Fix buffer overrun in spam= acl condition. Bug 1552
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7TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
8 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
9 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
10 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
11 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
12 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
13 the script parsing/test process like normal.
14
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15TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
16 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
17 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
18 function when detected.
19
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20JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
21 cause callback expansion.
22
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23TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
24 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
25 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
26 instead of bool when processing it.
27
0f06b4f2 28JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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29 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
30
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31JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
32
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33JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
34
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35TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
36
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37TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
38 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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40JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
41 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
42 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
43 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
44 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
45 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
46
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47JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
48 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
49 exceeded it.
50
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51JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
52 version 3.3.6 or later.
53
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54JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
55 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
56 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 57 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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58 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
59 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
60 option is defined.
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62TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
63 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
64
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65JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
66 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
67 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
68 matches.
69
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70JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
71 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
72 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
73
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74JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length parameter in the
75 incoming message.
76
77JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
78 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
79 syntax errors.
80
81JH/13 Buf 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
82
83JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
84 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
85
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89TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
90 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
91 return.
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93JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
94 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
95
96JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
97
98TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 99 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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102Exim version 4.83
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105TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
106
107 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
108 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
109 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
110 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
111 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
112 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
113
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114TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
115 utilities have not been installed.
116
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117JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
118 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
119
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120TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
121 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
122
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123TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
124 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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125 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
126 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 127
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128JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
129
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130TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
131 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
132
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133PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
134 not dns_use_dnssec.
135
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136JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
137
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138TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
139 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
140 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
141
8ddef691 142TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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143 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
144 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
145 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
146 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 147 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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149JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
150
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151JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
152 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
153
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154JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
155 failed delivery.
156
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157JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
158
511a6c14 159JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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160
161JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
162 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 163
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164JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
165 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
166
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167TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
168
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169JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
170
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171JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
172 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
173
174 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
175 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
176 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
177
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178TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
179 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
180 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
181 analysis.
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183JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
184
8c51eead 185JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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186 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
187 lookup).
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189TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
190 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
191 Schlichting.
35aba663 192
fd3b6a4a 193JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 194 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 195
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196TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
197 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
198
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199JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
200
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201TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
202 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
203 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
204
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205JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
206 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
207
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208JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
209 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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210 hosts_request_ocsp.
211
ed3bba5f 212JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 213 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 214 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 215
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216JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
217
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218TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
219 Christian Aistleitner.
220
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221JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
222
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223TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
224 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
225
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226JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
227 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
228
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229JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
230 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
231
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232TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
233 support and error reporting did not work properly.
234
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235TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
236 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
237
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238TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
239 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
240 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
241
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242JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
243
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244PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
245 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
246 Jasper Wallace.
247
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248JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
249
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250TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
251 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
252 CVE-2014-2972
253
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257
258PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
259
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260PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
261 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
262
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263PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
264 by GnuTLS.
265
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266PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
267 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
268 routines.
269
13363eba 270PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 271
66645890 272PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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273 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
274 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
275 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
276 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 277
a3fb9793 278PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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279 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
280 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
281 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 282 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 283 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 284
d27f98fe 285TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 286
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287TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
288
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289TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
290 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
291
ae0e32ee 292TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 293 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 294 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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296TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 297
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298TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
299
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300TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
301 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
302
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303JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
304
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305JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
306
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307PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
308
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309NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
310 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 311
585121e2 312JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 313
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314PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
315 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
316 function.
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318PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
319 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
320
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321JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
322 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
323 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 324
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325JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
326
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327JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
328
ea722490 329JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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330 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
331
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332JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
333 Bugzilla 884.
334
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335JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
336 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
337
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338JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
339 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
340
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341PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
342 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 343 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 344
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345JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
346 authenticators.
347
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348JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
349 for control.
350
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351PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
352
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353PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
354 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
355 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
356 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
357
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358TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
359
360 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
361 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
362 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
363 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
364 the retry rules.
365
366 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
367 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
368 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
369
370 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
371 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
372 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
373 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
374
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375 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
376 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
377 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
378 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
379 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
380 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
381 delivery, as in LMTP.
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382
383 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
384 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
385
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386TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
387
388 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
389
390 Resent-From: f
391
392 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
393 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
394 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
395 username as equal to the username.
396
397 This change corrects that bug.
398
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399GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
400 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
401 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
402
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403TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
404
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405PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
406 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
407 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
408 NULL dereference and crash.
409
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410JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
411
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412PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
413 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
414 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
415
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416SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
417
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418JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
419 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
420 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
421 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
422 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
423 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
424 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
425 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
426 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
427 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
428 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
429
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430PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
431 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
432
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433PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
434 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
435 Bugzilla 880.
436
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437PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
438 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
439 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
440 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
441 an empty string is now equivalent.
442
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443PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
444 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
445 not performing validation itself.
446
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447PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
448 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
449
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450JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
451 Bugzilla 321, 823.
452
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453TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
454
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455PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
456 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
457 other false fix of the same issue.
458 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
459 Bugzilla 1363.
460
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461PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
462 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
463
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464PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
465 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
466 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
467
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468PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
469 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
470 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
471
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472TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
473
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474JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
475
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476TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
477 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
478
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479TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
480 Alexander Miroch.
481
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482TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
483 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
484 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
485 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
486 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 487
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488TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
489 the src/util/ subdirectory.
490
581d7bee 491TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 492 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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493 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
494
495TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
496 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
497 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
498 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
499
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500TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
501
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502TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
503 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
504 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 505
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506TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
507
e2cebd74
TL
508TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
509 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
510 interaction.
511
512TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
513 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
514
2519e60d
TL
515TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
516 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
517
e78e6ecf 518
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PP
519Exim version 4.80.1
520-------------------
521
522PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
523 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 524 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 525
ea722490 526
b1770b6e 527Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
528-----------------
529
530PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
531 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
532 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
533
23c7e742
NM
534NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
535
b322aac8
NM
536NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
537 improved.
538
4a891427
NM
539NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
540
c1e794ba 541PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 542
97753960
PP
543PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
544
545PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
546 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
547
df6303fa
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548PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
549 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
550
7e6a8985
PP
551PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
552 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
553
f1e05cc7 554PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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555 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
556 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 557
4c287009
PP
558PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
559
b98bb9ac
PP
560PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
561 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
562
4a6a987a
PP
563PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
564
c45dd180 565PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 566
7db8d074
PP
567PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
568 non-compliant senders.
569 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
570
eae0036b 571NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
572 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
573 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
574
dec5017e
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575PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
576 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
577 in spool file corruption.
578
c80c5570
PP
579PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
580 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
581 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
582 "Got SSL error 2".
583
076b11e2
PP
584TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
585 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
586 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
587
5407bfff
JH
588JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
589 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
590
9e45c72b
PP
591JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
592
e74376d8
PP
593PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
594 diagnostics.
595 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
596
da3ad30d
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597PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
598 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
599 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
600
7be682ca
PP
601PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
602 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
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603 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
604 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 605
ef840681
PP
606PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
607 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
608
5bfb4cdf
PP
609PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
610 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
611 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
612 resolver implementation change.
613
c6e95d22
PP
614PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
615 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
616
9cbad13b
PP
617PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
618
9ee44efb
PP
619PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
620
6a6084f8
PP
621PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
622 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
623
12dd53c7
PP
624PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
625 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
626
9e45c72b 627JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
628 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
629
17c76198
PP
630PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
631 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
632 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
633 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 634 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 635
53947857 636PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 637
eae0036b 638PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
639 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
640 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 641
9e45c72b 642JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 643
7390e768
PP
644PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
645 read-only, out of scope).
646 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
647
08488c86
PP
648PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
649 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
650 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
651 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
652
6475bd82
PP
653PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
654
81f91683
PP
655PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
656 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
657 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
658 real issues in debug logging.
659
5779e6aa
PP
660PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
661 assignment on my part. Fixed.
662
3375e053
PP
663PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
664 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
665 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
666
667PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
668 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
669 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
670 problems.
3375e053 671
9d26b8c0
PP
672PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
673 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
674
57eb9e91 675PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
676 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
677 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
678 needs to override this, it can.
679
16880d1a
PP
680PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
681 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
682 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
683
a799883d
PP
684PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
685 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
686 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
687 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
688
3ecab157 689PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 690
0599f9cf 691
867fcbf5
PP
692Exim version 4.77
693-----------------
694
695PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
696 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
697
f1a29782
TF
698TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
699
ab42bd23
TK
700TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
701 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 702
0ca0cf52
TF
703TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
704 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
705
921b12ca
TF
706TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
707 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
708 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
709
710 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
711 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
712 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
713 not safe for signals.
714
715 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
716 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
717 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
718 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
719 exiwhat.
720
c99ce5c9
TF
721TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
722
723 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
724 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
725 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
726 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
727 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
728
729 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
730 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
731 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
732 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
733 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
734 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
735
736 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
737 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
738 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
739 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
740
741 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
742 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
743 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
744 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
745
746 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
747 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
748 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
749 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
750 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
751 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
752 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
753 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
754 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
755
756 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
757 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
758 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
759 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
760
761 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
762 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
763 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
764 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
765 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
766 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
767 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
768 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
769 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
770 details in the main documentation.
771
3634fc25
TF
772TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
773
792e8a19
TF
774TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
775
5901f0ab
TF
776TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
777 repository when doing development or release builds.
778
7f2a2a43
PP
779PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
780 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 781
061b7ebd
PP
782PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
783 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
784 Bugzilla 97.
785
e12f8c32
PP
786PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
787
9e949f00 788PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
789 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
790
791PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
792 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 793
555ae6af 794PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
795 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
796
797PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
798 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 799
6f7fe114
PP
800PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
801 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
802
c566dd90
PP
803PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
804 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
805 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
806 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 807
d6cc7c78 808PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
809 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
810 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
811
0d0e4455
PP
812PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
813
3399bb60 814PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
815
816PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
817 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
818
0ca0cf52 819
10906672
PP
820Exim version 4.76
821-----------------
822
823PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
824
754a0503
PP
825PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
826 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
827
c0c7b2da
PP
828PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
829
e97d1f08
PP
830PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
831
084c1d8c
PP
832PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
833 Bugzilla 1098.
834
4e7ee012
PP
835PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
836 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 837
c8d52a00
PP
838TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
839 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
840
54e7ce4a
PP
841PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
842 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
843
5ee6f336
PP
844PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
845 Bugzilla 1104.
846
c8d52a00 847TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
848 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
849
850TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
851 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
852 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
853 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
854
855PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
856 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 857
10906672 858
aa097c4c
NM
859Exim version 4.75
860-----------------
861
4c9ef03a 862NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
863 Bugzilla 1073
864
7f3d9eff
TF
865TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
866 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
867 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
868
159f52d2
TF
869TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
870 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
871
0cc9542a
PP
872PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
873 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
874 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
875
f7274286
PP
876PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
877 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
878
7b797365
PP
879PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
880 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
881
caacae52
NM
882NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
883 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
884
09dcaba9
NM
885NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
886 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
887
bc19a55b
PP
888PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
889 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 890
bd4c9759
NM
891NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
892 Fixes bug 943.
893
b72aab72
PP
894PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
895 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
896
2fe76745
PP
897PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
898 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
899
76aa570c
PP
900PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
901 SQL string expansion failure details.
902 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
903
f1e5fef5
PP
904PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
905 Patch from Simon Arlott.
906
4d805ee9
PP
907PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
908 extern declarations in function scope.
