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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
8 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
9 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
10
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11NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
12
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13NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
14 improved.
15
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16NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
17
c1e794ba 18PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 19
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20PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
21
22PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
23 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
24
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25PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
26 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
27
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28PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
29 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
30
f1e05cc7 31PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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32 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
33 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 34
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35PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
36
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37PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
38 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
39
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40PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
41
c45dd180 42PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
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44PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
45 non-compliant senders.
46 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
47
eae0036b 48NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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49 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
50 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
51
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52PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
53 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
54 in spool file corruption.
55
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56PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
57 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
58 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
59 "Got SSL error 2".
60
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61TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
62 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
63 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
64
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65JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
66 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
67
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68JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
69
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70PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
71 diagnostics.
72 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
73
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74PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
75 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
76 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
77
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78PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
79 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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80 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
81 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 82
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83PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
84 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
85
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86PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
87 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
88 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
89 resolver implementation change.
90
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91PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
92 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
93
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94PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
95
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96PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
97
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98PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
99 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
100
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101PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
102 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
103
9e45c72b 104JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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105 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
106
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107PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
108 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
109 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
110 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 111 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 112
53947857 113PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 114
eae0036b 115PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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116 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
117 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 118
9e45c72b 119JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 120
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121PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
122 read-only, out of scope).
123 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
124
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125PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
126 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
127 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
128 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
129
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130PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
131
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132PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
133 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
134 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
135 real issues in debug logging.
136
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137PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
138 assignment on my part. Fixed.
139
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140PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
141 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
142 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
143
144PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
145 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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146 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
147 problems.
3375e053 148
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149PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
150 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
151
57eb9e91 152PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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153 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
154 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
155 needs to override this, it can.
156
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157PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
158 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
159 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
160
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161PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
162 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
163 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
164 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
165
3ecab157 166PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 167
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168PP/40 Lower default size of EXIM_CLIENT_DH_MIN_BITS constant (used only by
169 GnuTLS at this time) from 1024 to 512. Cautious folk can override
170 in Local/Makefile.
171
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173Exim version 4.77
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175
176PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
177 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
178
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179TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
180
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181TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
182 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 183
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184TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
185 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
186
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187TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
188 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
189 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
190
191 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
192 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
193 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
194 not safe for signals.
195
196 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
197 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
198 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
199 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
200 exiwhat.
201
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202TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
203
204 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
205 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
206 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
207 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
208 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
209
210 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
211 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
212 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
213 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
214 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
215 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
216
217 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
218 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
219 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
220 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
221
222 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
223 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
224 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
225 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
226
227 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
228 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
229 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
230 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
231 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
232 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
233 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
234 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
235 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
236
237 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
238 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
239 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
240 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
241
242 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
243 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
244 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
245 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
246 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
247 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
248 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
249 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
250 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
251 details in the main documentation.
252
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253TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
254
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255TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
256
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257TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
258 repository when doing development or release builds.
259
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260PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
261 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 262
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263PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
264 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
265 Bugzilla 97.
266
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267PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
268
9e949f00 269PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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270 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
271
272PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
273 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 274
555ae6af 275PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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276 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
277
278PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
279 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 280
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281PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
282 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
283
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284PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
285 Bugzilla 1156.
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286 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
287 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 288
d6cc7c78 289PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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290 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
291 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
292
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293PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
294
3399bb60 295PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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296
297PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
298 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
299
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301Exim version 4.76
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303
304PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
305
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306PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
307 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
308
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309PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
310
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311PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
312
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313PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
314 Bugzilla 1098.
315
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316PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
317 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 318
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319TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
320 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
321
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322PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
323 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
324
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325PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
326 Bugzilla 1104.
327
c8d52a00 328TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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329 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
330
331TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
332 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
333 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
334 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
335
336PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
337 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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340Exim version 4.75
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342
4c9ef03a 343NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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344 Bugzilla 1073
345
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346TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
347 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
348 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
349
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350TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
351 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
352
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353PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
354 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
355 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
356
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357PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
358 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
359
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360PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
361 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
362
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363NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
364 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
365
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366NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
367 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
368
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369PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
370 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 371
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372NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
373 Fixes bug 943.
374
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375PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
376 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
377
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378PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
379 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
380
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381PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
382 SQL string expansion failure details.
383 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
384
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385PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
386 Patch from Simon Arlott.
387
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388PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
389 extern declarations in function scope.
390 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
391
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392PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
393 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
394 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
395 a kernel bug).
396
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397PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
398 Patch from Mark Zealey.
399
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400PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
401 Patch from Mark Zealey.
402
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403PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
404 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
405
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406PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
407 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
408
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409NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
410 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
411 Dennis Davis.
412
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413PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
414
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415PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
416
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417NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
418 Patch by Simon Arlott
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420TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
421 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
422
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426
427TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
428 consequences so log it to the panic log.
429
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430TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
431 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
432
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433TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
434
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435DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
436 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
437 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
438
439PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
440 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
441 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
442
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443PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
444 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
445 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
446 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
447
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448PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
449 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
450 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
451 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
452
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453PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
454 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
455 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
456 arbitrary files.
457
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458PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
459 (Wolfgang Breyha)
460
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461PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
462 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
463 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
464 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
465 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
466
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470
471PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
472 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
473 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
474
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475PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
476 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
477
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478JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
479
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480PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
481
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482PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
483
ec5a0394 484PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 485
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486PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
487
453a6645 488PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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489 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
490 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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491 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
492
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493PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
494 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
495 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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496 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
497 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 498
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499PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
500
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501PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
502
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503PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
504
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505PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
506
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507PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
508
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509PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
510
532be449
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511PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
512
6a8de854 513PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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514 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
515 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 516
5dc43717
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517JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
518
519JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
520 "exim" to be used
55c75993 521
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522PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
523 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
524
491fab4c
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525PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
526 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
527 Notification from John Horne.
528
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529PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
530 compatible.
531
532PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
533 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
534 it normally works.
535
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536DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
537 access.
538
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539DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
540 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
541 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
542
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543DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
544 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
545 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
546 configuration file.
547
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548DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
549 option (effectively making it always true).
550
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551DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
552 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
553
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554DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
555 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
556
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557PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
558 run-time user, instead of root.
559
43236f35 560PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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561 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
562
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563DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
564 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
565 arguments.
3346ab01 566
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567DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
568 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
569 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
570
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571DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
572
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573NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
574
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576Exim version 4.72
577-----------------
578
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579JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
580 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
581 typos
465e92cf 582
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583JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
584 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
585 (Finput)
edae0343 586
9bd3e22c
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587NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
588 Patch from Alain Williams
589
bb576ff7
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590NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
591
5a1a5845
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592NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
593 Patch from Andreas Metzler
594
981a9fad
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595NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
596 Patch from Kirill Miazine
597
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598NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
599
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600JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
601
a466095c 602NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 603 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 604
94a6bd0b
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605TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
606
607TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
608
609MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
610 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
611 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
612
c1b141a8
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613NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
614 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 615
b26eacf1 616NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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617 Patch by Simon Arlott
618
179c5980 619PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 620 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 621
9bd3e22c 622
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623Exim version 4.71
624-----------------
625
7d9f747b 626TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 627
f013fb92
NM
628NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
629
0eb8eedd
NM
630NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
631
663ee6d9
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632NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
633
177ebd9b
NM
634NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
635
7c6d71af 636
210f147e
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637Exim version 4.70
638-----------------
639
cdd3bb85 640TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 641 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
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642
643TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
644 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 645 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
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646
647TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
648 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 649 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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650
651TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
652 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
653
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654NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
655 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
656 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
657 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
658
deafd5b3
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659NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
660 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 661 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 662
089793a4
TF
663TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
664
5f16ca82
TF
665TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
666
dae9d94e 667NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 668 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 669
7d9f747b 670NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 671
06864c44
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672TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
673 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
674 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
675 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
676
65a7d8c3 677NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 678 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 679
23510047 680TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 681
7d9f747b 682NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 683
7d8eec3a 684NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 685 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 686
89dec7b6
TF
687TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
688 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 689
a99de90c
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690TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
691 that they are available at delivery time.
692
e2803e40
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693TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
694
7199e1ee
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695TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
696 incoming_port log selectors.
697
e276e04b
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698TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
699 setting expands to an empty string.
700
ce552449 701NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 702 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 703
e765a0f1 704NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 705 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 706
4f054c63 707NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 708 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 709
7d9f747b
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710NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
711 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 712
7d9f747b
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713NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
714 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 715
b52bc06e 716NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 717 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 718
447de4b0
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719NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
720
4c69d561 721NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 722 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 723
d5c39246 724NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 725 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 726
0b23848a
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727TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
728
8f3414a1 729NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 730 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 731
fb6f955d
NM
732NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
733
734NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 735
7d9f747b
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736NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
737 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 738
7d9f747b
PP
739NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
740 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 741
7d9f747b
PP
742NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
743 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 744
7d9f747b
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745NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
746 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 747
7d9f747b
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748NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
749 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 750
7d9f747b
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751NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
752 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 753
7d9f747b
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754NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
755 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 756
7d9f747b 757NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 758 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 759
7d9f747b 760NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 761
7d9f747b
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762NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
763 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 764
7d9f747b 765NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 766
7d9f747b 767NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 768
7d9f747b 769NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 770
7d9f747b 771NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 772
17792b53 773NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 774 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 775
7d9f747b
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776NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
777 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 778
7d9f747b
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779NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
780 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 781
7d9f747b
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782NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
783 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 784
7d9f747b 785NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 786
7d9f747b 787NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 788
7d9f747b 789NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 790
7d9f747b 791NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 792
deafd5b3 793
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794Exim version 4.69
795-----------------
796
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797TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
798 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
799 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
800
801 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
802 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
803 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
804 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
805 build errors in sieve.c.
