DKIM: reinstate embedded Polarssl SHA routines under older GnuTLS. Bug 1772
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
8 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
9 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
10 client dropping the TLS connection.
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12TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
13 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
14
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15TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
16 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
17 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
18 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
19 outgoing I= field.
20
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21JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
22 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
23 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
24 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
25 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
26 check on the next write.
27
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28HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
29 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
30 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
31 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
32 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
33
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34JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
35 mime_regex ACL conditions.
36
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37JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
38 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
39 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
40
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41JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
42 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
43 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
44 an authenticate fail is not an error.
45
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46HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
47 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
48
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49JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
50 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
51
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52JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
53 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
54 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
55 distinct.
56
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57JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
58
59JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
60
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61JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
62
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63JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
64 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
65
98b98887 66JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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67 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
68
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69JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
70
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71JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
72 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
73
74JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
75
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76JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
77 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
78
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79JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
80
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81JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
82 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
83 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
84 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
85 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
86 they will retry in-clear.
87 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
88 at installation time.
89
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90HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
91 with the $config_file variable.
92
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93JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
94 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
95 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
96 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
97 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
98
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99GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
100 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
101 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
102 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
103 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
104
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105JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
106
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107JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
108 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
109 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
110 list order is no longer honoured.
111
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112JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
113 for DKIM processing.
114
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115JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
116 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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118JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
119 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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120 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
121 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 122
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123JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
124 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
125
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126JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
127 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
128
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129JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
130 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
131
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132JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
133
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134JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
135 cached by the daemon.
136
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137JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
138 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
139
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140JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
141 keys are given for lookup.
142
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143JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
144 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
145 only supported when built with TLS support.
146
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150JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
151 expanded.
152
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153JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
154
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155JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
156 it.
157
01a4a5c5 158JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 159 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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160 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
161 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
162
cb1d7830 163JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 164 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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165 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
166
610ff438 167JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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168 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
169 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
170 TLS connections
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172JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
173 sites use this now.
174
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175JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
176 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
177 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
178 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
179 have a dsn_lasthop option.
180
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181JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
182 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 183 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 184
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185JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
186
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187JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
188 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
189
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190JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
191 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
192
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193JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
194 /defer_ok option.
195
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196JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
197 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
198
fd4d8871 199JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 200 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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201 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
202
203JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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204 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
205 specify a port-range.
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207JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
208 timeout value per server.
209
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210JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
211 now have the list separator specified.
212
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213JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
214 option values.
215
82c0c8ea 216JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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217 under OpenSSL.
218
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219JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
220
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221JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
222 rather than the verbs used.
223
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224JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
225 from 255 to 1024 chars.
226
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227JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
228
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229HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
230 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 231
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232JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
233 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
234
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235HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
236 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
237
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238JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
239
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240JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
241
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242JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
243 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
244 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
245 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
246
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247JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
248
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249JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
250 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
251
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252JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
253 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
254
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255JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
256
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257JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
258
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259JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
260
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261JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
262 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
263
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264JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
265 added for tls authenticator.
266
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268Exim version 4.85
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270TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
271 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
272 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
273 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
274 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
275 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
276 the script parsing/test process like normal.
277
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278TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
279 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
280 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
281 function when detected.
282
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283JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
284 cause callback expansion.
285
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286TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
287 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
288 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
289 instead of bool when processing it.
290
0f06b4f2 291JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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292 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
293
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294JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
295
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296JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
297
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298TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
299
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300TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
301 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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303JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
304 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
305 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
306 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
307 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
308 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
309
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310JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
311 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
312 exceeded it.
313
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314JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
315 version 3.3.6 or later.
316
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317JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
318 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
319 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 320 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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321 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
322 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
323 option is defined.
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325TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
326 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
327
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328JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
329 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
330 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
331 matches.
332
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333JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
334 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
335 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
336
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337JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
338 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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339
340JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
341 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
342 syntax errors.
343
3394b36a 344JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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345
346JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
347 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
348
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349TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
350 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
351 tarball.
352
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353JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
354
355JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
356 Bug 1561.
357
358JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
359 output list separator was used.
360
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362Exim version 4.84
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364TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
365 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
366 return.
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368JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
369 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
370
371JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
372
373TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 374 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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379
380TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
381
382 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
383 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
384 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
385 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
386 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
387 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
388
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389TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
390 utilities have not been installed.
391
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392JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
393 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
394
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395TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
396 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
397
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398TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
399 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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400 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
401 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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403JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
404
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405TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
406 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
407
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408PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
409 not dns_use_dnssec.
410
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411JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
412
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413TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
414 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
415 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
416
8ddef691 417TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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418 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
419 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
420 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
421 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 422 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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424JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
425
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426JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
427 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
428
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429JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
430 failed delivery.
431
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432JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
433
511a6c14 434JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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435
436JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
437 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 438
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439JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
440 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
441
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442TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
443
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444JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
445
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446JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
447 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
448
449 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
450 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
451 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
452
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453TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
454 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
455 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
456 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 457
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458JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
459
8c51eead 460JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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461 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
462 lookup).
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464TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
465 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
466 Schlichting.
35aba663 467
fd3b6a4a 468JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 469 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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471TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
472 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
473
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474JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
475
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476TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
477 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
478 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
479
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480JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
481 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
482
44662487
JH
483JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
484 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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485 hosts_request_ocsp.
486
ed3bba5f 487JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 488 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 489 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 490
8ccd00b1
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491JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
492
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493TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
494 Christian Aistleitner.
495
f2de3a33
JH
496JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
497
6eb02f88
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498TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
499 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
500
00bff6f6
JH
501JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
502 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
503
071c51f7
JH
504JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
505 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
506
a6d4c44e
TF
507TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
508 support and error reporting did not work properly.
509
3ae173e7
ACK
510TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
511 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
512
c13d09b8
TL
513TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
514 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
515 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
516
0df4ab80
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517JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
518
66be95e0
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519PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
520 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
521 Jasper Wallace.
522
1bd0d12b
JH
523JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
524
0de7239e
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525TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
526 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
527 CVE-2014-2972
528
fd3b6a4a 529
2c422e6f 530Exim version 4.82
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531-----------------
532
533PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
534
12f69989
PP
535PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
536 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
537
54c90be1
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538PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
539 by GnuTLS.
540
1f4a55da
PP
541PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
542 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
543 routines.
544
13363eba 545PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 546
66645890 547PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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548 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
549 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
550 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
551 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 552
a3fb9793 553PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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554 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
555 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
556 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 557 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 558 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 559
d27f98fe 560TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 561
6822b909
TL
562TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
563
e7568d51
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564TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
565 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
566
ae0e32ee 567TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 568 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 569 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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570
571TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 572
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573TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
574
83712b39
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575TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
576 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
577
976b7e9f
JH
578JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
579
be4a1376
JH
580JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
581
ec4b68e5
PP
582PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
583
d7148a07
NM
584NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
585 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 586
585121e2 587JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 588
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589PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
590 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
591 function.
a5f239e4 592
13d08c90
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593PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
594 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
595
bef3ea7f
JH
596JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
597 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
598 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 599
846726c5
JH
600JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
601
3a796370
JH
602JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
603
ea722490 604JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
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605 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
606
b1b05573
JH
607JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
608 Bugzilla 884.
609
362145b5
JH
610JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
611 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
612
3c0a92dc
JH
613JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
614 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
615
6d7c6175
PP
616PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
617 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 618 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 619
6f123593
JH
620JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
621 authenticators.
622
c8e2fc1e
JH
623JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
624 for control.
625
005ac57f
PP
626PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
627
3f1df0e3
PP
628PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
629 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
630 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
631 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
632
67bd1ab3
TF
633TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
634
635 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
636 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
637 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
638 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
639 the retry rules.
640
641 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
642 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
643 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
644
645 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
646 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
647 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
648 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
649
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650 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
651 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
652 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
653 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
654 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
655 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
656 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
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657
658 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
659 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
660
326cdc37
TF
661TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
662
663 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
664
665 Resent-From: f
666
667 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
668 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
669 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
670 username as equal to the username.