909 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
910
cd59ab18
PP
911PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
912 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
913 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
914 a kernel bug).
915
332f5cf3
PP
916PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
917 Patch from Mark Zealey.
918
29cfeb94
PP
919PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
920 Patch from Mark Zealey.
921
660242ad
PP
922PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
923 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
924
bc4bc4c5
PP
925PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
926 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
927
2e64baa9
NM
928NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
929 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
930 Dennis Davis.
931
bddd7526
PP
932PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
933
6bac1a9a
PP
934PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
935
552193f0
NM
936NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
937 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 938
1b587e48
TF
939TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
940 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
941
aa097c4c 942
8c07b69f
TF
943Exim version 4.74
944-----------------
945
946TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
947 consequences so log it to the panic log.
948
c0ea85ab
TF
949TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
950 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
951
0761d44e
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952TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
953
0a349494
PP
954DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
955 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
956 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
957
958PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
959 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
960 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
961
fea24b2e
PP
962PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
963 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
964 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
965 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
966
6545de78
PP
967PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
968 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
969 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
970 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
971
1670ef10
PP
972PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
973 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
974 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
975 arbitrary files.
976
c0886197
PP
977PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
978 (Wolfgang Breyha)
979
b7487bce
PP
980PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
981 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
982 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
983 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
984 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
985
8c07b69f 986
97fd1e48 987Exim version 4.73
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97fd1e48
PP
989
990PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
991 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
992 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
993
6901c596
PP
994PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
995 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
996
a8c8d6b5
JJ
997JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
998
77bb000f
PP
999PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1000
a29e5231
PP
1001PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1002
ec5a0394 1003PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1004
55c75993
PP
1005PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1006
453a6645 1007PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1008 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1009 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1010 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1011
8544e77a
PP
1012PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1013 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1014 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1015 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1016 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1017
83e029d5
PP
1018PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1019
ed7f7860
PP
1020PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1021
7d9f747b
PP
1022PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1023
4b2241d2
PP
1024PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1025
10385c15
PP
1026PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1027
dbc4b90d
PP
1028PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1029
532be449
PP
1030PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1031
6a8de854 1032PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1033 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1034 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1035
5dc43717
JJ
1036JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1037
1038JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1039 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1040
3346ab01
PP
1041PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1042 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1043
491fab4c
PP
1044PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1045 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1046 Notification from John Horne.
1047
13eb9497
PP
1048PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1049 compatible.
1050
1051PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1052 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1053 it normally works.
1054
7f36d675
DW
1055DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1056 access.
1057
c1d94452
DW
1058DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1059 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1060 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1061
e2f5dc15
DW
1062DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1063 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1064 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1065 configuration file.
1066
cd25e41d
DW
1067DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1068 option (effectively making it always true).
1069
261dc43e
DW
1070DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1071 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1072
fa32850b
DW
1073DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1074 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1075
79d4bc3d
PP
1076PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1077 run-time user, instead of root.
1078
43236f35 1079PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1080 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1081
fb08281f
DW
1082DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1083 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1084 arguments.
3346ab01 1085
74935b98
DW
1086DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1087 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1088 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1089
90b6341f
DW
1090DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1091
57730b52
ML
1092NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1093
66581d1e 1094
465e92cf
JJ
1095Exim version 4.72
1096-----------------
1097
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1098JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1099 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1100 typos
465e92cf 1101
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PP
1102JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1103 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1104 (Finput)
edae0343 1105
9bd3e22c
NM
1106NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1107 Patch from Alain Williams
1108
bb576ff7
NM
1109NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1110
5a1a5845
NM
1111NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1112 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1113
981a9fad
NM
1114NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1115 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1116
7fc497ee
NM
1117NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1118
1a41defa
JJ
1119JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1120
a466095c 1121NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1122 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1123
94a6bd0b
NM
1124TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1125
1126TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1127
1128MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1129 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1130 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1131
c1b141a8
NM
1132NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1133 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1134
b26eacf1 1135NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1136 Patch by Simon Arlott
1137
179c5980 1138PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1139 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1140
9bd3e22c 1141
7c6d71af
NM
1142Exim version 4.71
1143-----------------
1144
7d9f747b 1145TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1146
f013fb92
NM
1147NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1148
0eb8eedd
NM
1149NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1150
663ee6d9
NM
1151NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1152
177ebd9b
NM
1153NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1154
7c6d71af 1155
210f147e
NM
1156Exim version 4.70
1157-----------------
1158
cdd3bb85 1159TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1160 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1161
1162TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1163 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1164 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1165
1166TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1167 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1168 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1169
1170TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1171 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1172
210f147e
NM
1173NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1174 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1175 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1176 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1177
deafd5b3
NM
1178NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1179 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1180 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1181
089793a4
TF
1182TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1183
5f16ca82
TF
1184TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1185
dae9d94e 1186NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1187 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1188
7d9f747b 1189NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1190
06864c44
TF
1191TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1192 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1193 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1194 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1195
65a7d8c3 1196NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1197 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1198
23510047 1199TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1200
7d9f747b 1201NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1202
7d8eec3a 1203NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1204 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1205
89dec7b6
TF
1206TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1207 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1208
a99de90c
TF
1209TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1210 that they are available at delivery time.
1211
e2803e40
TF
1212TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1213
7199e1ee
TF
1214TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1215 incoming_port log selectors.
1216
e276e04b
TF
1217TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1218 setting expands to an empty string.
1219
ce552449 1220NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1221 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1222
e765a0f1 1223NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1224 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1225
4f054c63 1226NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1227 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1228
7d9f747b
PP
1229NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1230 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1231
7d9f747b
PP
1232NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1233 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1234
b52bc06e 1235NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1236 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1237
447de4b0
NM
1238NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1239
4c69d561 1240NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1241 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1242
d5c39246 1243NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1244 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1245
0b23848a
TK
1246TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1247
8f3414a1 1248NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1249 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1250
fb6f955d
NM
1251NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1252
1253NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1254
7d9f747b
PP
1255NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1256 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1257
7d9f747b
PP
1258NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1259 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1260
7d9f747b
PP
1261NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1262 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1263
7d9f747b
PP
1264NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1265 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1266
7d9f747b
PP
1267NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1268 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1269
7d9f747b
PP
1270NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1271 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1272
7d9f747b
PP
1273NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1274 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1275
7d9f747b 1276NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1277 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1278
7d9f747b 1279NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1280
7d9f747b
PP
1281NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1282 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1283
7d9f747b 1284NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1285
7d9f747b 1286NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1287
7d9f747b 1288NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1289
7d9f747b 1290NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1291
17792b53 1292NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1293 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1294
7d9f747b
PP
1295NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1296 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1297
91576cec 1298NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1299 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1300
7d9f747b
PP
1301NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1302 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1303
7d9f747b 1304NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1305
7d9f747b 1306NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1307
7d9f747b 1308NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1309
7d9f747b 1310NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1311
deafd5b3 1312
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NM
1313Exim version 4.69
1314-----------------
1315
4b3504d0
TK
1316TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1317 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1318 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1319
1320 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1321 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1322 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1323 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1324 build errors in sieve.c.
1325
81ea09ca
NM
1326NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1327 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1328 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1329
f13cddcb
SC
1330SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1331
7d9f747b 1332NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1333
7d9f747b 1334NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1335
7d9f747b 1336NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1337
1338
eb4c0de6
PH
1339Exim version 4.68
1340-----------------
1341
1342PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1343
6a3bceb1
PH
1344PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1345 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1346 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1347 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1348 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1349 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1350 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1351 for iplsearch lookups.
1352
1353 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1354 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1355 previously such lookups could never work.
1356
1357 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1358 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1359 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1360
2e30fa9d
TK
1361TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1362 version.
1363
0806a9c5
MH
1364MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1365 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1366 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1367 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1368 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1369 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1370
ae276964
TK
1371TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1372 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1373
0f2cbd1b
MH
1374MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1375 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1376 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1377 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1378 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1379 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1380
2b85bce7
PH
1381PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1382 local_scan API.
1383
93655c46
PH
1384PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1385
6c512171
PH
1386PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1387 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1388 encrypted.
1389
1390PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1391 by clients under certain conditions.
1392
aa6dc513
PH
1393PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1394 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1395
a96603a0
PH
1396PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1397
8f240103
PH
1398PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1399 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1400
1401PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1402
d677b2f2
PH
1403PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1404
d52120f2
PH
1405PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1406
64f2600a
PH
1407PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1408 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1409
8669f003
PH
1410PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1411
a4dc33a8
PH
1412PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1413 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1414
d6a60c0f
PH
1415PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1416
8f128379
PH
1417PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1418
8932dffe
PH
1419PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1420 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1421 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1422 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1423
ddea74fa 1424PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1425 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1426 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1427
ddea74fa 1428PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1429 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1430
ddea74fa
PH
1431PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1432
ce9f225c
PH
1433PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1434
19897d52
PH
1435PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1436
bc64a74d
PH
1437PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1438 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1439 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1440
eb4c0de6 1441
b4ed4da0
PH
1442Exim version 4.67
1443-----------------
1444
22ad45c9
MH
1445MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1446 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1447 Jan Srzednicki.
1448
b4ed4da0
PH
1449PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1450 issue a MAIL command.
1451
431b7361
PH
1452PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1453
1454 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1455
1456 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1457 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1458 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1459 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1460 item. This has been fixed.