806
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807NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
808 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
809 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
810
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811SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
812
7d9f747b 813NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 814
7d9f747b 815NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 816
7d9f747b 817NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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818
819
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820Exim version 4.68
821-----------------
822
823PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
824
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825PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
826 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
827 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
828 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
829 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
830 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
831 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
832 for iplsearch lookups.
833
834 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
835 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
836 previously such lookups could never work.
837
838 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
839 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
840 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
841
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842TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
843 version.
844
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MH
845MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
846 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
847 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
848 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
849 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
850 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
851
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852TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
853 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
854
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855MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
856 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
857 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
858 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
859 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
860 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
861
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862PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
863 local_scan API.
864
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865PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
866
6c512171
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867PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
868 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
869 encrypted.
870
871PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
872 by clients under certain conditions.
873
aa6dc513
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874PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
875 "_responses" off the end of the name.
876
a96603a0
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877PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
878
8f240103
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879PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
880 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
881
882PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
883
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884PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
885
d52120f2
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886PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
887
64f2600a
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888PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
889 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
890
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891PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
892
a4dc33a8
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893PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
894 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
895
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896PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
897
8f128379
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898PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
899
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900PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
901 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
902 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
903 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 904
ddea74fa 905PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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906 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
907 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
908
ddea74fa 909PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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910 and InterBase are left for another time.)
911
ddea74fa
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912PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
913
ce9f225c
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914PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
915
19897d52
PH
916PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
917
bc64a74d
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918PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
919 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
920 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
921
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923Exim version 4.67
924-----------------
925
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926MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
927 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
928 Jan Srzednicki.
929
b4ed4da0
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930PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
931 issue a MAIL command.
932
431b7361
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933PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
934
935 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
936
937 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
938 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
939 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
940 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
941 item. This has been fixed.
942
943PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
944 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
945
83da1223
PH
946PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
947 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
948
54fc8428
PH
949PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
950 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
951 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
952
34c5e8dd
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953SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
954
bbe15da8
PH
955PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
956 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
957 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
958 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
959 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
960
0e8a9471
MH
961MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
962 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
963 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
964
f0872424
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965PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
966 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
967 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
968 the server_setid option was incorrect.
969
b01dd148
PH
970PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
971
6bf342e1
PH
972PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
973
273f34d0
PH
974PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
975 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
976 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
977 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
978 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
979
cf8b11a5
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980PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
981
41c7c167
PH
982PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
983 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
984 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
985 values).
986
9c57cbc0
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987PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
988
f3f065bb
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989PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
990
047bdd8c
PH
991PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
992
0ce9abe6
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993PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
994
0e22dfd1
PH
995PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
996
4c590bd1
PH
997PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
998 no_callout_flush is set.
999
09945f1e
PH
1000PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1001 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1002 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1003 fixed.
1004
c51b8e75
PH
1005PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1006
e28326d8
PH
1007PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1008 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1009 other ACL rejections are.
1010
75b1493f
PH
1011PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1012 with slight modification.
1013
7c5214ec
PH
1014PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1015 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1016
4311097e
PH
1017PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1018 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1019 connection.
1020
29f89cad
PH
1021PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1022 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1023
5e687460
SC
1024SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1025
c3611384
PH
1026PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1027 expansion side effects.
1028
5a11a7b4
PH
1029PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1030 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1031 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1032 be the same.
1033
0e20aff9
MH
1034MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1035 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1036 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1037
ca86f471
PH
1038PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1039 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1040 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1041 were accidentally chopped off.
1042
a14e5636
PH
1043PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1044 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1045 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1046 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1047 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1048 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1049 pipelining has not been advertised.
1050
ec95d1a6
PH
1051PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1052
42855d71
PH
1053PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1054 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1055 This has been fixed.
1056
57c2c631
PH
1057PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1058 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1059 reported on Solaris.
1060
58c01c94
PH
1061PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1062 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1063 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1064 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1065 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1066 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1067 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1068
dee5a20a
PH
1069PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1070 cpus.
1071
d2ee6114
PH
1072PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1073
b2d5182b
PH
1074PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1075
79749a79
PH
1076PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1077 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1078 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1079 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1080 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1081 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1082
c456d9bb
PH
1083PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1084 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1085 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1086 host_all_ignored option.
1087
cd9868ec
PH
1088PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1089 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1090 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1091 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1092 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1093 is what is supposed to happen).
1094
ebeaf996
PH
1095PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1096 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1097 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1098 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1099 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1100 uses the Exim user.
1101
2679d413
PH
1102PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1103 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1104 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1105 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1106 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1107 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1108 users.
1109
84024b72
PH
1110PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1111
8005d38e
SC
1112SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1113 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1114 (Jez Hancock).
1115 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1116 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1117
3298c6c6
SC
1118SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1119
a43a27c5
PH
1120PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1121
58eb016e 1122PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1123 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1124 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1125 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1126 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1127 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1128 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1129 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1130 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1131 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1132 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1133
b43a74ea
PH
1134PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1135 advertised in response to EHLO.
1136
b4ed4da0 1137
5dd1517f
PH
1138Exim version 4.66
1139-----------------
1140
1141PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1142 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1143
1144 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1145 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1146
1147 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1148 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1149 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1150
1151 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1152 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1153 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1154 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1155 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1156
1157
93cfa765
TK
1158Exim version 4.65
1159-----------------
1160
1161TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1162 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1163 versions. (#438)
1164
d6066548
MH
1165MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1166 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1167 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1168
4362ff0d
PH
1169PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1170 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1171 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1172 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1173 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1174 rather than extend the field.
1175
93cfa765 1176
944e9e9c
TF
1177Exim version 4.64
1178-----------------
aa41d2de 1179
21d74bd9
TK
1180TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1181 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1182 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1183 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1184 these files.
1185
1186TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1187 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1188 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1189
1190TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1191 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1192 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1193
1194TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1195 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1196 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1197 in the field name.
1198
2b1c6e3a
PH
1199PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1200 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1201 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1202 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1203 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1204 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1205 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1206 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1207 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1208 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1209 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1210
1f872c80
PH
1211PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1212 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1213
1214PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1215 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1216 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1217 ignores EPIPE as well.
1218
d203e649
PH
1219PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1220 (quoted-printable decoding).
1221
cc2ed8f7 1222PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1223 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1224
ddfcd446
PH
1225PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1226
d45b1de8
PH
1227PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1228
1229PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1230
38a0a95f 1231PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1232 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1233
a2405d83
JJ
1234JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1235 in 4.64-PH/09.
1236
1237JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1238 miscellaneous code fixes
1239
6ea85e9a
PH
1240PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1241 rejections.
1242
26da7e20
PH
1243PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1244 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1245 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1246 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1247 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1248 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1249 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1250 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1251
14aa5a05 1252PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1253 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1254 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1255 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1256 function.
1257 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1258 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1259 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1260 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1261 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1262 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1263 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1264 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1265 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1266
ff75a1f7
PH
1267PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1268 decoding.
1269
e6f6568e
PH
1270PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1271 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1272 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1273 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1274 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1275 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1276 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1277 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1278
d6f6e0dc
PH
1279PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1280 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1281 list.
1282
322050c2
PH
1283PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1284 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1285 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1286 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1287 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1288 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1289 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1290 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1291 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1292 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1293 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1294 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1295 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1296
08955dd3
PH
1297PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1298 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1299 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1300 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1301 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1302 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1303 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1304
1eccaa59
PH
1305PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1306 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1307 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1308 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1309 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1310 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1311 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1312 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1313 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1314 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1315
602e59e5
PH
1316PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1317 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1318 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1319 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1320 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1321
411ef850
PH
1322PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1323 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1324 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1325 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1326 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1327 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1328 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1329
7befa435
PH
1330PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1331 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1332 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1333 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1334 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1335 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1336 been verified.
1337
48da4259 1338PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1339 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1340 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1341 and authorization.)
1342
48da4259
PH
1343PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1344 if any retry times were supplied.
1345
d1d5595c
PH
1346PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1347 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1348 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1349
0ef732d9
PH
1350PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1351
328895cc
PH
1352PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1353
fd700877
PH
1354PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1355 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1356 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1357 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1358 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1359 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1360
8dce1a6f
PH
1361PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1362 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1363
17af4a17
PH
1364PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1365 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1366 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1367
1368PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1369 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1370 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1371 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1372 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1373 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1374 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1375 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1376 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1377
1378 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1379 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1380 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1381 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1382 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1383 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1384 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1385 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1386 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1387
1388 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1389 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1390 hammering the server.
1391
c1114884
PH
1392PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1393 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1394
7a0743eb
PH
1395PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1396
0d85fa3f
PH
1397PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1398 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1399 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1400
1bf43b78
PH
1401PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1402 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1403 one case where this was not true.