671
672 This change corrects that bug.
673
f62514b3
GF
674GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
675 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
676 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
677
eb505532
TF
678TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
679
14c7b357
PP
680PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
681 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
682 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
683 NULL dereference and crash.
684
94eaf700
PP
685JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
686
6f5a440a
PP
687PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
688 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
689 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
690
514ee161
SC
691SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
692
fd98a5c6
JH
693JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
694 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
695 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
696 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
697 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
698 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
699 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
700 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
701 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
702 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
703 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
704
035c7f1e
PP
705PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
706 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
707
ff284120
PP
708PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
709 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
710 Bugzilla 880.
711
26e72755
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712PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
713 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
714 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
715 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
716 an empty string is now equivalent.
717
0fbd9bff
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718PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
719 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
720 not performing validation itself.
721
700d22f3
PP
722PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
723 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
724
fcc8e047
JH
725JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
726 Bugzilla 321, 823.
727
7142daca
PP
728TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
729
8c020188
PP
730PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
731 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
732 other false fix of the same issue.
733 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
734 Bugzilla 1363.
735
d13cdd30
PP
736PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
737 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
738
e2fbf4a2
PP
739PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
740 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
741 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
742
f4c1088b
PP
743PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
744 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
745 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
746
c5c2182f
PP
747TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
748
73431ca9
JH
749JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
750
2d07a215
TL
751TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
752 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
753
a30a8861
TL
754TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
755 Alexander Miroch.
756
33382dd9
TL
757TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
758 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
759 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
760 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
761 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 762
046172e6
TL
763TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
764 the src/util/ subdirectory.
765
581d7bee 766TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 767 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
768 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
769
770TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
771 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
772 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
773 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
774
237b2cf2
TL
775TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
776
9fc5a352
TL
777TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
778 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
779 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 780
b10e4ec2
TL
781TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
782
e2cebd74
TL
783TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
784 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
785 interaction.
786
787TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
788 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
789
2519e60d
TL
790TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
791 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
792
e78e6ecf 793
4263f395
PP
794Exim version 4.80.1
795-------------------
796
797PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
798 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 799 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 800
ea722490 801
b1770b6e 802Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
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804
805PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
806 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
807 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
808
23c7e742
NM
809NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
810
b322aac8
NM
811NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
812 improved.
813
4a891427
NM
814NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
815
c1e794ba 816PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 817
97753960
PP
818PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
819
820PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
821 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
822
df6303fa
PP
823PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
824 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
825
7e6a8985
PP
826PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
827 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
828
f1e05cc7 829PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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830 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
831 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 832
4c287009
PP
833PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
834
b98bb9ac
PP
835PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
836 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
837
4a6a987a
PP
838PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
839
c45dd180 840PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 841
7db8d074
PP
842PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
843 non-compliant senders.
844 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
845
eae0036b 846NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
847 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
848 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
849
dec5017e
PP
850PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
851 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
852 in spool file corruption.
853
c80c5570
PP
854PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
855 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
856 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
857 "Got SSL error 2".
858
076b11e2
PP
859TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
860 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
861 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
862
5407bfff
JH
863JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
864 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
865
9e45c72b
PP
866JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
867
e74376d8
PP
868PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
869 diagnostics.
870 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
871
da3ad30d
PP
872PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
873 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
874 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
875
7be682ca
PP
876PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
877 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
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878 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
879 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 880
ef840681
PP
881PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
882 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
883
5bfb4cdf
PP
884PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
885 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
886 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
887 resolver implementation change.
888
c6e95d22
PP
889PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
890 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
891
9cbad13b
PP
892PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
893
9ee44efb
PP
894PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
895
6a6084f8
PP
896PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
897 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
898
12dd53c7
PP
899PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
900 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
901
9e45c72b 902JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
903 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
904
17c76198
PP
905PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
906 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
907 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
908 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 909 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 910
53947857 911PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 912
eae0036b 913PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
914 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
915 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 916
9e45c72b 917JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 918
7390e768
PP
919PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
920 read-only, out of scope).
921 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
922
08488c86
PP
923PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
924 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
925 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
926 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
927
6475bd82
PP
928PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
929
81f91683
PP
930PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
931 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
932 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
933 real issues in debug logging.
934
5779e6aa
PP
935PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
936 assignment on my part. Fixed.
937
3375e053
PP
938PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
939 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
940 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
941
942PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
943 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
944 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
945 problems.
3375e053 946
9d26b8c0
PP
947PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
948 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
949
57eb9e91 950PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
951 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
952 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
953 needs to override this, it can.
954
16880d1a
PP
955PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
956 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
957 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
958
a799883d
PP
959PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
960 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
961 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
962 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
963
3ecab157 964PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 965
0599f9cf 966
867fcbf5
PP
967Exim version 4.77
968-----------------
969
970PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
971 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
972
f1a29782
TF
973TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
974
ab42bd23
TK
975TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
976 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 977
0ca0cf52
TF
978TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
979 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
980
921b12ca
TF
981TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
982 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
983 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
984
985 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
986 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
987 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
988 not safe for signals.
989
990 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
991 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
992 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
993 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
994 exiwhat.
995
c99ce5c9
TF
996TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
997
998 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
999 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1000 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1001 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1002 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1003
1004 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1005 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1006 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1007 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1008 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1009 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1010
1011 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1012 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1013 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1014 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1015
1016 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1017 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1018 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1019 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1020
1021 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1022 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1023 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1024 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1025 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1026 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1027 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1028 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1029 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1030
1031 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1032 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1033 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1034 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1035
1036 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1037 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1038 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1039 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1040 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1041 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1042 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1043 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1044 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1045 details in the main documentation.
1046
3634fc25
TF
1047TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1048
792e8a19
TF
1049TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1050
5901f0ab
TF
1051TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1052 repository when doing development or release builds.
1053
7f2a2a43
PP
1054PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1055 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1056
061b7ebd
PP
1057PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1058 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1059 Bugzilla 97.
1060
e12f8c32
PP
1061PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1062
9e949f00 1063PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1064 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1065
1066PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1067 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1068
555ae6af 1069PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1070 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1071
1072PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1073 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1074
6f7fe114
PP
1075PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1076 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1077
c566dd90
PP
1078PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1079 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1080 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1081 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1082
d6cc7c78 1083PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1084 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1085 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1086
0d0e4455
PP
1087PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1088
3399bb60 1089PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1090
1091PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1092 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1093
0ca0cf52 1094
10906672
PP
1095Exim version 4.76
1096-----------------
1097
1098PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1099
754a0503
PP
1100PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1101 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1102
c0c7b2da
PP
1103PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1104
e97d1f08
PP
1105PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1106
084c1d8c
PP
1107PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1108 Bugzilla 1098.
1109
4e7ee012
PP
1110PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1111 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1112
c8d52a00
PP
1113TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1114 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1115
54e7ce4a
PP
1116PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1117 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1118
5ee6f336
PP
1119PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1120 Bugzilla 1104.
1121
c8d52a00 1122TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1123 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1124
1125TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1126 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1127 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1128 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1129
1130PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1131 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1132
10906672 1133
aa097c4c
NM
1134Exim version 4.75
1135-----------------
1136
4c9ef03a 1137NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1138 Bugzilla 1073
1139
7f3d9eff
TF
1140TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1141 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1142 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1143
159f52d2
TF
1144TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1145 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1146
0cc9542a
PP
1147PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1148 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1149 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1150
f7274286
PP
1151PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1152 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1153
7b797365
PP
1154PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1155 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1156
caacae52
NM
1157NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1158 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1159
09dcaba9
NM
1160NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1161 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1162
bc19a55b
PP
1163PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1164 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1165
bd4c9759
NM
1166NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1167 Fixes bug 943.
1168
b72aab72
PP
1169PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1170 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1171
2fe76745
PP
1172PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1173 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1174
76aa570c
PP
1175PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1176 SQL string expansion failure details.
1177 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1178
f1e5fef5
PP
1179PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1180 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1181
4d805ee9
PP
1182PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1183 extern declarations in function scope.
1184 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1185
cd59ab18
PP
1186PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1187 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1188 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1189 a kernel bug).
