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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Exim version 4.90
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10
11JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
15
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16PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
18
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19JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
21
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22JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
23 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
24 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
25 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
26 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 27 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 28
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29JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
30 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
31 "exiwhat" output.
32
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33PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
34 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
35 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
36
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37JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
38 than 255 are no longer allowed.
39
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40JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
41 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
42 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
43 client, there is no benefit for these.
44 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
45 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
46 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
47 is used (3.2.4 +).
48
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49PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
50 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
51
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52JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
53 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
54 erroneously found still-pending ones.
55
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56JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
57 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
58
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59JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
60 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
61 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
62 signature and again for transmission.
63
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64JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
65 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 66 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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68JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
69 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
70 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
71 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
72 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
73 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
74 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
75
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76JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
77 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
78 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 79 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 80
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81PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
82 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
83 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
84 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
85 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
86 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
87 processing options.
88
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89JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
90 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
91 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
92 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
93 connections.
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95PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
96 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
97 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
98 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
99 versions.
100
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101JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
102 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
103 inaccessible.
104
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9427e879 109JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 110 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 111
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112JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
113
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114PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
115 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
116
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117JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
118 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
119
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120JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
121 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
122 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
123 before acknowledging the chunk.
124
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125PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
126 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
127 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
128
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129JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
130 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
131 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
132 should.
133
134JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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135 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
136 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 138JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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139 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
140
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141JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
142 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
143 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
144 body hash calculated value.
145
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146JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
147 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
148 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
149
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150JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
151
152JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
153 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
154
155JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
156 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
157 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
158
159JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
160 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
161 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
162 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
163 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
164 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
165
166JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
167 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
168 past that check, despite the cost.
169
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170JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
171 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
172 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
173
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174PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
175 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
176 TLS library to consume.
177
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178PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
179
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180PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
181
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182JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
183 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
184 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
185 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
186 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
187 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
188 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
189
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190PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
191
192PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
193
194PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
195 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
196 should be warning-free.
197
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198JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
199
200HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
201 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
202
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203HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
204 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
205 general solution here.
206
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207PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
208 already-broken messages in the queue.
209
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210JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
211
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212JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
213
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218JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
219 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 220
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221JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
222 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
223 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
224
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225JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
226 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
227 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
228 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
229 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
230 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
231 if one fails this test.
232 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
233 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
234
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235JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
236 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
237
23bb6982 238JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 239 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 240
0bd1b1ed 241JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 242 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 243
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244JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
245 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
246
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247JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
248 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
249
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250JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
251
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252JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
253 certificate).
254
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255JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
256 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
257 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
258 connection after a verify cache hit.
259 Do not update it with the verify result either.
260
261JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
262 when routing results in more than one destination address.
263
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264JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
265 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
266 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
267 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
268 when the cutthrough connection is made).
269
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270JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
271 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
272
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273JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
274 Previously they were not counted.
275
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276JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
277 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
278 that needed the lookup.
279
4c04137d 280JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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281 distinguished as "(=".
282
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283JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
284 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
285
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286JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
287
288JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
289 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 290
4c04137d 291JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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292 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
293
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294JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
295 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
296 compatible.
297
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298JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
299 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
300 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
301 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
302
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303JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
304
f59aaaaa 305JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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306 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
307 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 308
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309JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
310 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
311 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
312 be lost.
313
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314JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
315 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
316 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
317 itself :(
318
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319JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
320 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
321 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
322
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323JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
324 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
325 options.
326
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327JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
328
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329PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
330 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
331
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332PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
333 are not in the system include path.
334
ad7fc6eb 335JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 336 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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337 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
338 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 339
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340JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
341 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
342 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
343
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344JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
345
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346HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
347 an incoming connection.
348
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349HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
350 to rspamd.
351
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352HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
353 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 354
87cb4a16 355JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 356 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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357
358
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359Exim version 4.87
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362JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
363 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
364 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
365 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 366
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367TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
368 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
369
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370TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
371 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
372 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
373 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
374 outgoing I= field.
375
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376JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
377 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
378 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
379 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
380 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
381 check on the next write.
382
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383HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
384 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
385 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
386 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
387 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
388
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389JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
390 mime_regex ACL conditions.
391
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392JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
393 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
394 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
395
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396JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
397 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
398 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
399 an authenticate fail is not an error.
400
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401HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
402 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
403
4c04137d 404JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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405 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
406
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407JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
408 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
409 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
410 distinct.
411
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412JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
413
414JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
415
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416JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
417
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418JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
419 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
420
98b98887 421JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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422 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
423
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424JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
425
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426JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
427 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
428
429JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
430
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431JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
432 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
433
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434JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
435
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436JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
437 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 438 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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439 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
440 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
441 they will retry in-clear.
442 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
443 at installation time.
444
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445HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
446 with the $config_file variable.
447
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448JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
449 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
450 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
451 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 452 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 453
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454GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
455 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
456 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
457 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
458 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
459
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460JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
461
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462JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
463 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
464 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
465 list order is no longer honoured.
466
4c04137d 467JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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468 for DKIM processing.
469
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470JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
471 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 472
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473JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
474 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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475 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
476 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 477
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478JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
479 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
480
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481JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
482 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
483
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484JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
485 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
486
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487JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
488
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489JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
490 cached by the daemon.
491
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492JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
493 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
494
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495JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
496 keys are given for lookup.
497
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498JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
499 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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500 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
501 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 502
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503JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
504 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
505 server-side so match that on older versions.
506
07c73177 507JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 508 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 509 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 510
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511JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
512 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
513
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514JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
515 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
516 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 517 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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518 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
519 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
520 initial truncated version.
521
ab9152ff 522JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 523
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524JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
525
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526JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
527 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
528
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529JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
530
bc3c7bb7 531HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 532
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533JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
534 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
535 induced overflows.
536
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537JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
538 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
539 stage.
540
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541JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
542 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
543
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544JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
545 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
546 former class.
547
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548JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
549 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
550 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
551
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552JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
553 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
554 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
555 extraction. Accept either.
556
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561JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
562 expanded.
563
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564JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
565
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566JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
567 it.
568
01a4a5c5 569JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 570 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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571 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
572 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
573
cb1d7830 574JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 575 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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576 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
577
610ff438 578JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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579 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
580 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
581 TLS connections
610ff438 582
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583JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
584 sites use this now.
585
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586JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
587 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
588 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
589 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
590 have a dsn_lasthop option.
591
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592JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
593 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 594 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 595
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596JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
597
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598JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
599 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
600
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601JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
602 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
603
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604JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
605 /defer_ok option.
606
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607JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
608 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
609
fd4d8871 610JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 611 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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612 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
613
614JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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615 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
616 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 617
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618JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
619 timeout value per server.
620
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621JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
622 now have the list separator specified.
623
8a512ed5 624JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 625 option values.
8a512ed5 626
82c0c8ea 627JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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628 under OpenSSL.
629
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630JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
631
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632JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
633 rather than the verbs used.
634
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635JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
636 from 255 to 1024 chars.
637
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638JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
639
cfab9d68 640HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 641 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 642
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643JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
644 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
645
fd4c285c
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646HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
647 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
648
4c04137d 649JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 650
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651JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
652
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653JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
654 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 655 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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656 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
657
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658JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
659
1f155f8e
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660JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
661 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
662
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663JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
664 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
665
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666JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
667
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668JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
669
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670JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
671
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672JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
673 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
674
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675JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
676 added for tls authenticator.
677
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678HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
679
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684TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
685 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
686 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
687 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
688 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
689 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
690 the script parsing/test process like normal.
691
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692TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
693 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
694 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
695 function when detected.
696
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697JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
698 cause callback expansion.
699
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700TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
701 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
702 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
703 instead of bool when processing it.
704
0f06b4f2 705JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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706 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
707
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708JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
709
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710JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
711
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712TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
713
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714TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
715 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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717JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
718 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
719 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
720 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 721 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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722 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
723
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724JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
725 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
726 exceeded it.
727
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728JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
729 version 3.3.6 or later.
730
4c04137d 731JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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732 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
733 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 734 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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735 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
736 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
737 option is defined.
774ef2d7 738
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739TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
740 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
741
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742JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
743 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
744 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
745 matches.
746
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747JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
748 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
749 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
750
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751JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
752 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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753
754JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
755 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
756 syntax errors.
757
3394b36a 758JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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759
760JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
761 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
762
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763TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
764 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
765 tarball.
766
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767JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
768
4c04137d 769JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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770 Bug 1561.
771
772JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
773 output list separator was used.
774
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778TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
779 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
780 return.
1f0ebb98 781
a612424f 782JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 783 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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784
785JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
786
787TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 788 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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794TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
795
796 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
797 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
798 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
799 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
800 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
801 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
802
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803TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
804 utilities have not been installed.
805
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806JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
807 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
808
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809TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
810 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
811
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812TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
813 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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814 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
815 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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817JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
818
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819TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
820 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
821
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822PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
823 not dns_use_dnssec.
824
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825JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
826
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827TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
828 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
829 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
830
8ddef691 831TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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832 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
833 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
834 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
835 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 836 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 837
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838JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
839
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840JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
841 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
842
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843JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
844 failed delivery.
845
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846JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
847
511a6c14 848JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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849
850JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
851 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 852
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853JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
854 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
855
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856TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
857
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858JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
859
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860JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
861 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
862
863 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
864 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
865 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
866
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867TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
868 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
869 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
870 analysis.
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872JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
873
8c51eead 874JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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875 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
876 lookup).
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878TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
879 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
880 Schlichting.
35aba663 881
fd3b6a4a 882JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 883 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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885TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
886 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
887
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888JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
889
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890TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
891 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
892 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
893
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894JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
895 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
896
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897JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
898 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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899 hosts_request_ocsp.
900
ed3bba5f 901JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 902 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 903 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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905JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
906
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907TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
908 Christian Aistleitner.
909
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910JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
911
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912TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
913 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
914
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915JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
916 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
917
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918JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
919 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
920
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921TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
922 support and error reporting did not work properly.
923
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924TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
925 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
926
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927TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
928 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
929 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
930
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931JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
932
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933PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
934 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
935 Jasper Wallace.
936
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937JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
938
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939TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
940 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
941 CVE-2014-2972
942
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947PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
948
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949PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
950 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
951
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952PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
953 by GnuTLS.
954
1f4a55da
PP
955PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
956 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
957 routines.
958
13363eba 959PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 960
66645890 961PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
962 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
963 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
964 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
965 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 966
a3fb9793 967PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
968 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
969 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
970 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 971 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 972 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 973
d27f98fe 974TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 975
6822b909
TL
976TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
977
e7568d51
TL
978TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
979 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
980
ae0e32ee 981TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 982 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 983 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
984
985TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 986
e2658fff
TL
987TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
988
83712b39
TL
989TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
990 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
991
976b7e9f
JH
992JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
993
be4a1376
JH
994JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
995
ec4b68e5
PP
996PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
997
d7148a07
NM
998NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
999 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1000
585121e2 1001JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1002
2519e60d
TL
1003PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1004 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1005 function.
a5f239e4 1006
13d08c90
PP
1007PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1008 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1009
bef3ea7f
JH
1010JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1011 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1012 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1013
846726c5
JH
1014JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1015
3a796370
JH
1016JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1017
ea722490 1018JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1019 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1020
b1b05573
JH
1021JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1022 Bugzilla 884.
1023
362145b5
JH
1024JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1025 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1026
3c0a92dc
JH
1027JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1028 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1029
6d7c6175
PP
1030PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1031 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1032 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1033
6f123593
JH
1034JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1035 authenticators.