1404
520de300
PH
1405PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1406 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1407 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1408 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1409 fails.
1410
48c7f9e2
PH
1411PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1412 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1413 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1414 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1415 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1416 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1417 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1418 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1419 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1420 smtp transport.
1421
99ea1c86
PH
1422PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1423 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1424 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1425 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1426
a2042e78
PH
1427PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1428 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1429
4fbcfc2e
PH
1430PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1431 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1432 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1433
aa41d2de
PH
1434PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1435
af561417
PH
1436PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1437
3cc66b45
PH
1438PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1439
194cc0e4
PH
1440PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1441 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1442 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1443 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1444
a401ddaa
PH
1445PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1446 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1447
4e88a19f
PH
1448PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1449 be meaningful with "accept".
1450
d7d7b289
SC
1451SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1452 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1453
1454SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1455 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1456 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1457
1458SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1459 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1460 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1461 there is data to show.
1462 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1463
1464SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1465 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1466 as well as the number of messages.
1467
1468SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1469 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1470 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1471
1472SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1473 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1474 have a flag are now skipped.
1475
1476SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1477 Added the -emptyok flag.
1478
1479SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1480 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1481
0ea2a468
JJ
1482JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1483 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1484 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1485
1486JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1487 match 4.64-PH/13
1488
1489JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1490 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1491
1492JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1493
1494JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1495 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1496
8a10f5a4
PH
1497PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1498
30e18802
PH
1499PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1500 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1501 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1502 contravention of the specifications.
1503
55728a4f
PH
1504PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1505 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1506 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1507
d7837193
PH
1508PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1509 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1510 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1511
87054a31
PH
1512PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1513
ea2c01d2
MH
1514MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1515 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1516 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1517 some point in the past.
1518
e4fa6968
PH
1519PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1520 transport during callout processing was broken.
1521
56f5d9bd
PH
1522PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1523 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1524
922e1c28
PH
1525PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1526 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1527
21eb6e72
PH
1528PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1529 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1530
a0540757
PH
1531PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1532
944e9e9c 1533
478be7b0
SC
1534Exim version 4.63
1535-----------------
1536
1537SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1538 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1539
1540SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1541 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1542 there is data to show.
1543 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1544
1545SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1546 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1547
2b965a65
TF
1548TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1549 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1550
45b91596
PH
1551TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1552 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1553
c59f5781
TF
1554TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1555 submissions from trusted users.
1556
90fc3069
TF
1557TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1558 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1559
6083aca0
TF
1560TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1561 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1562 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1563 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1564 there is now a framework to start from.
1565
765b530f
PH
1566PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1567 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1568 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1569
4e167a8c
PH
1570PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1571
4608d683
PH
1572PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1573
b8dc3e4a
PH
1574PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1575
5418e93b
PH
1576PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1577 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1578 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1579
b4a9bda2
PH
1580PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1581 libradius.
1582
45b91596
PH
1583PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1584 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1585 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1586
5547e2c5
PH
1587PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1588 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1589 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1590 its arguments.
1591
dbcef0ea
PH
1592PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1593 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1594 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1595 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1596 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1597
25257489
PH
1598PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1599 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1600
c816d124
PH
1601PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1602
a9ccd69a
PH
1603PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1604 operations in malware.c.
1605
75fa1910
PH
1606PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1607 signatures.
1608
a7d7aa58
PH
1609PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1610 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1611 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1612 all.
1613
42119b09
PH
1614PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1615 statements to "add_header".
1616
41609df5
PH
1617PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1618 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1619
a5bd321b
PH
1620PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1621 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1622 latter.
1623
e85a7ad5 1624PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1625 so that it is now:
1626
e85a7ad5
PH
1627 ${if or { \
1628 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1629 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1630 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1631 }{no}{yes}}
1632
e85a7ad5
PH
1633 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1634 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1635
d8fe1c03
PH
1636PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1637 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1638
16282d2b
PH
1639PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1640 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1641 any possible encoding problems.
1642
35d40a98
PH
1643PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1644 but not after initializing Perl.
1645
034d99ab
PH
1646PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1647 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1648 apparently, which is not desirable.
1649
6ec97b1b
PH
1650PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1651 queries.
1652
e22ca4ac
JJ
1653JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1654 --not options
1655
1656JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1657
33d73e3b
PH
1658PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1659 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1660 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1661 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1662
9ecb03f3
PH
1663PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1664 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1665 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1666
084efe8d
PH
1667PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1668 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1669 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1670 0.12.
1671
366fc9f0
PH
1672PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1673 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1674 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1675 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1676 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1677
c59f5781 1678
c887c79e
TF
1679Exim version 4.62
1680-----------------
1681
1682TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1683 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1684
1cce3af8
PH
1685PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1686 patch).
1687
afb3eaaf
PH
1688PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1689 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1690 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1691 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1692 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1693 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1694 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1695 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1696 451 error is used.
1697
e173618b
PH
1698PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1699
dd16e114
PH
1700PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1701 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1702 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1703
f7fd3850
PH
1704PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1705 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1706 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1707 odd errors.
1708
d87df92c
PH
1709PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1710 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1711
7e9f683d
PH
1712PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1713 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1714 option (which defaults to 0600).
1715
bfad5236
PH
1716PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1717
01c490df
PH
1718PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1719 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1720 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1721 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1722 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1723 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1724 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1725
d6629cdc
PH
1726PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1727
1cce3af8 1728
214e2000
PH
1729Exim version 4.61
1730-----------------
1731
1732PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1733 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1734 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1735 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1736 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1737 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1738 addresses as local.
1739
f9daeae0
PH
1740PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1741 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1742
7e66e54d
PH
1743PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1744
c8ea1597
PH
1745PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1746 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1747 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1748 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1749 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1750 grumble.
1751
911f6fde
PH
1752PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1753 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1754
47ca6d6c
PH
1755PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1756 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1757 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1758 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1759 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1760
ed0e9820
PH
1761PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1762 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1763 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1764 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1765
eff37e47
PH
1766PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1767 be the same on different OS.
1768
1921d2ea
PH
1769PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1770 testing.
1771
b3f69ca8
JJ
1772JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1773 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1774
1775JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1776 in 4.61-PH/06
1777
424a1c63
PH
1778PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1779 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1780 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1781 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1782 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1783 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1784 bounce message.
1785
7a100415
PH
1786PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1787 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1788 when Exim was called.
1789
19b9dc85
PH
1790PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1791 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1792
309bd837
PH
1793PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1794 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1795 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1796 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1797
59e82a2a
PH
1798PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1799 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1800 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1801 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1802 changes:
1803
1804 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1805 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1806 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1807
1808 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1809 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1810 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1811
9edc04ce
PH
1812PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1813 feature).
1814
1349e1e5
PH
1815PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1816 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1817 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1818 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1819 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1820 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1821 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1822 values from the SRV records were lost.
1823
ea49d0e1
PH
1824PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1825 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1826 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1827
064a94c9
PH
1828PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1829 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1830 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1831
727071f8
PH
1832PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1833 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1834 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1835 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1836 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1837 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1838 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1839 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1840 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1841 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1842
f78eb7c6
PH
1843PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1844 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1845 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1846
21c28500
PH
1847PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1848 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1849
1850PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1851 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1852 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1853 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1854 is given.
1855
1688f43b
PH
1856PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1857 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1858 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1859
1860PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1861 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1862 PH/23 above applies.
1863
9675b384
PH
1864PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1865 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1866 (for which there is an explicit test).
1867
6a3f1455
PH
1868PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1869
dac79d3e
PH
1870PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1871 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1872 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1873 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1874 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1875
5977a0b3
PH
1876PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1877 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1878 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1879 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1880
c91535f3
PH
1881PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1882 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1883 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1884
0d46a8c8
PH
1885PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1886
278c6e6c
PH
1887PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1888
2cbb4081
PH
1889PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1890 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1891 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1892
3eef829e
PH
1893PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1894 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1895 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1896 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1897 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1898
1ab95fa6
PH
1899PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1900 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1901 the message gets confusing).
1902
230205fc
PH
1903PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1904 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1905 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1906 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1907
75e0e026
PH
1908PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1909 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1910 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1911 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1912 same order.
1913
1914PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1915 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1916 the different processes.
1917
145396a6
PH
1918PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1919
3cd34f13
PH
1920PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1921
11121d3d
JJ
1922JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1923 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1924
1925JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1926 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1927
1928JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1929 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1930 messages matching specified criteria.
1931
8def5aaf
PH
1932PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1933
929ba01c
PH
1934PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1935 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1936
2632889e
PH
1937PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1938 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1939 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1940 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1941 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1942 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1943 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1944 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1945 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1946 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1947
944a9c55
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1948PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1949 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1950 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1951
4a23603b
PH
1952PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1953
4730f942
PH
1954PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1955 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1956 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1957 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1958 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1959 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1960 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1961 the variable.
1962
30dba1e6
PH
1963PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1964 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1965
382afc6b
PH
1966PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1967
a86229cf
PH
1968PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1969
50c99ba6
PH
1970PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1971
d35e429d
PH
1972PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1973 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1974 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1975 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1976 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1977 size of the count of files.
