 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1734
67d81c10
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1735JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1736 failed delivery.
1737
b1f8e4f8
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1738JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1739
511a6c14 1740JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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1741
1742JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1743 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1744
51c7471d
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1745JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1746 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1747
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1748TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1749
1e06383a
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1750JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1751
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1752JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1753 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1754
1755 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1756 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1757 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1758
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1759TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1760 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1761 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1762 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1763
35aba663
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1764JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1765
8c51eead 1766JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1767 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1768 lookup).
8c51eead 1769
deae092e
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1770TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1771 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1772 Schlichting.
35aba663 1773
fd3b6a4a 1774JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1775 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1776
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1777TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1778 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1779
2b4a568d
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1780JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1781
d2af03f4
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1782TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1783 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1784 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1785
9d1c15ef
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1786JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1787 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1788
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1789JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1790 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1791 hosts_request_ocsp.
1792
ed3bba5f 1793JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1794 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1795 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1796
8ccd00b1
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1797JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1798
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1799TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1800 Christian Aistleitner.
1801
f2de3a33
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1802JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1803
6eb02f88
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1804TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1805 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1806
00bff6f6
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1807JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1808 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1809
071c51f7
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1810JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1811 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1812
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1813TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1814 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1815
3ae173e7
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1816TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1817 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1818
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1819TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1820 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1821 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1822
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1823JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1824
66be95e0
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1825PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1826 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1827 Jasper Wallace.
1828
1bd0d12b
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1829JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1830
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1831TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1832 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1833 CVE-2014-2972
1834
fd3b6a4a 1835
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1839PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1840
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1841PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1842 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1843
54c90be1
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1844PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1845 by GnuTLS.
1846
1f4a55da
PP
1847PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1848 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1849 routines.
1850
13363eba 1851PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1852
66645890 1853PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1854 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1855 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1856 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1857 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1858
a3fb9793 1859PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1860 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1861 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1862 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1863 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1864 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1865
d27f98fe 1866TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1867
6822b909
TL
1868TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1869
e7568d51
TL
1870TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1871 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1872
ae0e32ee 1873TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1874 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1875 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1876
1877TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1878
e2658fff
TL
1879TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1880
83712b39
TL
1881TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1882 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1883
976b7e9f
JH
1884JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1885
be4a1376
JH
1886JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1887
ec4b68e5
PP
1888PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1889
d7148a07
NM
1890NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1891 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1892
585121e2 1893JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1894
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1895PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1896 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1897 function.
a5f239e4 1898
13d08c90
PP
1899PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1900 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1901
bef3ea7f
JH
1902JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1903 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1904 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1905
846726c5
JH
1906JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1907
3a796370
JH
1908JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1909
ea722490 1910JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1911 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1912
b1b05573
JH
1913JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1914 Bugzilla 884.
1915
362145b5
JH
1916JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1917 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1918
3c0a92dc
JH
1919JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1920 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1921
6d7c6175
PP
1922PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1923 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1924 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1925
6f123593
JH
1926JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1927 authenticators.
1928
c8e2fc1e
JH
1929JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1930 for control.
1931
005ac57f
PP
1932PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1933
3f1df0e3
PP
1934PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1935 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1936 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1937 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1938
67bd1ab3
TF
1939TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1940
1941 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1942 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1943 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1944 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1945 the retry rules.
1946
1947 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1948 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1949 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1950
1951 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1952 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1953 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1954 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1955
1ddeb334
TF
1956 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1957 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1958 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1959 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1960 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1961 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1962 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1963
1964 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1965 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1966
326cdc37
TF
1967TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1968
1969 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1970
1971 Resent-From: f
1972
1973 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1974 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1975 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1976 username as equal to the username.
1977
1978 This change corrects that bug.
1979
f62514b3
GF
1980GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1981 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1982 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1983
eb505532
TF
1984TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1985
14c7b357
PP
1986PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1987 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1988 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1989 NULL dereference and crash.
1990
94eaf700
PP
1991JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1992
6f5a440a
PP
1993PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1994 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1995 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1996
514ee161
SC
1997SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1998
fd98a5c6
JH
1999JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2000 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2001 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2002 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2003 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2004 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2005 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 2006 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
2007 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2008 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2009 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2010
035c7f1e
PP
2011PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2012 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2013
ff284120
PP
2014PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2015 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2016 Bugzilla 880.
2017
26e72755
PP
2018PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2019 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2020 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2021 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2022 an empty string is now equivalent.
2023
0fbd9bff
PP
2024PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2025 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2026 not performing validation itself.
2027
700d22f3
PP
2028PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2029 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2030
fcc8e047
JH
2031JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2032 Bugzilla 321, 823.
2033
4c04137d 2034TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 2035
8c020188
PP
2036PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2037 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2038 other false fix of the same issue.
2039 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2040 Bugzilla 1363.
2041
d13cdd30
PP
2042PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2043 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2044
e2fbf4a2
PP
2045PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2046 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2047 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2048
f4c1088b
PP
2049PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2050 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2051 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2052
c5c2182f
PP
2053TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2054
73431ca9
JH
2055JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2056
2d07a215
TL
2057TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2058 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2059
a30a8861
TL
2060TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2061 Alexander Miroch.
2062
33382dd9
TL
2063TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2064 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2065 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2066 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2067 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 2068
046172e6
TL
2069TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2070 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2071
581d7bee 2072TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 2073 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
2074 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
2075
2076TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2077 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2078 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2079 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2080
237b2cf2
TL
2081TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2082
9fc5a352
TL
2083TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2084 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2085 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 2086
b10e4ec2
TL
2087TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2088
e2cebd74
TL
2089TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2090 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2091 interaction.
2092
2093TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2094 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2095
2519e60d
TL
2096TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2097 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2098
e78e6ecf 2099
4263f395
PP
2100Exim version 4.80.1
2101-------------------
2102
2103PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2104 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 2105 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 2106
ea722490 2107
b1770b6e 2108Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
2109-----------------
2110
2111PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2112 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2113 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2114
23c7e742
NM
2115NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2116
b322aac8
NM
2117NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2118 improved.
2119
4a891427
NM
2120NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2121
c1e794ba 2122PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 2123
97753960
PP
2124PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2125
2126PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2127 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2128
df6303fa
PP
2129PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2130 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2131
7e6a8985
PP
2132PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2133 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2134
f1e05cc7 2135PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
2136 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2137 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 2138
4c287009
PP
2139PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2140
b98bb9ac
PP
2141PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2142 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2143
4a6a987a
PP
2144PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2145
c45dd180 2146PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 2147
7db8d074
PP
2148PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2149 non-compliant senders.
2150 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2151
eae0036b 2152NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 2153 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
2154 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2155
dec5017e
PP
2156PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2157 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2158 in spool file corruption.
2159
c80c5570
PP
2160PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2161 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2162 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2163 "Got SSL error 2".
2164
076b11e2
PP
2165TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2166 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2167 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2168
5407bfff
JH
2169JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2170 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2171
9e45c72b
PP
2172JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2173
e74376d8
PP
2174PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2175 diagnostics.
2176 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2177
4c04137d 2178PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
2179 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2180 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2181
7be682ca
PP
2182PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2183 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
2184 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2185 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 2186
ef840681
PP
2187PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2188 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2189
5bfb4cdf
PP
2190PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2191 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2192 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2193 resolver implementation change.
2194
c6e95d22
PP
2195PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2196 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2197
9cbad13b
PP
2198PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2199
9ee44efb
PP
2200PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2201
6a6084f8
PP
2202PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2203 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2204
12dd53c7
PP
2205PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2206 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2207
9e45c72b 2208JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
2209 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2210
17c76198
PP
2211PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2212 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2213 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2214 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 2215 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 2216
53947857 2217PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 2218
eae0036b 2219PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
2220 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2221 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 2222
9e45c72b 2223JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 2224
7390e768
PP
2225PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2226 read-only, out of scope).
2227 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2228
08488c86
PP
2229PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2230 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2231 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2232 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2233
6475bd82
PP
2234PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2235
81f91683
PP
2236PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2237 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2238 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2239 real issues in debug logging.
2240
5779e6aa
PP
2241PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2242 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2243
3375e053
PP
2244PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2245 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2246 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2247
2248PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2249 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2250 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2251 problems.
3375e053 2252
9d26b8c0
PP
2253PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2254 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2255
57eb9e91 2256PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2257 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2258 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2259 needs to override this, it can.
2260
16880d1a
PP
2261PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2262 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2263 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2264
a799883d
PP
2265PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2266 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2267 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2268 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2269
3ecab157 2270PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2271
0599f9cf 2272
867fcbf5
PP
2273Exim version 4.77
2274-----------------
2275
2276PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2277 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2278
f1a29782
TF
2279TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2280
ab42bd23
TK
2281TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2282 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2283
0ca0cf52
TF
2284TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2285 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2286
921b12ca
TF
2287TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2288 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2289 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2290
2291 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2292 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2293 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2294 not safe for signals.
2295
2296 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2297 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2298 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2299 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2300 exiwhat.
2301
c99ce5c9
TF
2302TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2303
2304 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2305 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2306 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2307 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2308 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2309
2310 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2311 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2312 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2313 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2314 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2315 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2316
2317 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2318 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2319 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2320 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2321
2322 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2323 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2324 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2325 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2326
2327 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2328 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2329 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2330 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2331 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2332 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2333 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2334 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2335 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2336
2337 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2338 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2339 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2340 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2341
2342 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2343 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2344 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2345 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2346 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2347 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2348 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2349 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2350 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2351 details in the main documentation.
2352
3634fc25
TF
2353TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2354
792e8a19
TF
2355TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2356
5901f0ab
TF
2357TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2358 repository when doing development or release builds.
2359
7f2a2a43
PP
2360PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2361 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2362
061b7ebd
PP
2363PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2364 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2365 Bugzilla 97.
2366
e12f8c32
PP
2367PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2368
9e949f00 2369PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2370 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2371
2372PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2373 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2374
555ae6af 2375PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2376 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2377
2378PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2379 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2380
6f7fe114
PP
2381PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2382 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2383
c566dd90
PP
2384PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2385 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2386 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2387 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2388
d6cc7c78 2389PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2390 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2391 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2392
0d0e4455
PP
2393PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2394
3399bb60 2395PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2396
2397PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2398 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2399
0ca0cf52 2400
10906672
PP
2401Exim version 4.76
2402-----------------
2403
2404PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2405
754a0503
PP
2406PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2407 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2408
c0c7b2da
PP
2409PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2410
e97d1f08
PP
2411PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2412
084c1d8c
PP
2413PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2414 Bugzilla 1098.