1190
332f5cf3
PP
1191PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1192 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1193
29cfeb94
PP
1194PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1195 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1196
660242ad
PP
1197PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1198 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1199
bc4bc4c5
PP
1200PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1201 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1202
2e64baa9
NM
1203NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1204 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1205 Dennis Davis.
1206
bddd7526
PP
1207PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1208
6bac1a9a
PP
1209PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1210
552193f0
NM
1211NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1212 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1213
1b587e48
TF
1214TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1215 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1216
aa097c4c 1217
8c07b69f
TF
1218Exim version 4.74
1219-----------------
1220
1221TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1222 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1223
c0ea85ab
TF
1224TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1225 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1226
0761d44e
TF
1227TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1228
0a349494
PP
1229DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1230 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1231 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1232
1233PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1234 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1235 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1236
fea24b2e
PP
1237PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1238 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1239 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1240 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1241
6545de78
PP
1242PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1243 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1244 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1245 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1246
1670ef10
PP
1247PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1248 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1249 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1250 arbitrary files.
1251
c0886197
PP
1252PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1253 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1254
b7487bce
PP
1255PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1256 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1257 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1258 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1259 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1260
8c07b69f 1261
97fd1e48 1262Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1263-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1264
1265PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1266 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1267 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1268
6901c596
PP
1269PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1270 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1271
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1272JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1273
77bb000f
PP
1274PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1275
a29e5231
PP
1276PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1277
ec5a0394 1278PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1279
55c75993
PP
1280PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1281
453a6645 1282PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1283 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1284 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1285 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1286
8544e77a
PP
1287PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1288 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1289 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1290 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1291 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1292
83e029d5
PP
1293PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1294
ed7f7860
PP
1295PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1296
7d9f747b
PP
1297PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1298
4b2241d2
PP
1299PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1300
10385c15
PP
1301PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1302
dbc4b90d
PP
1303PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1304
532be449
PP
1305PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1306
6a8de854 1307PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1308 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1309 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1310
5dc43717
JJ
1311JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1312
1313JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1314 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1315
3346ab01
PP
1316PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1317 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1318
491fab4c
PP
1319PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1320 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1321 Notification from John Horne.
1322
13eb9497
PP
1323PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1324 compatible.
1325
1326PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1327 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1328 it normally works.
1329
7f36d675
DW
1330DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1331 access.
1332
c1d94452
DW
1333DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1334 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1335 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1336
e2f5dc15
DW
1337DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1338 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1339 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1340 configuration file.
1341
cd25e41d
DW
1342DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1343 option (effectively making it always true).
1344
261dc43e
DW
1345DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1346 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1347
fa32850b
DW
1348DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1349 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1350
79d4bc3d
PP
1351PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1352 run-time user, instead of root.
1353
43236f35 1354PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1355 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1356
fb08281f
DW
1357DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1358 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1359 arguments.
3346ab01 1360
74935b98
DW
1361DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1362 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1363 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1364
90b6341f
DW
1365DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1366
57730b52
ML
1367NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1368
66581d1e 1369
465e92cf
JJ
1370Exim version 4.72
1371-----------------
1372
453a6645
PP
1373JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1374 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1375 typos
465e92cf 1376
453a6645
PP
1377JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1378 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1379 (Finput)
edae0343 1380
9bd3e22c
NM
1381NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1382 Patch from Alain Williams
1383
bb576ff7
NM
1384NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1385
5a1a5845
NM
1386NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1387 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1388
981a9fad
NM
1389NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1390 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1391
7fc497ee
NM
1392NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1393
1a41defa
JJ
1394JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1395
a466095c 1396NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1397 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1398
94a6bd0b
NM
1399TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1400
1401TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1402
1403MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1404 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1405 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1406
c1b141a8
NM
1407NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1408 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1409
b26eacf1 1410NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1411 Patch by Simon Arlott
1412
179c5980 1413PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1414 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1415
9bd3e22c 1416
7c6d71af
NM
1417Exim version 4.71
1418-----------------
1419
7d9f747b 1420TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1421
f013fb92
NM
1422NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1423
0eb8eedd
NM
1424NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1425
663ee6d9
NM
1426NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1427
177ebd9b
NM
1428NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1429
7c6d71af 1430
210f147e
NM
1431Exim version 4.70
1432-----------------
1433
cdd3bb85 1434TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1435 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1436
1437TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1438 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1439 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1440
1441TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1442 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1443 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1444
1445TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1446 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1447
210f147e
NM
1448NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1449 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1450 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1451 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1452
deafd5b3
NM
1453NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1454 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1455 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1456
089793a4
TF
1457TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1458
5f16ca82
TF
1459TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1460
dae9d94e 1461NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1462 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1463
7d9f747b 1464NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1465
06864c44
TF
1466TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1467 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1468 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1469 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1470
65a7d8c3 1471NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1472 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1473
23510047 1474TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1475
7d9f747b 1476NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1477
7d8eec3a 1478NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1479 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1480
89dec7b6
TF
1481TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1482 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1483
a99de90c
TF
1484TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1485 that they are available at delivery time.
1486
e2803e40
TF
1487TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1488
7199e1ee
TF
1489TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1490 incoming_port log selectors.
1491
e276e04b
TF
1492TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1493 setting expands to an empty string.
1494
ce552449 1495NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1496 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1497
e765a0f1 1498NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1499 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1500
4f054c63 1501NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1502 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1503
7d9f747b
PP
1504NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1505 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1506
7d9f747b
PP
1507NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1508 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1509
b52bc06e 1510NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1511 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1512
447de4b0
NM
1513NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1514
4c69d561 1515NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1516 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1517
d5c39246 1518NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1519 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1520
0b23848a
TK
1521TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1522
8f3414a1 1523NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1524 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1525
fb6f955d
NM
1526NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1527
1528NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1529
7d9f747b
PP
1530NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1531 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1532
7d9f747b
PP
1533NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1534 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1535
7d9f747b
PP
1536NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1537 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1538
7d9f747b
PP
1539NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1540 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1541
7d9f747b
PP
1542NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1543 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1544
7d9f747b
PP
1545NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1546 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1547
7d9f747b
PP
1548NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1549 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1550
7d9f747b 1551NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1552 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1553
7d9f747b 1554NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1555
7d9f747b
PP
1556NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1557 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1558
7d9f747b 1559NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1560
7d9f747b 1561NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1562
7d9f747b 1563NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1564
7d9f747b 1565NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1566
17792b53 1567NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1568 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1569
7d9f747b
PP
1570NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1571 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1572
91576cec 1573NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1574 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1575
7d9f747b
PP
1576NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1577 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1578
7d9f747b 1579NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1580
7d9f747b 1581NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1582
7d9f747b 1583NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1584
7d9f747b 1585NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1586
deafd5b3 1587
47db1125
NM
1588Exim version 4.69
1589-----------------
1590
4b3504d0
TK
1591TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1592 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1593 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1594
1595 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1596 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1597 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1598 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1599 build errors in sieve.c.
1600
81ea09ca
NM
1601NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1602 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1603 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1604
f13cddcb
SC
1605SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1606
7d9f747b 1607NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1608
7d9f747b 1609NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1610
7d9f747b 1611NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1612
1613
eb4c0de6
PH
1614Exim version 4.68
1615-----------------
1616
1617PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1618
6a3bceb1
PH
1619PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1620 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1621 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1622 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1623 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1624 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1625 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1626 for iplsearch lookups.
1627
1628 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1629 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1630 previously such lookups could never work.
1631
1632 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1633 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1634 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1635
2e30fa9d
TK
1636TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1637 version.
1638
0806a9c5
MH
1639MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1640 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1641 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1642 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1643 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1644 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1645
ae276964
TK
1646TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1647 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1648
0f2cbd1b
MH
1649MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1650 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1651 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1652 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1653 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1654 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1655
2b85bce7
PH
1656PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1657 local_scan API.
1658
93655c46
PH
1659PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1660
6c512171
PH
1661PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1662 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1663 encrypted.
1664
1665PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1666 by clients under certain conditions.