1461
1462PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1463 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1464
83da1223
PH
1465PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1466 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1467
54fc8428
PH
1468PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1469 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1470 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1471
34c5e8dd
SC
1472SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1473
bbe15da8
PH
1474PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1475 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1476 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1477 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1478 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1479
0e8a9471
MH
1480MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1481 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1482 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1483
f0872424
PH
1484PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1485 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1486 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1487 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1488
b01dd148
PH
1489PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1490
6bf342e1
PH
1491PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1492
273f34d0
PH
1493PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1494 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1495 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1496 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1497 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1498
cf8b11a5
PH
1499PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1500
41c7c167
PH
1501PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1502 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1503 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1504 values).
1505
9c57cbc0
PH
1506PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1507
f3f065bb
PH
1508PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1509
047bdd8c
PH
1510PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1511
0ce9abe6
PH
1512PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1513
0e22dfd1
PH
1514PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1515
4c590bd1
PH
1516PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1517 no_callout_flush is set.
1518
09945f1e
PH
1519PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1520 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1521 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1522 fixed.
1523
c51b8e75
PH
1524PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1525
e28326d8
PH
1526PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1527 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1528 other ACL rejections are.
1529
75b1493f
PH
1530PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1531 with slight modification.
1532
7c5214ec
PH
1533PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1534 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1535
4311097e
PH
1536PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1537 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1538 connection.
1539
29f89cad
PH
1540PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1541 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1542
5e687460
SC
1543SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1544
c3611384
PH
1545PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1546 expansion side effects.
1547
5a11a7b4
PH
1548PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1549 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1550 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1551 be the same.
1552
0e20aff9
MH
1553MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1554 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1555 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1556
ca86f471
PH
1557PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1558 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1559 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1560 were accidentally chopped off.
1561
a14e5636
PH
1562PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1563 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1564 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1565 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1566 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1567 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1568 pipelining has not been advertised.
1569
ec95d1a6
PH
1570PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1571
42855d71
PH
1572PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1573 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1574 This has been fixed.
1575
57c2c631
PH
1576PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1577 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1578 reported on Solaris.
1579
58c01c94
PH
1580PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1581 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1582 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1583 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1584 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1585 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1586 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1587
dee5a20a
PH
1588PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1589 cpus.
1590
d2ee6114
PH
1591PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1592
b2d5182b
PH
1593PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1594
79749a79
PH
1595PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1596 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1597 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1598 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1599 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1600 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1601
c456d9bb
PH
1602PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1603 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1604 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1605 host_all_ignored option.
1606
cd9868ec
PH
1607PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1608 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1609 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1610 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1611 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1612 is what is supposed to happen).
1613
ebeaf996
PH
1614PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1615 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1616 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1617 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1618 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1619 uses the Exim user.
1620
2679d413
PH
1621PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1622 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1623 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1624 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1625 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1626 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1627 users.
1628
84024b72
PH
1629PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1630
8005d38e
SC
1631SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1632 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1633 (Jez Hancock).
1634 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1635 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1636
3298c6c6
SC
1637SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1638
a43a27c5
PH
1639PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1640
58eb016e 1641PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1642 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1643 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1644 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1645 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1646 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1647 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1648 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1649 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1650 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1651 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1652
b43a74ea
PH
1653PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1654 advertised in response to EHLO.
1655
b4ed4da0 1656
5dd1517f
PH
1657Exim version 4.66
1658-----------------
1659
1660PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1661 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1662
1663 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1664 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1665
1666 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1667 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1668 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1669
1670 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1671 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1672 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1673 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1674 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1675
1676
93cfa765
TK
1677Exim version 4.65
1678-----------------
1679
1680TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1681 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1682 versions. (#438)
1683
d6066548
MH
1684MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1685 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1686 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1687
4362ff0d
PH
1688PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1689 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1690 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1691 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1692 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1693 rather than extend the field.
1694
93cfa765 1695
944e9e9c
TF
1696Exim version 4.64
1697-----------------
aa41d2de 1698
21d74bd9
TK
1699TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1700 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1701 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1702 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1703 these files.
1704
1705TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1706 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1707 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1708
1709TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1710 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1711 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1712
1713TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1714 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1715 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1716 in the field name.
1717
2b1c6e3a
PH
1718PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1719 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1720 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1721 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1722 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1723 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1724 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1725 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1726 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1727 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1728 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1729
1f872c80
PH
1730PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1731 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1732
1733PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1734 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1735 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1736 ignores EPIPE as well.
1737
d203e649
PH
1738PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1739 (quoted-printable decoding).
1740
cc2ed8f7 1741PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1742 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1743
ddfcd446
PH
1744PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1745
d45b1de8
PH
1746PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1747
1748PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1749
38a0a95f 1750PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1751 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1752
a2405d83
JJ
1753JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1754 in 4.64-PH/09.
1755
1756JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1757 miscellaneous code fixes
1758
6ea85e9a
PH
1759PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1760 rejections.
1761
26da7e20
PH
1762PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1763 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1764 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1765 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1766 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1767 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1768 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1769 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1770
14aa5a05 1771PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1772 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1773 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1774 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1775 function.
1776 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1777 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1778 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1779 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1780 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1781 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1782 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1783 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1784 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1785
ff75a1f7
PH
1786PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1787 decoding.
1788
e6f6568e
PH
1789PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1790 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1791 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1792 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1793 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1794 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1795 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1796 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1797
d6f6e0dc
PH
1798PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1799 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1800 list.
1801
322050c2
PH
1802PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1803 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1804 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1805 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1806 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1807 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1808 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1809 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1810 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1811 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1812 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1813 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1814 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1815
08955dd3
PH
1816PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1817 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1818 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1819 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1820 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1821 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1822 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1823
1eccaa59
PH
1824PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1825 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1826 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1827 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1828 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1829 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1830 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1831 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1832 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1833 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1834
602e59e5
PH
1835PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1836 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1837 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1838 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1839 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1840
411ef850
PH
1841PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1842 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1843 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1844 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1845 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1846 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1847 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1848
7befa435
PH
1849PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1850 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1851 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1852 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1853 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1854 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1855 been verified.
1856
48da4259 1857PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1858 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1859 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1860 and authorization.)
1861
48da4259
PH
1862PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1863 if any retry times were supplied.
1864
d1d5595c
PH
1865PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1866 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1867 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1868
0ef732d9
PH
1869PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1870
328895cc
PH
1871PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1872
fd700877
PH
1873PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1874 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1875 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1876 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1877 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1878 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1879
8dce1a6f
PH
1880PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1881 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1882
17af4a17
PH
1883PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1884 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1885 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1886
1887PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1888 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1889 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1890 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1891 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1892 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1893 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1894 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1895 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1896
1897 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1898 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1899 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1900 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1901 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1902 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1903 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1904 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1905 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1906
1907 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1908 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1909 hammering the server.
1910
c1114884
PH
1911PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1912 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1913
7a0743eb
PH
1914PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1915
0d85fa3f
PH
1916PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1917 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1918 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1919
1bf43b78
PH
1920PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1921 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1922 one case where this was not true.
1923
520de300
PH
1924PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1925 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1926 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1927 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1928 fails.
1929
48c7f9e2
PH
1930PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1931 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1932 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1933 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1934 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1935 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1936 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1937 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1938 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1939 smtp transport.
1940
99ea1c86
PH
1941PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1942 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1943 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1944 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1945
a2042e78
PH
1946PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1947 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1948
4fbcfc2e
PH
1949PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1950 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1951 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1952
aa41d2de
PH
1953PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1954
af561417
PH
1955PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1956
3cc66b45
PH
1957PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1958
194cc0e4
PH
1959PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1960 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1961 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1962 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1963
a401ddaa
PH
1964PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1965 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1966
4e88a19f
PH
1967PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1968 be meaningful with "accept".
1969
d7d7b289
SC
1970SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1971 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1972
1973SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1974 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1975 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1976
1977SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1978 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1979 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1980 there is data to show.
1981 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1982
1983SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1984 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1985 as well as the number of messages.
1986
1987SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1988 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1989 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1990
1991SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1992 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1993 have a flag are now skipped.
1994
1995SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1996 Added the -emptyok flag.
1997
1998SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1999 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2000
0ea2a468
JJ
2001JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2002 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2003 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2004
2005JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2006 match 4.64-PH/13
2007
2008JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2009 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2010
2011JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2012
2013JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2014 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2015
8a10f5a4
PH
2016PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2017
30e18802
PH
2018PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2019 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2020 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2021 contravention of the specifications.
2022
55728a4f
PH
2023PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2024 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2025 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2026
d7837193
PH
2027PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2028 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2029 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2030
87054a31
PH
2031PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2032
ea2c01d2
MH
2033MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2034 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2035 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2036 some point in the past.
2037
e4fa6968
PH
2038PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2039 transport during callout processing was broken.
2040
56f5d9bd
PH
2041PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2042 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2043
922e1c28
PH
2044PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2045 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2046
21eb6e72
PH
2047PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2048 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2049
a0540757
PH
2050PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2051
944e9e9c 2052
478be7b0
SC
2053Exim version 4.63
2054-----------------
2055
2056SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2057 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2058
2059SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2060 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2061 there is data to show.
2062 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2063
2064SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2065 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2066
2b965a65
TF
2067TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2068 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2069
45b91596
PH
2070TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2071 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2072
c59f5781
TF
2073TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2074 submissions from trusted users.
2075
90fc3069
TF
2076TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2077 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2078
6083aca0
TF
2079TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2080 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2081 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2082 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2083 there is now a framework to start from.
2084
765b530f
PH
2085PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2086 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2087 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2088
4e167a8c
PH
2089PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2090
4608d683
PH
2091PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2092
b8dc3e4a
PH
2093PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2094
5418e93b
PH
2095PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2096 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2097 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2098
b4a9bda2
PH
2099PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2100 libradius.
2101
45b91596
PH
2102PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2103 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2104 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2105
5547e2c5
PH
2106PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2107 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2108 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2109 its arguments.
2110
dbcef0ea
PH
2111PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2112 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2113 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2114 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2115 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2116
25257489
PH
2117PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2118 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2119
c816d124
PH
2120PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2121
a9ccd69a
PH
2122PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2123 operations in malware.c.
2124
75fa1910
PH
2125PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2126 signatures.
2127
a7d7aa58
PH
2128PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2129 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2130 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2131 all.