1978
f90d018c
PH
1979PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1980
75def545
PH
1981PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1982 used in LMTP mode:
1983
1984 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1985 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1986 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1987 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1988
1989 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1990 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1991 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1992
1993PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1994 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1995 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1996 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1997 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1998
c46782ef
PH
1999PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2000 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2001
71fafd95
PH
2002PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2003 will now be deprecated.
2004
2c5db4fd
PH
2005PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2006
9cf6b11a
JJ
2007JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2008 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2009 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2010
2011JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2012 with very large, slow to parse queues
2013
2014JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2015
2016JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2017
898d150f
PH
2018PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2019 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2020 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2021 SMTP output lines.
2022
46218253
PH
2023PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2024 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2025 Sieve code now uses this.
2026
e97957bc
PH
2027PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2028 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2029
81e509d7
PH
2030PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2031 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2032
3d240ff7
PH
2033PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2034
b37c4101
PH
2035PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2036 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2037 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2038 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2039 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2040
79378e0f
PH
2041PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2042 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2043 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2044 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2045
e49c7bb4
PH
2046PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2047
d114ec46
PH
2048PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2049
f3d7df6c
PH
2050PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2051 is preferred over IPv4.
2052
715ab376
PH
2053PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2054 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2055 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2056 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2057 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2058 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2059 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2060
6b31b150
PH
2061PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2062 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2063 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2064
2065PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2066
d515a917
PH
2067PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2068 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2069 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2070 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2071 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2072 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2073 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2074 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2075 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2076 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2077 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2078
9b8fadde
PH
2079PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2080 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2081 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2082
214e2000 2083
5de37277
PH
2084Exim version 4.60
2085-----------------
2086
cc38ddbf
PH
2087PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2088
2089 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2090 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2091
2092 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2093 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2094 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2095
72fdd6ae
PH
2096PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2097
2098 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2099 not a single digit.
2100
2101 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2102 string.
2103
2104 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2105 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2106 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2107 silly things.
2108
2109 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2110 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2111
2112 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2113 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2114
cb741023
PH
2115PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2116 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2117 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2118
f174f16e
PH
2119PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2120 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2121
c25242d7
PH
2122PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2123 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2124
2125 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2126
2127 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2128 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2129 this:
2130
2131 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2132
82c19f95
PH
2133PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2134 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2135 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2136 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2137 identical. For example:
2138
2139 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2140
2141 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2142 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2143 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2144
d7ffbc12
PH
2145PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2146 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2147 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2148 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2149
9f526266
PH
2150PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2151 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2152 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2153 message.
2154
87fcc8b9
PH
2155PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2156
2157 o fixes some comments
2158 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2159 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2160 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2161 and documents the missing references header update
2162
2163 and most important:
2164
2165 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2166 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2167 result)
2168
456682f5
PH
2169PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2170 Electronic Mail") by including:
2171
2172 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2173
2174 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2175 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2176 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2177 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2178 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2179
2180 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2181
2182 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2183
2184 The auto-replied keyword:
2185
2186 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2187 message by an automatic process,
2188
2189 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2190
2191 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2192 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2193
2194 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2195 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2196 other messages.
2197
3e46c1aa
PH
2198PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2199 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2200
49826d12
PH
2201PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2202
eba0c039
PH
2203PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2204 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2205 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2206
a0d6ba8a
PH
2207PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2208 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2209 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2210
f0917727
PH
2211PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2212 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2213 and treats the condition as false.
2214
096fee00
PH
2215PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2216
024bd3c2
PH
2217PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2218 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2219 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2220 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2221 not changing the active code.
2222
2223 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2224 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2225
2226 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2227 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2228
df199fec
PH
2229PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2230 (Bugzilla #53).
2231
d27f1df3
PH
2232PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2233 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2234 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2235 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2236 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2237 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2238 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2239 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2240 the text comparison.
2241
96776534
PH
2242PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2243 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2244 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2245 The same fix has been applied.
2246
5de37277 2247
9a799bc0
PH
2248Exim version 4.54
2249-----------------
2250
2251PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2252 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2253 It now does.
2254
99a4b039
PH
2255PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2256 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2257
2258PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2259
4b233853
PH
2260PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2261 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2262 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2263 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2264 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2265
8857ccfd
PH
2266TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2267 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2268 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2269 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2270 or /domain=).
2271
433a2980
PH
2272PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2273 testing suite.
2274
3e46c1aa 2275
9a799bc0 2276
e3a311ba
TK
2277Exim version 4.53
2278-----------------
2279
2280TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2281 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2282
13b685f9
PH
2283PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2284
395ff96d
PH
2285PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2286
5b68f6e4
PH
2287PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2288 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2289 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2290
1ab52c69
PH
2291PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2292 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2293 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2294
b07e6aa3
PH
2295PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2296 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2297 operating systems.
2298
254e032f
PH
2299PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2300 ${stat: expansion item.
2301
3af76a81
PH
2302PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2303 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2304
2548ba04
PH
2305PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2306 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2307 file for comments.
2308
b6c6011d
PH
2309PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2310
cf39cf57
PH
2311PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2312 setting.
2313
f1513293
PH
2314PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2315 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2316
727549a4
PH
2317TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2318
af46795e
PH
2319PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2320 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2321 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2322 the end of the subprocess.
2323
d7b47fd0
PH
2324PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2325 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2326 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2327 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2328 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2329
ee744174
JJ
2330JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2331
b582ab87
PH
2332TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2333
41a13e0a
PH
2334PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2335 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2336
f625cc5a
PH
2337PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2338
2339PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2340
21f7af35
PH
2341PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2342 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2343 HP-UX compiler.
2344
31480e42
PH
2345PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2346
2d280592
PH
2347PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2348 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2349 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2350
7cd1141b
PH
2351PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2352 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2353
2354PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2355 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2356
750af86e
PH
2357PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2358 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2359
2360 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2361 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2362
2363 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2364 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2365 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2366 contributed by a Radius user.
2367
2368PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2369 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2370
4304270b
TK
2371TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2372 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2373
750af86e
PH
2374PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2375 available.
2376
64ffc24f
PH
2377PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2378 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2379 received.
2380
5dd9625b
PH
2381PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2382 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2383 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2384 header lines when this was not necessary.
2385
5591031b
PH
2386PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2387
ba18e66a
PH
2388PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2389 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2390 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2391 exists".
2392
9cec981f
PH
2393PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2394 -bV or -d is used.
2395
aa2b5c79
PH
2396PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2397 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2398 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2399 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2400
48a53b7f
PH
2401PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2402
1c59d63b
PH
2403PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2404
671012da
TK
2405TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2406
1509d3a8
PH
2407PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2408
2409PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2410 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2411 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2412 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2413 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2414 settings.
2415
2416PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2417
2fe1a124
PH
2418PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2419 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2420 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2421 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2422 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2423 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2424 which is clearly wrong.
2425
8800895a
PH
2426PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2427
ccfdb010
PH
2428PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2429 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2430 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2431 subsequently added.
2432
1130bfb0
PH
2433PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2434 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2435
ebcb507f
PH
2436PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2437
c35e155c
PH
2438PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2439 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2440
95d1f782
PH
2441PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2442 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2443
fd6de02e
PH
2444PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2445 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2446
58de37c5
PH
2447PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2448 recipients, not senders.
2449
261cf466
TF
2450TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2451 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2452
3ee512ff
PH
2453PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2454
e08c430f
PH
2455PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2456
bef5a11f
PH
2457PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2458 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2459 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2460 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2461
7546de58
TF
2462TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2463
e5d5a95f
TF
2464TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2465 clock is set back in time.
2466
2e88a017
TF
2467TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2468 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2469
a5f65aa4
TF
2470TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2471 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2472
e7726cbf
PH
2473PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2474 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2475 (see PH/47 above).
2476
a7fdad5b
TF
2477TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2478 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2479 header rewrites.
2480
6af56900
PH
2481PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2482 type ("H").
2483
0925ede6
PH
2484PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2485
66afa403
TF
2486TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2487 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2488 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2489
0154e85a
TF
2490TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2491 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2492 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2493 helo verification defer as a failure.
2494
16f12c76
PH
2495PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2496 actual error message.
2497
bbe902f0 2498
e5a9dba6
PH
2499Exim version 4.52
2500-----------------
2501
2502TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2503
22c3b60b
PH
2504PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2505 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2506 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2507 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2508
06a9b4b5
PH
2509TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2510
c1ac6996
PH
2511PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2512 can still be requested.
2513
9c7a242c
PH
2514PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2515 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2516 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2517 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2518
87ba3f5f
PH
2519TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2520 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2521 circumstances, but probably never did.
2522
2523PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2524 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2525 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2526 in the header line.
2527
29aba418
TF
2528TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2529
fe0dab11
TF
2530TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2531 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2532
11d337a4
TK
2533TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2534
2535TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2536
415c8f3b
PH
2537PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2538 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2539 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2540 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2541 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2542 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2543
958541e9
PH
2544PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2545 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2546 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2547 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2548 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2549 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2550
c206415f
TK
2551TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2552 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2553
2a4be8f9
PH
2554PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2555 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2556
1cba11c5
SC
2557SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2558 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2559
2560SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2561
2562SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2563
2564SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2565
2566SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2567
2568SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2569
2570SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2571
1005d00e
TK
2572TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2573
2574TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2575 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2576 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2577
2578TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2579 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2580 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2581 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2582
9b4768fa
PH
2583PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2584 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2585 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2586
2587PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2588 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2589 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2590 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2591
0d7eb84a
PH
2592PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2593 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2594 to be made).