2415
4e7ee012
PP
2416PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2417 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2418
c8d52a00
PP
2419TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2420 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2421
54e7ce4a
PP
2422PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2423 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2424
5ee6f336
PP
2425PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2426 Bugzilla 1104.
2427
c8d52a00 2428TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2429 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2430
2431TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2432 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2433 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2434 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2435
2436PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2437 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2438
10906672 2439
aa097c4c
NM
2440Exim version 4.75
2441-----------------
2442
4c04137d 2443NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2444 Bugzilla 1073
2445
7f3d9eff
TF
2446TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2447 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2448 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2449
159f52d2
TF
2450TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2451 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2452
0cc9542a
PP
2453PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2454 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2455 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2456
f7274286
PP
2457PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2458 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2459
7b797365
PP
2460PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2461 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2462
caacae52
NM
2463NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2464 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2465
09dcaba9
NM
2466NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2467 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2468
bc19a55b
PP
2469PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2470 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2471
bd4c9759
NM
2472NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2473 Fixes bug 943.
2474
b72aab72
PP
2475PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2476 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2477
2fe76745
PP
2478PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2479 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2480
76aa570c
PP
2481PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2482 SQL string expansion failure details.
2483 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2484
f1e5fef5
PP
2485PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2486 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2487
4d805ee9
PP
2488PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2489 extern declarations in function scope.
2490 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2491
cd59ab18
PP
2492PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2493 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2494 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2495 a kernel bug).
2496
332f5cf3
PP
2497PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2498 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2499
29cfeb94
PP
2500PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2501 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2502
660242ad
PP
2503PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2504 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2505
bc4bc4c5
PP
2506PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2507 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2508
2e64baa9
NM
2509NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2510 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2511 Dennis Davis.
2512
4c04137d 2513PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2514
6bac1a9a
PP
2515PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2516
552193f0
NM
2517NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2518 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2519
1b587e48
TF
2520TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2521 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2522
aa097c4c 2523
8c07b69f
TF
2524Exim version 4.74
2525-----------------
2526
2527TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2528 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2529
c0ea85ab
TF
2530TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2531 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2532
0761d44e
TF
2533TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2534
0a349494
PP
2535DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2536 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2537 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2538
2539PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2540 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2541 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2542
fea24b2e
PP
2543PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2544 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2545 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2546 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2547
6545de78
PP
2548PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2549 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2550 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2551 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2552
1670ef10
PP
2553PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2554 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2555 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2556 arbitrary files.
2557
c0886197
PP
2558PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2559 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2560
b7487bce
PP
2561PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2562 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2563 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2564 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2565 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2566
8c07b69f 2567
97fd1e48 2568Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2569-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2570
2571PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2572 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2573 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2574
6901c596
PP
2575PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2576 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2577
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2578JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2579
77bb000f
PP
2580PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2581
a29e5231
PP
2582PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2583
ec5a0394 2584PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2585
55c75993
PP
2586PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2587
453a6645 2588PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2589 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2590 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2591 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2592
8544e77a
PP
2593PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2594 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2595 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2596 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2597 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2598
83e029d5
PP
2599PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2600
ed7f7860
PP
2601PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2602
7d9f747b
PP
2603PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2604
4b2241d2
PP
2605PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2606
10385c15
PP
2607PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2608
dbc4b90d
PP
2609PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2610
532be449
PP
2611PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2612
6a8de854 2613PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2614 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2615 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2616
5dc43717
JJ
2617JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2618
2619JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2620 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2621
3346ab01
PP
2622PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2623 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2624
491fab4c
PP
2625PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2626 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2627 Notification from John Horne.
2628
13eb9497
PP
2629PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2630 compatible.
2631
2632PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2633 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2634 it normally works.
2635
7f36d675
DW
2636DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2637 access.
2638
c1d94452
DW
2639DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2640 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2641 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2642
e2f5dc15
DW
2643DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2644 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2645 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2646 configuration file.
2647
cd25e41d
DW
2648DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2649 option (effectively making it always true).
2650
261dc43e
DW
2651DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2652 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2653
fa32850b
DW
2654DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2655 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2656
79d4bc3d
PP
2657PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2658 run-time user, instead of root.
2659
43236f35 2660PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2661 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2662
fb08281f
DW
2663DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2664 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2665 arguments.
3346ab01 2666
74935b98
DW
2667DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2668 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2669 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2670
90b6341f
DW
2671DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2672
57730b52
ML
2673NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2674
66581d1e 2675
465e92cf
JJ
2676Exim version 4.72
2677-----------------
2678
453a6645
PP
2679JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2680 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2681 typos
465e92cf 2682
453a6645
PP
2683JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2684 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2685 (Finput)
edae0343 2686
9bd3e22c
NM
2687NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2688 Patch from Alain Williams
2689
bb576ff7
NM
2690NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2691
5a1a5845
NM
2692NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2693 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2694
981a9fad
NM
2695NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2696 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2697
7fc497ee
NM
2698NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2699
1a41defa
JJ
2700JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2701
a466095c 2702NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2703 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2704
94a6bd0b
NM
2705TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2706
2707TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2708
2709MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2710 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2711 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2712
c1b141a8
NM
2713NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2714 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2715
b26eacf1 2716NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2717 Patch by Simon Arlott
2718
179c5980 2719PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2720 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2721
9bd3e22c 2722
7c6d71af
NM
2723Exim version 4.71
2724-----------------
2725
7d9f747b 2726TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2727
f013fb92
NM
2728NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2729
0eb8eedd
NM
2730NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2731
663ee6d9
NM
2732NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2733
177ebd9b
NM
2734NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2735
7c6d71af 2736
210f147e
NM
2737Exim version 4.70
2738-----------------
2739
cdd3bb85 2740TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2741 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2742
2743TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2744 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2745 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2746
2747TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2748 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2749 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2750
2751TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2752 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2753
210f147e
NM
2754NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2755 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2756 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2757 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2758
deafd5b3
NM
2759NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2760 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2761 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2762
089793a4
TF
2763TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2764
5f16ca82
TF
2765TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2766
dae9d94e 2767NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2768 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2769
7d9f747b 2770NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2771
06864c44
TF
2772TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2773 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2774 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2775 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2776
65a7d8c3 2777NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2778 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2779
23510047 2780TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2781
7d9f747b 2782NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2783
7d8eec3a 2784NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2785 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2786
89dec7b6
TF
2787TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2788 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2789
a99de90c
TF
2790TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2791 that they are available at delivery time.
2792
e2803e40
TF
2793TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2794
7199e1ee
TF
2795TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2796 incoming_port log selectors.
2797
e276e04b
TF
2798TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2799 setting expands to an empty string.
2800
ce552449 2801NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2802 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2803
e765a0f1 2804NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2805 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2806
4f054c63 2807NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2808 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2809
7d9f747b
PP
2810NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2811 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2812
7d9f747b
PP
2813NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2814 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2815
b52bc06e 2816NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2817 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2818
447de4b0
NM
2819NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2820
4c69d561 2821NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2822 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2823
d5c39246 2824NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2825 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2826
0b23848a
TK
2827TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2828
8f3414a1 2829NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2830 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2831
fb6f955d
NM
2832NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2833
2834NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2835
7d9f747b
PP
2836NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2837 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2838
7d9f747b
PP
2839NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2840 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2841
7d9f747b
PP
2842NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2843 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2844
7d9f747b
PP
2845NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2846 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2847
7d9f747b
PP
2848NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2849 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2850
7d9f747b
PP
2851NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2852 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2853
7d9f747b
PP
2854NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2855 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2856
7d9f747b 2857NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2858 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2859
7d9f747b 2860NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2861
7d9f747b
PP
2862NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2863 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2864
7d9f747b 2865NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2866
7d9f747b 2867NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2868
7d9f747b 2869NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2870
7d9f747b 2871NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2872
17792b53 2873NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2874 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2875
7d9f747b
PP
2876NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2877 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2878
91576cec 2879NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2880 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2881
7d9f747b
PP
2882NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2883 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2884
7d9f747b 2885NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2886
7d9f747b 2887NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2888
7d9f747b 2889NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2890
7d9f747b 2891NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2892
deafd5b3 2893
47db1125
NM
2894Exim version 4.69
2895-----------------
2896
4b3504d0
TK
2897TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2898 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2899 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2900
2901 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2902 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2903 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2904 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2905 build errors in sieve.c.
2906
81ea09ca
NM
2907NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2908 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2909 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2910
f13cddcb
SC
2911SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2912
7d9f747b 2913NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2914
7d9f747b 2915NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2916
7d9f747b 2917NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2918
2919
eb4c0de6
PH
2920Exim version 4.68
2921-----------------
2922
2923PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2924
6a3bceb1
PH
2925PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2926 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2927 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2928 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2929 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2930 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2931 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2932 for iplsearch lookups.
2933
2934 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2935 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2936 previously such lookups could never work.
2937
4c04137d 2938 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2939 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2940 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2941
2e30fa9d
TK
2942TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2943 version.
2944
0806a9c5
MH
2945MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2946 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2947 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2948 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2949 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2950 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2951
ae276964
TK
2952TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2953 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2954
0f2cbd1b
MH
2955MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2956 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2957 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2958 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2959 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2960 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2961
2b85bce7
PH
2962PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2963 local_scan API.
2964
93655c46
PH
2965PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2966
6c512171
PH
2967PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2968 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2969 encrypted.
2970
2971PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2972 by clients under certain conditions.
2973
aa6dc513
PH
2974PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2975 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2976
a96603a0
PH
2977PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2978
8f240103
PH
2979PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2980 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2981
2982PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2983
d677b2f2
PH
2984PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2985
d52120f2
PH
2986PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2987
64f2600a
PH
2988PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2989 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2990
8669f003
PH
2991PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2992
a4dc33a8
PH
2993PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2994 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2995
d6a60c0f
PH
2996PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2997
8f128379
PH
2998PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2999
8932dffe
PH
3000PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3001 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3002 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3003 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 3004
ddea74fa 3005PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
3006 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3007 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3008
ddea74fa 3009PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
3010 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3011
ddea74fa
PH
3012PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3013
ce9f225c
PH
3014PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3015
19897d52
PH
3016PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3017
bc64a74d
PH
3018PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3019 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3020 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3021
eb4c0de6 3022
b4ed4da0
PH
3023Exim version 4.67
3024-----------------
3025
22ad45c9
MH
3026MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3027 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3028 Jan Srzednicki.