2132
42119b09
PH
2133PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2134 statements to "add_header".
2135
41609df5
PH
2136PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2137 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2138
a5bd321b
PH
2139PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2140 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2141 latter.
2142
e85a7ad5 2143PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2144 so that it is now:
2145
e85a7ad5
PH
2146 ${if or { \
2147 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2148 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2149 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2150 }{no}{yes}}
2151
e85a7ad5
PH
2152 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2153 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2154
d8fe1c03
PH
2155PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2156 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2157
16282d2b
PH
2158PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2159 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2160 any possible encoding problems.
2161
35d40a98
PH
2162PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2163 but not after initializing Perl.
2164
034d99ab
PH
2165PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2166 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2167 apparently, which is not desirable.
2168
6ec97b1b
PH
2169PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2170 queries.
2171
e22ca4ac
JJ
2172JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2173 --not options
2174
2175JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2176
33d73e3b
PH
2177PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2178 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2179 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2180 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2181
9ecb03f3
PH
2182PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2183 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2184 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2185
084efe8d
PH
2186PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2187 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2188 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2189 0.12.
2190
366fc9f0
PH
2191PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2192 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2193 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2194 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2195 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2196
c59f5781 2197
c887c79e
TF
2198Exim version 4.62
2199-----------------
2200
2201TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2202 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2203
1cce3af8
PH
2204PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2205 patch).
2206
afb3eaaf
PH
2207PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2208 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2209 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2210 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2211 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2212 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2213 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2214 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2215 451 error is used.
2216
e173618b
PH
2217PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2218
dd16e114
PH
2219PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2220 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2221 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2222
f7fd3850
PH
2223PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2224 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2225 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2226 odd errors.
2227
d87df92c
PH
2228PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2229 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2230
7e9f683d
PH
2231PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2232 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2233 option (which defaults to 0600).
2234
bfad5236
PH
2235PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2236
01c490df
PH
2237PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2238 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2239 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2240 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2241 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2242 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2243 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2244
d6629cdc
PH
2245PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2246
1cce3af8 2247
214e2000
PH
2248Exim version 4.61
2249-----------------
2250
2251PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2252 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2253 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2254 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2255 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2256 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2257 addresses as local.
2258
f9daeae0
PH
2259PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2260 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2261
7e66e54d
PH
2262PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2263
c8ea1597
PH
2264PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2265 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2266 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2267 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2268 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2269 grumble.
2270
911f6fde
PH
2271PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2272 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2273
47ca6d6c
PH
2274PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2275 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2276 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2277 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2278 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2279
ed0e9820
PH
2280PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2281 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2282 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2283 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2284
eff37e47
PH
2285PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2286 be the same on different OS.
2287
1921d2ea
PH
2288PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2289 testing.
2290
b3f69ca8
JJ
2291JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2292 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2293
2294JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2295 in 4.61-PH/06
2296
424a1c63
PH
2297PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2298 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2299 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2300 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2301 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2302 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2303 bounce message.
2304
7a100415
PH
2305PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2306 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2307 when Exim was called.
2308
19b9dc85
PH
2309PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2310 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2311
309bd837
PH
2312PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2313 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2314 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2315 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2316
59e82a2a
PH
2317PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2318 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2319 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2320 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2321 changes:
2322
2323 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2324 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2325 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2326
2327 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2328 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2329 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2330
9edc04ce
PH
2331PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2332 feature).
2333
1349e1e5
PH
2334PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2335 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2336 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2337 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2338 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2339 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2340 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2341 values from the SRV records were lost.
2342
ea49d0e1
PH
2343PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2344 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2345 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2346
064a94c9
PH
2347PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2348 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2349 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2350
727071f8
PH
2351PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2352 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2353 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2354 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2355 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2356 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2357 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2358 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2359 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2360 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2361
f78eb7c6
PH
2362PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2363 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2364 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2365
21c28500
PH
2366PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2367 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2368
2369PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2370 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2371 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2372 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2373 is given.
2374
1688f43b
PH
2375PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2376 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2377 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2378
2379PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2380 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2381 PH/23 above applies.
2382
9675b384
PH
2383PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2384 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2385 (for which there is an explicit test).
2386
6a3f1455
PH
2387PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2388
dac79d3e
PH
2389PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2390 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2391 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2392 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2393 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2394
5977a0b3
PH
2395PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2396 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2397 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2398 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2399
c91535f3
PH
2400PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2401 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2402 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2403
0d46a8c8
PH
2404PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2405
278c6e6c
PH
2406PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2407
2cbb4081
PH
2408PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2409 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2410 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2411
3eef829e
PH
2412PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2413 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2414 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2415 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2416 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2417
1ab95fa6
PH
2418PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2419 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2420 the message gets confusing).
2421
230205fc
PH
2422PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2423 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2424 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2425 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2426
75e0e026
PH
2427PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2428 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2429 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2430 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2431 same order.
2432
2433PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2434 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2435 the different processes.
2436
145396a6
PH
2437PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2438
3cd34f13
PH
2439PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2440
11121d3d
JJ
2441JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2442 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2443
2444JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2445 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2446
2447JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2448 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2449 messages matching specified criteria.
2450
8def5aaf
PH
2451PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2452
929ba01c
PH
2453PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2454 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2455
2632889e
PH
2456PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2457 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2458 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2459 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2460 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2461 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2462 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2463 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2464 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2465 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2466
944a9c55
PH
2467PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2468 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2469 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2470
4a23603b
PH
2471PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2472
4730f942
PH
2473PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2474 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2475 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2476 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2477 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2478 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2479 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2480 the variable.
2481
30dba1e6
PH
2482PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2483 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2484
382afc6b
PH
2485PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2486
a86229cf
PH
2487PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2488
50c99ba6
PH
2489PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2490
d35e429d
PH
2491PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2492 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2493 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2494 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2495 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2496 size of the count of files.
2497
f90d018c
PH
2498PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2499
75def545
PH
2500PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2501 used in LMTP mode:
2502
2503 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2504 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2505 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2506 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2507
2508 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2509 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2510 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2511
2512PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2513 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2514 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2515 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2516 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2517
c46782ef
PH
2518PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2519 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2520
71fafd95
PH
2521PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2522 will now be deprecated.
2523
2c5db4fd
PH
2524PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2525
9cf6b11a
JJ
2526JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2527 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2528 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2529
2530JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2531 with very large, slow to parse queues
2532
2533JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2534
2535JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2536
898d150f
PH
2537PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2538 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2539 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2540 SMTP output lines.
2541
46218253
PH
2542PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2543 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2544 Sieve code now uses this.
2545
e97957bc
PH
2546PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2547 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2548
81e509d7
PH
2549PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2550 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2551
3d240ff7
PH
2552PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2553
b37c4101
PH
2554PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2555 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2556 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2557 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2558 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2559
79378e0f
PH
2560PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2561 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2562 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2563 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2564
e49c7bb4
PH
2565PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2566
d114ec46
PH
2567PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2568
f3d7df6c
PH
2569PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2570 is preferred over IPv4.
2571
715ab376
PH
2572PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2573 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2574 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2575 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2576 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2577 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2578 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2579
6b31b150
PH
2580PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2581 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2582 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2583
2584PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2585
d515a917
PH
2586PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2587 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2588 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2589 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2590 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2591 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2592 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2593 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2594 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2595 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2596 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2597
9b8fadde
PH
2598PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2599 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2600 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2601
214e2000 2602
5de37277
PH
2603Exim version 4.60
2604-----------------
2605
cc38ddbf
PH
2606PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2607
2608 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2609 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2610
2611 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2612 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2613 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2614
72fdd6ae
PH
2615PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2616
2617 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2618 not a single digit.
2619
2620 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2621 string.
2622
2623 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2624 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2625 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2626 silly things.
2627
2628 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2629 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2630
2631 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2632 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2633
cb741023
PH
2634PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2635 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2636 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2637
f174f16e
PH
2638PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2639 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2640
c25242d7
PH
2641PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2642 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2643
2644 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2645
2646 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2647 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2648 this:
2649
2650 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2651
82c19f95
PH
2652PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2653 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2654 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2655 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2656 identical. For example:
2657
2658 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2659
2660 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2661 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2662 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2663
d7ffbc12
PH
2664PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2665 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2666 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2667 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2668
9f526266
PH
2669PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2670 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2671 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2672 message.
2673
87fcc8b9
PH
2674PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2675
2676 o fixes some comments
2677 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2678 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2679 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2680 and documents the missing references header update
2681
2682 and most important:
2683
2684 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2685 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2686 result)
2687
456682f5
PH
2688PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2689 Electronic Mail") by including:
2690
2691 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2692
2693 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2694 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2695 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2696 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2697 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2698
2699 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2700
2701 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2702
2703 The auto-replied keyword:
2704
2705 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2706 message by an automatic process,
2707
2708 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2709
2710 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2711 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2712
2713 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2714 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2715 other messages.
2716
3e46c1aa
PH
2717PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2718 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2719
49826d12
PH
2720PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2721
eba0c039
PH
2722PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2723 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2724 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2725
a0d6ba8a
PH
2726PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2727 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2728 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2729
f0917727
PH
2730PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2731 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2732 and treats the condition as false.
2733
096fee00
PH
2734PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2735
024bd3c2
PH
2736PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2737 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2738 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2739 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2740 not changing the active code.
2741
2742 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2743 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2744
2745 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2746 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2747
df199fec
PH
2748PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2749 (Bugzilla #53).
2750
d27f1df3
PH
2751PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2752 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2753 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2754 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2755 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2756 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2757 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2758 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2759 the text comparison.
2760
96776534
PH
2761PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2762 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2763 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2764 The same fix has been applied.
2765
5de37277 2766
9a799bc0
PH
2767Exim version 4.54
2768-----------------
2769
2770PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2771 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2772 It now does.
2773
99a4b039
PH
2774PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2775 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2776
2777PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2778
4b233853
PH
2779PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2780 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2781 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2782 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2783 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2784
8857ccfd
PH
2785TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2786 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2787 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2788 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2789 or /domain=).
2790
433a2980
PH
2791PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2792 testing suite.
2793
3e46c1aa 2794
9a799bc0 2795
e3a311ba
TK
2796Exim version 4.53
2797-----------------
2798
2799TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2800 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2801
13b685f9
PH
2802PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2803
395ff96d
PH
2804PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2805
5b68f6e4
PH
2806PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2807 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2808 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2809
1ab52c69
PH
2810PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2811 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2812 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2813
b07e6aa3
PH
2814PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2815 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2816 operating systems.