1036
c8e2fc1e
JH
1037JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1038 for control.
1039
005ac57f
PP
1040PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1041
3f1df0e3
PP
1042PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1043 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1044 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1045 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1046
67bd1ab3
TF
1047TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1048
1049 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1050 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1051 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1052 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1053 the retry rules.
1054
1055 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1056 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1057 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1058
1059 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1060 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1061 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1062 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1063
1ddeb334
TF
1064 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1065 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1066 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1067 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1068 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1069 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1070 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1071
1072 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1073 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1074
326cdc37
TF
1075TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1076
1077 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1078
1079 Resent-From: f
1080
1081 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1082 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1083 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1084 username as equal to the username.
1085
1086 This change corrects that bug.
1087
f62514b3
GF
1088GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1089 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1090 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1091
eb505532
TF
1092TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1093
14c7b357
PP
1094PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1095 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1096 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1097 NULL dereference and crash.
1098
94eaf700
PP
1099JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1100
6f5a440a
PP
1101PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1102 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1103 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1104
514ee161
SC
1105SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1106
fd98a5c6
JH
1107JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1108 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1109 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1110 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1111 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1112 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1113 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1114 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1115 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1116 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1117 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1118
035c7f1e
PP
1119PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1120 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1121
ff284120
PP
1122PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1123 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1124 Bugzilla 880.
1125
26e72755
PP
1126PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1127 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1128 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1129 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1130 an empty string is now equivalent.
1131
0fbd9bff
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1132PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1133 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1134 not performing validation itself.
1135
700d22f3
PP
1136PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1137 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1138
fcc8e047
JH
1139JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1140 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1141
4c04137d 1142TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1143
8c020188
PP
1144PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1145 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1146 other false fix of the same issue.
1147 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1148 Bugzilla 1363.
1149
d13cdd30
PP
1150PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1151 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1152
e2fbf4a2
PP
1153PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1154 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1155 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1156
f4c1088b
PP
1157PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1158 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1159 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1160
c5c2182f
PP
1161TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1162
73431ca9
JH
1163JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1164
2d07a215
TL
1165TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1166 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1167
a30a8861
TL
1168TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1169 Alexander Miroch.
1170
33382dd9
TL
1171TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1172 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1173 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1174 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1175 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1176
046172e6
TL
1177TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1178 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1179
581d7bee 1180TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1181 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1182 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1183
1184TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1185 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1186 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1187 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1188
237b2cf2
TL
1189TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1190
9fc5a352
TL
1191TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1192 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1193 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1194
b10e4ec2
TL
1195TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1196
e2cebd74
TL
1197TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1198 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1199 interaction.
1200
1201TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1202 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1203
2519e60d
TL
1204TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1205 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1206
e78e6ecf 1207
4263f395
PP
1208Exim version 4.80.1
1209-------------------
1210
1211PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1212 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1213 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1214
ea722490 1215
b1770b6e 1216Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1217-----------------
1218
1219PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1220 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1221 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1222
23c7e742
NM
1223NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1224
b322aac8
NM
1225NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1226 improved.
1227
4a891427
NM
1228NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1229
c1e794ba 1230PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1231
97753960
PP
1232PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1233
1234PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1235 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1236
df6303fa
PP
1237PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1238 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1239
7e6a8985
PP
1240PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1241 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1242
f1e05cc7 1243PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1244 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1245 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1246
4c287009
PP
1247PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1248
b98bb9ac
PP
1249PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1250 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1251
4a6a987a
PP
1252PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1253
c45dd180 1254PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1255
7db8d074
PP
1256PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1257 non-compliant senders.
1258 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1259
eae0036b 1260NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1261 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1262 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1263
dec5017e
PP
1264PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1265 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1266 in spool file corruption.
1267
c80c5570
PP
1268PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1269 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1270 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1271 "Got SSL error 2".
1272
076b11e2
PP
1273TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1274 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1275 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1276
5407bfff
JH
1277JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1278 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1279
9e45c72b
PP
1280JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1281
e74376d8
PP
1282PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1283 diagnostics.
1284 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1285
4c04137d 1286PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1287 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1288 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1289
7be682ca
PP
1290PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1291 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1292 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1293 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1294
ef840681
PP
1295PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1296 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1297
5bfb4cdf
PP
1298PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1299 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1300 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1301 resolver implementation change.
1302
c6e95d22
PP
1303PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1304 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1305
9cbad13b
PP
1306PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1307
9ee44efb
PP
1308PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1309
6a6084f8
PP
1310PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1311 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1312
12dd53c7
PP
1313PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1314 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1315
9e45c72b 1316JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1317 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1318
17c76198
PP
1319PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1320 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1321 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1322 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1323 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1324
53947857 1325PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1326
eae0036b 1327PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1328 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1329 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1330
9e45c72b 1331JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1332
7390e768
PP
1333PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1334 read-only, out of scope).
1335 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1336
08488c86
PP
1337PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1338 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1339 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1340 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1341
6475bd82
PP
1342PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1343
81f91683
PP
1344PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1345 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1346 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1347 real issues in debug logging.
1348
5779e6aa
PP
1349PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1350 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1351
3375e053
PP
1352PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1353 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1354 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1355
1356PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1357 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1358 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1359 problems.
3375e053 1360
9d26b8c0
PP
1361PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1362 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1363
57eb9e91 1364PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1365 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1366 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1367 needs to override this, it can.
1368
16880d1a
PP
1369PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1370 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1371 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1372
a799883d
PP
1373PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1374 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1375 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1376 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1377
3ecab157 1378PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1379
0599f9cf 1380
867fcbf5
PP
1381Exim version 4.77
1382-----------------
1383
1384PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1385 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1386
f1a29782
TF
1387TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1388
ab42bd23
TK
1389TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1390 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1391
0ca0cf52
TF
1392TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1393 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1394
921b12ca
TF
1395TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1396 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1397 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1398
1399 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1400 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1401 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1402 not safe for signals.
1403
1404 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1405 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1406 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1407 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1408 exiwhat.
1409
c99ce5c9
TF
1410TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1411
1412 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1413 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1414 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1415 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1416 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1417
1418 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1419 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1420 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1421 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1422 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1423 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1424
1425 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1426 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1427 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1428 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1429
1430 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1431 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1432 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1433 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1434
1435 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1436 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1437 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1438 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1439 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1440 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1441 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1442 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1443 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1444
1445 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1446 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1447 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1448 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1449
1450 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1451 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1452 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1453 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1454 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1455 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1456 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1457 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1458 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1459 details in the main documentation.
1460
3634fc25
TF
1461TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1462
792e8a19
TF
1463TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1464
5901f0ab
TF
1465TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1466 repository when doing development or release builds.
1467
7f2a2a43
PP
1468PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1469 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1470
061b7ebd
PP
1471PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1472 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1473 Bugzilla 97.
1474
e12f8c32
PP
1475PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1476
9e949f00 1477PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1478 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1479
1480PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1481 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1482
555ae6af 1483PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1484 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1485
1486PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1487 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1488
6f7fe114
PP
1489PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1490 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1491
c566dd90
PP
1492PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1493 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1494 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1495 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1496
d6cc7c78 1497PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1498 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1499 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1500
0d0e4455
PP
1501PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1502
3399bb60 1503PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1504
1505PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1506 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1507
0ca0cf52 1508
10906672
PP
1509Exim version 4.76
1510-----------------
1511
1512PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1513
754a0503
PP
1514PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1515 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1516
c0c7b2da
PP
1517PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1518
e97d1f08
PP
1519PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1520
084c1d8c
PP
1521PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1522 Bugzilla 1098.
1523
4e7ee012
PP
1524PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1525 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1526
c8d52a00
PP
1527TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1528 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1529
54e7ce4a
PP
1530PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1531 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1532
5ee6f336
PP
1533PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1534 Bugzilla 1104.
1535
c8d52a00 1536TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1537 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1538
1539TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1540 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1541 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1542 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1543
1544PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1545 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1546
10906672 1547
aa097c4c
NM
1548Exim version 4.75
1549-----------------
1550
4c04137d 1551NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1552 Bugzilla 1073
1553
7f3d9eff
TF
1554TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1555 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1556 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1557
159f52d2
TF
1558TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1559 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1560
0cc9542a
PP
1561PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1562 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1563 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1564
f7274286
PP
1565PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1566 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1567
7b797365
PP
1568PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1569 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1570
caacae52
NM
1571NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1572 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1573
09dcaba9
NM
1574NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1575 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1576
bc19a55b
PP
1577PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1578 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1579
bd4c9759
NM
1580NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1581 Fixes bug 943.
1582
b72aab72
PP
1583PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1584 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1585
2fe76745
PP
1586PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1587 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1588
76aa570c
PP
1589PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1590 SQL string expansion failure details.
1591 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1592
f1e5fef5
PP
1593PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1594 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1595
4d805ee9
PP
1596PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1597 extern declarations in function scope.
1598 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1599
cd59ab18
PP
1600PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1601 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1602 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1603 a kernel bug).
1604
332f5cf3
PP
1605PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1606 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1607
29cfeb94
PP
1608PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1609 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1610
660242ad
PP
1611PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1612 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1613
bc4bc4c5
PP
1614PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1615 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1616
2e64baa9
NM
1617NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1618 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1619 Dennis Davis.
1620
4c04137d 1621PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1622
6bac1a9a
PP
1623PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1624
552193f0
NM
1625NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1626 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1627
1b587e48
TF
1628TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1629 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1630
aa097c4c 1631
8c07b69f
TF
1632Exim version 4.74
1633-----------------
1634
1635TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1636 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1637
c0ea85ab
TF
1638TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1639 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1640
0761d44e
TF
1641TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1642
0a349494
PP
1643DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1644 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1645 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1646
1647PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1648 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1649 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1650
fea24b2e
PP
1651PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1652 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1653 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1654 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1655
6545de78
PP
1656PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1657 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1658 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1659 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1660
1670ef10
PP
1661PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1662 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1663 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1664 arbitrary files.
1665
c0886197
PP
1666PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1667 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1668
b7487bce
PP
1669PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1670 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1671 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1672 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1673 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1674
8c07b69f 1675
97fd1e48 1676Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1677-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1678
1679PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1680 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1681 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1682
6901c596
PP
1683PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1684 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1685
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1686JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1687
77bb000f
PP
1688PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1689
a29e5231
PP
1690PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1691
ec5a0394 1692PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1693
55c75993
PP
1694PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1695
453a6645 1696PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1697 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1698 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1699 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1700
8544e77a
PP
1701PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1702 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1703 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1704 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1705 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1706
83e029d5
PP
1707PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1708
ed7f7860
PP
1709PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1710
7d9f747b
PP
1711PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1712
4b2241d2
PP
1713PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1714
10385c15
PP
1715PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1716
dbc4b90d
PP
1717PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1718
532be449
PP
1719PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1720
6a8de854 1721PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1722 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1723 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1724
5dc43717
JJ
1725JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1726
1727JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1728 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1729
3346ab01
PP
1730PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1731 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1732
491fab4c
PP
1733PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1734 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1735 Notification from John Horne.
1736
13eb9497
PP
1737PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1738 compatible.
1739
1740PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1741 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1742 it normally works.
1743
7f36d675
DW
1744DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1745 access.
1746
c1d94452
DW
1747DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1748 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1749 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1750
e2f5dc15
DW
1751DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1752 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1753 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1754 configuration file.
1755
cd25e41d
DW
1756DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1757 option (effectively making it always true).
1758
261dc43e
DW
1759DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1760 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1761
fa32850b
DW
1762DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1763 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1764
79d4bc3d
PP
1765PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1766 run-time user, instead of root.