3029
b4ed4da0
PH
3030PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3031 issue a MAIL command.
3032
431b7361
PH
3033PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3034
3035 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3036
3037 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3038 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3039 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3040 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3041 item. This has been fixed.
3042
3043PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3044 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3045
83da1223
PH
3046PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3047 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3048
54fc8428
PH
3049PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3050 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3051 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3052
34c5e8dd
SC
3053SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3054
bbe15da8
PH
3055PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3056 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3057 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3058 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3059 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3060
0e8a9471
MH
3061MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3062 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3063 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3064
f0872424
PH
3065PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3066 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3067 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3068 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3069
b01dd148
PH
3070PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3071
6bf342e1
PH
3072PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3073
273f34d0
PH
3074PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3075 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3076 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3077 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3078 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3079
cf8b11a5
PH
3080PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3081
41c7c167
PH
3082PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3083 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3084 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3085 values).
3086
9c57cbc0
PH
3087PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3088
f3f065bb
PH
3089PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3090
047bdd8c
PH
3091PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3092
0ce9abe6
PH
3093PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3094
0e22dfd1
PH
3095PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3096
4c590bd1
PH
3097PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3098 no_callout_flush is set.
3099
09945f1e
PH
3100PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3101 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3102 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3103 fixed.
3104
c51b8e75
PH
3105PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3106
e28326d8 3107PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 3108 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
3109 other ACL rejections are.
3110
75b1493f
PH
3111PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3112 with slight modification.
3113
7c5214ec
PH
3114PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3115 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3116
4311097e
PH
3117PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3118 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3119 connection.
3120
29f89cad
PH
3121PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3122 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3123
5e687460
SC
3124SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3125
c3611384
PH
3126PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3127 expansion side effects.
3128
5a11a7b4
PH
3129PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3130 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3131 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3132 be the same.
3133
0e20aff9
MH
3134MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3135 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3136 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3137
ca86f471
PH
3138PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3139 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3140 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3141 were accidentally chopped off.
3142
a14e5636
PH
3143PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3144 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3145 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3146 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3147 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3148 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3149 pipelining has not been advertised.
3150
ec95d1a6
PH
3151PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3152
42855d71
PH
3153PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3154 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3155 This has been fixed.
3156
57c2c631
PH
3157PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3158 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3159 reported on Solaris.
3160
58c01c94
PH
3161PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3162 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3163 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3164 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3165 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3166 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3167 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3168
dee5a20a
PH
3169PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3170 cpus.
3171
d2ee6114
PH
3172PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3173
b2d5182b
PH
3174PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3175
79749a79
PH
3176PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3177 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
3178 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3179 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3180 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3181 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 3182
c456d9bb
PH
3183PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3184 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3185 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3186 host_all_ignored option.
3187
cd9868ec
PH
3188PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3189 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3190 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3191 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3192 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3193 is what is supposed to happen).
3194
ebeaf996
PH
3195PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3196 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3197 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3198 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3199 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3200 uses the Exim user.
3201
2679d413
PH
3202PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3203 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3204 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3205 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3206 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3207 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3208 users.
3209
84024b72
PH
3210PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3211
8005d38e
SC
3212SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3213 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3214 (Jez Hancock).
3215 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3216 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3217
3298c6c6
SC
3218SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3219
a43a27c5
PH
3220PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3221
58eb016e 3222PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
3223 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3224 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3225 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3226 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3227 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3228 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3229 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3230 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3231 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3232 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3233
b43a74ea
PH
3234PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3235 advertised in response to EHLO.
3236
b4ed4da0 3237
5dd1517f
PH
3238Exim version 4.66
3239-----------------
3240
3241PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3242 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3243
3244 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3245 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3246
3247 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3248 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3249 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3250
3251 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3252 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3253 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3254 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3255 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3256
3257
93cfa765
TK
3258Exim version 4.65
3259-----------------
3260
3261TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3262 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3263 versions. (#438)
3264
d6066548
MH
3265MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3266 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3267 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3268
4362ff0d
PH
3269PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3270 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3271 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3272 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3273 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3274 rather than extend the field.
3275
93cfa765 3276
944e9e9c
TF
3277Exim version 4.64
3278-----------------
aa41d2de 3279
21d74bd9
TK
3280TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3281 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3282 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3283 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3284 these files.
3285
3286TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3287 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3288 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3289
3290TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3291 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3292 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3293
3294TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3295 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3296 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3297 in the field name.
3298
2b1c6e3a
PH
3299PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3300 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3301 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3302 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3303 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3304 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3305 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3306 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3307 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3308 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3309 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3310
1f872c80
PH
3311PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3312 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3313
3314PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3315 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3316 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3317 ignores EPIPE as well.
3318
d203e649
PH
3319PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3320 (quoted-printable decoding).
3321
cc2ed8f7 3322PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3323 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3324
ddfcd446
PH
3325PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3326
d45b1de8
PH
3327PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3328
3329PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3330
38a0a95f 3331PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3332 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3333
a2405d83
JJ
3334JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3335 in 4.64-PH/09.
3336
3337JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3338 miscellaneous code fixes
3339
6ea85e9a
PH
3340PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3341 rejections.
3342
26da7e20
PH
3343PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3344 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3345 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3346 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3347 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3348 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3349 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3350 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3351
14aa5a05 3352PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3353 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3354 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3355 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3356 function.
3357 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3358 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3359 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3360 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3361 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3362 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3363 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3364 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3365 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3366
ff75a1f7
PH
3367PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3368 decoding.
3369
e6f6568e
PH
3370PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3371 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3372 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3373 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3374 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3375 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3376 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3377 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3378
d6f6e0dc
PH
3379PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3380 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3381 list.
3382
322050c2
PH
3383PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3384 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3385 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3386 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3387 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3388 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3389 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3390 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3391 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3392 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3393 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3394 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3395 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3396
08955dd3
PH
3397PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3398 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3399 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3400 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3401 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3402 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3403 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3404
1eccaa59
PH
3405PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3406 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3407 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3408 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3409 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3410 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3411 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3412 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3413 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3414 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3415
602e59e5
PH
3416PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3417 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3418 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3419 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3420 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3421
411ef850
PH
3422PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3423 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3424 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3425 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3426 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3427 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3428 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3429
7befa435
PH
3430PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3431 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3432 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3433 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3434 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3435 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3436 been verified.
3437
48da4259 3438PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3439 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3440 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3441 and authorization.)
3442
48da4259
PH
3443PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3444 if any retry times were supplied.
3445
d1d5595c
PH
3446PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3447 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3448 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3449
0ef732d9
PH
3450PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3451
328895cc
PH
3452PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3453
fd700877
PH
3454PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3455 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3456 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3457 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3458 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3459 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3460
8dce1a6f
PH
3461PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3462 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3463
17af4a17
PH
3464PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3465 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3466 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3467
3468PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3469 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3470 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3471 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3472 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3473 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3474 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3475 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3476 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3477
3478 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3479 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3480 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3481 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3482 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3483 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3484 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3485 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3486 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3487
3488 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3489 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3490 hammering the server.
3491
c1114884
PH
3492PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3493 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3494
7a0743eb
PH
3495PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3496
0d85fa3f
PH
3497PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3498 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3499 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3500
1bf43b78
PH
3501PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3502 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3503 one case where this was not true.
3504
520de300
PH
3505PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3506 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3507 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3508 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3509 fails.
3510
48c7f9e2
PH
3511PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3512 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3513 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3514 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3515 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3516 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3517 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3518 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3519 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3520 smtp transport.
3521
99ea1c86
PH
3522PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3523 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3524 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3525 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3526
a2042e78
PH
3527PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3528 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3529
4fbcfc2e
PH
3530PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3531 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3532 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3533
aa41d2de
PH
3534PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3535
af561417
PH
3536PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3537
3cc66b45
PH
3538PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3539
194cc0e4
PH
3540PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3541 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3542 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3543 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3544
a401ddaa
PH
3545PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3546 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3547
4e88a19f
PH
3548PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3549 be meaningful with "accept".
3550
d7d7b289
SC
3551SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3552 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3553
3554SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3555 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3556 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3557
3558SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3559 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3560 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3561 there is data to show.
3562 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3563
3564SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3565 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3566 as well as the number of messages.
3567
3568SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3569 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3570 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3571
3572SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3573 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3574 have a flag are now skipped.
3575
3576SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3577 Added the -emptyok flag.
3578
3579SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3580 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3581
0ea2a468
JJ
3582JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3583 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3584 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3585
3586JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3587 match 4.64-PH/13
3588
3589JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3590 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3591
3592JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3593
3594JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3595 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3596
8a10f5a4
PH
3597PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3598
30e18802
PH
3599PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3600 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3601 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3602 contravention of the specifications.
3603
55728a4f
PH
3604PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3605 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3606 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3607
d7837193
PH
3608PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3609 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3610 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3611
87054a31
PH
3612PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3613
ea2c01d2
MH
3614MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3615 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3616 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3617 some point in the past.
3618
e4fa6968
PH
3619PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3620 transport during callout processing was broken.
3621
56f5d9bd
PH
3622PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3623 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3624
922e1c28
PH
3625PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3626 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3627
21eb6e72
PH
3628PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3629 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3630
a0540757
PH
3631PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3632
944e9e9c 3633
478be7b0
SC
3634Exim version 4.63
3635-----------------
3636
3637SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3638 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3639
3640SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3641 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3642 there is data to show.
3643 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3644
3645SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3646 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3647
2b965a65
TF
3648TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3649 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3650
45b91596
PH
3651TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3652 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3653
c59f5781
TF
3654TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3655 submissions from trusted users.
3656
90fc3069
TF
3657TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3658 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3659
6083aca0
TF
3660TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3661 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3662 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3663 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3664 there is now a framework to start from.
3665
765b530f
PH
3666PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3667 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3668 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3669
4e167a8c
PH
3670PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3671
4608d683
PH
3672PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3673
b8dc3e4a
PH
3674PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3675
5418e93b
PH
3676PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3677 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3678 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3679
b4a9bda2
PH
3680PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3681 libradius.
3682
45b91596
PH
3683PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3684 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3685 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3686
5547e2c5
PH
3687PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3688 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3689 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3690 its arguments.
3691
dbcef0ea
PH
3692PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3693 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3694 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3695 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3696 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3697
25257489
PH
3698PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3699 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3700
c816d124
PH
3701PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3702
a9ccd69a
PH
3703PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3704 operations in malware.c.