2595
2596PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2597 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2598 should work with maildirs and everything.
2599
40727bee
TK
2600TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2601 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2602
554d2369
TF
2603TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2604 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2605
1f922db1
PH
2606PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2607 function for BDB 4.3.
2608
ef213c3b
PH
2609PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2610
8ac170f3
PH
2611PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2612 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2613 involved.
2614
b1c749bb
PH
2615PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2616 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2617 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2618 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2619 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2620 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2621
4aac9b49
PH
2622PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2623 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2624 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2625 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2626 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2627 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2628 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2629 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2630
294520c8
TK
2631TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2632 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2633 details.
2634
5bd022fe
PH
2635PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2636 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2637
90e9ce59
PH
2638PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2639 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2640 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2641 test. It is now used for both.
2642
5ea81592
PH
2643PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2644 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2645 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2646 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2647 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2648 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2649
c6c2dc1d
PH
2650PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2651 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2652 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2653 string_vformat().
2654
fffffe4c
PH
2655PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2656 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2657 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2658
9a26b6b2
PH
2659PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2660 experimental DomainKeys support:
2661
2662 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2663 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2664 the control was given.
2665
2666 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2667
4aee0225
PH
2668PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2669
32d668a5
PH
2670PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2671
8187c3f3
PH
2672PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2673 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2674 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2675 db.h files).
2676
ff790e47 2677PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2678 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2679 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2680 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2681 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2682 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2683 course.
ff790e47 2684
5417f6d1
PH
2685PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2686 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2687 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2688 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2689 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2690 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2691
59cf8544
PH
2692PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2693 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2694 do -d+all out of habit.
2695
e7ad8a65
PH
2696PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2697 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2698 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2699
ade42478
PH
2700PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2701 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2702 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2703 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2704 record types that Exim uses.
2705
182ad5cf
PH
2706PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2707 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2708 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2709 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2710 non-existent file that was broken.
2711
b0d9fc80
TK
2712TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2713 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2714
2715TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2716 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2717 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2718
2719TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2720
47c7a64a
PH
2721PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2722 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2723 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2724 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2725 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2726 same time.
2727
a388bce4
SC
2728SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2729 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2730 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2731 at a slight CPU cost.
2732
2733SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2734 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2735
2736SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2737 by Marc Sherman.
2738
0793e4ed
SC
2739SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2740
c58b88df
PH
2741PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2742 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2743
e7ad8a65 2744
7982096b
PH
2745Exim version 4.51
2746-----------------
2747
1a46a8c5
PH
2748TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2749 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2750
2f079f46 2751TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2752
2753TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2754
2755PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2756 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2757
2758PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2759 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2760 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2761 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2762 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2763 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2764 file.
2765
2766PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2767 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2768 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2769 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2770 these two options.
2771
2772PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2773 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2774 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2775 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2776 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2777 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2778 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2779 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2780
2781PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2782 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2783
2784PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2785 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2786 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2787 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2788 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2789 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2790
2791PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2792 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2793 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2794 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2795
2796PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2797 Finch).
2798
2799PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2800 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2801
49c2d5ea
PH
2802PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2803 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2804 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2805 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2806 message.
49c2d5ea 2807
bf759a8b
PH
2808PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2809
83364d30
PH
2810PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2811 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2812
7999bbd7
PH
2813PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2814 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2815 to what was transported.)
2816
7dbf77c9
PH
2817TF/01 Added $received_time.
2818
74e0617f
PH
2819PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2820 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2821 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2822 spamd_address settings.
2823
2f079f46
PH
2824PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2825 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2826 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2827 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2828 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2829
8c841523
PH
2830PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2831
7766a4f0
PH
2832PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2833 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2834 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2835 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2836 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2837
8b417f2c
PH
2838PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2839 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2840
901f42cb
PH
2841PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2842 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2843 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2844 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2845 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2846 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2847 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2848 for failure.
2849
f9b9210e
PH
2850PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2851 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2852 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2853 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2854 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2855 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2856 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2857 "input=".
2858
54cdb463
PH
2859PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2860
cf00dad6
PH
2861PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2862 driver and ACL definitions.
2863
acb1b346
PH
2864PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2865 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2866
c5ddb310
PH
2867PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2868 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2869 understands it better than I do:
2870
2871 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2872 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2873
2874 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2875 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2876 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2877 => three warnings about OTP not working
2878 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2879
2880 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2881 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2882 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2883 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2884 for each call.)
2885 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2886 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2887
2888 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2889 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2890 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2891
31619da6
PH
2892PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2893 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2894 specified.
2895
bebaf0fc
PH
2896PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2897 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2898 "Linux".
2899
475fe28a
PH
2900PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2901 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2902 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2903
2904 warn !verify = sender
2905 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2906
2907 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2908 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2909
7e8bec7a
PH
2910PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2911
2912 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2913 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2914
2915 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2916 nomenclature these days.)
2917
e4a89c47
PH
2918PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2919 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2920
5ca2a9a1
PH
2921PH/30 In these circumstances:
2922 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2923 . First host does not offer TLS;
2924 . First host accepts first address;
2925 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2926 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2927 . Second host accepts second address.
2928 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2929 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2930 address.
7e8bec7a 2931
c688b954
PH
2932PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2933 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2934 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2935 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2936 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2937
fed77020
PH
2938PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2939 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2940
7fe1560f
PH
2941PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2942 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2943
ebb6e6d5
PH
2944PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2945 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2946 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2947
9c4e8f60
PH
2948PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2949 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2950 overlooked.
2951
2952PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2953
d7174846
PH
2954PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2955 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2956 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2957 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2958 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2959 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2960 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2961
2962 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2963 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2964 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2965 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2966 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2967
2968 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2969 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2970 routed further.
2971
cfe75fc3
PH
2972PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2973 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2974 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2975 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2976 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2977 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2978
be22d70e
PH
2979PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2980
0612b098
PH
2981PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2982 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2983 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2984 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2985 printable escape sequences.
2986
2e0c1448
PH
2987PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2988 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2989 body only.
2990
447d236c
PH
2991PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2992 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2993 are as follows:
2994
2995 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2996 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2997 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2998 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2999 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3000
3001 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3002 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3003 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3004
d20976dc
PH
3005PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3006
f656d135
PH
3007PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3008 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3009 play with."
3010
2e2a30b4
PH
3011PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3012 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3013 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3014 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3015 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3016 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3017 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3018 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3019 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3020 the log output.
3021
9176e9f0
PH
3022PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3023 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3024 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3025 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3026 "make".
3027
7982096b 3028
bbe902f0
PH
3029A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3030----------------------------------------
3031
3032Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3033changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3034needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3035in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3036that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3037release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3038from 4.43.
3039
3040I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
30414.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3042those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3043historical information.
3044
3045
f7b63901 3046Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3047-----------------
3048
5fe762f6
PH
3049 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3050
139059f6 3051 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3052 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3053
7086e875
PH
3054 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3055 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3056 place.
3057
35af9f61
PH
3058 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3059 filter fails to execute.
3060
b668c215
PH
3061 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3062 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3063 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3064 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3065 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3066
a494b1e1
PH
3067 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3068
3069 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3070 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3071 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3072 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3073
c5fcb476
PH
3074 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3075 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3076 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3077 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3078 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3079
69358f02
PH
3080 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3081
5be20824
PH
308210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3083
eb2c0248
PH
308411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3085 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3086 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3087 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3088
2a3eea10
PH
308912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3090 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3091 sender verification.
3092
309313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3094 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3095
23c7ff99
PH
309614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3097
4deaf07d
PH
309815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3099 connection timeout.
3100
926e1192
PH
310116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3102 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3103
650edc6f
PH
310417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3105 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3106
2c7db3f5
PH
310718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3108 information about exactly what failed.
3109
3d235903
PH
311019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3111
7c7ad977
PH
311220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3113 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3114 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3115
981756db
PH
311621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3117 It is now set to "smtps".
3118
d4eb88df
PH
311922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3120 ignore_target_hosts.
3121
312223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3123 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3124 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3125 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3126 "[x.x.x.x]".
3127
7d468ab8
PH
312824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3129 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3130 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3131
313225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3133 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3134 wake it up if nothing else does.
3135
62c0818f
PH
313626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3137 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3138 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3139 end up negative.
3140
26034054
PH
314127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3142 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3143
af66f652
PH
314428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3145
90af77f4
PH
314629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3147 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3148 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3149 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3150 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3151 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3152 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3153 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3154
d8ef3577
PH
315530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3156 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3157 than one IP address.
3158
5cb8cbc6
PH
315931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3160 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3161 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3162 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3163
14702f5b
PH
316432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3165 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3166 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3167 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3168 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3169 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3170
063b1e99
PH
317133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3172 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3173 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3174 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3175
652e1b65
PH
317634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3177 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3178 respected.
3179
6f0c9a4f
PH
318035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3181 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3182 $sender_host_address.
3183
33397d19
PH
318436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3185 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3186 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3187 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3188 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3189 very small.