1767
43236f35 1768PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1769 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1770
fb08281f
DW
1771DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1772 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1773 arguments.
3346ab01 1774
74935b98
DW
1775DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1776 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1777 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1778
90b6341f
DW
1779DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1780
57730b52
ML
1781NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1782
66581d1e 1783
465e92cf
JJ
1784Exim version 4.72
1785-----------------
1786
453a6645
PP
1787JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1788 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1789 typos
465e92cf 1790
453a6645
PP
1791JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1792 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1793 (Finput)
edae0343 1794
9bd3e22c
NM
1795NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1796 Patch from Alain Williams
1797
bb576ff7
NM
1798NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1799
5a1a5845
NM
1800NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1801 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1802
981a9fad
NM
1803NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1804 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1805
7fc497ee
NM
1806NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1807
1a41defa
JJ
1808JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1809
a466095c 1810NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1811 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1812
94a6bd0b
NM
1813TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1814
1815TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1816
1817MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1818 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1819 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1820
c1b141a8
NM
1821NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1822 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1823
b26eacf1 1824NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1825 Patch by Simon Arlott
1826
179c5980 1827PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1828 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1829
9bd3e22c 1830
7c6d71af
NM
1831Exim version 4.71
1832-----------------
1833
7d9f747b 1834TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1835
f013fb92
NM
1836NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1837
0eb8eedd
NM
1838NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1839
663ee6d9
NM
1840NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1841
177ebd9b
NM
1842NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1843
7c6d71af 1844
210f147e
NM
1845Exim version 4.70
1846-----------------
1847
cdd3bb85 1848TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1849 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1850
1851TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1852 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1853 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1854
1855TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1856 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1857 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1858
1859TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1860 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1861
210f147e
NM
1862NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1863 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1864 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1865 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1866
deafd5b3
NM
1867NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1868 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1869 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1870
089793a4
TF
1871TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1872
5f16ca82
TF
1873TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1874
dae9d94e 1875NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1876 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1877
7d9f747b 1878NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1879
06864c44
TF
1880TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1881 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1882 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1883 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1884
65a7d8c3 1885NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1886 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1887
23510047 1888TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1889
7d9f747b 1890NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1891
7d8eec3a 1892NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1893 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1894
89dec7b6
TF
1895TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1896 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1897
a99de90c
TF
1898TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1899 that they are available at delivery time.
1900
e2803e40
TF
1901TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1902
7199e1ee
TF
1903TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1904 incoming_port log selectors.
1905
e276e04b
TF
1906TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1907 setting expands to an empty string.
1908
ce552449 1909NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1910 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1911
e765a0f1 1912NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1913 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1914
4f054c63 1915NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1916 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1917
7d9f747b
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1918NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1919 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1920
7d9f747b
PP
1921NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1922 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1923
b52bc06e 1924NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1925 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1926
447de4b0
NM
1927NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1928
4c69d561 1929NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1930 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1931
d5c39246 1932NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1933 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1934
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1935TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1936
8f3414a1 1937NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1938 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1939
fb6f955d
NM
1940NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1941
1942NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1943
7d9f747b
PP
1944NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1945 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1946
7d9f747b
PP
1947NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1948 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1949
7d9f747b
PP
1950NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1951 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1952
7d9f747b
PP
1953NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1954 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1955
7d9f747b
PP
1956NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1957 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1958
7d9f747b
PP
1959NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1960 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1961
7d9f747b
PP
1962NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1963 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1964
7d9f747b 1965NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1966 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1967
7d9f747b 1968NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1969
7d9f747b
PP
1970NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1971 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1972
7d9f747b 1973NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1974
7d9f747b 1975NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1976
7d9f747b 1977NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1978
7d9f747b 1979NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1980
17792b53 1981NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1982 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1983
7d9f747b
PP
1984NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1985 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1986
91576cec 1987NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1988 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1989
7d9f747b
PP
1990NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1991 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1992
7d9f747b 1993NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1994
7d9f747b 1995NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1996
7d9f747b 1997NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1998
7d9f747b 1999NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2000
deafd5b3 2001
47db1125
NM
2002Exim version 4.69
2003-----------------
2004
4b3504d0
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2005TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2006 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2007 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2008
2009 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2010 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2011 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2012 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2013 build errors in sieve.c.
2014
81ea09ca
NM
2015NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2016 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2017 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2018
f13cddcb
SC
2019SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2020
7d9f747b 2021NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2022
7d9f747b 2023NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2024
7d9f747b 2025NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2026
2027
eb4c0de6
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2028Exim version 4.68
2029-----------------
2030
2031PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2032
6a3bceb1
PH
2033PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2034 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2035 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2036 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2037 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2038 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2039 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2040 for iplsearch lookups.
2041
2042 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2043 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2044 previously such lookups could never work.
2045
4c04137d 2046 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2047 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2048 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2049
2e30fa9d
TK
2050TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2051 version.
2052
0806a9c5
MH
2053MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2054 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2055 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2056 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2057 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2058 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2059
ae276964
TK
2060TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2061 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2062
0f2cbd1b
MH
2063MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2064 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2065 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2066 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2067 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2068 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2069
2b85bce7
PH
2070PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2071 local_scan API.
2072
93655c46
PH
2073PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2074
6c512171
PH
2075PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2076 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2077 encrypted.
2078
2079PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2080 by clients under certain conditions.
2081
aa6dc513
PH
2082PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2083 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2084
a96603a0
PH
2085PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2086
8f240103
PH
2087PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2088 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2089
2090PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2091
d677b2f2
PH
2092PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2093
d52120f2
PH
2094PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2095
64f2600a
PH
2096PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2097 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2098
8669f003
PH
2099PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2100
a4dc33a8
PH
2101PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2102 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2103
d6a60c0f
PH
2104PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2105
8f128379
PH
2106PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2107
8932dffe
PH
2108PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2109 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2110 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2111 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2112
ddea74fa 2113PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2114 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2115 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2116
ddea74fa 2117PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2118 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2119
ddea74fa
PH
2120PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2121
ce9f225c
PH
2122PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2123
19897d52
PH
2124PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2125
bc64a74d
PH
2126PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2127 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2128 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2129
eb4c0de6 2130
b4ed4da0
PH
2131Exim version 4.67
2132-----------------
2133
22ad45c9
MH
2134MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2135 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2136 Jan Srzednicki.
2137
b4ed4da0
PH
2138PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2139 issue a MAIL command.
2140
431b7361
PH
2141PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2142
2143 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2144
2145 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2146 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2147 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2148 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2149 item. This has been fixed.
2150
2151PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2152 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2153
83da1223
PH
2154PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2155 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2156
54fc8428
PH
2157PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2158 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2159 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2160
34c5e8dd
SC
2161SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2162
bbe15da8
PH
2163PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2164 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2165 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2166 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2167 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2168
0e8a9471
MH
2169MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2170 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2171 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2172
f0872424
PH
2173PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2174 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2175 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2176 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2177
b01dd148
PH
2178PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2179
6bf342e1
PH
2180PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2181
273f34d0
PH
2182PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2183 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2184 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2185 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2186 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2187
cf8b11a5
PH
2188PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2189
41c7c167
PH
2190PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2191 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2192 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2193 values).
2194
9c57cbc0
PH
2195PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2196
f3f065bb
PH
2197PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2198
047bdd8c
PH
2199PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2200
0ce9abe6
PH
2201PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2202
0e22dfd1
PH
2203PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2204
4c590bd1
PH
2205PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2206 no_callout_flush is set.
2207
09945f1e
PH
2208PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2209 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2210 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2211 fixed.
2212
c51b8e75
PH
2213PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2214
e28326d8 2215PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2216 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2217 other ACL rejections are.
2218
75b1493f
PH
2219PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2220 with slight modification.
2221
7c5214ec
PH
2222PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2223 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2224
4311097e
PH
2225PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2226 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2227 connection.
2228
29f89cad
PH
2229PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2230 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2231
5e687460
SC
2232SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2233
c3611384
PH
2234PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2235 expansion side effects.
2236
5a11a7b4
PH
2237PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2238 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2239 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2240 be the same.
2241
0e20aff9
MH
2242MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2243 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2244 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2245
ca86f471
PH
2246PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2247 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2248 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2249 were accidentally chopped off.
2250
a14e5636
PH
2251PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2252 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2253 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2254 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2255 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2256 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2257 pipelining has not been advertised.
2258
ec95d1a6
PH
2259PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2260
42855d71
PH
2261PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2262 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2263 This has been fixed.
2264
57c2c631
PH
2265PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2266 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2267 reported on Solaris.
2268
58c01c94
PH
2269PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2270 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2271 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2272 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2273 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2274 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2275 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2276
dee5a20a
PH
2277PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2278 cpus.
2279
d2ee6114
PH
2280PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2281
b2d5182b
PH
2282PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2283
79749a79
PH
2284PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2285 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2286 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2287 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2288 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2289 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2290
c456d9bb
PH
2291PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2292 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2293 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2294 host_all_ignored option.
2295
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PH
2296PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2297 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2298 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2299 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2300 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2301 is what is supposed to happen).
2302
ebeaf996
PH
2303PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2304 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2305 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2306 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2307 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2308 uses the Exim user.
2309
2679d413
PH
2310PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2311 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2312 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2313 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2314 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2315 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2316 users.
2317
84024b72
PH
2318PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2319
8005d38e
SC
2320SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2321 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2322 (Jez Hancock).
2323 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2324 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2325
3298c6c6
SC
2326SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2327
a43a27c5
PH
2328PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2329
58eb016e 2330PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2331 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2332 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2333 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2334 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2335 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2336 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2337 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2338 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2339 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2340 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2341
b43a74ea
PH
2342PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2343 advertised in response to EHLO.
2344
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5dd1517f
PH
2346Exim version 4.66
2347-----------------
2348
2349PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2350 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2351
2352 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2353 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2354
2355 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2356 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2357 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2358
2359 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2360 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2361 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2362 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2363 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2364
2365
93cfa765
TK
2366Exim version 4.65
2367-----------------
2368
2369TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2370 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2371 versions. (#438)
2372
d6066548
MH
2373MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2374 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2375 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2376
4362ff0d
PH
2377PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2378 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2379 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2380 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2381 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2382 rather than extend the field.
2383
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944e9e9c
TF
2385Exim version 4.64
2386-----------------
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2388TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2389 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2390 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2391 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2392 these files.
2393
2394TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2395 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2396 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2397
2398TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2399 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2400 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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2401
2402TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2403 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2404 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2405 in the field name.
2406
2b1c6e3a
PH
2407PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2408 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2409 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2410 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2411 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2412 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2413 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2414 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2415 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2416 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2417 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2418
1f872c80
PH
2419PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2420 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2421
2422PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2423 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2424 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2425 ignores EPIPE as well.
2426
d203e649
PH
2427PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2428 (quoted-printable decoding).
2429
cc2ed8f7 2430PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2431 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2432
ddfcd446
PH
2433PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2434
d45b1de8
PH
2435PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2436
2437PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2438
38a0a95f 2439PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2440 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2441
a2405d83
JJ
2442JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2443 in 4.64-PH/09.
2444
2445JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2446 miscellaneous code fixes
2447
6ea85e9a
PH
2448PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2449 rejections.
2450
26da7e20
PH
2451PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2452 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2453 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2454 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2455 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2456 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2457 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2458 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2459
14aa5a05 2460PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2461 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2462 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2463 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2464 function.