3705
75fa1910
PH
3706PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3707 signatures.
3708
a7d7aa58
PH
3709PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3710 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3711 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3712 all.
3713
42119b09
PH
3714PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3715 statements to "add_header".
3716
41609df5
PH
3717PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3718 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3719
a5bd321b
PH
3720PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3721 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3722 latter.
3723
e85a7ad5 3724PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3725 so that it is now:
3726
e85a7ad5
PH
3727 ${if or { \
3728 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3729 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3730 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3731 }{no}{yes}}
3732
e85a7ad5
PH
3733 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3734 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3735
d8fe1c03
PH
3736PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3737 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3738
16282d2b
PH
3739PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3740 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3741 any possible encoding problems.
3742
35d40a98
PH
3743PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3744 but not after initializing Perl.
3745
034d99ab
PH
3746PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3747 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3748 apparently, which is not desirable.
3749
6ec97b1b
PH
3750PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3751 queries.
3752
e22ca4ac
JJ
3753JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3754 --not options
3755
3756JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3757
33d73e3b
PH
3758PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3759 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3760 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3761 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3762
9ecb03f3
PH
3763PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3764 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3765 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3766
084efe8d
PH
3767PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3768 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3769 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3770 0.12.
3771
366fc9f0
PH
3772PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3773 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3774 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3775 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3776 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3777
c59f5781 3778
c887c79e
TF
3779Exim version 4.62
3780-----------------
3781
3782TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3783 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3784
1cce3af8
PH
3785PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3786 patch).
3787
afb3eaaf
PH
3788PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3789 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3790 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3791 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3792 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3793 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3794 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3795 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3796 451 error is used.
3797
e173618b
PH
3798PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3799
dd16e114
PH
3800PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3801 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3802 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3803
f7fd3850
PH
3804PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3805 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3806 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3807 odd errors.
3808
d87df92c
PH
3809PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3810 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3811
7e9f683d
PH
3812PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3813 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3814 option (which defaults to 0600).
3815
bfad5236
PH
3816PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3817
01c490df
PH
3818PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3819 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3820 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3821 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3822 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3823 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3824 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3825
d6629cdc
PH
3826PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3827
1cce3af8 3828
214e2000
PH
3829Exim version 4.61
3830-----------------
3831
3832PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3833 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3834 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3835 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3836 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3837 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3838 addresses as local.
3839
f9daeae0
PH
3840PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3841 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3842
7e66e54d
PH
3843PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3844
c8ea1597
PH
3845PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3846 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3847 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3848 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3849 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3850 grumble.
3851
911f6fde
PH
3852PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3853 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3854
47ca6d6c
PH
3855PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3856 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3857 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3858 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3859 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3860
ed0e9820
PH
3861PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3862 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3863 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3864 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3865
eff37e47
PH
3866PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3867 be the same on different OS.
3868
1921d2ea
PH
3869PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3870 testing.
3871
b3f69ca8
JJ
3872JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3873 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3874
3875JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3876 in 4.61-PH/06
3877
424a1c63
PH
3878PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3879 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3880 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3881 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3882 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3883 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3884 bounce message.
3885
7a100415
PH
3886PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3887 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3888 when Exim was called.
3889
19b9dc85
PH
3890PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3891 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3892
309bd837
PH
3893PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3894 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3895 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3896 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3897
59e82a2a
PH
3898PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3899 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3900 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3901 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3902 changes:
3903
3904 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3905 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3906 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3907
3908 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3909 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3910 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3911
9edc04ce
PH
3912PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3913 feature).
3914
1349e1e5
PH
3915PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3916 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3917 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3918 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3919 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3920 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3921 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3922 values from the SRV records were lost.
3923
ea49d0e1
PH
3924PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3925 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3926 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3927
064a94c9
PH
3928PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3929 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3930 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3931
727071f8
PH
3932PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3933 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3934 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3935 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3936 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3937 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3938 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3939 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3940 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3941 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3942
f78eb7c6
PH
3943PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3944 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3945 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3946
21c28500
PH
3947PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3948 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3949
3950PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3951 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3952 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3953 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3954 is given.
3955
1688f43b
PH
3956PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3957 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3958 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3959
3960PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3961 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3962 PH/23 above applies.
3963
9675b384
PH
3964PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3965 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3966 (for which there is an explicit test).
3967
6a3f1455
PH
3968PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3969
dac79d3e
PH
3970PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3971 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3972 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3973 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3974 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3975
5977a0b3
PH
3976PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3977 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3978 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3979 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3980
c91535f3
PH
3981PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3982 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3983 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3984
0d46a8c8
PH
3985PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3986
278c6e6c
PH
3987PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3988
2cbb4081
PH
3989PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3990 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3991 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3992
3eef829e
PH
3993PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3994 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3995 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3996 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3997 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3998
1ab95fa6
PH
3999PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4000 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4001 the message gets confusing).
4002
230205fc
PH
4003PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4004 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4005 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4006 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4007
75e0e026
PH
4008PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4009 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4010 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4011 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4012 same order.
4013
4014PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4015 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4016 the different processes.
4017
145396a6
PH
4018PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4019
3cd34f13
PH
4020PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4021
11121d3d
JJ
4022JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4023 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4024
4025JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4026 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4027
4028JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4029 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4030 messages matching specified criteria.
4031
8def5aaf
PH
4032PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4033
929ba01c
PH
4034PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4035 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4036
2632889e
PH
4037PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4038 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4039 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4040 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4041 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4042 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4043 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4044 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4045 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4046 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4047
944a9c55
PH
4048PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4049 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4050 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4051
4a23603b
PH
4052PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4053
4730f942
PH
4054PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4055 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4056 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4057 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4058 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4059 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4060 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4061 the variable.
4062
30dba1e6
PH
4063PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4064 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4065
382afc6b
PH
4066PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4067
a86229cf
PH
4068PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4069
50c99ba6
PH
4070PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4071
d35e429d
PH
4072PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4073 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4074 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4075 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4076 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4077 size of the count of files.
4078
f90d018c
PH
4079PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4080
75def545
PH
4081PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4082 used in LMTP mode:
4083
4084 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4085 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4086 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4087 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4088
4089 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4090 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4091 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4092
4093PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4094 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4095 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4096 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4097 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4098
c46782ef
PH
4099PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4100 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4101
71fafd95
PH
4102PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4103 will now be deprecated.
4104
2c5db4fd
PH
4105PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4106
9cf6b11a
JJ
4107JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4108 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4109 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4110
4111JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4112 with very large, slow to parse queues
4113
4114JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4115
4116JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4117
898d150f
PH
4118PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4119 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4120 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4121 SMTP output lines.
4122
46218253
PH
4123PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4124 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4125 Sieve code now uses this.
4126
e97957bc
PH
4127PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4128 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4129
81e509d7
PH
4130PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4131 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4132
3d240ff7
PH
4133PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4134
b37c4101
PH
4135PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4136 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4137 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4138 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4139 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4140
79378e0f
PH
4141PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4142 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4143 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4144 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4145
e49c7bb4
PH
4146PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4147
d114ec46
PH
4148PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4149
f3d7df6c
PH
4150PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4151 is preferred over IPv4.
4152
715ab376
PH
4153PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4154 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4155 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4156 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4157 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4158 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4159 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4160
6b31b150
PH
4161PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4162 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4163 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4164
4165PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4166
d515a917
PH
4167PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4168 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4169 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4170 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4171 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4172 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4173 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4174 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4175 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4176 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4177 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4178
9b8fadde
PH
4179PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4180 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4181 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4182
214e2000 4183
5de37277
PH
4184Exim version 4.60
4185-----------------
4186
cc38ddbf
PH
4187PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4188
4189 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4190 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4191
4192 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4193 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4194 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 4195
72fdd6ae
PH
4196PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4197
4198 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4199 not a single digit.
4200
4201 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4202 string.
4203
4204 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4205 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4206 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4207 silly things.
4208
4209 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4210 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4211
4212 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4213 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 4214
cb741023
PH
4215PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4216 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4217 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4218
f174f16e
PH
4219PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4220 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 4221
c25242d7
PH
4222PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4223 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4224
4225 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4226
4227 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4228 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4229 this:
4230
4231 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4232
82c19f95
PH
4233PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4234 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4235 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4236 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4237 identical. For example:
4238
4239 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4240
4241 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4242 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4243 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4244
d7ffbc12
PH
4245PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4246 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4247 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4248 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4249
9f526266
PH
4250PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4251 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4252 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4253 message.
4254
87fcc8b9
PH
4255PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4256
4257 o fixes some comments
4258 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4259 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4260 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4261 and documents the missing references header update
4262
4263 and most important:
4264
4265 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4266 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4267 result)
4268
456682f5
PH
4269PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4270 Electronic Mail") by including:
4271
4272 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4273
4274 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4275 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4276 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4277 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4278 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4279
4280 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4281
4282 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4283
4284 The auto-replied keyword:
4285
4286 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4287 message by an automatic process,
4288
4289 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4290
4291 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4292 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4293
4294 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4295 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4296 other messages.
4297
3e46c1aa
PH
4298PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4299 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4300
49826d12
PH
4301PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4302
eba0c039
PH
4303PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4304 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4305 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4306
a0d6ba8a
PH
4307PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4308 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4309 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4310
f0917727
PH
4311PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4312 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4313 and treats the condition as false.
4314
096fee00
PH
4315PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4316
024bd3c2
PH
4317PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4318 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4319 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4320 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4321 not changing the active code.
4322
4323 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4324 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4325
4326 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4327 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4328
df199fec
PH
4329PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4330 (Bugzilla #53).
4331
d27f1df3
PH
4332PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4333 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4334 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4335 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4336 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4337 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4338 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4339 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4340 the text comparison.
4341
96776534
PH
4342PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4343 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4344 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4345 The same fix has been applied.
4346
5de37277 4347
9a799bc0
PH
4348Exim version 4.54
4349-----------------
4350
4351PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4352 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4353 It now does.
4354
99a4b039
PH
4355PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4356 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4357
4358PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4359
4b233853
PH
4360PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4361 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4362 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4363 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4364 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4365
8857ccfd
PH
4366TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4367 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4368 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4369 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4370 or /domain=).
4371
433a2980
PH
4372PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4373 testing suite.