2817
254e032f
PH
2818PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2819 ${stat: expansion item.
2820
3af76a81
PH
2821PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2822 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2823
2548ba04
PH
2824PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2825 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2826 file for comments.
2827
b6c6011d
PH
2828PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2829
cf39cf57
PH
2830PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2831 setting.
2832
f1513293
PH
2833PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2834 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2835
727549a4
PH
2836TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2837
af46795e
PH
2838PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2839 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2840 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2841 the end of the subprocess.
2842
d7b47fd0
PH
2843PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2844 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2845 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2846 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2847 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2848
ee744174
JJ
2849JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2850
b582ab87
PH
2851TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2852
41a13e0a
PH
2853PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2854 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2855
f625cc5a
PH
2856PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2857
2858PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2859
21f7af35
PH
2860PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2861 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2862 HP-UX compiler.
2863
31480e42
PH
2864PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2865
2d280592
PH
2866PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2867 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2868 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2869
7cd1141b
PH
2870PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2871 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2872
2873PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2874 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2875
750af86e
PH
2876PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2877 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2878
2879 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2880 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2881
2882 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2883 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2884 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2885 contributed by a Radius user.
2886
2887PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2888 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2889
4304270b
TK
2890TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2891 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2892
750af86e
PH
2893PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2894 available.
2895
64ffc24f
PH
2896PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2897 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2898 received.
2899
5dd9625b
PH
2900PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2901 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2902 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2903 header lines when this was not necessary.
2904
5591031b
PH
2905PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2906
ba18e66a
PH
2907PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2908 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2909 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2910 exists".
2911
9cec981f
PH
2912PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2913 -bV or -d is used.
2914
aa2b5c79
PH
2915PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2916 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2917 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2918 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2919
48a53b7f
PH
2920PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2921
1c59d63b
PH
2922PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2923
671012da
TK
2924TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2925
1509d3a8
PH
2926PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2927
2928PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2929 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2930 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2931 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2932 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2933 settings.
2934
2935PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2936
2fe1a124
PH
2937PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2938 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2939 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2940 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2941 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2942 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2943 which is clearly wrong.
2944
8800895a
PH
2945PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2946
ccfdb010
PH
2947PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2948 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2949 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2950 subsequently added.
2951
1130bfb0
PH
2952PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2953 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2954
ebcb507f
PH
2955PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2956
c35e155c
PH
2957PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2958 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2959
95d1f782
PH
2960PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2961 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2962
fd6de02e
PH
2963PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2964 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2965
58de37c5
PH
2966PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2967 recipients, not senders.
2968
261cf466
TF
2969TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2970 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2971
3ee512ff
PH
2972PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2973
e08c430f
PH
2974PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2975
bef5a11f
PH
2976PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2977 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2978 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2979 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2980
7546de58
TF
2981TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2982
e5d5a95f
TF
2983TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2984 clock is set back in time.
2985
2e88a017
TF
2986TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2987 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2988
a5f65aa4
TF
2989TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2990 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2991
e7726cbf
PH
2992PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2993 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2994 (see PH/47 above).
2995
a7fdad5b
TF
2996TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2997 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2998 header rewrites.
2999
6af56900
PH
3000PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3001 type ("H").
3002
0925ede6
PH
3003PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3004
66afa403
TF
3005TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3006 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3007 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3008
0154e85a
TF
3009TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3010 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3011 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3012 helo verification defer as a failure.
3013
16f12c76
PH
3014PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3015 actual error message.
3016
bbe902f0 3017
e5a9dba6
PH
3018Exim version 4.52
3019-----------------
3020
3021TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3022
22c3b60b
PH
3023PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3024 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3025 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3026 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3027
06a9b4b5
PH
3028TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3029
c1ac6996
PH
3030PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3031 can still be requested.
3032
9c7a242c
PH
3033PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3034 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3035 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3036 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3037
87ba3f5f
PH
3038TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3039 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3040 circumstances, but probably never did.
3041
3042PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3043 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3044 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3045 in the header line.
3046
29aba418
TF
3047TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3048
fe0dab11
TF
3049TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3050 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3051
11d337a4
TK
3052TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3053
3054TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3055
415c8f3b
PH
3056PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3057 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3058 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3059 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3060 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3061 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3062
958541e9
PH
3063PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3064 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3065 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3066 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3067 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3068 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3069
c206415f
TK
3070TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3071 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3072
2a4be8f9
PH
3073PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3074 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3075
1cba11c5
SC
3076SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3077 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3078
3079SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3080
3081SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3082
3083SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3084
3085SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3086
3087SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3088
3089SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3090
1005d00e
TK
3091TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3092
3093TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3094 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3095 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3096
3097TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3098 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3099 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3100 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3101
9b4768fa
PH
3102PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3103 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3104 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3105
3106PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3107 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3108 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3109 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3110
0d7eb84a
PH
3111PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3112 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3113 to be made).
3114
3115PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3116 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3117 should work with maildirs and everything.
3118
40727bee
TK
3119TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3120 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3121
554d2369
TF
3122TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3123 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3124
1f922db1
PH
3125PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3126 function for BDB 4.3.
3127
ef213c3b
PH
3128PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3129
8ac170f3
PH
3130PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3131 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3132 involved.
3133
b1c749bb
PH
3134PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3135 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3136 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3137 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3138 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3139 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3140
4aac9b49
PH
3141PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3142 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3143 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3144 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3145 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3146 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3147 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3148 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3149
294520c8
TK
3150TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3151 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3152 details.
3153
5bd022fe
PH
3154PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3155 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3156
90e9ce59
PH
3157PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3158 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3159 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3160 test. It is now used for both.
3161
5ea81592
PH
3162PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3163 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3164 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3165 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3166 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3167 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3168
c6c2dc1d
PH
3169PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3170 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3171 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3172 string_vformat().
3173
fffffe4c
PH
3174PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3175 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3176 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3177
9a26b6b2
PH
3178PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3179 experimental DomainKeys support:
3180
3181 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3182 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3183 the control was given.
3184
3185 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3186
4aee0225
PH
3187PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3188
32d668a5
PH
3189PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3190
8187c3f3
PH
3191PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3192 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3193 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3194 db.h files).
3195
ff790e47 3196PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3197 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3198 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3199 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3200 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3201 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3202 course.
ff790e47 3203
5417f6d1
PH
3204PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3205 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3206 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3207 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3208 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3209 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3210
59cf8544
PH
3211PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3212 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3213 do -d+all out of habit.
3214
e7ad8a65
PH
3215PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3216 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3217 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3218
ade42478
PH
3219PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3220 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3221 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3222 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3223 record types that Exim uses.
3224
182ad5cf
PH
3225PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3226 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3227 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3228 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3229 non-existent file that was broken.
3230
b0d9fc80
TK
3231TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3232 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3233
3234TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3235 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3236 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3237
3238TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3239
47c7a64a
PH
3240PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3241 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3242 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3243 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3244 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3245 same time.
3246
a388bce4
SC
3247SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3248 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3249 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3250 at a slight CPU cost.
3251
3252SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3253 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3254
3255SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3256 by Marc Sherman.
3257
0793e4ed
SC
3258SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3259
c58b88df
PH
3260PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3261 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3262
e7ad8a65 3263
7982096b
PH
3264Exim version 4.51
3265-----------------
3266
1a46a8c5
PH
3267TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3268 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3269
2f079f46 3270TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3271
3272TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3273
3274PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3275 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3276
3277PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3278 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3279 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3280 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3281 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3282 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3283 file.
3284
3285PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3286 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3287 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3288 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3289 these two options.
3290
3291PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3292 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3293 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3294 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3295 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3296 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3297 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3298 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3299
3300PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3301 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3302
3303PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3304 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3305 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3306 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3307 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3308 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3309
3310PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3311 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3312 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3313 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3314
3315PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3316 Finch).
3317
3318PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3319 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3320
49c2d5ea
PH
3321PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3322 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3323 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3324 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3325 message.
49c2d5ea 3326
bf759a8b
PH
3327PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3328
83364d30
PH
3329PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3330 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3331
7999bbd7
PH
3332PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3333 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3334 to what was transported.)
3335
7dbf77c9
PH
3336TF/01 Added $received_time.
3337
74e0617f
PH
3338PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3339 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3340 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3341 spamd_address settings.
3342
2f079f46
PH
3343PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3344 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3345 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3346 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3347 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3348
8c841523
PH
3349PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3350
7766a4f0
PH
3351PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3352 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3353 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3354 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3355 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3356
8b417f2c
PH
3357PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3358 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3359
901f42cb
PH
3360PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3361 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3362 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3363 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3364 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3365 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3366 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3367 for failure.
3368
f9b9210e
PH
3369PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3370 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3371 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3372 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3373 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3374 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3375 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3376 "input=".
3377
54cdb463
PH
3378PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3379
cf00dad6
PH
3380PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3381 driver and ACL definitions.
3382
acb1b346
PH
3383PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3384 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3385
c5ddb310
PH
3386PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3387 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3388 understands it better than I do:
3389
3390 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3391 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3392
3393 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3394 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3395 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3396 => three warnings about OTP not working
3397 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3398
3399 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3400 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3401 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3402 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3403 for each call.)
3404 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3405 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3406
3407 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3408 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3409 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3410
31619da6
PH
3411PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3412 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3413 specified.
3414
bebaf0fc
PH
3415PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3416 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3417 "Linux".
3418
475fe28a
PH
3419PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3420 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3421 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3422
3423 warn !verify = sender
3424 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3425
3426 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3427 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3428
7e8bec7a
PH
3429PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3430
3431 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3432 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3433
3434 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3435 nomenclature these days.)
3436
e4a89c47
PH
3437PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3438 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3439
5ca2a9a1
PH
3440PH/30 In these circumstances:
3441 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3442 . First host does not offer TLS;
3443 . First host accepts first address;
3444 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3445 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3446 . Second host accepts second address.
3447 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3448 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3449 address.
7e8bec7a 3450
c688b954
PH
3451PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3452 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3453 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3454 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3455 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3456
fed77020
PH
3457PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3458 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3459
7fe1560f
PH
3460PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3461 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3462
ebb6e6d5
PH
3463PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3464 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3465 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3466
9c4e8f60
PH
3467PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3468 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3469 overlooked.