1667
aa6dc513
PH
1668PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1669 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1670
a96603a0
PH
1671PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1672
8f240103
PH
1673PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1674 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1675
1676PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1677
d677b2f2
PH
1678PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1679
d52120f2
PH
1680PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1681
64f2600a
PH
1682PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1683 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1684
8669f003
PH
1685PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1686
a4dc33a8
PH
1687PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1688 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1689
d6a60c0f
PH
1690PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1691
8f128379
PH
1692PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1693
8932dffe
PH
1694PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1695 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1696 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1697 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1698
ddea74fa 1699PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1700 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1701 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1702
ddea74fa 1703PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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PH
1704 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1705
ddea74fa
PH
1706PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1707
ce9f225c
PH
1708PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1709
19897d52
PH
1710PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1711
bc64a74d
PH
1712PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1713 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1714 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1715
eb4c0de6 1716
b4ed4da0
PH
1717Exim version 4.67
1718-----------------
1719
22ad45c9
MH
1720MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1721 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1722 Jan Srzednicki.
1723
b4ed4da0
PH
1724PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1725 issue a MAIL command.
1726
431b7361
PH
1727PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1728
1729 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1730
1731 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1732 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1733 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1734 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1735 item. This has been fixed.
1736
1737PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1738 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1739
83da1223
PH
1740PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1741 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1742
54fc8428
PH
1743PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1744 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1745 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1746
34c5e8dd
SC
1747SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1748
bbe15da8
PH
1749PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1750 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1751 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1752 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1753 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1754
0e8a9471
MH
1755MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1756 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1757 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1758
f0872424
PH
1759PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1760 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1761 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1762 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1763
b01dd148
PH
1764PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1765
6bf342e1
PH
1766PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1767
273f34d0
PH
1768PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1769 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1770 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1771 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1772 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1773
cf8b11a5
PH
1774PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1775
41c7c167
PH
1776PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1777 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1778 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1779 values).
1780
9c57cbc0
PH
1781PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1782
f3f065bb
PH
1783PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1784
047bdd8c
PH
1785PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1786
0ce9abe6
PH
1787PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1788
0e22dfd1
PH
1789PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1790
4c590bd1
PH
1791PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1792 no_callout_flush is set.
1793
09945f1e
PH
1794PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1795 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1796 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1797 fixed.
1798
c51b8e75
PH
1799PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1800
e28326d8
PH
1801PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1802 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1803 other ACL rejections are.
1804
75b1493f
PH
1805PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1806 with slight modification.
1807
7c5214ec
PH
1808PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1809 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1810
4311097e
PH
1811PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1812 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1813 connection.
1814
29f89cad
PH
1815PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1816 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1817
5e687460
SC
1818SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1819
c3611384
PH
1820PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1821 expansion side effects.
1822
5a11a7b4
PH
1823PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1824 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1825 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1826 be the same.
1827
0e20aff9
MH
1828MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1829 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1830 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1831
ca86f471
PH
1832PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1833 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1834 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1835 were accidentally chopped off.
1836
a14e5636
PH
1837PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1838 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1839 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1840 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1841 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1842 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1843 pipelining has not been advertised.
1844
ec95d1a6
PH
1845PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1846
42855d71
PH
1847PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1848 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1849 This has been fixed.
1850
57c2c631
PH
1851PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1852 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1853 reported on Solaris.
1854
58c01c94
PH
1855PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1856 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1857 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1858 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1859 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1860 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1861 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1862
dee5a20a
PH
1863PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1864 cpus.
1865
d2ee6114
PH
1866PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1867
b2d5182b
PH
1868PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1869
79749a79
PH
1870PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1871 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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PH
1872 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1873 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1874 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1875 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1876
c456d9bb
PH
1877PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1878 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1879 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1880 host_all_ignored option.
1881
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1882PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1883 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1884 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1885 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1886 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1887 is what is supposed to happen).
1888
ebeaf996
PH
1889PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1890 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1891 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1892 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1893 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1894 uses the Exim user.
1895
2679d413
PH
1896PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1897 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1898 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1899 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1900 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1901 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1902 users.
1903
84024b72
PH
1904PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1905
8005d38e
SC
1906SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1907 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1908 (Jez Hancock).
1909 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1910 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1911
3298c6c6
SC
1912SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1913
a43a27c5
PH
1914PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1915
58eb016e 1916PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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1917 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1918 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1919 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1920 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1921 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1922 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1923 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1924 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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PH
1925 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1926 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1927
b43a74ea
PH
1928PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1929 advertised in response to EHLO.
1930
b4ed4da0 1931
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1932Exim version 4.66
1933-----------------
1934
1935PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1936 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1937
1938 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1939 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1940
1941 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1942 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1943 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1944
1945 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1946 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1947 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1948 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1949 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1950
1951
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1952Exim version 4.65
1953-----------------
1954
1955TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1956 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1957 versions. (#438)
1958
d6066548
MH
1959MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1960 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1961 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1962
4362ff0d
PH
1963PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1964 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1965 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1966 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1967 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1968 rather than extend the field.
1969
93cfa765 1970
944e9e9c
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1971Exim version 4.64
1972-----------------
aa41d2de 1973
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TK
1974TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1975 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1976 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1977 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1978 these files.
1979
1980TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1981 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1982 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1983
1984TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1985 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1986 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1987
1988TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1989 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1990 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1991 in the field name.
1992
2b1c6e3a
PH
1993PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1994 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1995 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1996 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1997 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1998 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1999 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2000 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2001 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2002 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2003 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2004
1f872c80
PH
2005PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2006 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2007
2008PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2009 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2010 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2011 ignores EPIPE as well.
2012
d203e649
PH
2013PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2014 (quoted-printable decoding).
2015
cc2ed8f7 2016PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2017 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2018
ddfcd446
PH
2019PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2020
d45b1de8
PH
2021PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2022
2023PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2024
38a0a95f 2025PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2026 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2027
a2405d83
JJ
2028JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2029 in 4.64-PH/09.
2030
2031JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2032 miscellaneous code fixes
2033
6ea85e9a
PH
2034PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2035 rejections.
2036
26da7e20
PH
2037PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2038 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2039 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2040 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2041 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2042 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2043 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2044 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2045
14aa5a05 2046PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2047 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2048 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2049 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2050 function.
2051 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2052 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2053 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2054 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2055 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2056 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2057 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2058 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2059 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2060
ff75a1f7
PH
2061PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2062 decoding.
2063
e6f6568e
PH
2064PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2065 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2066 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2067 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2068 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2069 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2070 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2071 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2072
d6f6e0dc
PH
2073PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2074 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2075 list.
2076
322050c2
PH
2077PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2078 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2079 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2080 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2081 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2082 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2083 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2084 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2085 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2086 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2087 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2088 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2089 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2090
08955dd3
PH
2091PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2092 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2093 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2094 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2095 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2096 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2097 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2098
1eccaa59
PH
2099PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2100 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2101 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2102 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2103 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2104 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2105 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2106 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2107 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2108 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2109
602e59e5
PH
2110PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2111 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2112 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2113 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2114 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2115
411ef850
PH
2116PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2117 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2118 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2119 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2120 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2121 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2122 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2123
7befa435
PH
2124PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2125 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2126 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2127 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2128 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2129 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2130 been verified.
2131
48da4259 2132PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2133 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2134 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2135 and authorization.)
2136
48da4259
PH
2137PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2138 if any retry times were supplied.
2139
d1d5595c
PH
2140PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2141 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2142 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2143
0ef732d9
PH
2144PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2145
328895cc
PH
2146PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2147
fd700877
PH
2148PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2149 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2150 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2151 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2152 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2153 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2154
8dce1a6f
PH
2155PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2156 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2157
17af4a17
PH
2158PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2159 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2160 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2161
2162PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2163 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2164 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2165 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2166 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2167 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2168 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2169 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2170 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2171
2172 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2173 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2174 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2175 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2176 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2177 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2178 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2179 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2180 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2181
2182 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2183 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2184 hammering the server.
2185
c1114884
PH
2186PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2187 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2188
7a0743eb
PH
2189PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2190
0d85fa3f
PH
2191PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2192 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2193 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2194
1bf43b78
PH
2195PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2196 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2197 one case where this was not true.
2198
520de300
PH
2199PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2200 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2201 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2202 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2203 fails.