4374
3e46c1aa 4375
9a799bc0 4376
e3a311ba
TK
4377Exim version 4.53
4378-----------------
4379
4380TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4381 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4382
13b685f9
PH
4383PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4384
395ff96d
PH
4385PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4386
5b68f6e4
PH
4387PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4388 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4389 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4390
1ab52c69
PH
4391PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4392 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4393 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4394
b07e6aa3
PH
4395PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4396 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4397 operating systems.
4398
254e032f
PH
4399PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4400 ${stat: expansion item.
4401
3af76a81
PH
4402PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4403 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4404
2548ba04
PH
4405PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4406 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4407 file for comments.
4408
b6c6011d
PH
4409PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4410
cf39cf57
PH
4411PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4412 setting.
4413
f1513293
PH
4414PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4415 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4416
727549a4
PH
4417TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4418
af46795e
PH
4419PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4420 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4421 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4422 the end of the subprocess.
4423
d7b47fd0
PH
4424PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4425 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4426 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4427 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4428 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4429
ee744174
JJ
4430JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4431
b582ab87
PH
4432TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4433
41a13e0a
PH
4434PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4435 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4436
f625cc5a
PH
4437PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4438
4439PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4440
21f7af35
PH
4441PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4442 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4443 HP-UX compiler.
4444
31480e42
PH
4445PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4446
2d280592
PH
4447PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4448 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4449 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4450
7cd1141b
PH
4451PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4452 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4453
4454PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4455 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4456
750af86e
PH
4457PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4458 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4459
4460 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4461 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4462
4463 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4464 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4465 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4466 contributed by a Radius user.
4467
4468PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4469 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4470
4304270b
TK
4471TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4472 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4473
750af86e
PH
4474PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4475 available.
4476
64ffc24f
PH
4477PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4478 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4479 received.
4480
5dd9625b
PH
4481PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4482 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4483 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4484 header lines when this was not necessary.
4485
5591031b
PH
4486PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4487
ba18e66a
PH
4488PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4489 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4490 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4491 exists".
4492
9cec981f
PH
4493PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4494 -bV or -d is used.
4495
aa2b5c79
PH
4496PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4497 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4498 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4499 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4500
48a53b7f
PH
4501PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4502
1c59d63b
PH
4503PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4504
671012da
TK
4505TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4506
1509d3a8
PH
4507PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4508
4509PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4510 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4511 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4512 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4513 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4514 settings.
4515
4516PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4517
2fe1a124
PH
4518PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4519 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4520 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4521 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4522 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4523 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4524 which is clearly wrong.
4525
8800895a
PH
4526PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4527
ccfdb010
PH
4528PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4529 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4530 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4531 subsequently added.
4532
1130bfb0
PH
4533PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4534 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4535
ebcb507f
PH
4536PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4537
c35e155c
PH
4538PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4539 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4540
95d1f782
PH
4541PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4542 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4543
fd6de02e
PH
4544PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4545 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4546
58de37c5
PH
4547PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4548 recipients, not senders.
4549
261cf466
TF
4550TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4551 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4552
3ee512ff
PH
4553PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4554
e08c430f
PH
4555PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4556
bef5a11f
PH
4557PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4558 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4559 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4560 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4561
7546de58
TF
4562TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4563
e5d5a95f
TF
4564TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4565 clock is set back in time.
4566
2e88a017
TF
4567TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4568 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4569
a5f65aa4
TF
4570TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4571 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4572
e7726cbf
PH
4573PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4574 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4575 (see PH/47 above).
4576
a7fdad5b
TF
4577TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4578 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4579 header rewrites.
4580
6af56900
PH
4581PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4582 type ("H").
4583
0925ede6
PH
4584PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4585
66afa403
TF
4586TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4587 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4588 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4589
0154e85a
TF
4590TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4591 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4592 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4593 helo verification defer as a failure.
4594
16f12c76
PH
4595PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4596 actual error message.
4597
bbe902f0 4598
e5a9dba6
PH
4599Exim version 4.52
4600-----------------
4601
4602TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4603
22c3b60b
PH
4604PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4605 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4606 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4607 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4608
06a9b4b5
PH
4609TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4610
c1ac6996
PH
4611PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4612 can still be requested.
4613
9c7a242c
PH
4614PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4615 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4616 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4617 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4618
87ba3f5f
PH
4619TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4620 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4621 circumstances, but probably never did.
4622
4623PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4624 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4625 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4626 in the header line.
4627
29aba418
TF
4628TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4629
fe0dab11
TF
4630TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4631 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4632
11d337a4
TK
4633TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4634
4635TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4636
415c8f3b
PH
4637PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4638 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4639 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4640 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4641 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4642 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4643
958541e9
PH
4644PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4645 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4646 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4647 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4648 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4649 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4650
c206415f
TK
4651TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4652 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4653
2a4be8f9
PH
4654PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4655 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4656
1cba11c5
SC
4657SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4658 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4659
4c04137d 4660SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4661
4662SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4663
4664SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4665
4666SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4667
4668SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4669
4670SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4671
1005d00e
TK
4672TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4673
4674TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4675 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4676 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4677
4678TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4679 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4680 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4681 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4682
9b4768fa
PH
4683PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4684 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4685 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4686
4687PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4688 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4689 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4690 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4691
0d7eb84a
PH
4692PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4693 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4694 to be made).
4695
4696PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4697 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4698 should work with maildirs and everything.
4699
40727bee
TK
4700TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4701 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4702
554d2369
TF
4703TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4704 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4705
1f922db1
PH
4706PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4707 function for BDB 4.3.
4708
ef213c3b
PH
4709PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4710
8ac170f3
PH
4711PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4712 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4713 involved.
4714
b1c749bb
PH
4715PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4716 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4717 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4718 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4719 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4720 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4721
4aac9b49
PH
4722PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4723 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4724 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4725 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4726 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4727 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4728 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4729 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4730
294520c8
TK
4731TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4732 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4733 details.
4734
5bd022fe
PH
4735PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4736 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4737
90e9ce59
PH
4738PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4739 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4740 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4741 test. It is now used for both.
4742
5ea81592
PH
4743PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4744 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4745 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4746 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4747 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4748 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4749
c6c2dc1d
PH
4750PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4751 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4752 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4753 string_vformat().
4754
fffffe4c
PH
4755PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4756 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4757 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4758
9a26b6b2
PH
4759PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4760 experimental DomainKeys support:
4761
4762 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4763 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4764 the control was given.
4765
4766 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4767
4aee0225
PH
4768PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4769
32d668a5
PH
4770PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4771
8187c3f3
PH
4772PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4773 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4774 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4775 db.h files).
4776
ff790e47 4777PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4778 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4779 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4780 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4781 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4782 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4783 course.
ff790e47 4784
5417f6d1
PH
4785PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4786 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4787 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4788 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4789 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4790 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4791
59cf8544
PH
4792PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4793 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4794 do -d+all out of habit.
4795
e7ad8a65
PH
4796PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4797 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4798 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4799
ade42478
PH
4800PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4801 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4802 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4803 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4804 record types that Exim uses.
4805
182ad5cf
PH
4806PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4807 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4808 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4809 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4810 non-existent file that was broken.
4811
b0d9fc80
TK
4812TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4813 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4814
4815TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4816 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4817 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4818
4819TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4820
47c7a64a
PH
4821PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4822 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4823 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4824 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4825 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4826 same time.
4827
a388bce4
SC
4828SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4829 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4830 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4831 at a slight CPU cost.
4832
4833SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4834 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4835
4836SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4837 by Marc Sherman.
4838
0793e4ed
SC
4839SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4840
c58b88df
PH
4841PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4842 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4843
e7ad8a65 4844
7982096b
PH
4845Exim version 4.51
4846-----------------
4847
1a46a8c5
PH
4848TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4849 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4850
2f079f46 4851TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4852
4853TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4854
4855PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4856 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4857
4858PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4859 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4860 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4861 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4862 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4863 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4864 file.
4865
4866PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4867 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4868 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4869 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4870 these two options.
4871
4872PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4873 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4874 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4875 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4876 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4877 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4878 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4879 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4880
4881PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4882 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4883
4884PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4885 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4886 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4887 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4888 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4889 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4890
4891PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4892 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4893 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4894 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4895
4896PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4897 Finch).
4898
4899PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4900 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4901
49c2d5ea
PH
4902PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4903 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4904 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4905 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4906 message.
49c2d5ea 4907
bf759a8b
PH
4908PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4909
83364d30
PH
4910PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4911 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4912
7999bbd7
PH
4913PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4914 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4915 to what was transported.)
4916
7dbf77c9
PH
4917TF/01 Added $received_time.
4918
74e0617f
PH
4919PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4920 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4921 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4922 spamd_address settings.
4923
2f079f46
PH
4924PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4925 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4926 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4927 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4928 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4929
8c841523
PH
4930PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4931
7766a4f0
PH
4932PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4933 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4934 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4935 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4936 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4937
8b417f2c
PH
4938PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4939 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4940
901f42cb
PH
4941PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4942 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4943 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4944 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4945 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4946 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4947 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4948 for failure.
4949
f9b9210e
PH
4950PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4951 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4952 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4953 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4954 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4955 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4956 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4957 "input=".
4958
54cdb463
PH
4959PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4960
cf00dad6
PH
4961PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4962 driver and ACL definitions.
4963
acb1b346
PH
4964PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4965 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4966
c5ddb310
PH
4967PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4968 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4969 understands it better than I do:
4970
4971 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4972 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4973
4974 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4975 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4976 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4977 => three warnings about OTP not working
4978 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4979
4980 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4981 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4982 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4983 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4984 for each call.)
4985 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4986 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4987
4988 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4989 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4990 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4991
31619da6
PH
4992PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4993 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4994 specified.
4995
bebaf0fc
PH
4996PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4997 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4998 "Linux".
4999
475fe28a
PH
5000PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5001 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5002 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5003
5004 warn !verify = sender
5005 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5006
5007 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5008 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5009
7e8bec7a
PH
5010PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5011
5012 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5013 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5014
5015 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5016 nomenclature these days.)
5017
e4a89c47
PH
5018PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5019 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5020
5ca2a9a1
PH
5021PH/30 In these circumstances:
5022 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5023 . First host does not offer TLS;
5024 . First host accepts first address;
5025 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5026 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5027 . Second host accepts second address.
5028 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5029 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5030 address.
7e8bec7a 5031
c688b954
PH
5032PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5033 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5034 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5035 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5036 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5037
fed77020
PH
5038PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5039 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5040
7fe1560f
PH
5041PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5042 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 5043
ebb6e6d5
PH
5044PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5045 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5046 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5047
9c4e8f60
PH
5048PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5049 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5050 overlooked.