2465 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2466 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2467 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2468 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2469 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2470 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2471 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2472 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2473 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2474
ff75a1f7
PH
2475PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2476 decoding.
2477
e6f6568e
PH
2478PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2479 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2480 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2481 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2482 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2483 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2484 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2485 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2486
d6f6e0dc
PH
2487PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2488 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2489 list.
2490
322050c2
PH
2491PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2492 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2493 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2494 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2495 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2496 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2497 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2498 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2499 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2500 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2501 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2502 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2503 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2504
08955dd3
PH
2505PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2506 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2507 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2508 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2509 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2510 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2511 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2512
1eccaa59
PH
2513PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2514 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2515 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2516 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2517 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2518 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2519 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2520 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2521 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2522 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2523
602e59e5
PH
2524PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2525 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2526 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2527 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2528 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2529
411ef850
PH
2530PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2531 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2532 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2533 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2534 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2535 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2536 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2537
7befa435
PH
2538PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2539 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2540 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2541 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2542 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2543 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2544 been verified.
2545
48da4259 2546PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2547 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2548 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2549 and authorization.)
2550
48da4259
PH
2551PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2552 if any retry times were supplied.
2553
d1d5595c
PH
2554PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2555 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2556 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2557
0ef732d9
PH
2558PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2559
328895cc
PH
2560PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2561
fd700877
PH
2562PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2563 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2564 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2565 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2566 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2567 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2568
8dce1a6f
PH
2569PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2570 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2571
17af4a17
PH
2572PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2573 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2574 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2575
2576PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2577 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2578 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2579 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2580 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2581 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2582 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2583 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2584 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2585
2586 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2587 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2588 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2589 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2590 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2591 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2592 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2593 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2594 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2595
2596 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2597 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2598 hammering the server.
2599
c1114884
PH
2600PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2601 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2602
7a0743eb
PH
2603PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2604
0d85fa3f
PH
2605PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2606 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2607 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2608
1bf43b78
PH
2609PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2610 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2611 one case where this was not true.
2612
520de300
PH
2613PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2614 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2615 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2616 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2617 fails.
2618
48c7f9e2
PH
2619PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2620 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2621 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2622 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2623 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2624 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2625 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2626 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2627 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2628 smtp transport.
2629
99ea1c86
PH
2630PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2631 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2632 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2633 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2634
a2042e78
PH
2635PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2636 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2637
4fbcfc2e
PH
2638PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2639 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2640 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2641
aa41d2de
PH
2642PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2643
af561417
PH
2644PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2645
3cc66b45
PH
2646PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2647
194cc0e4
PH
2648PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2649 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2650 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2651 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2652
a401ddaa
PH
2653PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2654 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2655
4e88a19f
PH
2656PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2657 be meaningful with "accept".
2658
d7d7b289
SC
2659SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2660 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2661
2662SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2663 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2664 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2665
2666SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2667 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2668 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2669 there is data to show.
2670 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2671
2672SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2673 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2674 as well as the number of messages.
2675
2676SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2677 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2678 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2679
2680SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2681 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2682 have a flag are now skipped.
2683
2684SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2685 Added the -emptyok flag.
2686
2687SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2688 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2689
0ea2a468
JJ
2690JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2691 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2692 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2693
2694JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2695 match 4.64-PH/13
2696
2697JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2698 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2699
2700JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2701
2702JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2703 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2704
8a10f5a4
PH
2705PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2706
30e18802
PH
2707PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2708 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2709 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2710 contravention of the specifications.
2711
55728a4f
PH
2712PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2713 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2714 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2715
d7837193
PH
2716PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2717 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2718 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2719
87054a31
PH
2720PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2721
ea2c01d2
MH
2722MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2723 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2724 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2725 some point in the past.
2726
e4fa6968
PH
2727PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2728 transport during callout processing was broken.
2729
56f5d9bd
PH
2730PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2731 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2732
922e1c28
PH
2733PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2734 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2735
21eb6e72
PH
2736PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2737 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2738
a0540757
PH
2739PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2740
944e9e9c 2741
478be7b0
SC
2742Exim version 4.63
2743-----------------
2744
2745SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2746 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2747
2748SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2749 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2750 there is data to show.
2751 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2752
2753SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2754 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2755
2b965a65
TF
2756TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2757 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2758
45b91596
PH
2759TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2760 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2761
c59f5781
TF
2762TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2763 submissions from trusted users.
2764
90fc3069
TF
2765TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2766 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2767
6083aca0
TF
2768TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2769 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2770 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2771 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2772 there is now a framework to start from.
2773
765b530f
PH
2774PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2775 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2776 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2777
4e167a8c
PH
2778PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2779
4608d683
PH
2780PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2781
b8dc3e4a
PH
2782PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2783
5418e93b
PH
2784PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2785 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2786 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2787
b4a9bda2
PH
2788PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2789 libradius.
2790
45b91596
PH
2791PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2792 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2793 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2794
5547e2c5
PH
2795PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2796 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2797 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2798 its arguments.
2799
dbcef0ea
PH
2800PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2801 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2802 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2803 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2804 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2805
25257489
PH
2806PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2807 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2808
c816d124
PH
2809PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2810
a9ccd69a
PH
2811PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2812 operations in malware.c.
2813
75fa1910
PH
2814PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2815 signatures.
2816
a7d7aa58
PH
2817PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2818 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2819 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2820 all.
2821
42119b09
PH
2822PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2823 statements to "add_header".
2824
41609df5
PH
2825PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2826 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2827
a5bd321b
PH
2828PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2829 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2830 latter.
2831
e85a7ad5 2832PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2833 so that it is now:
2834
e85a7ad5
PH
2835 ${if or { \
2836 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2837 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2838 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2839 }{no}{yes}}
2840
e85a7ad5
PH
2841 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2842 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2843
d8fe1c03
PH
2844PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2845 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2846
16282d2b
PH
2847PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2848 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2849 any possible encoding problems.
2850
35d40a98
PH
2851PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2852 but not after initializing Perl.
2853
034d99ab
PH
2854PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2855 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2856 apparently, which is not desirable.
2857
6ec97b1b
PH
2858PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2859 queries.
2860
e22ca4ac
JJ
2861JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2862 --not options
2863
2864JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2865
33d73e3b
PH
2866PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2867 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2868 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2869 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2870
9ecb03f3
PH
2871PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2872 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2873 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2874
084efe8d
PH
2875PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2876 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2877 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2878 0.12.
2879
366fc9f0
PH
2880PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2881 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2882 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2883 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2884 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2885
c59f5781 2886
c887c79e
TF
2887Exim version 4.62
2888-----------------
2889
2890TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2891 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2892
1cce3af8
PH
2893PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2894 patch).
2895
afb3eaaf
PH
2896PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2897 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2898 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2899 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2900 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2901 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2902 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2903 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2904 451 error is used.
2905
e173618b
PH
2906PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2907
dd16e114
PH
2908PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2909 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2910 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2911
f7fd3850
PH
2912PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2913 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2914 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2915 odd errors.
2916
d87df92c
PH
2917PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2918 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2919
7e9f683d
PH
2920PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2921 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2922 option (which defaults to 0600).
2923
bfad5236
PH
2924PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2925
01c490df
PH
2926PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2927 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2928 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2929 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2930 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2931 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2932 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2933
d6629cdc
PH
2934PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2935
1cce3af8 2936
214e2000
PH
2937Exim version 4.61
2938-----------------
2939
2940PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2941 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2942 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2943 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2944 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2945 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2946 addresses as local.
2947
f9daeae0
PH
2948PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2949 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2950
7e66e54d
PH
2951PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2952
c8ea1597
PH
2953PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2954 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2955 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2956 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2957 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2958 grumble.
2959
911f6fde
PH
2960PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2961 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2962
47ca6d6c
PH
2963PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2964 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2965 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2966 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2967 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2968
ed0e9820
PH
2969PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2970 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2971 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2972 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2973
eff37e47
PH
2974PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2975 be the same on different OS.
2976
1921d2ea
PH
2977PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2978 testing.
2979
b3f69ca8
JJ
2980JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2981 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2982
2983JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2984 in 4.61-PH/06
2985
424a1c63
PH
2986PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2987 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2988 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2989 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2990 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2991 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2992 bounce message.
2993
7a100415
PH
2994PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2995 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2996 when Exim was called.
2997
19b9dc85
PH
2998PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2999 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3000
309bd837
PH
3001PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3002 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3003 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3004 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3005
59e82a2a
PH
3006PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3007 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3008 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3009 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3010 changes:
3011
3012 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3013 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3014 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3015
3016 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3017 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3018 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3019
9edc04ce
PH
3020PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3021 feature).
3022
1349e1e5
PH
3023PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3024 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3025 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3026 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3027 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3028 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3029 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3030 values from the SRV records were lost.
3031
ea49d0e1
PH
3032PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3033 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3034 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3035
064a94c9
PH
3036PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3037 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3038 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3039
727071f8
PH
3040PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3041 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3042 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3043 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3044 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3045 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3046 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3047 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3048 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3049 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3050
f78eb7c6
PH
3051PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3052 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3053 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3054
21c28500
PH
3055PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3056 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3057
3058PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3059 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3060 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3061 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3062 is given.
3063
1688f43b
PH
3064PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3065 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3066 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3067
3068PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3069 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3070 PH/23 above applies.
3071
9675b384
PH
3072PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3073 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3074 (for which there is an explicit test).
3075
6a3f1455
PH
3076PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3077
dac79d3e
PH
3078PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3079 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3080 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3081 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3082 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3083
5977a0b3
PH
3084PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3085 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3086 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3087 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3088
c91535f3
PH
3089PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3090 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3091 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3092
0d46a8c8
PH
3093PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3094
278c6e6c
PH
3095PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3096
2cbb4081
PH
3097PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3098 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3099 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3100
3eef829e
PH
3101PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3102 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3103 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3104 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3105 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3106
1ab95fa6
PH
3107PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3108 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3109 the message gets confusing).
3110
230205fc
PH
3111PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3112 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3113 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3114 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3115
75e0e026
PH
3116PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3117 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3118 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3119 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3120 same order.
3121
3122PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3123 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3124 the different processes.
3125
145396a6
PH
3126PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3127
3cd34f13
PH
3128PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3129
11121d3d
JJ
3130JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3131 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3132
3133JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3134 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3135
3136JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3137 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3138 messages matching specified criteria.
3139
8def5aaf
PH
3140PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3141
929ba01c
PH
3142PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3143 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3144
2632889e
PH
3145PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3146 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3147 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3148 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3149 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3150 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3151 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3152 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3153 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3154 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3155
944a9c55
PH
3156PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3157 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3158 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3159
4a23603b
PH
3160PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3161
4730f942
PH
3162PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3163 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3164 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3165 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3166 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3167 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3168 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3169 the variable.
3170
30dba1e6
PH
3171PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3172 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3173
382afc6b
PH
3174PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3175
a86229cf
PH
3176PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3177
50c99ba6
PH
3178PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3179
d35e429d
PH
3180PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3181 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3182 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3183 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3184 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3185 size of the count of files.
3186
f90d018c
PH
3187PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3188
75def545
PH
3189PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3190 used in LMTP mode:
3191
3192 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3193 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3194 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3195 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3196
3197 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3198 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3199 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3200
3201PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3202 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3203 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3204 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3205 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3206
c46782ef
PH
3207PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3208 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3209
71fafd95
PH
3210PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3211 will now be deprecated.
3212
2c5db4fd
PH
3213PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3214
9cf6b11a
JJ
3215JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3216 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3217 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3218
3219JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3220 with very large, slow to parse queues
3221
3222JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3223
3224JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3225
898d150f
PH
3226PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3227 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3228 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3229 SMTP output lines.