2204
48c7f9e2
PH
2205PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2206 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2207 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2208 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2209 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2210 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2211 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2212 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2213 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2214 smtp transport.
2215
99ea1c86
PH
2216PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2217 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2218 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2219 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2220
a2042e78
PH
2221PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2222 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2223
4fbcfc2e
PH
2224PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2225 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2226 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2227
aa41d2de
PH
2228PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2229
af561417
PH
2230PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2231
3cc66b45
PH
2232PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2233
194cc0e4
PH
2234PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2235 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2236 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2237 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2238
a401ddaa
PH
2239PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2240 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2241
4e88a19f
PH
2242PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2243 be meaningful with "accept".
2244
d7d7b289
SC
2245SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2246 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2247
2248SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2249 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2250 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2251
2252SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2253 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2254 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2255 there is data to show.
2256 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2257
2258SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2259 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2260 as well as the number of messages.
2261
2262SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2263 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2264 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2265
2266SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2267 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2268 have a flag are now skipped.
2269
2270SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2271 Added the -emptyok flag.
2272
2273SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2274 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2275
0ea2a468
JJ
2276JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2277 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2278 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2279
2280JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2281 match 4.64-PH/13
2282
2283JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2284 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2285
2286JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2287
2288JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2289 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2290
8a10f5a4
PH
2291PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2292
30e18802
PH
2293PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2294 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2295 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2296 contravention of the specifications.
2297
55728a4f
PH
2298PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2299 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2300 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2301
d7837193
PH
2302PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2303 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2304 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2305
87054a31
PH
2306PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2307
ea2c01d2
MH
2308MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2309 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2310 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2311 some point in the past.
2312
e4fa6968
PH
2313PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2314 transport during callout processing was broken.
2315
56f5d9bd
PH
2316PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2317 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2318
922e1c28
PH
2319PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2320 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2321
21eb6e72
PH
2322PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2323 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2324
a0540757
PH
2325PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2326
944e9e9c 2327
478be7b0
SC
2328Exim version 4.63
2329-----------------
2330
2331SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2332 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2333
2334SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2335 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2336 there is data to show.
2337 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2338
2339SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2340 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2341
2b965a65
TF
2342TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2343 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2344
45b91596
PH
2345TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2346 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2347
c59f5781
TF
2348TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2349 submissions from trusted users.
2350
90fc3069
TF
2351TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2352 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2353
6083aca0
TF
2354TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2355 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2356 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2357 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2358 there is now a framework to start from.
2359
765b530f
PH
2360PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2361 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2362 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2363
4e167a8c
PH
2364PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2365
4608d683
PH
2366PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2367
b8dc3e4a
PH
2368PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2369
5418e93b
PH
2370PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2371 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2372 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2373
b4a9bda2
PH
2374PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2375 libradius.
2376
45b91596
PH
2377PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2378 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2379 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2380
5547e2c5
PH
2381PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2382 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2383 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2384 its arguments.
2385
dbcef0ea
PH
2386PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2387 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2388 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2389 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2390 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2391
25257489
PH
2392PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2393 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2394
c816d124
PH
2395PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2396
a9ccd69a
PH
2397PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2398 operations in malware.c.
2399
75fa1910
PH
2400PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2401 signatures.
2402
a7d7aa58
PH
2403PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2404 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2405 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2406 all.
2407
42119b09
PH
2408PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2409 statements to "add_header".
2410
41609df5
PH
2411PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2412 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2413
a5bd321b
PH
2414PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2415 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2416 latter.
2417
e85a7ad5 2418PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2419 so that it is now:
2420
e85a7ad5
PH
2421 ${if or { \
2422 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2423 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2424 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2425 }{no}{yes}}
2426
e85a7ad5
PH
2427 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2428 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2429
d8fe1c03
PH
2430PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2431 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2432
16282d2b
PH
2433PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2434 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2435 any possible encoding problems.
2436
35d40a98
PH
2437PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2438 but not after initializing Perl.
2439
034d99ab
PH
2440PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2441 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2442 apparently, which is not desirable.
2443
6ec97b1b
PH
2444PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2445 queries.
2446
e22ca4ac
JJ
2447JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2448 --not options
2449
2450JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2451
33d73e3b
PH
2452PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2453 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2454 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2455 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2456
9ecb03f3
PH
2457PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2458 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2459 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2460
084efe8d
PH
2461PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2462 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2463 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2464 0.12.
2465
366fc9f0
PH
2466PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2467 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2468 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2469 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2470 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2471
c59f5781 2472
c887c79e
TF
2473Exim version 4.62
2474-----------------
2475
2476TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2477 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2478
1cce3af8
PH
2479PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2480 patch).
2481
afb3eaaf
PH
2482PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2483 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2484 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2485 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2486 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2487 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2488 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2489 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2490 451 error is used.
2491
e173618b
PH
2492PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2493
dd16e114
PH
2494PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2495 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2496 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2497
f7fd3850
PH
2498PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2499 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2500 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2501 odd errors.
2502
d87df92c
PH
2503PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2504 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2505
7e9f683d
PH
2506PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2507 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2508 option (which defaults to 0600).
2509
bfad5236
PH
2510PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2511
01c490df
PH
2512PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2513 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2514 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2515 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2516 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2517 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2518 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2519
d6629cdc
PH
2520PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2521
1cce3af8 2522
214e2000
PH
2523Exim version 4.61
2524-----------------
2525
2526PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2527 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2528 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2529 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2530 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2531 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2532 addresses as local.
2533
f9daeae0
PH
2534PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2535 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2536
7e66e54d
PH
2537PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2538
c8ea1597
PH
2539PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2540 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2541 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2542 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2543 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2544 grumble.
2545
911f6fde
PH
2546PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2547 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2548
47ca6d6c
PH
2549PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2550 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2551 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2552 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2553 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2554
ed0e9820
PH
2555PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2556 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2557 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2558 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2559
eff37e47
PH
2560PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2561 be the same on different OS.
2562
1921d2ea
PH
2563PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2564 testing.
2565
b3f69ca8
JJ
2566JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2567 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2568
2569JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2570 in 4.61-PH/06
2571
424a1c63
PH
2572PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2573 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2574 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2575 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2576 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2577 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2578 bounce message.
2579
7a100415
PH
2580PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2581 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2582 when Exim was called.
2583
19b9dc85
PH
2584PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2585 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2586
309bd837
PH
2587PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2588 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2589 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2590 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2591
59e82a2a
PH
2592PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2593 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2594 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2595 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2596 changes:
2597
2598 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2599 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2600 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2601
2602 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2603 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2604 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2605
9edc04ce
PH
2606PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2607 feature).
2608
1349e1e5
PH
2609PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2610 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2611 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2612 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2613 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2614 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2615 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2616 values from the SRV records were lost.
2617
ea49d0e1
PH
2618PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2619 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2620 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2621
064a94c9
PH
2622PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2623 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2624 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2625
727071f8
PH
2626PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2627 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2628 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2629 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2630 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2631 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2632 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2633 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2634 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2635 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2636
f78eb7c6
PH
2637PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2638 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2639 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2640
21c28500
PH
2641PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2642 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2643
2644PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2645 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2646 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2647 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2648 is given.
2649
1688f43b
PH
2650PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2651 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2652 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2653
2654PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2655 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2656 PH/23 above applies.
2657
9675b384
PH
2658PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2659 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2660 (for which there is an explicit test).
2661
6a3f1455
PH
2662PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2663
dac79d3e
PH
2664PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2665 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2666 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2667 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2668 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2669
5977a0b3
PH
2670PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2671 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2672 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2673 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2674
c91535f3
PH
2675PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2676 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2677 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2678
0d46a8c8
PH
2679PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2680
278c6e6c
PH
2681PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2682
2cbb4081
PH
2683PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2684 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2685 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2686
3eef829e
PH
2687PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2688 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2689 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2690 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2691 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2692
1ab95fa6
PH
2693PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2694 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2695 the message gets confusing).
2696
230205fc
PH
2697PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2698 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2699 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2700 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2701
75e0e026
PH
2702PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2703 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2704 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2705 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2706 same order.