3470
3471PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3472
d7174846
PH
3473PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3474 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3475 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3476 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3477 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3478 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3479 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3480
3481 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3482 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3483 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3484 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3485 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3486
3487 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3488 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3489 routed further.
3490
cfe75fc3
PH
3491PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3492 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3493 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3494 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3495 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3496 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3497
be22d70e
PH
3498PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3499
0612b098
PH
3500PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3501 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3502 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3503 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3504 printable escape sequences.
3505
2e0c1448
PH
3506PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3507 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3508 body only.
3509
447d236c
PH
3510PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3511 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3512 are as follows:
3513
3514 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3515 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3516 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3517 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3518 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3519
3520 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3521 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3522 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3523
d20976dc
PH
3524PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3525
f656d135
PH
3526PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3527 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3528 play with."
3529
2e2a30b4
PH
3530PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3531 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3532 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3533 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3534 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3535 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3536 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3537 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3538 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3539 the log output.
3540
9176e9f0
PH
3541PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3542 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3543 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3544 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3545 "make".
3546
7982096b 3547
bbe902f0
PH
3548A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3549----------------------------------------
3550
3551Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3552changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3553needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3554in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3555that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3556release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3557from 4.43.
3558
3559I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
35604.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3561those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3562historical information.
3563
3564
f7b63901 3565Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3566-----------------
3567
5fe762f6
PH
3568 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3569
139059f6 3570 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3571 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3572
7086e875
PH
3573 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3574 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3575 place.
3576
35af9f61
PH
3577 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3578 filter fails to execute.
3579
b668c215
PH
3580 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3581 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3582 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3583 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3584 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3585
a494b1e1
PH
3586 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3587
3588 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3589 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3590 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3591 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3592
c5fcb476
PH
3593 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3594 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3595 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3596 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3597 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3598
69358f02
PH
3599 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3600
5be20824
PH
360110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3602
eb2c0248
PH
360311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3604 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3605 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3606 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3607
2a3eea10
PH
360812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3609 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3610 sender verification.
3611
361213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3613 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3614
23c7ff99
PH
361514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3616
4deaf07d
PH
361715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3618 connection timeout.
3619
926e1192
PH
362016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3621 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3622
650edc6f
PH
362317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3624 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3625
2c7db3f5
PH
362618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3627 information about exactly what failed.
3628
3d235903
PH
362919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3630
7c7ad977
PH
363120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3632 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3633 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3634
981756db
PH
363521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3636 It is now set to "smtps".
3637
d4eb88df
PH
363822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3639 ignore_target_hosts.
3640
364123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3642 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3643 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3644 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3645 "[x.x.x.x]".
3646
7d468ab8
PH
364724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3648 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3649 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3650
365125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3652 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3653 wake it up if nothing else does.
3654
62c0818f
PH
365526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3656 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3657 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3658 end up negative.
3659
26034054
PH
366027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3661 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3662
af66f652
PH
366328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3664
90af77f4
PH
366529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3666 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3667 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3668 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3669 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3670 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3671 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3672 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3673
d8ef3577
PH
367430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3675 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3676 than one IP address.
3677
5cb8cbc6
PH
367831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3679 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3680 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3681 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3682
14702f5b
PH
368332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3684 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3685 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3686 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3687 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3688 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3689
063b1e99
PH
369033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3691 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3692 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3693 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3694
652e1b65
PH
369534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3696 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3697 respected.
3698
6f0c9a4f
PH
369935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3700 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3701 $sender_host_address.
3702
33397d19
PH
370336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3704 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3705 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3706 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3707 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3708 very small.
3709
7bb56e1f
PH
371037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3711
3712 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3713 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3714
ea3bc19b
PH
3715 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3716 just the host names, not the priorities.
3717
3718 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3719 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3720 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3721
ea3bc19b 3722 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3723 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3724
0bcb2a0e
PH
372538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3726 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3727 domain.
3728
2ac0e484
PH
372939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3730
4e1fde53
PH
373140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3732 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3733
de365ded
PH
373441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3735 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3736 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3737
f05da2e8
PH
373842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3739
d6453af2
PH
374043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3741
f7b63901
PH
374244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3743
374445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3745 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3746 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3747 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3748 because the tests only now provoked it.
3749
a444213a
PH
375046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3751 (this can affect the format of dates).
3752
0ec020ea
PH
375347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3754 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3755 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3756 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3757
b1206957
PH
375848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3759
376049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3761 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3762 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3763 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3764
26dd5a95
PH
376550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3766 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3767 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3768
343b2385
PH
376951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3770 autoreply.
3771
1c5466b9
PH
377252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3773 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3774 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3775 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3776 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3777 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3778 is going on).
3779
55ee9ee3
PH
378053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3781 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3782 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3783 the line.
3784
d38f8232
PH
378554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3786 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3787 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3788
3789 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3790 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3791 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3792 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3793 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3794 so I produce this patch..."
3795
3295e65b
PH
3796 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3797 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3798 is not defined.
3799
7102e136
PH
380055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3801 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3802 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3803 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3804 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3805
3ca0ba97
PH
380656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3807
c2bcbe20
PH
380857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3809 long debug lines gets shown.
3810
18ce445d
PH
381158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3812 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3813
1f5b4c3d
PH
381459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3815
3816 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3817 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3818 of $primary_hostname.
3819
b975ba52
PH
382060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3821 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3822 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3823 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3824 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3825 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3826 by change 4.50/55 above.
3827
3828 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3829 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3830 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3831 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3832 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3833 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3834 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3835
383661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3837 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3838 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3839 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3840
17ffcae7
PH
384162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3842 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3843
d95f9fdb
PH
384463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3845 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3846 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3847 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3848 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3849
86b8287f
PH
385064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3851 This has been fixed.
3852
60dc5e56
PH
385365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3854 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3855 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3856 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3857 the caching.)
3858
533244af
PH
385966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3860
a5a28604
PH
386167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3862 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3863 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3864 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3865
7e634d24
PH
386668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3867 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3868
3e11c26b
PH
386969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3870 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3871 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3872
6729cf78
PH
387370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3874 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3875 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3876 message there.
3877
00f00ca5
PH
387871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3879 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3880 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3881
c9bdd01c
PH
388272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3883 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3884 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3885 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3886
d43194df
PH
388773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3888 during host lookups.
3889
fe5b5d0b
PH
389074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3891 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3892
3893 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3894
76a2d7ba
PH
389575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3896 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3897 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3898 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3899 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3900 background.
3901
390276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3903 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3904
04f7d5b9
PH
390577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3906 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3907 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3908
bc60667e
PH
390978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3910
bb6e88ff
PH
391179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3912 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3913 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3914 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3915 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3916 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3917 process earlier.
3918
1e70f85b
PH
391980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3920 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3921 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3922 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3923 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3924
392581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3926 tables).
3927
4e01f9d6
PH
392882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3929
1ee1cef2
PH
393083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3931 "vacation" handling.
3932
6e2b4ccc
PH
393384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3934 OS variants using glibc.
3935
8e669ac1
PH
393685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3937
495ae4b0 3938
bbe902f0
PH
3939----------------------------------------------------
3940See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3941----------------------------------------------------
3942
3943
3944Exim version 4.44
3945-----------------
3946
3947 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3948 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3949 transport
3950
3951 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3952 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3953 place.
3954
3955 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3956 filter fails to execute.
3957
3958 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3959 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3960 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3961 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3962 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3963
3964 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3965 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3966 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3967 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3968
3969 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3970 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3971 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3972 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3973 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3974
3975 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3976
3977 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3978 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3979 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3980 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3981
3982 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3983 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3984 sender verification.
3985
398610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3987 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3988
398911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3990 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3991
399212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3993 ignore_target_hosts.
3994
399513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3996 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3997 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3998 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3999 "[x.x.x.x]".
4000
400114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4002 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4003 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4004
400515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4006 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4007 wake it up if nothing else does.
4008
400916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4010 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4011 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4012 end up negative.
4013
401417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4015 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4016
ea3a6f44 401718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4018
401919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4020 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4021 empty pattern.
4022
402320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4024 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4025 one IP address.
4026
ea3a6f44
NM
402721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4028 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4029 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4030 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4031 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4032 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4033
ea3a6f44
NM
403422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4035 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4036 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4037
403823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4039 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4040 $sender_host_address.
4041
404224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4043
ea3a6f44
NM
404425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4045 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4046 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4047
404826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4049 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4050
ea3a6f44
NM
405127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4052 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4053
ea3a6f44
NM
405428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4055 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4056 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4057 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4058
405929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4060 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4061 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4062
ea3a6f44
NM
406330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4064 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4065 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4066 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4067
ea3a6f44
NM
406831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4069 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4070 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4071
ea3a6f44
NM
407231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4073 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4074
ea3a6f44
NM
407532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4076 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4077 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4078 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4079 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4080 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4081 is going on).
bbe902f0 4082
ea3a6f44
NM
408333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4084 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4085 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4086 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4087 CAN-2005-0021
4088
ea3a6f44
NM
408934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4090 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4091 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4092 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4093 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4094 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4095 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4096
4097 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4098 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4099 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4100 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4101 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4102 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4103 CAN-2005-0021
4104
ea3a6f44
NM
410535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4106 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4107 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4108 CAN-2005-0022
4109
ea3a6f44
NM
411036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4111 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4112 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4113 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4114 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4115
ea3a6f44
NM
411637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4117 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4118 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4119 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4120 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4121
ea3a6f44
NM
412238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4123 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4124 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4125 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4126 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4127
4128
495ae4b0
PH
4129Exim version 4.43
4130-----------------
4131
4132 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4133 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4134 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4135 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4136 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4137 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4138 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4139
4140 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4141 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4142 the delivery.
4143
4144 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4145
4146 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4147
4148 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4149 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4150 to local_scan().
4151
4152 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4153 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4154 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4155 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4156 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4157
4158 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4159 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4160
4161 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4162
4163 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4164
416510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4166 header_sender only.
4167
416811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4169 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4170
417112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4172 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4173 affecting debugging statements).
4174
417513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4176
417714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4178 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4179 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4180 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4181 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4182 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4183 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4184 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4185 after the received time, and all would be well.
4186
418715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4188 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4189 condition in an expansion string.
4190
419116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4192
419317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4194 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4195 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4196 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4197 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4198 job under whatever limits there are.
4199
420018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4201
420219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4203 space).