3190
7bb56e1f
PH
319137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3192
3193 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3194 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3195
ea3bc19b
PH
3196 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3197 just the host names, not the priorities.
3198
3199 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3200 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3201 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3202
ea3bc19b 3203 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3204 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3205
0bcb2a0e
PH
320638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3207 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3208 domain.
3209
2ac0e484
PH
321039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3211
4e1fde53
PH
321240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3213 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3214
de365ded
PH
321541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3216 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3217 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3218
f05da2e8
PH
321942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3220
d6453af2
PH
322143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3222
f7b63901
PH
322344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3224
322545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3226 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3227 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3228 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3229 because the tests only now provoked it.
3230
a444213a
PH
323146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3232 (this can affect the format of dates).
3233
0ec020ea
PH
323447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3235 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3236 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3237 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3238
b1206957
PH
323948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3240
324149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3242 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3243 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3244 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3245
26dd5a95
PH
324650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3247 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3248 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3249
343b2385
PH
325051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3251 autoreply.
3252
1c5466b9
PH
325352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3254 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3255 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3256 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3257 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3258 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3259 is going on).
3260
55ee9ee3
PH
326153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3262 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3263 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3264 the line.
3265
d38f8232
PH
326654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3267 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3268 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3269
3270 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3271 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3272 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3273 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3274 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3275 so I produce this patch..."
3276
3295e65b
PH
3277 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3278 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3279 is not defined.
3280
7102e136
PH
328155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3282 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3283 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3284 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3285 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3286
3ca0ba97
PH
328756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3288
c2bcbe20
PH
328957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3290 long debug lines gets shown.
3291
18ce445d
PH
329258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3293 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3294
1f5b4c3d
PH
329559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3296
3297 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3298 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3299 of $primary_hostname.
3300
b975ba52
PH
330160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3302 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3303 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3304 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3305 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3306 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3307 by change 4.50/55 above.
3308
3309 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3310 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3311 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3312 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3313 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3314 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3315 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3316
331761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3318 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3319 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3320 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3321
17ffcae7
PH
332262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3323 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3324
d95f9fdb
PH
332563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3326 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3327 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3328 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3329 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3330
86b8287f
PH
333164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3332 This has been fixed.
3333
60dc5e56
PH
333465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3335 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3336 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3337 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3338 the caching.)
3339
533244af
PH
334066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3341
a5a28604
PH
334267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3343 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3344 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3345 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3346
7e634d24
PH
334768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3348 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3349
3e11c26b
PH
335069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3351 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3352 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3353
6729cf78
PH
335470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3355 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3356 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3357 message there.
3358
00f00ca5
PH
335971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3360 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3361 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3362
c9bdd01c
PH
336372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3364 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3365 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3366 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3367
d43194df
PH
336873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3369 during host lookups.
3370
fe5b5d0b
PH
337174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3372 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3373
3374 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3375
76a2d7ba
PH
337675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3377 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3378 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3379 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3380 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3381 background.
3382
338376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3384 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3385
04f7d5b9
PH
338677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3387 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3388 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3389
bc60667e
PH
339078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3391
bb6e88ff
PH
339279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3393 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3394 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3395 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3396 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3397 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3398 process earlier.
3399
1e70f85b
PH
340080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3401 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3402 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3403 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3404 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3405
340681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3407 tables).
3408
4e01f9d6
PH
340982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3410
1ee1cef2
PH
341183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3412 "vacation" handling.
3413
6e2b4ccc
PH
341484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3415 OS variants using glibc.
3416
8e669ac1
PH
341785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3418
495ae4b0 3419
bbe902f0
PH
3420----------------------------------------------------
3421See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3422----------------------------------------------------
3423
3424
3425Exim version 4.44
3426-----------------
3427
3428 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3429 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3430 transport
3431
3432 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3433 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3434 place.
3435
3436 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3437 filter fails to execute.
3438
3439 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3440 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3441 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3442 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3443 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3444
3445 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3446 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3447 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3448 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3449
3450 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3451 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3452 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3453 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3454 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3455
3456 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3457
3458 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3459 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3460 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3461 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3462
3463 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3464 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3465 sender verification.
3466
346710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3468 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3469
347011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3471 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3472
347312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3474 ignore_target_hosts.
3475
347613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3477 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3478 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3479 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3480 "[x.x.x.x]".
3481
348214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3483 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3484 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3485
348615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3487 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3488 wake it up if nothing else does.
3489
349016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3491 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3492 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3493 end up negative.
3494
349517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3496 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3497
ea3a6f44 349818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3499
350019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3501 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3502 empty pattern.
3503
350420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3505 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3506 one IP address.
3507
ea3a6f44
NM
350821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3509 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3510 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3511 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3512 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3513 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3514
ea3a6f44
NM
351522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3516 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3517 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3518
351923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3520 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3521 $sender_host_address.
3522
352324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3524
ea3a6f44
NM
352525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3526 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3527 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3528
352926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3530 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3531
ea3a6f44
NM
353227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3533 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3534
ea3a6f44
NM
353528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3536 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3537 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3538 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3539
354029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3541 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3542 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3543
ea3a6f44
NM
354430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3545 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3546 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3547 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3548
ea3a6f44
NM
354931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3550 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3551 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3552
ea3a6f44
NM
355331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3554 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3555
ea3a6f44
NM
355632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3557 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3558 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3559 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3560 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3561 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3562 is going on).
bbe902f0 3563
ea3a6f44
NM
356433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3565 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3566 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3567 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3568 CAN-2005-0021
3569
ea3a6f44
NM
357034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3571 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3572 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3573 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3574 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3575 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3576 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3577
3578 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3579 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3580 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3581 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3582 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3583 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3584 CAN-2005-0021
3585
ea3a6f44
NM
358635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3587 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3588 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3589 CAN-2005-0022
3590
ea3a6f44
NM
359136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3592 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3593 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3594 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3595 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3596
ea3a6f44
NM
359737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3598 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3599 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3600 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3601 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3602
ea3a6f44
NM
360338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3604 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3605 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3606 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3607 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3608
3609
495ae4b0
PH
3610Exim version 4.43
3611-----------------
3612
3613 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3614 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3615 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3616 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3617 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3618 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3619 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3620
3621 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3622 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3623 the delivery.
3624
3625 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3626
3627 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3628
3629 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3630 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3631 to local_scan().
3632
3633 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3634 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3635 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3636 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3637 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3638
3639 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3640 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3641
3642 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3643
3644 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3645
364610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3647 header_sender only.
3648
364911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3650 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3651
365212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3653 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3654 affecting debugging statements).
3655
365613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3657
365814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3659 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3660 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3661 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3662 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3663 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3664 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3665 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3666 after the received time, and all would be well.
3667
366815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3669 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3670 condition in an expansion string.
3671
367216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3673
367417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3675 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3676 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3677 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3678 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3679 job under whatever limits there are.
3680
368118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3682
368319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3684 space).
3685
368620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3687 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3688 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3689 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3690 return path is set.
3691
369221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3693 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3694 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3695 binary data in such strings.
3696
369722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3698
369923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3700 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3701 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3702 failure, which is pointless.
3703
370424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3705
370625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3707
370826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3709 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3710 Sender: header lines.
3711
371227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3713 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3714 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3715
371628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3717 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3718 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3719 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3720 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3721 happens.
3722
372329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3724 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3725 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3726 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3727 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3728
372930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3730 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3731 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3732 1024.
3733
373431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3735 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3736
373732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3738 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3739
374033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3741
374232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3743
374433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3745
374634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3747 syntax error.
3748
374935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3750
375136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3752
375337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3754 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3755 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3756 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3757
375838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3759 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3760
3761
3762Exim version 4.42
3763-----------------
3764
3765 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3766 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3767 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3768 it was not quoted.
3769 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3770 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3771 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3772 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3773 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3774 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3775
3776 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3777 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3778 verification failure".
3779
3780 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3781 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3782 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3783 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3784
3785 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3786 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3787 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3788 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3789 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3790 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3791 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3792 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3793 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3794 treated as a timeout.
3795
3796 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3797 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3798 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3799 not set for Exim filters).
3800
3801 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3802 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3803 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3804
3805 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3806
3807 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3808 try to make them clearer.
3809
3810 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3811 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3812
3813 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3814
3815 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3816
381710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3818 only the Cygwin environment.
3819
382011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3821 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3822 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3823 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3824 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3825
382612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3827 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3828 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3829 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3830 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3831 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3832 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3833
383413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3835 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3836
383714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3838
3839 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3840 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3841 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3842
3843 To: susanne@some.where
3844
3845 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3846 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3847 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3848 of addresses in From: header lines).
3849
3850 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3851 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3852 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3853
3854 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3855 treated as non-personal.
3856
3857 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3858 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3859
386015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3861
386216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3863
386417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3865 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3866 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3867
386818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3869 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3870
387119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3872 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3873 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3874 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3875 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3876 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3877
387820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3879 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3880 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3881 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3882 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3883 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3884 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3885 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3886
3887 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3888
388921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3890 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3891
389222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3893 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3894 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3895
389623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3897 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3898
389924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3900 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3901 rather than long int.