3230
46218253
PH
3231PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3232 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3233 Sieve code now uses this.
3234
e97957bc
PH
3235PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3236 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3237
81e509d7
PH
3238PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3239 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3240
3d240ff7
PH
3241PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3242
b37c4101
PH
3243PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3244 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3245 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3246 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3247 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3248
79378e0f
PH
3249PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3250 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3251 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3252 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3253
e49c7bb4
PH
3254PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3255
d114ec46
PH
3256PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3257
f3d7df6c
PH
3258PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3259 is preferred over IPv4.
3260
715ab376
PH
3261PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3262 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3263 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3264 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3265 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3266 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3267 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3268
6b31b150
PH
3269PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3270 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3271 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3272
3273PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3274
d515a917
PH
3275PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3276 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3277 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3278 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3279 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3280 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3281 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3282 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3283 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3284 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3285 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3286
9b8fadde
PH
3287PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3288 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3289 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3290
214e2000 3291
5de37277
PH
3292Exim version 4.60
3293-----------------
3294
cc38ddbf
PH
3295PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3296
3297 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3298 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3299
3300 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3301 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3302 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3303
72fdd6ae
PH
3304PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3305
3306 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3307 not a single digit.
3308
3309 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3310 string.
3311
3312 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3313 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3314 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3315 silly things.
3316
3317 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3318 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3319
3320 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3321 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3322
cb741023
PH
3323PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3324 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3325 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3326
f174f16e
PH
3327PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3328 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3329
c25242d7
PH
3330PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3331 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3332
3333 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3334
3335 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3336 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3337 this:
3338
3339 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3340
82c19f95
PH
3341PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3342 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3343 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3344 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3345 identical. For example:
3346
3347 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3348
3349 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3350 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3351 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3352
d7ffbc12
PH
3353PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3354 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3355 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3356 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3357
9f526266
PH
3358PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3359 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3360 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3361 message.
3362
87fcc8b9
PH
3363PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3364
3365 o fixes some comments
3366 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3367 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3368 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3369 and documents the missing references header update
3370
3371 and most important:
3372
3373 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3374 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3375 result)
3376
456682f5
PH
3377PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3378 Electronic Mail") by including:
3379
3380 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3381
3382 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3383 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3384 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3385 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3386 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3387
3388 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3389
3390 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3391
3392 The auto-replied keyword:
3393
3394 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3395 message by an automatic process,
3396
3397 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3398
3399 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3400 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3401
3402 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3403 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3404 other messages.
3405
3e46c1aa
PH
3406PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3407 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3408
49826d12
PH
3409PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3410
eba0c039
PH
3411PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3412 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3413 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3414
a0d6ba8a
PH
3415PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3416 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3417 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3418
f0917727
PH
3419PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3420 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3421 and treats the condition as false.
3422
096fee00
PH
3423PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3424
024bd3c2
PH
3425PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3426 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3427 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3428 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3429 not changing the active code.
3430
3431 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3432 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3433
3434 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3435 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3436
df199fec
PH
3437PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3438 (Bugzilla #53).
3439
d27f1df3
PH
3440PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3441 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3442 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3443 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3444 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3445 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3446 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3447 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3448 the text comparison.
3449
96776534
PH
3450PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3451 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3452 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3453 The same fix has been applied.
3454
5de37277 3455
9a799bc0
PH
3456Exim version 4.54
3457-----------------
3458
3459PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3460 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3461 It now does.
3462
99a4b039
PH
3463PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3464 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3465
3466PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3467
4b233853
PH
3468PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3469 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3470 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3471 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3472 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3473
8857ccfd
PH
3474TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3475 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3476 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3477 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3478 or /domain=).
3479
433a2980
PH
3480PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3481 testing suite.
3482
3e46c1aa 3483
9a799bc0 3484
e3a311ba
TK
3485Exim version 4.53
3486-----------------
3487
3488TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3489 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3490
13b685f9
PH
3491PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3492
395ff96d
PH
3493PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3494
5b68f6e4
PH
3495PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3496 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3497 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3498
1ab52c69
PH
3499PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3500 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3501 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3502
b07e6aa3
PH
3503PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3504 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3505 operating systems.
3506
254e032f
PH
3507PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3508 ${stat: expansion item.
3509
3af76a81
PH
3510PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3511 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3512
2548ba04
PH
3513PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3514 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3515 file for comments.
3516
b6c6011d
PH
3517PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3518
cf39cf57
PH
3519PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3520 setting.
3521
f1513293
PH
3522PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3523 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3524
727549a4
PH
3525TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3526
af46795e
PH
3527PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3528 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3529 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3530 the end of the subprocess.
3531
d7b47fd0
PH
3532PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3533 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3534 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3535 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3536 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3537
ee744174
JJ
3538JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3539
b582ab87
PH
3540TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3541
41a13e0a
PH
3542PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3543 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3544
f625cc5a
PH
3545PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3546
3547PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3548
21f7af35
PH
3549PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3550 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3551 HP-UX compiler.
3552
31480e42
PH
3553PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3554
2d280592
PH
3555PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3556 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3557 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3558
7cd1141b
PH
3559PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3560 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3561
3562PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3563 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3564
750af86e
PH
3565PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3566 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3567
3568 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3569 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3570
3571 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3572 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3573 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3574 contributed by a Radius user.
3575
3576PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3577 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3578
4304270b
TK
3579TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3580 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3581
750af86e
PH
3582PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3583 available.
3584
64ffc24f
PH
3585PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3586 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3587 received.
3588
5dd9625b
PH
3589PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3590 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3591 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3592 header lines when this was not necessary.
3593
5591031b
PH
3594PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3595
ba18e66a
PH
3596PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3597 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3598 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3599 exists".
3600
9cec981f
PH
3601PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3602 -bV or -d is used.
3603
aa2b5c79
PH
3604PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3605 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3606 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3607 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3608
48a53b7f
PH
3609PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3610
1c59d63b
PH
3611PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3612
671012da
TK
3613TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3614
1509d3a8
PH
3615PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3616
3617PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3618 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3619 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3620 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3621 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3622 settings.
3623
3624PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3625
2fe1a124
PH
3626PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3627 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3628 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3629 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3630 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3631 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3632 which is clearly wrong.
3633
8800895a
PH
3634PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3635
ccfdb010
PH
3636PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3637 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3638 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3639 subsequently added.
3640
1130bfb0
PH
3641PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3642 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3643
ebcb507f
PH
3644PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3645
c35e155c
PH
3646PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3647 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3648
95d1f782
PH
3649PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3650 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3651
fd6de02e
PH
3652PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3653 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3654
58de37c5
PH
3655PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3656 recipients, not senders.
3657
261cf466
TF
3658TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3659 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3660
3ee512ff
PH
3661PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3662
e08c430f
PH
3663PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3664
bef5a11f
PH
3665PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3666 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3667 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3668 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3669
7546de58
TF
3670TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3671
e5d5a95f
TF
3672TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3673 clock is set back in time.
3674
2e88a017
TF
3675TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3676 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3677
a5f65aa4
TF
3678TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3679 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3680
e7726cbf
PH
3681PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3682 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3683 (see PH/47 above).
3684
a7fdad5b
TF
3685TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3686 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3687 header rewrites.
3688
6af56900
PH
3689PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3690 type ("H").
3691
0925ede6
PH
3692PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3693
66afa403
TF
3694TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3695 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3696 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3697
0154e85a
TF
3698TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3699 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3700 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3701 helo verification defer as a failure.
3702
16f12c76
PH
3703PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3704 actual error message.
3705
bbe902f0 3706
e5a9dba6
PH
3707Exim version 4.52
3708-----------------
3709
3710TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3711
22c3b60b
PH
3712PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3713 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3714 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3715 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3716
06a9b4b5
PH
3717TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3718
c1ac6996
PH
3719PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3720 can still be requested.
3721
9c7a242c
PH
3722PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3723 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3724 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3725 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3726
87ba3f5f
PH
3727TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3728 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3729 circumstances, but probably never did.
3730
3731PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3732 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3733 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3734 in the header line.
3735
29aba418
TF
3736TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3737
fe0dab11
TF
3738TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3739 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3740
11d337a4
TK
3741TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3742
3743TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3744
415c8f3b
PH
3745PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3746 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3747 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3748 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3749 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3750 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3751
958541e9
PH
3752PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3753 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3754 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3755 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3756 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3757 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3758
c206415f
TK
3759TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3760 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3761
2a4be8f9
PH
3762PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3763 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3764
1cba11c5
SC
3765SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3766 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3767
4c04137d 3768SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3769
3770SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3771
3772SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3773
3774SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3775
3776SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3777
3778SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3779
1005d00e
TK
3780TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3781
3782TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3783 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3784 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3785
3786TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3787 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3788 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3789 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3790
9b4768fa
PH
3791PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3792 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3793 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3794
3795PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3796 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3797 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3798 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3799
0d7eb84a
PH
3800PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3801 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3802 to be made).
3803
3804PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3805 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3806 should work with maildirs and everything.
3807
40727bee
TK
3808TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3809 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3810
554d2369
TF
3811TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3812 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3813
1f922db1
PH
3814PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3815 function for BDB 4.3.
3816
ef213c3b
PH
3817PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3818
8ac170f3
PH
3819PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3820 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3821 involved.
3822
b1c749bb
PH
3823PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3824 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3825 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3826 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3827 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3828 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3829
4aac9b49
PH
3830PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3831 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3832 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3833 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3834 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3835 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3836 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3837 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3838
294520c8
TK
3839TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3840 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3841 details.
3842
5bd022fe
PH
3843PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3844 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3845
90e9ce59
PH
3846PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3847 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3848 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3849 test. It is now used for both.
3850
5ea81592
PH
3851PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3852 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3853 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3854 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3855 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3856 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3857
c6c2dc1d
PH
3858PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3859 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3860 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3861 string_vformat().
3862
fffffe4c
PH
3863PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3864 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3865 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3866
9a26b6b2
PH
3867PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3868 experimental DomainKeys support:
3869
3870 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3871 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3872 the control was given.
3873
3874 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3875
4aee0225
PH
3876PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3877
32d668a5
PH
3878PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3879
8187c3f3
PH
3880PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3881 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3882 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3883 db.h files).
3884
ff790e47 3885PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3886 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3887 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3888 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3889 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3890 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3891 course.
ff790e47 3892
5417f6d1
PH
3893PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3894 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3895 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3896 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3897 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3898 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3899
59cf8544
PH
3900PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3901 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3902 do -d+all out of habit.
3903
e7ad8a65
PH
3904PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3905 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3906 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3907
ade42478
PH
3908PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3909 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3910 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3911 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3912 record types that Exim uses.
3913
182ad5cf
PH
3914PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3915 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3916 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3917 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3918 non-existent file that was broken.
3919
b0d9fc80
TK
3920TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3921 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3922
3923TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3924 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3925 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3926
3927TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3928
47c7a64a
PH
3929PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3930 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3931 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3932 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3933 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3934 same time.
3935
a388bce4
SC
3936SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3937 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3938 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3939 at a slight CPU cost.
3940
3941SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3942 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3943
3944SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3945 by Marc Sherman.
3946
0793e4ed
SC
3947SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3948
c58b88df
PH
3949PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3950 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3951
e7ad8a65 3952
7982096b
PH
3953Exim version 4.51
3954-----------------
3955
1a46a8c5
PH
3956TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3957 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3958
2f079f46 3959TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3960
3961TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3962
3963PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3964 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3965
3966PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3967 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3968 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3969 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3970 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3971 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3972 file.