4204
420520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4206 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4207 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4208 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4209 return path is set.
4210
421121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4212 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4213 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4214 binary data in such strings.
4215
421622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4217
421823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4219 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4220 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4221 failure, which is pointless.
4222
422324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4224
422525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4226
422726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4228 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4229 Sender: header lines.
4230
423127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4232 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4233 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4234
423528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4236 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4237 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4238 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4239 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4240 happens.
4241
424229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4243 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4244 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4245 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4246 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4247
424830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4249 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4250 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4251 1024.
4252
425331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4254 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4255
425632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4257 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4258
425933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4260
426132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4262
426333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4264
426534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4266 syntax error.
4267
426835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4269
427036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4271
427237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4273 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4274 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4275 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4276
427738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4278 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4279
4280
4281Exim version 4.42
4282-----------------
4283
4284 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4285 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4286 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4287 it was not quoted.
4288 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4289 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4290 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4291 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4292 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4293 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4294
4295 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4296 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4297 verification failure".
4298
4299 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4300 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4301 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4302 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4303
4304 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4305 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4306 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4307 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4308 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4309 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4310 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4311 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4312 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4313 treated as a timeout.
4314
4315 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4316 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4317 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4318 not set for Exim filters).
4319
4320 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4321 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4322 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4323
4324 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4325
4326 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4327 try to make them clearer.
4328
4329 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4330 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4331
4332 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4333
4334 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4335
433610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4337 only the Cygwin environment.
4338
433911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4340 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4341 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4342 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4343 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4344
434512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4346 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4347 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4348 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4349 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4350 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4351 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4352
435313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4354 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4355
435614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4357
4358 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4359 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4360 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4361
4362 To: susanne@some.where
4363
4364 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4365 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4366 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4367 of addresses in From: header lines).
4368
4369 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4370 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4371 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4372
4373 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4374 treated as non-personal.
4375
4376 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4377 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4378
437915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4380
438116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4382
438317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4384 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4385 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4386
438718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4388 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4389
439019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4391 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4392 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4393 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4394 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4395 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4396
439720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4398 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4399 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4400 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4401 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4402 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4403 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4404 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4405
4406 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4407
440821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4409 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4410
441122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4412 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4413 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4414
441523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4416 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4417
441824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4419 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4420 rather than long int.
4421
442225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4423
442426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4425
4426
4427Exim version 4.41
4428-----------------
4429
4430 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4431 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4432 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4433 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4434 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4435 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4436
4437
4438Exim version 4.40
4439-----------------
4440
4441 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4442 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4443
4444 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4445 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4446 socklen_t is defined.
4447
4448 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4449 always exist.
4450
4451 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4452 configured.
4453
4454 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4455 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4456 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4457 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4458 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4459
4460 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4461 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4462 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4463 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4464
4465 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4466 of flapping under certain conditions.
4467
4468 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4469 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4470 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4471
4472 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4473
447410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4475
447611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4477 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4478 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4479 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4480
448112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4482 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4483 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4484 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4485 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4486 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4487 preserved with the message after it was received.
4488
448913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4490 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4491 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4492 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4493 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4494 test suite worked just fine.
4495
449614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4497 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4498 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4499
450015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4501 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4502 string.
4503
450416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4505 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4506 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4507 does not fully solve it.
4508
450917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4510 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4511 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4512 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4513 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4514
451518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4516 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4517 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4518
451919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4520 string, for example:
4521
4522 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4523
4524 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4525 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4526 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4527 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4528 the routers could not see them.
4529
453020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4531 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4532
453321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4534 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4535 output).
4536
453722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4538 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4539 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4540 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4541 that needed quoting.
4542
454323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4544 was not being matched caselessly.
4545
454624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4547 backslashes.
4548
454925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4550 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4551 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4552 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4553 when use_sender is false.
4554
455526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4556
455727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4558
455928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4560
456129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4562 the configuration file.
4563
456430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4565 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4566
456731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4568
456932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4570 bytes in the message body.
4571
457233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4573 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4574 delivery.
4575
457634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4577
457835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4579
458036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4581 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4582 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4583 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4584 another IP address.
4585
4586
4587Exim version 4.34
4588-----------------
4589
4590 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4591 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4592
4593 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4594 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4595 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4596 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4597 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4598
4599 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4600 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4601
4602 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4603 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4604 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4605
4606 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4607 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4608 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4609
4610 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4611 for routers.
4612
4613 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4614 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4615 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4616 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4617 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4618 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4619 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4620
4621
4622Exim version 4.33
4623-----------------
4624
4625 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4626 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4627 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4628 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4629 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4630 default (and expected) setting.
4631
4632 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4633 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4634 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4635 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4636
4637 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4638 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4639
4640 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4641 in domain lists.
4642
4643 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4644 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4645 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4646 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4647 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4648 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4649
4650 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4651 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4652 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4653
4654 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4655 part (NOT match_host).
4656
4657 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4658
4659 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4660 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4661 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4662 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4663 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4664 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4665 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4666 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4667 the same named file.
4668
466910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4670 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4671 when Exim is built.
4672
467311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4674 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4675 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4676 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4677 a host name.
4678
467912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4680 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4681 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4682
468313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4684
468514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4686
468715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4688
468916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4690 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4691
469217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4693 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4694 before starting the TLS session.
4695
469618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4697
469819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4699 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4700
470120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4702 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4703 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4704 colon in the middle).
4705
4706
4707Exim version 4.32
4708-----------------
4709
4710 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4711 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4712 multiple configurations are in use.
4713
4714 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4715 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4716 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4717 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4718 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4719 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4720
4721 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4722 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4723
4724 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4725 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4726 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4727
4728 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4729 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4730 occurs.
4731
4732 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4733 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4734
4735 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4736
4737 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4738 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4739
4740 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4741
4742 -prval:sval
4743
4744 is equivalent to
4745
4746 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4747
4748 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4749 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4750 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4751 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4752 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4753
475410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4755 Exim's behaviour:
4756
4757 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4758 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4759 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4760 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4761 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4762 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4763
4764 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4765 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4766 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4767 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4768 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4769 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4770 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4771 string.
4772
4773 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4774 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4775 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4776 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4777 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4778
477911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4780
478112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4782 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4783 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4784
478513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4786
478714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4788 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4789 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4790 information.
4791
479215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4793 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4794
479516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4796 Three changes have been made:
4797
4798 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4799 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4800 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4801 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4802 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4803
4804 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4805 been restored.
4806
4807 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4808 the modified behaviour.
4809
4810
4811Exim version 4.31
4812-----------------
4813
4814 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4815 Larry Rosenman.
4816
4817 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4818 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4819
4820 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4821 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4822 try to track down a specific problem.
4823
4824 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4825 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4826 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4827
4828 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4829 warning.
4830
4831 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4832 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4833 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4834 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4835 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4836 some earlier ones do not.
4837
4838 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4839
4840 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4841 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4842 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4843 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4844 address literals are enabled, of course).
4845
4846 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4847
484810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4849 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4850 by a command such as
4851
4852 exim -f "" ...
4853
4854 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4855
485611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4857
485812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4859 remained set. It is now erased.
4860
486113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4862 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4863
486414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4865 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4866 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4867 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4868 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4869 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4870 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4871 appropriate error code.
4872
487315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4874 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4875 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4876 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4877 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4878 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4879
488016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4881 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4882 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4883
488417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4885 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4886 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4887 terminate the header.
4888
488918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4890 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4891 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4892
489319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4894 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4895 (4.30/29). In particular:
4896
4897 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4898 imposed.
4899
4900 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4901 to write a maildirsize file.
4902
4903 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4904 the transport, the new value overrides.
4905
4906 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4907 count.
4908
490920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4910 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4911 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4912 space or a tab.
4913
491421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4915 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4916 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4917 the fallback hosts.
4918
491922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4920 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4921 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4922
492323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4924 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4925 using a union.
4926
492724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4928 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4929 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4930
493125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4932
493326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4934
493527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4936
493728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4938 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4939 become corrupted.
4940
494129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4942 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4943 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4944 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4945 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4946 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4947 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4948 too great.
4949
495030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4951 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4952 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4953 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4954 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4955 incorrectly.
4956
495731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4958 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4959 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4960 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4961 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4962 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4963 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4964 cached value only when the same options are set.
4965
496632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4967
496833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4969 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4970 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4971 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4972 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4973
497434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4975 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4976 it is clearly obsolete.
4977
497835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4979 transport.
4980
498136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4982 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4983 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4984 times.
4985
498637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4987 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4988 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4989 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4990 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4991
499238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4993 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4994 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4995 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4996
499739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4998
4999 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5000
5001 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5002 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5003 2^31.
5004
500540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5006 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5007 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5008 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5009 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5010 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5011 $localpart_data.
5012
501341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5014 with the -f command-line option.
5015
501642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5017 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5018 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5019 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5020 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5021 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5022
502343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5024 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5025 line.
5026
502744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5028 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5029 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5030 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5031 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5032 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5033 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5034 buffer is too small.
5035
503645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5037 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5038
503946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5040 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5041 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5042 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5043 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5044 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5045 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5046 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5047 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5048
504947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5050 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5051 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5052
505348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5054 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5055 ACL").
5056
505749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5058 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5059 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5060 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5061 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5062
506350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5064 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5065 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5066 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5067 is set.
5068
506951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5070
507152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5072
507353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5074 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5075
507654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5077 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5078 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5079
508055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5081 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5082 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5083 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5084 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5085
508656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5087 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5088 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5089 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5090 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5091 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5092 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5093
509457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5095 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5096 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5097 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5098 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5099 the test of how many are available.
5100
510158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5102 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5103 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5104 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5105 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5106 new message is started.
5107
510859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5109 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5110
511160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5112 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5113
511461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5115 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5116 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5117 is no long logged.
5118
511962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5120 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5121 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5122 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5123 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5124 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5125 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5126
512763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5128 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5129 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5130 interpreted as octal.
5131
513264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5133 setting.
5134
513565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5136 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5137 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5138 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5139 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5140 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5141
514266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5143 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5144 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5145 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5146
5147 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5148 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5149 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5150 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5151
5152 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5153 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5154 is a bug fix.
5155
5156 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5157 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5158
515967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5160
516168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5162 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5163 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5164 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5165
516669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5167 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5168 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5169 supplied", which is not helpful.