2707
2708PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2709 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2710 the different processes.
2711
145396a6
PH
2712PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2713
3cd34f13
PH
2714PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2715
11121d3d
JJ
2716JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2717 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2718
2719JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2720 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2721
2722JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2723 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2724 messages matching specified criteria.
2725
8def5aaf
PH
2726PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2727
929ba01c
PH
2728PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2729 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2730
2632889e
PH
2731PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2732 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2733 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2734 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2735 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2736 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2737 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2738 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2739 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2740 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2741
944a9c55
PH
2742PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2743 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2744 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2745
4a23603b
PH
2746PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2747
4730f942
PH
2748PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2749 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2750 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2751 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2752 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2753 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2754 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2755 the variable.
2756
30dba1e6
PH
2757PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2758 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2759
382afc6b
PH
2760PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2761
a86229cf
PH
2762PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2763
50c99ba6
PH
2764PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2765
d35e429d
PH
2766PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2767 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2768 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2769 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2770 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2771 size of the count of files.
2772
f90d018c
PH
2773PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2774
75def545
PH
2775PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2776 used in LMTP mode:
2777
2778 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2779 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2780 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2781 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2782
2783 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2784 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2785 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2786
2787PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2788 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2789 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2790 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2791 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2792
c46782ef
PH
2793PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2794 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2795
71fafd95
PH
2796PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2797 will now be deprecated.
2798
2c5db4fd
PH
2799PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2800
9cf6b11a
JJ
2801JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2802 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2803 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2804
2805JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2806 with very large, slow to parse queues
2807
2808JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2809
2810JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2811
898d150f
PH
2812PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2813 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2814 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2815 SMTP output lines.
2816
46218253
PH
2817PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2818 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2819 Sieve code now uses this.
2820
e97957bc
PH
2821PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2822 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2823
81e509d7
PH
2824PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2825 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2826
3d240ff7
PH
2827PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2828
b37c4101
PH
2829PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2830 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2831 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2832 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2833 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2834
79378e0f
PH
2835PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2836 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2837 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2838 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2839
e49c7bb4
PH
2840PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2841
d114ec46
PH
2842PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2843
f3d7df6c
PH
2844PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2845 is preferred over IPv4.
2846
715ab376
PH
2847PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2848 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2849 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2850 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2851 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2852 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2853 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2854
6b31b150
PH
2855PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2856 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2857 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2858
2859PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2860
d515a917
PH
2861PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2862 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2863 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2864 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2865 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2866 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2867 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2868 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2869 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2870 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2871 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2872
9b8fadde
PH
2873PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2874 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2875 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2876
214e2000 2877
5de37277
PH
2878Exim version 4.60
2879-----------------
2880
cc38ddbf
PH
2881PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2882
2883 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2884 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2885
2886 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2887 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2888 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2889
72fdd6ae
PH
2890PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2891
2892 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2893 not a single digit.
2894
2895 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2896 string.
2897
2898 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2899 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2900 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2901 silly things.
2902
2903 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2904 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2905
2906 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2907 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2908
cb741023
PH
2909PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2910 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2911 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2912
f174f16e
PH
2913PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2914 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2915
c25242d7
PH
2916PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2917 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2918
2919 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2920
2921 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2922 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2923 this:
2924
2925 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2926
82c19f95
PH
2927PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2928 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2929 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2930 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2931 identical. For example:
2932
2933 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2934
2935 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2936 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2937 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2938
d7ffbc12
PH
2939PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2940 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2941 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2942 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2943
9f526266
PH
2944PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2945 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2946 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2947 message.
2948
87fcc8b9
PH
2949PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2950
2951 o fixes some comments
2952 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2953 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2954 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2955 and documents the missing references header update
2956
2957 and most important:
2958
2959 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2960 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2961 result)
2962
456682f5
PH
2963PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2964 Electronic Mail") by including:
2965
2966 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2967
2968 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2969 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2970 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2971 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2972 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2973
2974 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2975
2976 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2977
2978 The auto-replied keyword:
2979
2980 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2981 message by an automatic process,
2982
2983 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2984
2985 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2986 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2987
2988 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2989 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2990 other messages.
2991
3e46c1aa
PH
2992PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2993 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2994
49826d12
PH
2995PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2996
eba0c039
PH
2997PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2998 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2999 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3000
a0d6ba8a
PH
3001PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3002 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3003 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3004
f0917727
PH
3005PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3006 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3007 and treats the condition as false.
3008
096fee00
PH
3009PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3010
024bd3c2
PH
3011PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3012 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3013 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3014 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3015 not changing the active code.
3016
3017 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3018 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3019
3020 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3021 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3022
df199fec
PH
3023PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3024 (Bugzilla #53).
3025
d27f1df3
PH
3026PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3027 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3028 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3029 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3030 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3031 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3032 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3033 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3034 the text comparison.
3035
96776534
PH
3036PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3037 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3038 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3039 The same fix has been applied.
3040
5de37277 3041
9a799bc0
PH
3042Exim version 4.54
3043-----------------
3044
3045PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3046 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3047 It now does.
3048
99a4b039
PH
3049PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3050 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3051
3052PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3053
4b233853
PH
3054PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3055 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3056 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3057 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3058 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3059
8857ccfd
PH
3060TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3061 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3062 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3063 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3064 or /domain=).
3065
433a2980
PH
3066PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3067 testing suite.
3068
3e46c1aa 3069
9a799bc0 3070
e3a311ba
TK
3071Exim version 4.53
3072-----------------
3073
3074TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3075 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3076
13b685f9
PH
3077PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3078
395ff96d
PH
3079PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3080
5b68f6e4
PH
3081PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3082 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3083 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3084
1ab52c69
PH
3085PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3086 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3087 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3088
b07e6aa3
PH
3089PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3090 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3091 operating systems.
3092
254e032f
PH
3093PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3094 ${stat: expansion item.
3095
3af76a81
PH
3096PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3097 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3098
2548ba04
PH
3099PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3100 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3101 file for comments.
3102
b6c6011d
PH
3103PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3104
cf39cf57
PH
3105PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3106 setting.
3107
f1513293
PH
3108PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3109 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3110
727549a4
PH
3111TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3112
af46795e
PH
3113PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3114 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3115 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3116 the end of the subprocess.
3117
d7b47fd0
PH
3118PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3119 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3120 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3121 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3122 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3123
ee744174
JJ
3124JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3125
b582ab87
PH
3126TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3127
41a13e0a
PH
3128PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3129 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3130
f625cc5a
PH
3131PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3132
3133PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3134
21f7af35
PH
3135PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3136 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3137 HP-UX compiler.
3138
31480e42
PH
3139PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3140
2d280592
PH
3141PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3142 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3143 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3144
7cd1141b
PH
3145PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3146 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3147
3148PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3149 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3150
750af86e
PH
3151PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3152 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3153
3154 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3155 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3156
3157 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3158 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3159 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3160 contributed by a Radius user.
3161
3162PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3163 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3164
4304270b
TK
3165TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3166 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3167
750af86e
PH
3168PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3169 available.
3170
64ffc24f
PH
3171PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3172 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3173 received.
3174
5dd9625b
PH
3175PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3176 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3177 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3178 header lines when this was not necessary.
3179
5591031b
PH
3180PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3181
ba18e66a
PH
3182PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3183 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3184 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3185 exists".
3186
9cec981f
PH
3187PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3188 -bV or -d is used.
3189
aa2b5c79
PH
3190PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3191 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3192 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3193 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3194
48a53b7f
PH
3195PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3196
1c59d63b
PH
3197PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3198
671012da
TK
3199TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3200
1509d3a8
PH
3201PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3202
3203PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3204 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3205 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3206 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3207 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3208 settings.
3209
3210PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3211
2fe1a124
PH
3212PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3213 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3214 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3215 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3216 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3217 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3218 which is clearly wrong.
3219
8800895a
PH
3220PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3221
ccfdb010
PH
3222PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3223 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3224 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3225 subsequently added.
3226
1130bfb0
PH
3227PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3228 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3229
ebcb507f
PH
3230PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3231
c35e155c
PH
3232PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3233 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3234
95d1f782
PH
3235PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3236 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3237
fd6de02e
PH
3238PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3239 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3240
58de37c5
PH
3241PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3242 recipients, not senders.