3973
3974PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3975 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3976 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3977 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3978 these two options.
3979
3980PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3981 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3982 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3983 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3984 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3985 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3986 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3987 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3988
3989PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3990 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3991
3992PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3993 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3994 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3995 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3996 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3997 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3998
3999PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4000 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4001 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4002 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4003
4004PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4005 Finch).
4006
4007PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4008 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4009
49c2d5ea
PH
4010PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4011 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4012 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4013 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4014 message.
49c2d5ea 4015
bf759a8b
PH
4016PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4017
83364d30
PH
4018PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4019 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4020
7999bbd7
PH
4021PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4022 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4023 to what was transported.)
4024
7dbf77c9
PH
4025TF/01 Added $received_time.
4026
74e0617f
PH
4027PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4028 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4029 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4030 spamd_address settings.
4031
2f079f46
PH
4032PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4033 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4034 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4035 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4036 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4037
8c841523
PH
4038PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4039
7766a4f0
PH
4040PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4041 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4042 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4043 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4044 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4045
8b417f2c
PH
4046PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4047 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4048
901f42cb
PH
4049PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4050 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4051 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4052 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4053 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4054 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4055 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4056 for failure.
4057
f9b9210e
PH
4058PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4059 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4060 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4061 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4062 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4063 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4064 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4065 "input=".
4066
54cdb463
PH
4067PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4068
cf00dad6
PH
4069PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4070 driver and ACL definitions.
4071
acb1b346
PH
4072PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4073 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4074
c5ddb310
PH
4075PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4076 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4077 understands it better than I do:
4078
4079 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4080 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4081
4082 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4083 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4084 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4085 => three warnings about OTP not working
4086 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4087
4088 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4089 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4090 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4091 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4092 for each call.)
4093 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4094 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4095
4096 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4097 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4098 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4099
31619da6
PH
4100PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4101 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4102 specified.
4103
bebaf0fc
PH
4104PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4105 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4106 "Linux".
4107
475fe28a
PH
4108PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4109 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4110 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4111
4112 warn !verify = sender
4113 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4114
4115 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4116 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4117
7e8bec7a
PH
4118PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4119
4120 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4121 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4122
4123 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4124 nomenclature these days.)
4125
e4a89c47
PH
4126PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4127 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4128
5ca2a9a1
PH
4129PH/30 In these circumstances:
4130 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4131 . First host does not offer TLS;
4132 . First host accepts first address;
4133 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4134 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4135 . Second host accepts second address.
4136 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4137 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4138 address.
7e8bec7a 4139
c688b954
PH
4140PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4141 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4142 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4143 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4144 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4145
fed77020
PH
4146PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4147 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4148
7fe1560f
PH
4149PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4150 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4151
ebb6e6d5
PH
4152PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4153 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4154 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4155
9c4e8f60
PH
4156PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4157 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4158 overlooked.
4159
4160PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4161
d7174846
PH
4162PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4163 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4164 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4165 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4166 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4167 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4168 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4169
4170 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4171 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4172 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4173 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4174 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4175
4176 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4177 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4178 routed further.
4179
cfe75fc3
PH
4180PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4181 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4182 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4183 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4184 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4185 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4186
be22d70e
PH
4187PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4188
0612b098
PH
4189PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4190 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4191 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4192 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4193 printable escape sequences.
4194
2e0c1448
PH
4195PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4196 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4197 body only.
4198
447d236c
PH
4199PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4200 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4201 are as follows:
4202
4203 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4204 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4205 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4206 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4207 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4208
4209 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4210 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4211 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4212
d20976dc
PH
4213PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4214
f656d135
PH
4215PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4216 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4217 play with."
4218
2e2a30b4
PH
4219PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4220 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4221 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4222 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4223 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4224 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4225 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4226 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4227 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4228 the log output.
4229
9176e9f0
PH
4230PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4231 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4232 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4233 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4234 "make".
4235
7982096b 4236
bbe902f0
PH
4237A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4238----------------------------------------
4239
4240Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4241changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4242needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4243in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4244that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4245release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4246from 4.43.
4247
4248I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
42494.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4250those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4251historical information.
4252
4253
f7b63901 4254Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4255-----------------
4256
5fe762f6
PH
4257 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4258
139059f6 4259 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4260 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4261
7086e875
PH
4262 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4263 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4264 place.
4265
35af9f61
PH
4266 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4267 filter fails to execute.
4268
b668c215
PH
4269 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4270 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4271 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4272 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4273 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4274
a494b1e1
PH
4275 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4276
4277 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4278 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4279 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4280 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4281
c5fcb476
PH
4282 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4283 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4284 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4285 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4286 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4287
69358f02
PH
4288 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4289
5be20824
PH
429010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4291
eb2c0248
PH
429211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4293 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4294 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4295 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4296
2a3eea10
PH
429712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4298 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4299 sender verification.
4300
430113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4302 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4303
23c7ff99
PH
430414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4305
4deaf07d
PH
430615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4307 connection timeout.
4308
926e1192
PH
430916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4310 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4311
650edc6f
PH
431217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4313 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4314
2c7db3f5
PH
431518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4316 information about exactly what failed.
4317
3d235903
PH
431819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4319
7c7ad977
PH
432020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4321 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4322 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4323
981756db
PH
432421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4325 It is now set to "smtps".
4326
d4eb88df
PH
432722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4328 ignore_target_hosts.
4329
433023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4331 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4332 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4333 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4334 "[x.x.x.x]".
4335
7d468ab8
PH
433624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4337 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4338 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4339
434025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4341 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4342 wake it up if nothing else does.
4343
62c0818f
PH
434426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4345 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4346 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4347 end up negative.
4348
26034054
PH
434927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4350 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4351
af66f652
PH
435228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4353
90af77f4
PH
435429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4355 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4356 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4357 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4358 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4359 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4360 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4361 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4362
d8ef3577
PH
436330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4364 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4365 than one IP address.
4366
5cb8cbc6
PH
436731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4368 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4369 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4370 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4371
14702f5b
PH
437232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4373 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4374 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4375 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4376 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4377 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4378
063b1e99
PH
437933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4380 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4381 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4382 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4383
652e1b65
PH
438434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4385 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4386 respected.
4387
6f0c9a4f
PH
438835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4389 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4390 $sender_host_address.
4391
33397d19
PH
439236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4393 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4394 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4395 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4396 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4397 very small.
4398
7bb56e1f
PH
439937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4400
4401 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4402 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4403
ea3bc19b
PH
4404 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4405 just the host names, not the priorities.
4406
4407 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4408 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4409 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4410
ea3bc19b 4411 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4412 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4413
0bcb2a0e
PH
441438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4415 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4416 domain.
4417
2ac0e484
PH
441839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4419
4e1fde53
PH
442040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4421 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4422
de365ded
PH
442341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4424 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4425 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4426
f05da2e8
PH
442742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4428
d6453af2
PH
442943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4430
f7b63901
PH
443144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4432
443345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4434 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4435 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4436 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4437 because the tests only now provoked it.
4438
a444213a
PH
443946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4440 (this can affect the format of dates).
4441
0ec020ea
PH
444247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4443 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4444 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4445 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4446
b1206957
PH
444748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4448
444949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4450 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4451 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4452 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4453
26dd5a95
PH
445450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4455 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4456 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4457
343b2385
PH
445851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4459 autoreply.
4460
1c5466b9
PH
446152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4462 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4463 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4464 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4465 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4466 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4467 is going on).
4468
55ee9ee3
PH
446953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4470 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4471 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4472 the line.
4473
d38f8232
PH
447454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4475 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4476 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4477
4478 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4479 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4480 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4481 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4482 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4483 so I produce this patch..."
4484
3295e65b
PH
4485 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4486 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4487 is not defined.
4488
7102e136
PH
448955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4490 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4491 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4492 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4493 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4494
3ca0ba97
PH
449556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4496
c2bcbe20
PH
449757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4498 long debug lines gets shown.
4499
18ce445d
PH
450058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4501 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4502
1f5b4c3d
PH
450359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4504
4505 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4506 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4507 of $primary_hostname.
4508
b975ba52
PH
450960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4510 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4511 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4512 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4513 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4514 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4515 by change 4.50/55 above.
4516
4517 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4518 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4519 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4520 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4521 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4522 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4523 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4524
452561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4526 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4527 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4528 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4529
17ffcae7
PH
453062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4531 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4532
d95f9fdb
PH
453363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4534 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4535 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4536 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4537 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4538
86b8287f
PH
453964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4540 This has been fixed.
4541
60dc5e56
PH
454265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4543 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4544 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4545 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4546 the caching.)
4547
533244af
PH
454866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4549
a5a28604
PH
455067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4551 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4552 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4553 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4554
7e634d24
PH
455568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4556 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4557
3e11c26b
PH
455869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4559 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4560 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4561
6729cf78
PH
456270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4563 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4564 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4565 message there.
4566
00f00ca5
PH
456771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4568 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4569 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4570
c9bdd01c
PH
457172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4572 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4573 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4574 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4575
d43194df
PH
457673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4577 during host lookups.
4578
fe5b5d0b
PH
457974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4580 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4581
4582 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4583
76a2d7ba
PH
458475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4585 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4586 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4587 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4588 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4589 background.
4590
459176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4592 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4593
04f7d5b9
PH
459477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4595 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4596 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4597
bc60667e
PH
459878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4599
bb6e88ff
PH
460079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4601 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4602 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4603 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4604 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4605 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4606 process earlier.
4607
1e70f85b
PH
460880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4609 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4610 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4611 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4612 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4613
461481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4615 tables).
4616
4e01f9d6
PH
461782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4618
1ee1cef2
PH
461983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4620 "vacation" handling.
4621
6e2b4ccc
PH
462284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4623 OS variants using glibc.
4624
8e669ac1
PH
462585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4626
495ae4b0 4627
bbe902f0
PH
4628----------------------------------------------------
4629See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4630----------------------------------------------------
4631
4632
4633Exim version 4.44
4634-----------------
4635
4636 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4637 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4638 transport
4639
4640 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4641 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4642 place.
4643
4644 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4645 filter fails to execute.
4646
4647 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4648 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4649 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4650 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4651 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4652
4653 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4654 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4655 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4656 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4657
4658 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4659 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4660 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4661 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4662 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4663
4664 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4665
4666 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4667 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4668 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4669 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4670
4671 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4672 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4673 sender verification.
4674
467510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4676 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4677
467811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4679 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4680
468112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4682 ignore_target_hosts.
4683
468413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4685 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4686 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4687 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4688 "[x.x.x.x]".
4689
469014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4691 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4692 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4693
469415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4695 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4696 wake it up if nothing else does.
4697
469816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4699 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4700 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4701 end up negative.
4702
470317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4704 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4705
ea3a6f44 470618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4707
470819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4709 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4710 empty pattern.
4711
471220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4713 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4714 one IP address.
4715
ea3a6f44
NM
471621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4717 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4718 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4719 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4720 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4721 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4722
ea3a6f44
NM
472322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4724 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4725 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4726
472723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4728 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4729 $sender_host_address.