5170
517170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5172 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5173 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5174
517571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5176 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5177 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5178 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5179 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5180 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5181 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5182 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5183
518472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5185 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5186 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5187 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5188 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5189
519073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5191 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5192 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5193 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5194 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5195 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5196
519774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5198 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5199 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5200
520175. Added write_rejectlog option.
5202
520376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5204 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5205 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5206 variables.
5207
520877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5209
521078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5211 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5212 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5213 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5214 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5215 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5216 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5217 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5218
521979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5220 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5221 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5222 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5223 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5224
522580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5226 Haardt.
5227
522881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5229 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5230 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5231 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5232 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5233 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5234 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5235 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5236 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5237
5238
5239Exim version 4.30
5240-----------------
5241
5242 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5243 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5244 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5245
5246 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5247 fixed.
5248
5249 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5250 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5251 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5252
5253 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5254 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5255 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5256 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5257 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5258 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5259
5260 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5261 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5262 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5263 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5264 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5265 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5266 the Exim test suite.
5267
5268 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5269 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5270 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5271 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5272
5273 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5274 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5275 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5276 specify it in this variable.
5277
5278 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5279 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5280 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5281 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5282
5283 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5284 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5285 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5286 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5287
5288 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5289 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5290 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5291 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5292 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5293
5294 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5295
529610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5297 they are logged.
5298
529911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5300 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5301 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5302 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5303 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5304
530512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5306 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5307
530813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5309 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5310 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5311 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5312 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5313
531414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5315 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5316
531715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5318 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5319 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5320
532116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5322 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5323
532417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5325 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5326
532718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5328 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5329 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5330
533119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5332 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5333
533420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5335 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5336 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5337 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5338
533921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5340
534122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5342 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5343 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5344 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5345
534623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5347
534824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5349 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5350
535125. Added .include_if_exists.
5352
535326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5354 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5355 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5356 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5357 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5358 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5359
536027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5361
536228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5363 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5364 this.
5365
536629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5367
536830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5369 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5370
5371 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5372 550 Sender verify failed
5373
5374 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5375 the final line of the response.
5376
537731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5378 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5379 all other user lookups.
5380
538132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5382 delivery time.
5383
538433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5385 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5386 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5387 result into an int without checking.
5388
538934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5390 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5391 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5392
539335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5394 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5395 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5396 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5397
539836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5399 correctly.
5400
540137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5402 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5403
540438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5405 to the empty sender.
5406
540739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5408 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5409 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5410 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5411 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5412 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5413 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5414 panic log.
5415
541640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5417 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5418 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5419 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5420 used.
5421
542241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5423 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5424
542542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5426 timestamps.
5427
542843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5429 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5430
543144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5432
543345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5434 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5435 logs.
5436
543746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5438 as soon as it is encountered.
5439
544047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5441
544248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5443 rewritten to "<>".
5444
544549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5446 recognizes a tab character.
5447
544850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5449 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5450 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5451 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5452
545351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5454
545552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5456 crash.
5457
545853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5459
546054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5461
546255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5463 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5464 2822.
5465
546656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5467 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5468 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5469 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5470 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5471
547257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5473 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5474
547558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5476 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5477 list (.included file names were always shown).
5478
547959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5480 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5481 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5482 root at that time.
5483
548460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5485 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5486
548761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5488
548962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5490
549163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5492
549364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5494 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5495 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5496 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5497 failures to open the logs.
5498
549965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5500 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5501 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5502 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5503 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5504 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5505 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5506
5507
5508Exim version 4.24
5509-----------------
5510
5511 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5512 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5513 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5514 change 4.23/1.
5515
5516 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5517 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5518 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5519
5520 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5521 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5522 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5523
5524 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5525 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5526 causing some misleading effects.
5527
5528 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5529 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5530 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5531
5532 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5533 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5534 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5535 queue-runner function directly.
5536
5537
5538Exim version 4.23
5539-----------------
5540
5541 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5542 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5543
5544 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5545 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5546 was always written to the default place.
5547
5548 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5549 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5550 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5551
5552 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5553
5554 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5555
5556 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5557 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5558 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5559
5560 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5561 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5562 must start.
5563
5564 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5565 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5566 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5567
5568 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5569 command line option is disabled.
5570
5571 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5572 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5573
5574 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5575
5576 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5577
5578 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5579 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5580
558110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5582
558311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5584 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5585 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5586 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5587 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5588 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5589
559012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5591 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5592 timeout.
5593
559413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5595 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5596
559714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5598 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5599
560015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5601 received was valid base64.
5602
560316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5604 name of the variable that was being set.
5605
560617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5607
560818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5609 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5610 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5611 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5612 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5613 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5614
561519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5616
561720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5618 nor realm was specified.
5619
562021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5621 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5622 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5623 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5624
562522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5626 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5627 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5628
562923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5630 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5631 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5632
563324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5634 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5635 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5636 some systems use these upper case variants.
5637
563825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5639 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5640 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5641 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5642
564326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5644
564527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5646 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5647
564828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5649 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5650 expansion variable.
5651
565229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5653
565430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5655 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5656 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5657 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5658
565931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5660 using it.
5661
566232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5663 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5664 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5665
566633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5667 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5668
566934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5670 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5671 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5672 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5673
567435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5675 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5676 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5677
567836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5679
568037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5681 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5682 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5683 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5684 aborted.
5685
568638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5687 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5688 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5689
569039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5691
569240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5693 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5694
569541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5696 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5697
569842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5699 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5700 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5701 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5702 when emails are that large.
5703
5704
5705
5706Exim version 4.22
5707-----------------
5708
5709 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5710 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5711
5712 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5713 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5714 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5715
5716 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5717 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5718 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5719
5720 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5721 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5722 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5723 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5724 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5725
5726 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5727 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5728 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5729 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5730 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5731 ever.
5732
5733 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5734 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5735 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5736 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5737 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5738 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5739 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5740 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5741 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5742 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5743 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5744 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5745 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5746 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5747
5748 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5749 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5750 parameterised it.
5751
5752 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5753 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5754 error should be diagnosed.
5755
5756 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5757 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5758 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5759 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5760 appeared instead of "NULL".
5761
576210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5763 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5764 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5765 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5766 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5767 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5768 proceeds).
5769
5770 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5771 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5772 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5773
5774
5775Exim version 4.21
5776-----------------
5777
5778 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5779 or receiver verification errors.
5780
5781 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5782 name.
5783
5784 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5785 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5786 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5787 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5788
5789 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5790 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5791 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5792 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5793 shouldn't happen again.
5794
5795 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5796 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5797 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5798
5799 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5800 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5801
5802 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5803
5804 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5805 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5806
5807 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5808 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5809 RFC.
5810
581110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5812 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5813 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5814
581511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5816 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5817 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5818 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5819
582012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5821 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5822 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5823 to define what should happen).
5824
582513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5826 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5827 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5828
582914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5830
583115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5832
583316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5834 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5835
583617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5837 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5838 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5839 structure in all cases.
5840
5841 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5842 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5843 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5844 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5845
584618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5847 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5848 domain name.
5849
585019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5851 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5852
585320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5854 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5855
585621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5857 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5858 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5859
586022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5861 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5862 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5863
586423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5865 the book and for uniformity.
5866
586724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5868
586925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5870 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5871 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5872 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5873 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5874 non-existent command as the problem.
5875
587626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5877 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5878 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5879
588027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5881
588228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5883 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5884 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5885
588629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5887 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5888 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5889 timestamps using strftime().
5890
589130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5892 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5893
589432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5895 transport-time rewrites.
5896
589733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5898 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5899 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5900 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5901
590234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5903 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5904
590535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5906 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5907 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5908 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5909 comma and a space.
5910
591136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5912 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5913 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5914 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5915 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5916 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5917 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5918
591937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5920 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5921 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5922 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5923 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5924
592538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5926 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5927 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5928 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5929 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5930 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5931 remaining text gets split now.
5932
593339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5934 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5935 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5936 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5937
593840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5939 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5940 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5941 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5942 $return_path.
5943
594441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5945 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5946 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5947 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5948 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5949 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5950 passed through if needed.
5951
595242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5953 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5954 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5955 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5956 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5957 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5958
595943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5960 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5961 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5962 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5963 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5964
596544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5966 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5967 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5968 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5969 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5970
597145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5972 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5973 noticed.
5974
597546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5976 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5977 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5978 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5979 mayhem of various kinds.
5980
598147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5982 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5983 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5984 the right test for positive values.
5985
598648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5987 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5988 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5989 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5990 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5991 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5992 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5993 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5994 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5995 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5996 envelope.
5997
599849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5999 module.
6000
600150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6002 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6003 forbidding it.
6004
600551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6006 the existing equality matching.
6007
600852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6009 dealing with inode numbers.
6010
601153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6012 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6013 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6014
601554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6016 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6017 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6018 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6019 local_scan().
6020
602155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6022 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6023 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6024 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6025 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6026 relay addresses has also been removed.
6027
602856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6029
603057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6031 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6032 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6033
603458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6035 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6036 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6037 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6038 processing applies to CR:
6039
6040 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6041 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6042
6043 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6044 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6045 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6046 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6047
604859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6049 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6050 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6051
605260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6053 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6054 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6055 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6056 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6057 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6058 arisen.
6059
606061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6061 program routers.
6062
606362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6064 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6065 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6066 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6067 adds:
6068
6069 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6070
6071 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6072
6073 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6074
607563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6076 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6077 not considered personal.
6078
607964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6080
608165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6082
608366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6084
608567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6086 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6087 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6088 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6089 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6090 header lines, and spool format errors.
6091
609268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6093 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6094 for more flexibility.
6095
609669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6097 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6098 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6099
610070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6101 Sabourenkov.
6102
610371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6104 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6105 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6106 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6107 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6108 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6109 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6110 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6111 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6112
611372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6114 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6115 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6116 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6117 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6118 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6119 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6120
612173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6122 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6123 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6124
612574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6126 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6127 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6128 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6129 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6130 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6131 instead of killing the process with assert().
6132
613375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6134 than Unicode encoding.
6135
613676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6137 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6138 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6139 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6140
614177. Added process_log_path.
6142
614378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6144 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6145
614679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6147 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6148
614980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6150 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6151 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6152
615381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6154 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6155 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6156 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6157 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6158 were applied:
6159
6160 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6161 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6162 as invalid.
6163
616482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6165 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6166 they will be used during message reception.
6167
6168
6169Exim version 4.20
6170-----------------
6171
6172The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6173
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