3243
261cf466
TF
3244TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3245 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3246
3ee512ff
PH
3247PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3248
e08c430f
PH
3249PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3250
bef5a11f
PH
3251PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3252 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3253 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3254 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3255
7546de58
TF
3256TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3257
e5d5a95f
TF
3258TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3259 clock is set back in time.
3260
2e88a017
TF
3261TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3262 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3263
a5f65aa4
TF
3264TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3265 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3266
e7726cbf
PH
3267PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3268 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3269 (see PH/47 above).
3270
a7fdad5b
TF
3271TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3272 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3273 header rewrites.
3274
6af56900
PH
3275PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3276 type ("H").
3277
0925ede6
PH
3278PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3279
66afa403
TF
3280TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3281 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3282 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3283
0154e85a
TF
3284TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3285 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3286 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3287 helo verification defer as a failure.
3288
16f12c76
PH
3289PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3290 actual error message.
3291
bbe902f0 3292
e5a9dba6
PH
3293Exim version 4.52
3294-----------------
3295
3296TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3297
22c3b60b
PH
3298PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3299 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3300 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3301 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3302
06a9b4b5
PH
3303TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3304
c1ac6996
PH
3305PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3306 can still be requested.
3307
9c7a242c
PH
3308PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3309 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3310 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3311 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3312
87ba3f5f
PH
3313TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3314 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3315 circumstances, but probably never did.
3316
3317PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3318 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3319 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3320 in the header line.
3321
29aba418
TF
3322TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3323
fe0dab11
TF
3324TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3325 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3326
11d337a4
TK
3327TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3328
3329TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3330
415c8f3b
PH
3331PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3332 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3333 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3334 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3335 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3336 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3337
958541e9
PH
3338PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3339 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3340 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3341 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3342 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3343 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3344
c206415f
TK
3345TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3346 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3347
2a4be8f9
PH
3348PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3349 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3350
1cba11c5
SC
3351SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3352 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3353
3354SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3355
3356SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3357
3358SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3359
3360SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3361
3362SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3363
3364SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3365
1005d00e
TK
3366TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3367
3368TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3369 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3370 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3371
3372TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3373 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3374 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3375 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3376
9b4768fa
PH
3377PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3378 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3379 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3380
3381PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3382 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3383 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3384 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3385
0d7eb84a
PH
3386PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3387 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3388 to be made).
3389
3390PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3391 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3392 should work with maildirs and everything.
3393
40727bee
TK
3394TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3395 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3396
554d2369
TF
3397TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3398 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3399
1f922db1
PH
3400PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3401 function for BDB 4.3.
3402
ef213c3b
PH
3403PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3404
8ac170f3
PH
3405PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3406 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3407 involved.
3408
b1c749bb
PH
3409PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3410 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3411 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3412 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3413 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3414 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3415
4aac9b49
PH
3416PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3417 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3418 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3419 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3420 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3421 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3422 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3423 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3424
294520c8
TK
3425TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3426 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3427 details.
3428
5bd022fe
PH
3429PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3430 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3431
90e9ce59
PH
3432PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3433 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3434 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3435 test. It is now used for both.
3436
5ea81592
PH
3437PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3438 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3439 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3440 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3441 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3442 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3443
c6c2dc1d
PH
3444PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3445 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3446 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3447 string_vformat().
3448
fffffe4c
PH
3449PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3450 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3451 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3452
9a26b6b2
PH
3453PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3454 experimental DomainKeys support:
3455
3456 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3457 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3458 the control was given.
3459
3460 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3461
4aee0225
PH
3462PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3463
32d668a5
PH
3464PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3465
8187c3f3
PH
3466PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3467 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3468 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3469 db.h files).
3470
ff790e47 3471PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3472 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3473 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3474 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3475 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3476 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3477 course.
ff790e47 3478
5417f6d1
PH
3479PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3480 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3481 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3482 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3483 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3484 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3485
59cf8544
PH
3486PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3487 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3488 do -d+all out of habit.
3489
e7ad8a65
PH
3490PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3491 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3492 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3493
ade42478
PH
3494PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3495 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3496 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3497 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3498 record types that Exim uses.
3499
182ad5cf
PH
3500PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3501 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3502 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3503 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3504 non-existent file that was broken.
3505
b0d9fc80
TK
3506TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3507 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3508
3509TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3510 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3511 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3512
3513TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3514
47c7a64a
PH
3515PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3516 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3517 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3518 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3519 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3520 same time.
3521
a388bce4
SC
3522SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3523 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3524 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3525 at a slight CPU cost.
3526
3527SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3528 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3529
3530SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3531 by Marc Sherman.
3532
0793e4ed
SC
3533SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3534
c58b88df
PH
3535PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3536 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3537
e7ad8a65 3538
7982096b
PH
3539Exim version 4.51
3540-----------------
3541
1a46a8c5
PH
3542TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3543 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3544
2f079f46 3545TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3546
3547TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3548
3549PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3550 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3551
3552PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3553 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3554 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3555 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3556 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3557 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3558 file.
3559
3560PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3561 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3562 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3563 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3564 these two options.
3565
3566PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3567 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3568 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3569 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3570 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3571 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3572 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3573 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3574
3575PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3576 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3577
3578PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3579 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3580 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3581 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3582 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3583 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3584
3585PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3586 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3587 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3588 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3589
3590PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3591 Finch).
3592
3593PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3594 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3595
49c2d5ea
PH
3596PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3597 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3598 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3599 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3600 message.
49c2d5ea 3601
bf759a8b
PH
3602PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3603
83364d30
PH
3604PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3605 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3606
7999bbd7
PH
3607PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3608 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3609 to what was transported.)
3610
7dbf77c9
PH
3611TF/01 Added $received_time.
3612
74e0617f
PH
3613PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3614 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3615 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3616 spamd_address settings.
3617
2f079f46
PH
3618PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3619 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3620 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3621 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3622 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3623
8c841523
PH
3624PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3625
7766a4f0
PH
3626PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3627 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3628 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3629 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3630 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3631
8b417f2c
PH
3632PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3633 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3634
901f42cb
PH
3635PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3636 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3637 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3638 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3639 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3640 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3641 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3642 for failure.
3643
f9b9210e
PH
3644PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3645 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3646 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3647 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3648 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3649 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3650 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3651 "input=".
3652
54cdb463
PH
3653PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3654
cf00dad6
PH
3655PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3656 driver and ACL definitions.
3657
acb1b346
PH
3658PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3659 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3660
c5ddb310
PH
3661PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3662 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3663 understands it better than I do:
3664
3665 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3666 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3667
3668 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3669 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3670 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3671 => three warnings about OTP not working
3672 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3673
3674 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3675 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3676 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3677 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3678 for each call.)
3679 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3680 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3681
3682 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3683 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3684 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3685
31619da6
PH
3686PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3687 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3688 specified.
3689
bebaf0fc
PH
3690PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3691 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3692 "Linux".
3693
475fe28a
PH
3694PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3695 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3696 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3697
3698 warn !verify = sender
3699 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3700
3701 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3702 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3703
7e8bec7a
PH
3704PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3705
3706 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3707 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3708
3709 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3710 nomenclature these days.)
3711
e4a89c47
PH
3712PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3713 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3714
5ca2a9a1
PH
3715PH/30 In these circumstances:
3716 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3717 . First host does not offer TLS;
3718 . First host accepts first address;
3719 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3720 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3721 . Second host accepts second address.
3722 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3723 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3724 address.
7e8bec7a 3725
c688b954
PH
3726PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3727 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3728 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3729 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3730 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3731
fed77020
PH
3732PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3733 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3734
7fe1560f
PH
3735PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3736 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3737
ebb6e6d5
PH
3738PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3739 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3740 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3741
9c4e8f60
PH
3742PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3743 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3744 overlooked.
3745
3746PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3747
d7174846
PH
3748PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3749 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3750 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3751 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3752 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3753 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3754 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3755
3756 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3757 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3758 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3759 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3760 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3761
3762 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3763 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3764 routed further.