4730
473124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4732
ea3a6f44
NM
473325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4734 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4735 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4736
473726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4738 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4739
ea3a6f44
NM
474027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4741 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4742
ea3a6f44
NM
474328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4744 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4745 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4746 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4747
474829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4749 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4750 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4751
ea3a6f44
NM
475230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4753 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4754 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4755 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4756
ea3a6f44
NM
475731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4758 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4759 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4760
ea3a6f44
NM
476131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4762 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4763
ea3a6f44
NM
476432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4765 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4766 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4767 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4768 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4769 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4770 is going on).
bbe902f0 4771
ea3a6f44
NM
477233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4773 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4774 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4775 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4776 CAN-2005-0021
4777
ea3a6f44
NM
477834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4779 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4780 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4781 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4782 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4783 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4784 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4785
4786 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4787 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4788 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4789 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4790 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4791 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4792 CAN-2005-0021
4793
ea3a6f44
NM
479435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4795 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4796 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4797 CAN-2005-0022
4798
ea3a6f44
NM
479936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4800 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4801 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4802 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4803 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4804
ea3a6f44
NM
480537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4806 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4807 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4808 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4809 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4810
ea3a6f44
NM
481138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4812 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4813 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4814 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4815 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4816
4817
495ae4b0
PH
4818Exim version 4.43
4819-----------------
4820
4821 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4822 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4823 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4824 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4825 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4826 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4827 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4828
4829 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4830 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4831 the delivery.
4832
4833 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4834
4835 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4836
4837 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4838 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4839 to local_scan().
4840
4841 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4842 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4843 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4844 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4845 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4846
4847 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4848 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4849
4850 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4851
4852 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4853
485410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4855 header_sender only.
4856
485711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4858 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4859
486012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4861 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4862 affecting debugging statements).
4863
486413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4865
486614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4867 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4868 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4869 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4870 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4871 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4872 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4873 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4874 after the received time, and all would be well.
4875
487615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4877 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4878 condition in an expansion string.
4879
488016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4881
488217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4883 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4884 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4885 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4886 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4887 job under whatever limits there are.
4888
488918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4890
489119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4892 space).
4893
489420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4895 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4896 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4897 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4898 return path is set.
4899
490021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4901 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4902 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4903 binary data in such strings.
4904
490522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4906
490723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4908 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4909 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4910 failure, which is pointless.
4911
491224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4913
491425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4915
491626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4917 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4918 Sender: header lines.
4919
492027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4921 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4922 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4923
492428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4925 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4926 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4927 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4928 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4929 happens.
4930
493129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4932 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4933 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4934 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4935 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4936
493730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4938 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4939 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4940 1024.
4941
494231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4943 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4944
494532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4946 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4947
494833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4949
495032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4951
495233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4953
495434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4955 syntax error.
4956
495735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4958
495936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4960
496137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4962 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4963 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4964 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4965
496638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4967 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4968
4969
4970Exim version 4.42
4971-----------------
4972
4973 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4974 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4975 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4976 it was not quoted.
4977 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4978 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4979 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4980 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4981 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4982 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4983
4984 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4985 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4986 verification failure".
4987
4988 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4989 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4990 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4991 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4992
4993 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4994 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4995 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4996 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4997 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4998 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4999 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5000 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5001 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5002 treated as a timeout.
5003
5004 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5005 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5006 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5007 not set for Exim filters).
5008
5009 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5010 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5011 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5012
5013 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5014
5015 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5016 try to make them clearer.
5017
5018 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5019 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5020
5021 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5022
5023 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5024
502510. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5026 only the Cygwin environment.
5027
502811. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5029 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5030 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5031 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5032 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5033
503412. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5035 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5036 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5037 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5038 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5039 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5040 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5041
504213. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5043 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5044
504514. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5046
5047 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5048 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5049 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5050
5051 To: susanne@some.where
5052
5053 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5054 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5055 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5056 of addresses in From: header lines).
5057
5058 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5059 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5060 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5061
5062 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5063 treated as non-personal.
5064
5065 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5066 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5067
506815. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5069
507016. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5071
507217. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5073 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5074 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5075
507618. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5077 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5078
507919. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5080 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5081 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5082 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5083 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5084 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5085
508620. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5087 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5088 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5089 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5090 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5091 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5092 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5093 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5094
5095 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5096
509721. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5098 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5099
510022. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5101 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5102 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5103
510423. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5105 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5106
510724. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5108 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5109 rather than long int.
5110
511125. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5112
511326. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5114
5115
5116Exim version 4.41
5117-----------------
5118
5119 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5120 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5121 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5122 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5123 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5124 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5125
5126
5127Exim version 4.40
5128-----------------
5129
5130 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5131 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5132
5133 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5134 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5135 socklen_t is defined.
5136
5137 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5138 always exist.
5139
5140 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5141 configured.
5142
5143 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5144 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5145 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5146 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5147 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5148
5149 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5150 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5151 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5152 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5153
5154 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5155 of flapping under certain conditions.
5156
5157 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5158 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5159 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5160
5161 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5162
516310. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5164
516511. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5166 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5167 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5168 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5169
517012. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5171 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5172 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5173 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5174 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5175 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5176 preserved with the message after it was received.
5177
517813. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5179 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5180 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5181 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5182 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5183 test suite worked just fine.
5184
518514. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5186 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5187 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5188
518915. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5190 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5191 string.
5192
519316. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5194 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5195 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5196 does not fully solve it.
5197
519817. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5199 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5200 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5201 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5202 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5203
520418. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5205 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5206 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5207
520819. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5209 string, for example:
5210
5211 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5212
5213 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5214 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5215 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5216 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5217 the routers could not see them.
5218
521920. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5220 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5221
522221. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5223 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5224 output).
5225
522622. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5227 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5228 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5229 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5230 that needed quoting.
5231
523223. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5233 was not being matched caselessly.
5234
523524. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5236 backslashes.
5237
523825. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5239 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5240 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5241 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5242 when use_sender is false.
5243
524426. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5245
524627. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5247
524828. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5249
525029. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5251 the configuration file.
5252
525330. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5254 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5255
525631. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5257
525832. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5259 bytes in the message body.
5260
526133. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5262 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5263 delivery.
5264
526534. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5266
526735. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5268
526936. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5270 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5271 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5272 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5273 another IP address.
5274
5275
5276Exim version 4.34
5277-----------------
5278
5279 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5280 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5281
5282 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5283 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5284 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5285 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5286 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5287
5288 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5289 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5290
5291 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5292 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5293 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5294
5295 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5296 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5297 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5298
5299 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5300 for routers.
5301
5302 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5303 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5304 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5305 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5306 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5307 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5308 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5309
5310
5311Exim version 4.33
5312-----------------
5313
5314 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5315 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5316 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5317 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5318 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5319 default (and expected) setting.
5320
5321 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5322 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5323 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5324 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5325
5326 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5327 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5328
5329 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5330 in domain lists.
5331
5332 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5333 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5334 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5335 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5336 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5337 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5338
5339 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5340 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5341 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5342
5343 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5344 part (NOT match_host).
5345
5346 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5347
5348 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5349 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5350 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5351 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5352 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5353 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5354 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5355 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5356 the same named file.
5357
535810. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5359 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5360 when Exim is built.
5361
536211. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5363 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5364 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5365 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5366 a host name.
5367
536812. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5369 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5370 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5371
537213. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5373
537414. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5375
537615. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5377
537816. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5379 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5380
538117. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5382 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5383 before starting the TLS session.
5384
538518. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5386
538719. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5388 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5389
539020. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5391 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5392 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5393 colon in the middle).
5394
5395
5396Exim version 4.32
5397-----------------
5398
5399 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5400 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5401 multiple configurations are in use.
5402
5403 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5404 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5405 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5406 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5407 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5408 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5409
5410 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5411 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5412
5413 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5414 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5415 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5416
5417 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5418 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5419 occurs.
5420
5421 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5422 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5423
5424 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5425
5426 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5427 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5428
5429 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5430
5431 -prval:sval
5432
5433 is equivalent to
5434
5435 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5436
5437 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5438 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5439 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5440 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5441 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5442
544310. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5444 Exim's behaviour:
5445
5446 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5447 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5448 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5449 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5450 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5451 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5452
5453 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5454 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5455 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5456 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5457 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5458 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5459 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5460 string.
5461
5462 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5463 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5464 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5465 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5466 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5467
546811. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5469
547012. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5471 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5472 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5473
547413. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5475
547614. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5477 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5478 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5479 information.
5480
548115. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5482 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5483
548416. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5485 Three changes have been made:
5486
5487 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5488 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5489 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5490 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5491 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5492
5493 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5494 been restored.
5495
5496 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5497 the modified behaviour.
5498
5499
5500Exim version 4.31
5501-----------------
5502
5503 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5504 Larry Rosenman.
5505
5506 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5507 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5508
5509 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5510 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5511 try to track down a specific problem.
5512
5513 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5514 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5515 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5516
5517 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5518 warning.
5519
5520 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5521 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5522 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5523 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5524 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5525 some earlier ones do not.
5526
5527 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5528
5529 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5530 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5531 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5532 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5533 address literals are enabled, of course).
5534
5535 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5536
553710. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5538 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5539 by a command such as
5540
5541 exim -f "" ...
5542
5543 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5544
554511. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5546
554712. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5548 remained set. It is now erased.
5549
555013. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5551 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5552
555314. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5554 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5555 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5556 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5557 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5558 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5559 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5560 appropriate error code.
5561
556215. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5563 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5564 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5565 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5566 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5567 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5568
556916. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5570 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5571 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5572
557317. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5574 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5575 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5576 terminate the header.
5577
557818. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5579 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5580 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5581
558219. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5583 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5584 (4.30/29). In particular:
5585
5586 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5587 imposed.
5588
5589 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5590 to write a maildirsize file.
5591
5592 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5593 the transport, the new value overrides.
5594
5595 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5596 count.
5597
559820. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5599 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5600 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5601 space or a tab.
5602
560321. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5604 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5605 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5606 the fallback hosts.
5607
560822. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5609 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5610 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5611
561223. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5613 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5614 using a union.
5615
561624. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5617 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5618 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5619
562025. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5621
562226. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5623
562427. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5625
562628. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5627 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5628 become corrupted.
5629
563029. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5631 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5632 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5633 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5634 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5635 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5636 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5637 too great.
5638
563930. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5640 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5641 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5642 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5643 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5644 incorrectly.
5645
564631. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5647 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5648 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5649 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5650 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5651 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5652 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5653 cached value only when the same options are set.
5654
565532. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5656
565733. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5658 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5659 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5660 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5661 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5662
566334: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5664 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5665 it is clearly obsolete.
5666
566735. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5668 transport.
5669
567036. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5671 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5672 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5673 times.
5674
567537. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5676 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5677 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5678 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5679 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5680
568138. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5682 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5683 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5684 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5685
568639. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5687
5688 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5689
5690 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5691 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5692 2^31.
5693
569440. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5695 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5696 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5697 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5698 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5699 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5700 $localpart_data.
5701
570241. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5703 with the -f command-line option.
5704
570542. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5706 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5707 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5708 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5709 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5710 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5711
571243. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5713 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5714 line.
5715
571644. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5717 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5718 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5719 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5720 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5721 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5722 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5723 buffer is too small.
5724
572545. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5726 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5727
572846. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5729 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5730 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5731 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5732 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5733 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5734 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5735 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5736 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5737
573847. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5739 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5740 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5741
574248. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5743 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5744 ACL").
5745
574649. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5747 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5748 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5749 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5750 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5751
575250. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5753 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5754 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5755 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5756 is set.
5757
575851. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5759
576052. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5761
576253. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5763 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5764
576554. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5766 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5767 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5768
576955. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5770 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5771 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5772 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5773 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5774
577556. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5776 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5777 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5778 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5779 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5780 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5781 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5782
578357. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5784 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5785 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5786 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5787 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5788 the test of how many are available.
5789
579058. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5791 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5792 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5793 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
5794 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5795 new message is started.