3902
390325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3904
390526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3906
3907
3908Exim version 4.41
3909-----------------
3910
3911 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3912 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3913 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3914 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3915 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3916 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3917
3918
3919Exim version 4.40
3920-----------------
3921
3922 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3923 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3924
3925 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3926 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3927 socklen_t is defined.
3928
3929 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3930 always exist.
3931
3932 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3933 configured.
3934
3935 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3936 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3937 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3938 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3939 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3940
3941 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3942 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3943 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3944 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3945
3946 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3947 of flapping under certain conditions.
3948
3949 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3950 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3951 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3952
3953 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3954
395510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3956
395711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3958 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3959 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3960 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3961
396212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3963 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3964 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3965 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3966 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3967 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3968 preserved with the message after it was received.
3969
397013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3971 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3972 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3973 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3974 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3975 test suite worked just fine.
3976
397714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3978 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3979 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3980
398115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3982 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3983 string.
3984
398516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3986 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3987 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3988 does not fully solve it.
3989
399017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3991 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3992 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3993 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3994 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3995
399618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3997 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3998 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3999
400019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4001 string, for example:
4002
4003 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4004
4005 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4006 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4007 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4008 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4009 the routers could not see them.
4010
401120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4012 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4013
401421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4015 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4016 output).
4017
401822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4019 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4020 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4021 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4022 that needed quoting.
4023
402423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4025 was not being matched caselessly.
4026
402724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4028 backslashes.
4029
403025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4031 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4032 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4033 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4034 when use_sender is false.
4035
403626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4037
403827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4039
404028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4041
404229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4043 the configuration file.
4044
404530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4046 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4047
404831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4049
405032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4051 bytes in the message body.
4052
405333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4054 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4055 delivery.
4056
405734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4058
405935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4060
406136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4062 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4063 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4064 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4065 another IP address.
4066
4067
4068Exim version 4.34
4069-----------------
4070
4071 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4072 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4073
4074 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4075 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4076 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4077 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4078 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4079
4080 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4081 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4082
4083 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4084 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4085 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4086
4087 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4088 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4089 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4090
4091 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4092 for routers.
4093
4094 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4095 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4096 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4097 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4098 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4099 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4100 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4101
4102
4103Exim version 4.33
4104-----------------
4105
4106 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4107 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4108 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4109 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4110 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4111 default (and expected) setting.
4112
4113 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4114 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4115 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4116 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4117
4118 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4119 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4120
4121 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4122 in domain lists.
4123
4124 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4125 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4126 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4127 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4128 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4129 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4130
4131 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4132 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4133 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4134
4135 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4136 part (NOT match_host).
4137
4138 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4139
4140 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4141 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4142 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4143 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4144 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4145 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4146 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4147 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4148 the same named file.
4149
415010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4151 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4152 when Exim is built.
4153
415411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4155 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4156 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4157 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4158 a host name.
4159
416012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4161 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4162 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4163
416413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4165
416614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4167
416815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4169
417016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4171 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4172
417317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4174 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4175 before starting the TLS session.
4176
417718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4178
417919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4180 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4181
418220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4183 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4184 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4185 colon in the middle).
4186
4187
4188Exim version 4.32
4189-----------------
4190
4191 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4192 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4193 multiple configurations are in use.
4194
4195 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4196 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4197 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4198 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4199 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4200 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4201
4202 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4203 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4204
4205 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4206 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4207 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4208
4209 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4210 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4211 occurs.
4212
4213 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4214 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4215
4216 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4217
4218 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4219 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4220
4221 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4222
4223 -prval:sval
4224
4225 is equivalent to
4226
4227 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4228
4229 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4230 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4231 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4232 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4233 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4234
423510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4236 Exim's behaviour:
4237
4238 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4239 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4240 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4241 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4242 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4243 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4244
4245 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4246 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4247 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4248 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4249 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4250 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4251 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4252 string.
4253
4254 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4255 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4256 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4257 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4258 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4259
426011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4261
426212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4263 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4264 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4265
426613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4267
426814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4269 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4270 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4271 information.
4272
427315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4274 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4275
427616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4277 Three changes have been made:
4278
4279 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4280 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4281 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4282 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4283 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4284
4285 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4286 been restored.
4287
4288 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4289 the modified behaviour.
4290
4291
4292Exim version 4.31
4293-----------------
4294
4295 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4296 Larry Rosenman.
4297
4298 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4299 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4300
4301 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4302 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4303 try to track down a specific problem.
4304
4305 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4306 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4307 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4308
4309 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4310 warning.
4311
4312 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4313 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4314 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4315 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4316 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4317 some earlier ones do not.
4318
4319 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4320
4321 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4322 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4323 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4324 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4325 address literals are enabled, of course).
4326
4327 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4328
432910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4330 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4331 by a command such as
4332
4333 exim -f "" ...
4334
4335 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4336
433711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4338
433912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4340 remained set. It is now erased.
4341
434213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4343 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4344
434514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4346 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4347 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4348 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4349 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4350 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4351 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4352 appropriate error code.
4353
435415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4355 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4356 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4357 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4358 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4359 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4360
436116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4362 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4363 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4364
436517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4366 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4367 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4368 terminate the header.
4369
437018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4371 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4372 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4373
437419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4375 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4376 (4.30/29). In particular:
4377
4378 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4379 imposed.
4380
4381 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4382 to write a maildirsize file.
4383
4384 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4385 the transport, the new value overrides.
4386
4387 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4388 count.
4389
439020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4391 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4392 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4393 space or a tab.
4394
439521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4396 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4397 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4398 the fallback hosts.
4399
440022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4401 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4402 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4403
440423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4405 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4406 using a union.
4407
440824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4409 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4410 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4411
441225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4413
441426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4415
441627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4417
441828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4419 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4420 become corrupted.
4421
442229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4423 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4424 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4425 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4426 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4427 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4428 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4429 too great.
4430
443130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4432 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4433 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4434 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4435 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4436 incorrectly.
4437
443831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4439 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4440 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4441 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4442 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4443 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4444 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4445 cached value only when the same options are set.
4446
444732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4448
444933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4450 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4451 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4452 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4453 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4454
445534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4456 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4457 it is clearly obsolete.
4458
445935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4460 transport.
4461
446236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4463 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4464 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4465 times.
4466
446737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4468 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4469 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4470 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4471 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4472
447338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4474 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4475 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4476 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4477
447839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4479
4480 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4481
4482 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4483 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4484 2^31.
4485
448640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4487 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4488 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4489 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4490 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4491 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4492 $localpart_data.
4493
449441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4495 with the -f command-line option.
4496
449742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4498 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4499 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4500 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4501 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4502 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4503
450443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4505 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4506 line.
4507
450844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4509 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4510 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4511 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4512 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4513 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4514 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4515 buffer is too small.
4516
451745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4518 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4519
452046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4521 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4522 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4523 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4524 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4525 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4526 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4527 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4528 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4529
453047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4531 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4532 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4533
453448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4535 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4536 ACL").
4537
453849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4539 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4540 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4541 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4542 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4543
454450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4545 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4546 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4547 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4548 is set.
4549
455051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4551
455252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4553
455453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4555 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4556
455754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4558 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4559 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4560
456155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4562 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4563 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4564 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4565 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4566
456756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4568 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4569 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4570 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4571 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4572 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4573 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4574
457557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4576 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4577 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4578 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4579 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4580 the test of how many are available.
4581
458258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4583 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4584 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4585 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4586 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4587 new message is started.
4588
458959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4590 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4591
459260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4593 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4594
459561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4596 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4597 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4598 is no long logged.
4599
460062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4601 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4602 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4603 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4604 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4605 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4606 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4607
460863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4609 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4610 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4611 interpreted as octal.
4612
461364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4614 setting.
4615
461665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4617 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4618 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4619 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4620 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4621 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4622
462366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4624 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4625 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4626 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4627
4628 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4629 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4630 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4631 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4632
4633 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4634 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4635 is a bug fix.
4636
4637 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4638 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4639
464067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4641
464268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4643 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4644 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4645 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4646
464769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4648 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4649 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4650 supplied", which is not helpful.
4651
465270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4653 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4654 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4655
465671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4657 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4658 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4659 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4660 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4661 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4662 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4663 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4664
466572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4666 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4667 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4668 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4669 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4670
467173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4672 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4673 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4674 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4675 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4676 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4677
467874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4679 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4680 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4681
468275. Added write_rejectlog option.
4683
468476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4685 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4686 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4687 variables.
4688
468977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4690
469178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4692 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4693 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4694 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4695 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4696 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4697 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4698 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4699
470079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4701 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4702 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4703 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4704 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4705
470680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4707 Haardt.
4708
470981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4710 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4711 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4712 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4713 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4714 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4715 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4716 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4717 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4718
4719
4720Exim version 4.30
4721-----------------
4722
4723 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4724 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4725 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4726
4727 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4728 fixed.
4729
4730 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4731 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4732 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4733
4734 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4735 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4736 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4737 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4738 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4739 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4740
4741 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4742 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4743 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4744 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4745 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4746 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4747 the Exim test suite.
4748
4749 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4750 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4751 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4752 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4753
4754 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4755 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4756 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4757 specify it in this variable.
4758
4759 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4760 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4761 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4762 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4763
4764 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4765 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4766 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4767 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4768
4769 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4770 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4771 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4772 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4773 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4774
4775 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4776
477710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4778 they are logged.