5051
5052PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5053
d7174846
PH
5054PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5055 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5056 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5057 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5058 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5059 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5060 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5061
5062 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5063 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5064 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5065 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5066 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5067
5068 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5069 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5070 routed further.
5071
cfe75fc3
PH
5072PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5073 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5074 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5075 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5076 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5077 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5078
be22d70e
PH
5079PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5080
0612b098
PH
5081PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5082 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5083 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5084 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5085 printable escape sequences.
5086
2e0c1448
PH
5087PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5088 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5089 body only.
5090
447d236c
PH
5091PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5092 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5093 are as follows:
5094
5095 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5096 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5097 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5098 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5099 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5100
5101 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5102 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5103 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5104
d20976dc
PH
5105PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5106
f656d135
PH
5107PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5108 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5109 play with."
5110
2e2a30b4
PH
5111PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5112 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5113 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5114 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5115 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5116 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5117 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5118 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5119 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5120 the log output.
5121
9176e9f0
PH
5122PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5123 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5124 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5125 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5126 "make".
5127
7982096b 5128
bbe902f0
PH
5129A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5130----------------------------------------
5131
5132Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5133changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5134needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5135in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5136that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5137release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5138from 4.43.
5139
5140I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
51414.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5142those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5143historical information.
5144
5145
f7b63901 5146Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
5147-----------------
5148
5fe762f6
PH
5149 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5150
139059f6 5151 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 5152 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 5153
7086e875
PH
5154 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5155 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5156 place.
5157
35af9f61
PH
5158 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5159 filter fails to execute.
5160
b668c215
PH
5161 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5162 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5163 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5164 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5165 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5166
a494b1e1
PH
5167 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5168
5169 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5170 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5171 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5172 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 5173
c5fcb476
PH
5174 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5175 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5176 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5177 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5178 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5179
69358f02
PH
5180 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5181
5be20824
PH
518210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5183
eb2c0248
PH
518411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5185 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5186 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5187 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5188
2a3eea10
PH
518912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5190 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5191 sender verification.
5192
519313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5194 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5195
23c7ff99
PH
519614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5197
4deaf07d
PH
519815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5199 connection timeout.
5200
926e1192
PH
520116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5202 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5203
650edc6f
PH
520417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5205 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5206
2c7db3f5
PH
520718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5208 information about exactly what failed.
5209
3d235903
PH
521019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5211
7c7ad977
PH
521220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5213 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5214 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5215
981756db
PH
521621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5217 It is now set to "smtps".
5218
d4eb88df
PH
521922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5220 ignore_target_hosts.
5221
522223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5223 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5224 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5225 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5226 "[x.x.x.x]".
5227
7d468ab8
PH
522824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5229 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5230 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5231
523225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5233 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5234 wake it up if nothing else does.
5235
62c0818f
PH
523626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5237 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5238 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5239 end up negative.
5240
26034054
PH
524127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5242 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5243
af66f652
PH
524428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5245
90af77f4
PH
524629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5247 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5248 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5249 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5250 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5251 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5252 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5253 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5254
d8ef3577
PH
525530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5256 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5257 than one IP address.
5258
5cb8cbc6
PH
525931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5260 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5261 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5262 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5263
14702f5b
PH
526432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5265 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5266 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5267 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5268 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5269 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5270
063b1e99
PH
527133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5272 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5273 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5274 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5275
652e1b65
PH
527634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5277 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5278 respected.
5279
6f0c9a4f
PH
528035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5281 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5282 $sender_host_address.
5283
33397d19
PH
528436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5285 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5286 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5287 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5288 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5289 very small.
5290
7bb56e1f
PH
529137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5292
5293 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5294 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5295
ea3bc19b
PH
5296 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5297 just the host names, not the priorities.
5298
5299 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5300 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5301 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5302
ea3bc19b 5303 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5304 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5305
0bcb2a0e
PH
530638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5307 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5308 domain.
5309
2ac0e484
PH
531039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5311
4e1fde53
PH
531240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5313 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5314
de365ded
PH
531541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5316 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5317 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5318
f05da2e8
PH
531942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5320
d6453af2
PH
532143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5322
f7b63901
PH
532344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5324
532545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5326 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5327 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5328 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5329 because the tests only now provoked it.
5330
a444213a
PH
533146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5332 (this can affect the format of dates).
5333
0ec020ea
PH
533447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5335 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5336 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5337 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5338
b1206957
PH
533948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5340
534149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5342 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5343 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5344 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5345
26dd5a95
PH
534650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5347 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5348 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5349
343b2385
PH
535051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5351 autoreply.
5352
1c5466b9
PH
535352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5354 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5355 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5356 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5357 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5358 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5359 is going on).
5360
55ee9ee3
PH
536153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5362 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5363 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5364 the line.
5365
d38f8232
PH
536654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5367 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5368 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5369
5370 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5371 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5372 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5373 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5374 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5375 so I produce this patch..."
5376
3295e65b
PH
5377 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5378 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5379 is not defined.
5380
7102e136
PH
538155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5382 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5383 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5384 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5385 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5386
3ca0ba97
PH
538756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5388
c2bcbe20
PH
538957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5390 long debug lines gets shown.
5391
18ce445d
PH
539258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5393 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5394
1f5b4c3d
PH
539559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5396
5397 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5398 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5399 of $primary_hostname.
5400
b975ba52
PH
540160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5402 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5403 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5404 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5405 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5406 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5407 by change 4.50/55 above.
5408
5409 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5410 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5411 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5412 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5413 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5414 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5415 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5416
541761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5418 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5419 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5420 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5421
17ffcae7
PH
542262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5423 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5424
d95f9fdb
PH
542563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5426 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5427 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5428 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5429 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5430
86b8287f
PH
543164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5432 This has been fixed.
5433
60dc5e56
PH
543465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5435 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5436 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5437 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5438 the caching.)
5439
533244af
PH
544066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5441
a5a28604
PH
544267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5443 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5444 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5445 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5446
7e634d24
PH
544768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5448 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5449
3e11c26b
PH
545069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5451 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5452 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5453
6729cf78
PH
545470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5455 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5456 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5457 message there.
5458
00f00ca5
PH
545971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5460 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5461 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5462
c9bdd01c
PH
546372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5464 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5465 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5466 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5467
d43194df
PH
546873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5469 during host lookups.
5470
fe5b5d0b
PH
547174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5472 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5473
5474 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5475
76a2d7ba
PH
547675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5477 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5478 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5479 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5480 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5481 background.
5482
548376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5484 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5485
04f7d5b9
PH
548677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5487 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5488 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5489
bc60667e
PH
549078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5491
bb6e88ff
PH
549279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5493 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5494 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5495 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5496 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5497 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5498 process earlier.
5499
1e70f85b
PH
550080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5501 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5502 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5503 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5504 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5505
550681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5507 tables).
5508
4e01f9d6
PH
550982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5510
1ee1cef2
PH
551183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5512 "vacation" handling.
5513
6e2b4ccc
PH
551484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5515 OS variants using glibc.
5516
8e669ac1
PH
551785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5518
495ae4b0 5519
bbe902f0
PH
5520----------------------------------------------------
5521See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5522----------------------------------------------------
5523
5524
5525Exim version 4.44
5526-----------------
5527
5528 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5529 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5530 transport
5531
5532 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5533 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5534 place.
5535
5536 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5537 filter fails to execute.
5538
5539 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5540 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5541 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5542 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5543 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5544
5545 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5546 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5547 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5548 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5549
5550 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5551 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5552 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5553 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5554 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5555
5556 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5557
5558 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5559 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5560 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5561 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5562
5563 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5564 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5565 sender verification.
5566
556710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5568 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5569
557011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5571 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5572
557312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5574 ignore_target_hosts.
5575
557613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5577 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5578 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5579 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5580 "[x.x.x.x]".
5581
558214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5583 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5584 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5585
558615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5587 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5588 wake it up if nothing else does.
5589
559016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5591 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5592 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5593 end up negative.
5594
559517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5596 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5597
ea3a6f44 559818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5599
560019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5601 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5602 empty pattern.
5603
560420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5605 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5606 one IP address.
5607
ea3a6f44
NM
560821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5609 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5610 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5611 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5612 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5613 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5614
ea3a6f44
NM
561522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5616 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5617 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5618
561923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5620 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5621 $sender_host_address.
5622
562324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5624
ea3a6f44
NM
562525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5626 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5627 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5628
562926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5630 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5631
ea3a6f44
NM
563227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5633 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5634
ea3a6f44
NM
563528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5636 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5637 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5638 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5639
564029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5641 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5642 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5643
ea3a6f44
NM
564430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5645 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5646 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5647 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5648
ea3a6f44
NM
564931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5650 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5651 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5652
ea3a6f44
NM
565331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5654 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5655
ea3a6f44
NM
565632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5657 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5658 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5659 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5660 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5661 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5662 is going on).
bbe902f0 5663
ea3a6f44
NM
566433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5665 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5666 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5667 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5668 CAN-2005-0021
5669
ea3a6f44
NM
567034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5671 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5672 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5673 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5674 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5675 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5676 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5677
5678 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5679 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5680 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5681 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5682 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5683 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5684 CAN-2005-0021
5685
ea3a6f44
NM
568635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5687 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5688 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5689 CAN-2005-0022
5690
ea3a6f44
NM
569136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5692 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5693 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5694 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5695 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5696
ea3a6f44
NM
569737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5698 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5699 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5700 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5701 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5702
ea3a6f44
NM
570338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5704 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5705 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5706 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5707 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5708
5709
495ae4b0
PH
5710Exim version 4.43
5711-----------------
5712
5713 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5714 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5715 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5716 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5717 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5718 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5719 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5720
5721 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5722 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5723 the delivery.
5724
5725 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5726
5727 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5728
5729 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5730 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5731 to local_scan().
5732
5733 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5734 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5735 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5736 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5737 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5738
5739 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5740 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5741
5742 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5743
5744 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5745
574610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5747 header_sender only.
5748
574911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5750 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5751
575212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5753 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5754 affecting debugging statements).
5755
575613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5757
575814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5759 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5760 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5761 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5762 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5763 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5764 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5765 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5766 after the received time, and all would be well.
5767
576815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5769 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5770 condition in an expansion string.
5771
577216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5773
577417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5775 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5776 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5777 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5778 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5779 job under whatever limits there are.