5796
579759. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5798 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5799
580060. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5801 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5802
580361. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5804 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5805 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5806 is no long logged.
5807
580862. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5809 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5810 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5811 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5812 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5813 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5814 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5815
581663. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5817 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5818 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5819 interpreted as octal.
5820
582164. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5822 setting.
5823
582465. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5825 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5826 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5827 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5828 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5829 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5830
583166. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5832 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5833 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5834 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5835
5836 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5837 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5838 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5839 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5840
5841 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5842 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5843 is a bug fix.
5844
5845 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5846 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5847
584867. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5849
585068. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5851 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5852 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5853 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5854
585569. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5856 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5857 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5858 supplied", which is not helpful.
5859
586070. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5861 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5862 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5863
586471. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5865 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5866 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5867 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5868 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5869 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5870 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5871 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5872
587372. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5874 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5875 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5876 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5877 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5878
587973. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5880 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5881 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5882 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5883 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5884 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5885
588674. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5887 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5888 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5889
589075. Added write_rejectlog option.
5891
589276. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5893 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5894 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5895 variables.
5896
589777. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5898
589978. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5900 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5901 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5902 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5903 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5904 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5905 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5906 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5907
590879. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5909 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5910 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5911 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5912 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5913
591480. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5915 Haardt.
5916
591781. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5918 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5919 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5920 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5921 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5922 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5923 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5924 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5925 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5926
5927
5928Exim version 4.30
5929-----------------
5930
5931 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5932 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5933 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5934
5935 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5936 fixed.
5937
5938 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5939 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5940 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5941
5942 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5943 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5944 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5945 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5946 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5947 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5949 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5950 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5951 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5952 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5953 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5954 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5955 the Exim test suite.
5956
5957 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5958 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5959 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5960 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5961
5962 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5963 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5964 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5965 specify it in this variable.
5966
5967 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5968 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5969 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5970 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5971
5972 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5973 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5974 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5975 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5976
5977 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5978 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5979 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5980 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5981 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5982
5983 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5984
598510. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5986 they are logged.
5987
598811. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5989 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5990 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5991 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5992 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5993
599412. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5995 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5996
599713. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5998 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 5999 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6000 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6001 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6002
600314. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6004 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6005
600615. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6007 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6008 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6009
601016. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6011 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6012
601317. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6014 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6015
601618. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6017 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6018 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6019
602019. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6021 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6022
602320. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6024 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6025 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6026 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6027
602821. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6029
603022. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6031 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6032 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6033 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6034
603523. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6036
603724. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6038 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6039
604025. Added .include_if_exists.
6041
604226. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6043 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6044 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6045 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6046 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6047 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6048
604927. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6050
605128. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6052 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6053 this.
6054
605529. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6056
605730. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6058 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6059
6060 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6061 550 Sender verify failed
6062
6063 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6064 the final line of the response.
6065
606631. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6067 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6068 all other user lookups.
6069
607032. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6071 delivery time.
6072
607333. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6074 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6075 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6076 result into an int without checking.
6077
607834. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6079 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6080 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6081
608235. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6083 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6084 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6085 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6086
608736. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6088 correctly.
6089
609037. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6091 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6092
609338. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6094 to the empty sender.
6095
609639. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6097 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6098 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6099 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6100 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6101 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6102 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6103 panic log.
6104
610540. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6106 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6107 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6108 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6109 used.
6110
611141. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6112 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6113
611442. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6115 timestamps.
6116
611743. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6118 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6119
612044. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6121
612245. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6123 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6124 logs.
6125
612646. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6127 as soon as it is encountered.
6128
612947. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6130
613148. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6132 rewritten to "<>".
6133
613449. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6135 recognizes a tab character.
6136
613750. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6138 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6139 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6140 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6141
614251. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6143
614452. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6145 crash.
6146
614753. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6148
614954. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6150
615155. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6152 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6153 2822.
6154
615556. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6156 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6157 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6158 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6159 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6160
616157. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6162 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6163
616458. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6165 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6166 list (.included file names were always shown).
6167
616859. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6169 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6170 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6171 root at that time.
6172
617360. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6174 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6175
617661. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6177
617862. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6179
618063. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6181
618264. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6183 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6184 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6185 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6186 failures to open the logs.
6187
618865. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6189 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6190 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6191 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6192 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6193 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6194 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6195
6196
6197Exim version 4.24
6198-----------------
6199
6200 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6201 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6202 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6203 change 4.23/1.
6204
6205 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6206 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6207 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6208
6209 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6210 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6211 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6212
6213 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6214 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6215 causing some misleading effects.
6216
6217 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6218 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6219 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6220
6221 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6222 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6223 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6224 queue-runner function directly.
6225
6226
6227Exim version 4.23
6228-----------------
6229
6230 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6231 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6232
6233 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6234 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6235 was always written to the default place.
6236
6237 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6238 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6239 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6240
6241 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6242
6243 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6244
6245 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6246 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6247 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6248
6249 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6250 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6251 must start.
6252
6253 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6254 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6255 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6256
6257 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6258 command line option is disabled.
6259
6260 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6261 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6262
6263 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6264
6265 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6266
6267 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6268 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6269
627010. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6271
627211. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6273 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6274 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6275 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6276 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6277 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6278
627912. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6280 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6281 timeout.
6282
628313. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6284 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6285
628614. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6287 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6288
628915. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6290 received was valid base64.
6291
629216. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6293 name of the variable that was being set.
6294
629517. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6296
629718. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6298 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6299 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6300 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6301 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6302 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6303
630419. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6305
630620. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6307 nor realm was specified.
6308
630921. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6310 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6311 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6312 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6313
631422. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6315 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6316 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6317
631823. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6319 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6320 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6321
632224. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6323 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6324 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6325 some systems use these upper case variants.
6326
632725. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6328 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6329 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6330 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6331
633226. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6333
633427. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6335 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6336
633728. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6338 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6339 expansion variable.
6340
634129. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6342
634330. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6344 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6345 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6346 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6347
634831. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6349 using it.
6350
635132. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6352 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6353 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6354
635533. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6356 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6357
635834. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6359 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6360 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6361 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6362
636335. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6364 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6365 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6366
636736. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6368
636937. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6370 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6371 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6372 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6373 aborted.
6374
637538. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6376 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6377 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6378
637939. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6380
638140. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6382 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6383
638441. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6385 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6386
638742. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6388 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6389 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6390 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6391 when emails are that large.
6392
6393
6394
6395Exim version 4.22
6396-----------------
6397
6398 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6399 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6400
6401 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6402 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6403 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6404
6405 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6406 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6407 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6408
6409 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6410 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6411 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6412 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6413 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6414
6415 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6416 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6417 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6418 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6419 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6420 ever.
6421
6422 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6423 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6424 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6425 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6426 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6427 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6428 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6429 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6430 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6431 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6432 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6433 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6434 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6435 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6436
6437 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6438 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6439 parameterised it.
6440
6441 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6442 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6443 error should be diagnosed.
6444
6445 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6446 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6447 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6448 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6449 appeared instead of "NULL".
6450
645110. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6452 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6453 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6454 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6455 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6456 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6457 proceeds).
6458
6459 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6460 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6461 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6462
6463
6464Exim version 4.21
6465-----------------
6466
6467 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6468 or receiver verification errors.
6469
6470 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6471 name.
6472
6473 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6474 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6475 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6476 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6477
6478 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6479 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6480 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6481 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6482 shouldn't happen again.
6483
6484 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6485 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6486 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6487
6488 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6489 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6490
6491 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6492
6493 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6494 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6495
6496 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6497 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6498 RFC.
6499
650010. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6501 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6502 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6503
650411. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6505 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6506 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6507 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6508
650912. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6510 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6511 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6512 to define what should happen).
6513
651413. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6515 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6516 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6517
651814. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6519
652015. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6521
652216. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6523 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6524
4c04137d 652517. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6526 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6527 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6528 structure in all cases.
6529
6530 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6531 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6532 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6533 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6534
653518. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6536 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6537 domain name.
6538
653919. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6540 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6541
654220. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6543 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6544
654521. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6546 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6547 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6548
654922. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6550 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6551 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6552
655323. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6554 the book and for uniformity.
6555
655624. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6557
655825. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6559 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6560 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6561 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6562 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6563 non-existent command as the problem.
6564
656526. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6566 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6567 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6568
656927. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6570
657128. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6572 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6573 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6574
657529. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6576 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6577 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6578 timestamps using strftime().
6579
658030. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6581 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6582
658332. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6584 transport-time rewrites.
6585
658633. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6587 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6588 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6589 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6590
659134. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6592 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6593
659435. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6595 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6596 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6597 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6598 comma and a space.
6599
660036. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6601 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6602 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6603 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6604 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6605 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6606 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6607
660837. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6609 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6610 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6611 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6612 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6613
661438. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6615 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6616 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6617 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6618 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6619 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6620 remaining text gets split now.
6621
662239. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6623 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6624 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6625 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6626
662740. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6628 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6629 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6630 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6631 $return_path.
6632
663341. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6634 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6635 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6636 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6637 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6638 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6639 passed through if needed.
6640
664142. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6642 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6643 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6644 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6645 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6646 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6647
664843. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6649 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6650 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6651 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6652 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6653
665444. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6655 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6656 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6657 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6658 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6659
666045. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6661 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6662 noticed.
6663
666446. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6665 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6666 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6667 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6668 mayhem of various kinds.
6669
667047. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6671 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6672 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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6673 the right test for positive values.
6674
667548. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6676 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6677 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6678 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6679 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6680 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6681 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6682 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6683 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6684 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6685 envelope.
6686
668749. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6688 module.
6689
669050. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6691 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6692 forbidding it.
6693
669451. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6695 the existing equality matching.
6696
669752. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6698 dealing with inode numbers.
6699
670053. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6701 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6702 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6703
670454. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6705 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6706 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6707 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6708 local_scan().
6709
671055. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6711 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6712 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6713 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6714 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6715 relay addresses has also been removed.
6716
671756. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6718
671957. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6720 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6721 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6722
672358. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6724 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6725 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6726 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6727 processing applies to CR:
6728
6729 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6730 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6731
6732 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6733 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6734 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6735 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6736
673759. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6738 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6739 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6740
674160. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6742 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6743 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6744 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6745 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6746 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6747 arisen.
6748
674961. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6750 program routers.
6751
675262. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6753 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6754 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6755 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6756 adds:
6757
6758 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6759
6760 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6761
6762 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6763
676463. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6765 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6766 not considered personal.
6767
676864. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6769
677065. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6771
677266. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6773
677467. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6775 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6776 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6777 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6778 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6779 header lines, and spool format errors.
6780
678168. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6782 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6783 for more flexibility.
6784
678569. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6786 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6787 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6788
678970. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6790 Sabourenkov.
6791
679271. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6793 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6794 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6795 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6796 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6797 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6798 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6799 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6800 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6801
680272. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6803 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6804 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6805 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6806 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6807 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6808 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6809
681073. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6811 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6812 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6813
681474. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6815 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6816 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6817 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6818 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6819 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6820 instead of killing the process with assert().
6821
682275. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6823 than Unicode encoding.
6824
682576. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6826 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6827 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6828 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6829
683077. Added process_log_path.
6831
683278. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6833 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6834
683579. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6836 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6837
683880. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6839 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6840 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6841
684281. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6843 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6844 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6845 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6846 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6847 were applied:
6848
6849 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6850 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6851 as invalid.
6852
685382. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6854 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6855 they will be used during message reception.
6856
6857
6858Exim version 4.20
6859-----------------
6860
6861The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6862
6863****