4779
478011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4781 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4782 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4783 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4784 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4785
478612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4787 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4788
478913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4790 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4791 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4792 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4793 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4794
479514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4796 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4797
479815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4799 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4800 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4801
480216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4803 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4804
480517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4806 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4807
480818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4809 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4810 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4811
481219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4813 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4814
481520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4816 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4817 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4818 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4819
482021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4821
482222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4823 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4824 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4825 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4826
482723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4828
482924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4830 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4831
483225. Added .include_if_exists.
4833
483426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4835 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4836 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4837 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4838 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4839 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4840
484127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4842
484328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4844 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4845 this.
4846
484729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4848
484930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4850 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4851
4852 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4853 550 Sender verify failed
4854
4855 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4856 the final line of the response.
4857
485831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4859 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4860 all other user lookups.
4861
486232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4863 delivery time.
4864
486533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4866 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4867 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4868 result into an int without checking.
4869
487034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4871 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4872 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4873
487435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4875 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4876 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4877 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4878
487936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4880 correctly.
4881
488237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4883 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4884
488538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4886 to the empty sender.
4887
488839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4889 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4890 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4891 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4892 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4893 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4894 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4895 panic log.
4896
489740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4898 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4899 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4900 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4901 used.
4902
490341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4904 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4905
490642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4907 timestamps.
4908
490943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4910 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4911
491244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4913
491445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4915 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4916 logs.
4917
491846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4919 as soon as it is encountered.
4920
492147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4922
492348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4924 rewritten to "<>".
4925
492649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4927 recognizes a tab character.
4928
492950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4930 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4931 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4932 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4933
493451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4935
493652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4937 crash.
4938
493953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4940
494154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4942
494355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4944 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4945 2822.
4946
494756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4948 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4949 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4950 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4951 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4952
495357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4954 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4955
495658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4957 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4958 list (.included file names were always shown).
4959
496059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4961 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4962 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4963 root at that time.
4964
496560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4966 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4967
496861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4969
497062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4971
497263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4973
497464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4975 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4976 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4977 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4978 failures to open the logs.
4979
498065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4981 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4982 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4983 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4984 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4985 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4986 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4987
4988
4989Exim version 4.24
4990-----------------
4991
4992 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4993 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4994 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4995 change 4.23/1.
4996
4997 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4998 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4999 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5000
5001 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5002 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5003 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5004
5005 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5006 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5007 causing some misleading effects.
5008
5009 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5010 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5011 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5012
5013 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5014 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5015 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5016 queue-runner function directly.
5017
5018
5019Exim version 4.23
5020-----------------
5021
5022 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5023 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5024
5025 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5026 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5027 was always written to the default place.
5028
5029 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5030 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5031 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5032
5033 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5034
5035 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5036
5037 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5038 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5039 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5040
5041 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5042 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5043 must start.
5044
5045 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5046 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5047 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5048
5049 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5050 command line option is disabled.
5051
5052 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5053 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5054
5055 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5056
5057 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5058
5059 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5060 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5061
506210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5063
506411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5065 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5066 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5067 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5068 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5069 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5070
507112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5072 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5073 timeout.
5074
507513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5076 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5077
507814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5079 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5080
508115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5082 received was valid base64.
5083
508416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5085 name of the variable that was being set.
5086
508717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5088
508918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5090 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5091 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5092 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5093 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5094 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5095
509619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5097
509820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5099 nor realm was specified.
5100
510121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5102 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5103 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5104 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5105
510622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5107 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5108 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5109
511023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5111 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5112 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5113
511424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5115 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5116 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5117 some systems use these upper case variants.
5118
511925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5120 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5121 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5122 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5123
512426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5125
512627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5127 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5128
512928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5130 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5131 expansion variable.
5132
513329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5134
513530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5136 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5137 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5138 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5139
514031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5141 using it.
5142
514332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5144 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5145 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5146
514733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5148 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5149
515034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5151 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5152 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5153 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5154
515535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5156 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5157 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5158
515936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5160
516137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5162 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5163 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5164 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5165 aborted.
5166
516738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5168 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5169 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5170
517139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5172
517340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5174 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5175
517641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5177 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5178
517942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5180 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5181 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5182 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5183 when emails are that large.
5184
5185
5186
5187Exim version 4.22
5188-----------------
5189
5190 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5191 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5192
5193 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5194 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5195 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5196
5197 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5198 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5199 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5200
5201 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5202 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5203 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5204 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5205 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5206
5207 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5208 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5209 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5210 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5211 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5212 ever.
5213
5214 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5215 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5216 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5217 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5218 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5219 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5220 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5221 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5222 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5223 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5224 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5225 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5226 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5227 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5228
5229 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5230 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5231 parameterised it.
5232
5233 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5234 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5235 error should be diagnosed.
5236
5237 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5238 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5239 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5240 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5241 appeared instead of "NULL".
5242
524310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5244 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5245 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5246 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5247 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5248 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5249 proceeds).
5250
5251 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5252 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5253 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5254
5255
5256Exim version 4.21
5257-----------------
5258
5259 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5260 or receiver verification errors.
5261
5262 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5263 name.
5264
5265 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5266 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5267 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5268 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5269
5270 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5271 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5272 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5273 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5274 shouldn't happen again.
5275
5276 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5277 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5278 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5279
5280 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5281 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5282
5283 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5284
5285 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5286 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5287
5288 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5289 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5290 RFC.
5291
529210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5293 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5294 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5295
529611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5297 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5298 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5299 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5300
530112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5302 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5303 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5304 to define what should happen).
5305
530613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5307 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5308 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5309
531014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5311
531215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5313
531416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5315 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5316
531717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5318 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5319 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5320 structure in all cases.
5321
5322 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5323 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5324 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5325 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5326
532718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5328 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5329 domain name.
5330
533119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5332 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5333
533420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5335 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5336
533721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5338 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5339 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5340
534122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5342 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5343 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5344
534523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5346 the book and for uniformity.
5347
534824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5349
535025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5351 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5352 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5353 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5354 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5355 non-existent command as the problem.
5356
535726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5358 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5359 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5360
536127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5362
536328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5364 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5365 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5366
536729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5368 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5369 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5370 timestamps using strftime().
5371
537230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5373 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5374
537532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5376 transport-time rewrites.
5377
537833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5379 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5380 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5381 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5382
538334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5384 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5385
538635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5387 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5388 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5389 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5390 comma and a space.
5391
539236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5393 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5394 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5395 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5396 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5397 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5398 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5399
540037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5401 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5402 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5403 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5404 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5405
540638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5407 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5408 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5409 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5410 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5411 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5412 remaining text gets split now.
5413
541439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5415 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5416 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5417 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5418
541940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5420 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5421 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5422 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5423 $return_path.
5424
542541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5426 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5427 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5428 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5429 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5430 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5431 passed through if needed.
5432
543342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5434 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5435 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5436 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5437 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5438 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5439
544043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5441 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5442 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5443 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5444 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5445
544644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5447 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5448 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5449 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5450 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5451
545245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5453 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5454 noticed.
5455
545646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5457 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5458 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5459 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5460 mayhem of various kinds.
5461
546247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5463 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5464 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5465 the right test for positive values.
5466
546748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5468 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5469 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5470 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5471 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5472 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5473 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5474 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5475 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5476 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5477 envelope.
5478
547949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5480 module.
5481
548250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5483 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5484 forbidding it.
5485
548651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5487 the existing equality matching.
5488
548952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5490 dealing with inode numbers.
5491
549253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5493 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5494 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5495
549654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5497 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5498 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5499 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5500 local_scan().
5501
550255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5503 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5504 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5505 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5506 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5507 relay addresses has also been removed.
5508
550956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5510
551157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5512 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5513 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5514
551558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5516 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5517 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5518 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5519 processing applies to CR:
5520
5521 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5522 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5523
5524 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5525 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5526 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5527 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5528
552959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5530 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5531 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5532
553360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5534 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5535 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5536 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5537 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5538 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5539 arisen.
5540
554161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5542 program routers.
5543
554462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5545 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5546 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5547 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5548 adds:
5549
5550 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5551
5552 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5553
5554 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5555
555663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5557 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5558 not considered personal.
5559
556064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5561
556265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5563
556466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5565
556667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5567 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5568 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5569 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5570 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5571 header lines, and spool format errors.
5572
557368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5574 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5575 for more flexibility.
5576
557769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5578 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5579 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5580
558170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5582 Sabourenkov.
5583
558471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5585 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5586 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5587 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5588 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5589 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5590 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5591 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5592 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5593
559472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5595 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5596 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5597 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5598 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5599 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5600 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5601
560273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5603 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5604 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5605
560674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5607 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5608 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5609 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5610 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5611 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5612 instead of killing the process with assert().
5613
561475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5615 than Unicode encoding.
5616
561776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5618 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5619 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5620 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5621
562277. Added process_log_path.
5623
562478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5625 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5626
562779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5628 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5629
563080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5631 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5632 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5633
563481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5635 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5636 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5637 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5638 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5639 were applied:
5640
5641 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5642 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5643 as invalid.
5644
564582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5646 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5647 they will be used during message reception.
5648
5649
5650Exim version 4.20
5651-----------------
5652
5653The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5654
5655****