5780
578118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5782
578319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5784 space).
5785
578620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5787 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5788 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5789 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5790 return path is set.
5791
579221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5793 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5794 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5795 binary data in such strings.
5796
579722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5798
579923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5800 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5801 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5802 failure, which is pointless.
5803
580424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5805
580625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5807
580826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5809 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5810 Sender: header lines.
5811
581227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5813 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5814 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5815
581628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5817 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5818 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5819 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5820 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5821 happens.
5822
582329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5824 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5825 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5826 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5827 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5828
582930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5830 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5831 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5832 1024.
5833
583431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5835 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5836
583732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5838 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5839
584033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5841
584232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5843
584433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5845
584634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5847 syntax error.
5848
584935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5850
585136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5852
585337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5854 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5855 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5856 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5857
585838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5859 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5860
5861
5862Exim version 4.42
5863-----------------
5864
5865 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5866 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5867 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5868 it was not quoted.
5869 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5870 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5871 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5872 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5873 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5874 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5875
5876 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5877 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5878 verification failure".
5879
5880 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5881 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5882 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5883 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5884
5885 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5886 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5887 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5888 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5889 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5890 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5891 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5892 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5893 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5894 treated as a timeout.
5895
5896 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5897 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5898 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5899 not set for Exim filters).
5900
5901 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5902 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5903 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5904
5905 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5906
5907 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5908 try to make them clearer.
5909
5910 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5911 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5912
5913 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5914
5915 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5916
591710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5918 only the Cygwin environment.
5919
592011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5921 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5922 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5923 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5924 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5925
592612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5927 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5928 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5929 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5930 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5931 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5932 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5933
593413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5935 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5936
593714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5938
5939 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5940 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5941 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5942
5943 To: susanne@some.where
5944
5945 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5946 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5947 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5948 of addresses in From: header lines).
5949
5950 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5951 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5952 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5953
5954 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5955 treated as non-personal.
5956
5957 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5958 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5959
596015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5961
596216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5963
596417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5965 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5966 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5967
596818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5969 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5970
597119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5972 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5973 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5974 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5975 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5976 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5977
597820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5979 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5980 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5981 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5982 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5983 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5984 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5985 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5986
5987 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5988
598921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5990 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5991
599222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5993 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5994 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5995
599623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5997 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5998
599924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6000 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6001 rather than long int.
6002
600325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6004
600526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6006
6007
6008Exim version 4.41
6009-----------------
6010
6011 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6012 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6013 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6014 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6015 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6016 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6017
6018
6019Exim version 4.40
6020-----------------
6021
6022 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6023 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6024
6025 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6026 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6027 socklen_t is defined.
6028
6029 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6030 always exist.
6031
6032 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6033 configured.
6034
6035 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6036 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6037 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6038 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6039 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6040
6041 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6042 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6043 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6044 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6045
6046 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6047 of flapping under certain conditions.
6048
6049 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6050 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6051 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6052
6053 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6054
605510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6056
605711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6058 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6059 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6060 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6061
606212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6063 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6064 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6065 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6066 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6067 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6068 preserved with the message after it was received.
6069
607013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6071 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6072 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6073 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6074 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6075 test suite worked just fine.
6076
607714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6078 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6079 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6080
608115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6082 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6083 string.
6084
608516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6086 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6087 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6088 does not fully solve it.
6089
609017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6091 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6092 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6093 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6094 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6095
609618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6097 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6098 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6099
610019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6101 string, for example:
6102
6103 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6104
6105 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6106 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6107 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6108 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6109 the routers could not see them.
6110
611120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6112 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6113
611421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6115 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6116 output).
6117
611822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6119 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6120 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6121 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6122 that needed quoting.
6123
612423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6125 was not being matched caselessly.
6126
612724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6128 backslashes.
6129
613025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6131 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6132 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6133 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6134 when use_sender is false.
6135
613626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6137
613827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6139
614028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6141
614229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6143 the configuration file.
6144
614530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6146 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6147
614831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6149
615032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6151 bytes in the message body.
6152
615333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6154 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6155 delivery.
6156
615734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6158
615935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6160
616136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6162 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6163 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6164 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6165 another IP address.
6166
6167
6168Exim version 4.34
6169-----------------
6170
6171 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6172 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6173
6174 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6175 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6176 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6177 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6178 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6179
6180 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6181 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6182
6183 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6184 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6185 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6186
6187 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6188 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6189 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6190
6191 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6192 for routers.
6193
6194 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6195 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6196 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6197 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6198 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6199 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6200 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6201
6202
6203Exim version 4.33
6204-----------------
6205
6206 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6207 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6208 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6209 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6210 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6211 default (and expected) setting.
6212
6213 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6214 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6215 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6216 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6217
6218 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6219 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6220
6221 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6222 in domain lists.
6223
6224 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6225 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6226 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6227 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6228 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6229 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6230
6231 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6232 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6233 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6234
6235 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6236 part (NOT match_host).
6237
6238 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6239
6240 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6241 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6242 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6243 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6244 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6245 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6246 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6247 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6248 the same named file.
6249
625010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6251 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6252 when Exim is built.
6253
625411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6255 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6256 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6257 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6258 a host name.
6259
626012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6261 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6262 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6263
626413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6265
626614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6267
626815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6269
627016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6271 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6272
627317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6274 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6275 before starting the TLS session.
6276
627718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6278
627919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6280 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6281
628220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6283 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6284 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6285 colon in the middle).
6286
6287
6288Exim version 4.32
6289-----------------
6290
6291 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6292 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6293 multiple configurations are in use.
6294
6295 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6296 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6297 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6298 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6299 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6300 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6301
6302 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6303 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6304
6305 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6306 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6307 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6308
6309 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6310 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6311 occurs.
6312
6313 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6314 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6315
6316 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6317
6318 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6319 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6320
6321 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6322
6323 -prval:sval
6324
6325 is equivalent to
6326
6327 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6328
6329 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6330 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6331 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6332 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6333 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6334
633510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6336 Exim's behaviour:
6337
6338 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6339 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6340 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6341 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6342 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6343 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6344
6345 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6346 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6347 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6348 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6349 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6350 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6351 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6352 string.
6353
6354 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6355 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6356 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6357 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6358 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6359
636011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6361
636212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6363 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6364 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6365
636613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6367
636814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6369 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6370 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6371 information.
6372
637315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6374 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6375
637616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6377 Three changes have been made:
6378
6379 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6380 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6381 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6382 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6383 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6384
6385 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6386 been restored.
6387
6388 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6389 the modified behaviour.
6390
6391
6392Exim version 4.31
6393-----------------
6394
6395 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6396 Larry Rosenman.
6397
6398 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6399 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6400
6401 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6402 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6403 try to track down a specific problem.
6404
6405 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6406 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6407 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6408
6409 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6410 warning.
6411
6412 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6413 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6414 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6415 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6416 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6417 some earlier ones do not.
6418
6419 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6420
6421 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6422 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6423 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6424 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6425 address literals are enabled, of course).
6426
6427 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6428
642910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6430 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6431 by a command such as
6432
6433 exim -f "" ...
6434
6435 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6436
643711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6438
643912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6440 remained set. It is now erased.
6441
644213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6443 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6444
644514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6446 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6447 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6448 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6449 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6450 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6451 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6452 appropriate error code.
6453
645415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6455 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6456 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6457 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6458 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6459 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6460
646116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6462 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6463 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6464
646517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6466 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6467 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6468 terminate the header.
6469
647018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6471 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6472 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6473
647419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6475 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6476 (4.30/29). In particular:
6477
6478 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6479 imposed.
6480
6481 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6482 to write a maildirsize file.
6483
6484 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6485 the transport, the new value overrides.
6486
6487 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6488 count.
6489
649020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6491 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6492 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6493 space or a tab.
6494
649521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6496 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6497 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6498 the fallback hosts.
6499
650022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6501 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6502 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6503
650423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6505 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6506 using a union.
6507
650824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6509 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6510 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6511
651225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6513
651426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6515
651627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6517
651828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6519 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6520 become corrupted.
6521
652229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6523 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6524 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6525 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6526 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6527 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6528 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6529 too great.
6530
653130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6532 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6533 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6534 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6535 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6536 incorrectly.
6537
653831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6539 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6540 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6541 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6542 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6543 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6544 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6545 cached value only when the same options are set.
6546
654732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6548
654933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6550 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6551 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6552 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6553 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6554
655534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6556 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6557 it is clearly obsolete.
6558
655935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6560 transport.
6561
656236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6563 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6564 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6565 times.
6566
656737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6568 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6569 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6570 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6571 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6572
657338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6574 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6575 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6576 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6577
657839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6579
6580 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6581
6582 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6583 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6584 2^31.
6585
658640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6587 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6588 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6589 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6590 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6591 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6592 $localpart_data.
6593
659441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6595 with the -f command-line option.
6596
659742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6598 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6599 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6600 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6601 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6602 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6603
660443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6605 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6606 line.
6607
660844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6609 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6610 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6611 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6612 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6613 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6614 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6615 buffer is too small.
6616
661745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6618 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6619
662046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6621 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6622 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6623 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6624 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6625 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6626 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6627 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6628 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6629
663047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6631 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6632 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6633
663448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6635 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6636 ACL").
6637
663849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6639 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6640 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6641 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6642 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6643
664450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6645 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6646 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6647 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6648 is set.
6649
665051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6651
665252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6653
665453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6655 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6656
665754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6658 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6659 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6660
666155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6662 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6663 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6664 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6665 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6666
666756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6668 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6669 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6670 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6671 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6672 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6673 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6674
667557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6676 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6677 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6678 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6679 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6680 the test of how many are available.
6681
668258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6683 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6684 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6685 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
6686 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6687 new message is started.
6688
668959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6690 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6691
669260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6693 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6694
669561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6696 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6697 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6698 is no long logged.
6699
670062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6701 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6702 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6703 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6704 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6705 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6706 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6707
670863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6709 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6710 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6711 interpreted as octal.
6712
671364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6714 setting.
6715
671665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6717 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6718 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6719 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6720 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6721 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6722
672366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6724 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6725 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6726 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6727
6728 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6729 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6730 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6731 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6732
6733 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6734 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6735 is a bug fix.
6736
6737 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6738 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6739
674067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6741
674268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6743 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6744 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6745 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6746
674769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6748 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6749 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6750 supplied", which is not helpful.
6751
675270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6753 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6754 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6755
675671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6757 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6758 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6759 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6760 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6761 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6762 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6763 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6764
676572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6766 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6767 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6768 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6769 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6770
677173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6772 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6773 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6774 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6775 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6776 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6777
677874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6779 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6780 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6781
678275. Added write_rejectlog option.
6783
678476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6785 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6786 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6787 variables.
6788
678977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6790
679178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6792 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6793 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6794 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6795 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6796 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6797 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6798 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6799
680079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6801 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6802 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6803 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6804 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6805
680680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6807 Haardt.
6808
680981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6810 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6811 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6812 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6813 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6814 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6815 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6816 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6817 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6818
6819
6820Exim version 4.30
6821-----------------
6822
6823 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6824 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6825 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6826
6827 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6828 fixed.
6829
6830 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6831 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6832 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6833
6834 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6835 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6836 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6837 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6838 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6839 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6841 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6842 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6843 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6844 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6845 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6846 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6847 the Exim test suite.
6848
6849 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6850 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6851 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6852 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6853
6854 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6855 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6856 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6857 specify it in this variable.
6858
6859 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6860 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6861 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6862 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6863
6864 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6865 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6866 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6867 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6868
6869 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6870 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6871 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6872 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6873 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6874
6875 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6876
687710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6878 they are logged.
6879
688011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6881 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6882 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6883 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6884 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6885
688612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6887 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6888
688913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6890 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6891 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6892 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6893 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6894
689514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6896 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6897
689815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6899 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6900 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6901
690216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6903 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6904
690517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6906 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6907
690818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6909 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6910 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6911
691219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6913 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6914
691520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6916 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6917 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6918 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6919
692021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6921
692222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6923 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6924 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6925 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6926
692723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6928
692924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6930 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6931
693225. Added .include_if_exists.
6933
693426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6935 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6936 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6937 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6938 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6939 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6940
694127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6942
694328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6944 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6945 this.
6946
694729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6948
694930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6950 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6951
6952 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6953 550 Sender verify failed
6954
6955 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6956 the final line of the response.
6957
695831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6959 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6960 all other user lookups.
6961
696232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6963 delivery time.
6964
696533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6966 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6967 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6968 result into an int without checking.
6969
697034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6971 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6972 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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697435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6975 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6976 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6977 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6978
697936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6980 correctly.
6981
698237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6983 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6984
698538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6986 to the empty sender.
6987
698839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6989 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6990 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6991 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6992 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6993 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6994 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6995 panic log.
6996
699740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6998 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6999 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7000 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7001 used.
7002
700341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7004 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7005
700642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7007 timestamps.
7008
700943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7010 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7011
701244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7013
701445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7015 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7016 logs.
7017
701846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7019 as soon as it is encountered.
7020
702147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7022
702348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7024 rewritten to "<>".
7025
702649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7027 recognizes a tab character.
7028
702950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7030 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7031 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7032 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7033
703451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7035
703652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7037 crash.
7038
703953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7040
704154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7042
704355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7044 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7045 2822.
7046
704756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7048 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7049 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7050 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7051 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7052
705357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7054 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7055
705658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7057 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7058 list (.included file names were always shown).
7059
706059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7061 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7062 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7063 root at that time.
7064
706560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7066 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7067
706861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7069
707062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7071
707263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7073
707464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7075 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7076 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7077 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7078 failures to open the logs.
7079
708065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7081 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7082 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7083 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7084 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7085 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7086 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7087
7088
7089Exim version 4.24
7090-----------------
7091
7092 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7093 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7094 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7095 change 4.23/1.
7096
7097 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7098 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7099 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7100
7101 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7102 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7103 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7104
7105 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7106 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7107 causing some misleading effects.
7108
7109 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7110 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7111 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7112
7113 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7114 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7115 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7116 queue-runner function directly.
7117
7118
7119Exim version 4.23
7120-----------------
7121
7122 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7123 HEADERS_CHARSET.
7124
7125 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7126 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7127 was always written to the default place.
7128
7129 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7130 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7131 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7132
7133 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7134
7135 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7136
7137 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7138 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7139 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7140
7141 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7142 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7143 must start.
7144
7145 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7146 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7147 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7148
7149 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7150 command line option is disabled.
7151
7152 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7153 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7154
7155 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7156
7157 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7158
7159 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7160 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7161
716210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7163
716411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7165 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7166 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7167 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7168 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7169 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7170
717112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7172 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7173 timeout.
7174
717513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7176 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7177
717814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7179 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7180
718115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7182 received was valid base64.
7183
718416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7185 name of the variable that was being set.
7186
718717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7188
718918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7190 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7191 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7192 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7193 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7194 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7195
719619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7197
719820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7199 nor realm was specified.
7200
720121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7202 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7203 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7204 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7205
720622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7207 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7208 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7209
721023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7211 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7212 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7213
721424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7215 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7216 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7217 some systems use these upper case variants.
7218
721925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7220 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7221 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7222 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7223
722426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7225
722627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7227 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7228
722928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7230 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7231 expansion variable.
7232
723329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7234
723530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7236 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7237 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7238 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7239
724031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7241 using it.
7242
724332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7244 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7245 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7246
724733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7248 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7249
725034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7251 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7252 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7253 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7254
725535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7256 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7257 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7258
725936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7260
726137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7262 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7263 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7264 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7265 aborted.
7266
726738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7268 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7269 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7270
727139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7272
727340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7274 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7275
727641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7277 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7278
727942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7280 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7281 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7282 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7283 when emails are that large.
7284
7285
7286
7287Exim version 4.22
7288-----------------
7289
7290 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7291 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7292
7293 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7294 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7295 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7296
7297 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7298 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7299 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7300
7301 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7302 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7303 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7304 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7305 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7306
7307 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7308 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7309 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7310 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7311 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7312 ever.
7313
7314 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7315 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7316 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7317 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7318 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7319 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7320 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7321 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7322 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7323 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7324 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7325 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7326 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7327 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7328
7329 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7330 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7331 parameterised it.
7332
7333 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7334 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7335 error should be diagnosed.
7336
7337 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7338 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7339 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7340 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7341 appeared instead of "NULL".
7342
734310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7344 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7345 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7346 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7347 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7348 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7349 proceeds).
7350
7351 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7352 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7353 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7354
7355
7356Exim version 4.21
7357-----------------
7358
7359 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7360 or receiver verification errors.
7361
7362 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7363 name.
7364
7365 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7366 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7367 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7368 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7369
7370 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7371 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7372 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7373 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7374 shouldn't happen again.
7375
7376 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7377 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7378 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7379
7380 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7381 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7382
7383 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7384
7385 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7386 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7387
7388 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7389 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7390 RFC.
7391
739210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7393 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7394 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7395
739611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7397 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7398 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7399 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7400
740112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7402 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7403 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7404 to define what should happen).
7405
740613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7407 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7408 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7409
741014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7411
741215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7413
741416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7415 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7416
4c04137d 741717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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7418 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7419 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7420 structure in all cases.
7421
7422 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7423 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7424 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7425 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7426
742718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7428 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7429 domain name.
7430
743119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7432 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7433
743420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7435 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7436
743721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7438 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7439 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7440
744122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7442 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7443 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7444
744523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7446 the book and for uniformity.
7447
744824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7449
745025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7451 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
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7452 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7453 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7454 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7455 non-existent command as the problem.
7456
745726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7458 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7459 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7460
746127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7462
746328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7464 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7465 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7466
746729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7468 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7469 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7470 timestamps using strftime().
7471
747230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7473 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7474
747532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7476 transport-time rewrites.
7477
747833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7479 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7480 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7481 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7482
748334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7484 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7485
748635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7487 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7488 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7489 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7490 comma and a space.
7491
749236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7493 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7494 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7495 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7496 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7497 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7498 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7499
750037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7501 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7502 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7503 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7504 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7505
750638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7507 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7508 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7509 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7510 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7511 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7512 remaining text gets split now.
7513
751439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7515 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7516 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7517 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7518
751940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7520 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7521 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7522 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7523 $return_path.
7524
752541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7526 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7527 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7528 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7529 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7530 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7531 passed through if needed.
7532
753342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7534 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7535 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7536 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7537 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7538 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7539
754043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7541 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7542 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7543 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7544 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7545
754644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7547 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7548 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7549 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7550 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7551
755245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7553 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7554 noticed.
7555
755646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7557 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7558 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7559 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7560 mayhem of various kinds.
7561
756247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7563 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7564 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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7565 the right test for positive values.
7566
756748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7568 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7569 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7570 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7571 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7572 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7573 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7574 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7575 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7576 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7577 envelope.
7578
757949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7580 module.
7581
758250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7583 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7584 forbidding it.
7585
758651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7587 the existing equality matching.
7588
758952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7590 dealing with inode numbers.
7591
759253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7593 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7594 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7595
759654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7597 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7598 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7599 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7600 local_scan().
7601
760255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7603 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7604 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7605 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7606 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7607 relay addresses has also been removed.
7608
760956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7610
761157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7612 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7613 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7614
761558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7616 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7617 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7618 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7619 processing applies to CR:
7620
7621 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7622 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7623
7624 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7625 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7626 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7627 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7628
762959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7630 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7631 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7632
763360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7634 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7635 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7636 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7637 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7638 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7639 arisen.
7640
764161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7642 program routers.
7643
764462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7645 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7646 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7647 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7648 adds:
7649
7650 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7651
7652 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7653
7654 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7655
765663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7657 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7658 not considered personal.
7659
766064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7661
766265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7663
766466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7665
766667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7667 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7668 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7669 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7670 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7671 header lines, and spool format errors.
7672
767368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7674 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7675 for more flexibility.
7676
767769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7678 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7679 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7680
768170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7682 Sabourenkov.
7683
768471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7685 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7686 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7687 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7688 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7689 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7690 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7691 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7692 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7693
769472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7695 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7696 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7697 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7698 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7699 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7700 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7701
770273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7703 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7704 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7705
770674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7707 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7708 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7709 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7710 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7711 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7712 instead of killing the process with assert().
7713
771475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7715 than Unicode encoding.
7716
771776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7718 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7719 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7720 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7721
772277. Added process_log_path.
7723
772478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7725 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7726
772779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7728 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7729
773080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7731 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7732 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7733
773481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7735 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7736 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7737 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7738 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7739 were applied:
7740
7741 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7742 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7743 as invalid.
7744
774582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7746 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7747 they will be used during message reception.
7748
7749
7750Exim version 4.20
7751-----------------
7752
7753The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7754
7755****