3765
cfe75fc3
PH
3766PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3767 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3768 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3769 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3770 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3771 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3772
be22d70e
PH
3773PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3774
0612b098
PH
3775PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3776 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3777 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3778 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3779 printable escape sequences.
3780
2e0c1448
PH
3781PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3782 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3783 body only.
3784
447d236c
PH
3785PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3786 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3787 are as follows:
3788
3789 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3790 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3791 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3792 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3793 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3794
3795 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3796 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3797 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3798
d20976dc
PH
3799PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3800
f656d135
PH
3801PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3802 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3803 play with."
3804
2e2a30b4
PH
3805PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3806 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3807 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3808 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3809 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3810 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3811 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3812 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3813 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3814 the log output.
3815
9176e9f0
PH
3816PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3817 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3818 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3819 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3820 "make".
3821
7982096b 3822
bbe902f0
PH
3823A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3824----------------------------------------
3825
3826Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3827changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3828needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3829in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3830that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3831release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3832from 4.43.
3833
3834I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
38354.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3836those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3837historical information.
3838
3839
f7b63901 3840Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3841-----------------
3842
5fe762f6
PH
3843 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3844
139059f6 3845 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3846 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3847
7086e875
PH
3848 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3849 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3850 place.
3851
35af9f61
PH
3852 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3853 filter fails to execute.
3854
b668c215
PH
3855 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3856 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3857 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3858 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3859 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3860
a494b1e1
PH
3861 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3862
3863 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3864 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3865 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3866 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3867
c5fcb476
PH
3868 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3869 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3870 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3871 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3872 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3873
69358f02
PH
3874 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3875
5be20824
PH
387610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3877
eb2c0248
PH
387811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3879 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3880 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3881 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3882
2a3eea10
PH
388312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3884 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3885 sender verification.
3886
388713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3888 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3889
23c7ff99
PH
389014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3891
4deaf07d
PH
389215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3893 connection timeout.
3894
926e1192
PH
389516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3896 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3897
650edc6f
PH
389817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3899 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3900
2c7db3f5
PH
390118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3902 information about exactly what failed.
3903
3d235903
PH
390419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3905
7c7ad977
PH
390620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3907 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3908 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3909
981756db
PH
391021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3911 It is now set to "smtps".
3912
d4eb88df
PH
391322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3914 ignore_target_hosts.
3915
391623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3917 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3918 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3919 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3920 "[x.x.x.x]".
3921
7d468ab8
PH
392224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3923 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3924 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3925
392625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3927 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3928 wake it up if nothing else does.
3929
62c0818f
PH
393026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3931 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3932 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3933 end up negative.
3934
26034054
PH
393527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3936 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3937
af66f652
PH
393828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3939
90af77f4
PH
394029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3941 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3942 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3943 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3944 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3945 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3946 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3947 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3948
d8ef3577
PH
394930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3950 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3951 than one IP address.
3952
5cb8cbc6
PH
395331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3954 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3955 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3956 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3957
14702f5b
PH
395832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3959 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3960 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3961 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3962 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3963 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3964
063b1e99
PH
396533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3966 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3967 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3968 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3969
652e1b65
PH
397034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3971 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3972 respected.
3973
6f0c9a4f
PH
397435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3975 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3976 $sender_host_address.
3977
33397d19
PH
397836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3979 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3980 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3981 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3982 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3983 very small.
3984
7bb56e1f
PH
398537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3986
3987 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3988 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3989
ea3bc19b
PH
3990 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3991 just the host names, not the priorities.
3992
3993 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3994 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3995 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3996
ea3bc19b 3997 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3998 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3999
0bcb2a0e
PH
400038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4001 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4002 domain.
4003
2ac0e484
PH
400439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4005
4e1fde53
PH
400640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4007 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4008
de365ded
PH
400941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4010 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4011 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4012
f05da2e8
PH
401342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4014
d6453af2
PH
401543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4016
f7b63901
PH
401744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4018
401945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4020 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4021 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4022 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4023 because the tests only now provoked it.
4024
a444213a
PH
402546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4026 (this can affect the format of dates).
4027
0ec020ea
PH
402847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4029 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4030 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4031 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4032
b1206957
PH
403348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4034
403549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4036 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4037 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4038 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4039
26dd5a95
PH
404050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4041 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4042 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4043
343b2385
PH
404451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4045 autoreply.
4046
1c5466b9
PH
404752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4048 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4049 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4050 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4051 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4052 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4053 is going on).
4054
55ee9ee3
PH
405553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4056 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4057 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4058 the line.
4059
d38f8232
PH
406054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4061 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4062 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4063
4064 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4065 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4066 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4067 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4068 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4069 so I produce this patch..."
4070
3295e65b
PH
4071 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4072 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4073 is not defined.
4074
7102e136
PH
407555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4076 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4077 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4078 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4079 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4080
3ca0ba97
PH
408156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4082
c2bcbe20
PH
408357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4084 long debug lines gets shown.
4085
18ce445d
PH
408658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4087 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4088
1f5b4c3d
PH
408959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4090
4091 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4092 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4093 of $primary_hostname.
4094
b975ba52
PH
409560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4096 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4097 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4098 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4099 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4100 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4101 by change 4.50/55 above.
4102
4103 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4104 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4105 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4106 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4107 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4108 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4109 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4110
411161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4112 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4113 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4114 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4115
17ffcae7
PH
411662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4117 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4118
d95f9fdb
PH
411963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4120 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4121 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4122 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4123 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4124
86b8287f
PH
412564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4126 This has been fixed.
4127
60dc5e56
PH
412865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4129 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4130 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4131 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4132 the caching.)
4133
533244af
PH
413466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4135
a5a28604
PH
413667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4137 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4138 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4139 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4140
7e634d24
PH
414168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4142 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4143
3e11c26b
PH
414469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4145 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4146 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4147
6729cf78
PH
414870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4149 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4150 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4151 message there.
4152
00f00ca5
PH
415371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4154 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4155 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4156
c9bdd01c
PH
415772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4158 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4159 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4160 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4161
d43194df
PH
416273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4163 during host lookups.
4164
fe5b5d0b
PH
416574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4166 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4167
4168 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4169
76a2d7ba
PH
417075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4171 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4172 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4173 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4174 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4175 background.
4176
417776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4178 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4179
04f7d5b9
PH
418077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4181 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4182 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4183
bc60667e
PH
418478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4185
bb6e88ff
PH
418679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4187 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4188 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4189 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4190 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4191 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4192 process earlier.
4193
1e70f85b
PH
419480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4195 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4196 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4197 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4198 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4199
420081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4201 tables).
4202
4e01f9d6
PH
420382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4204
1ee1cef2
PH
420583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4206 "vacation" handling.
4207
6e2b4ccc
PH
420884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4209 OS variants using glibc.
4210
8e669ac1
PH
421185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4212
495ae4b0 4213
bbe902f0
PH
4214----------------------------------------------------
4215See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4216----------------------------------------------------
4217
4218
4219Exim version 4.44
4220-----------------
4221
4222 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4223 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4224 transport
4225
4226 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4227 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4228 place.
4229
4230 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4231 filter fails to execute.
4232
4233 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4234 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4235 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4236 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4237 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4238
4239 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4240 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4241 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4242 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4243
4244 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4245 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4246 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4247 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4248 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4249
4250 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4251
4252 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4253 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4254 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4255 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4256
4257 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4258 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4259 sender verification.
4260
426110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4262 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4263
426411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4265 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4266
426712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4268 ignore_target_hosts.
4269
427013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4271 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4272 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4273 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4274 "[x.x.x.x]".
4275
427614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4277 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4278 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4279
428015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4281 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4282 wake it up if nothing else does.
4283
428416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4285 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4286 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4287 end up negative.
4288
428917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4290 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4291
ea3a6f44 429218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4293
429419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4295 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4296 empty pattern.
4297
429820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4299 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4300 one IP address.
4301
ea3a6f44
NM
430221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4303 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4304 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4305 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4306 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4307 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4308
ea3a6f44
NM
430922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4310 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4311 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4312
431323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4314 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4315 $sender_host_address.
4316
431724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4318
ea3a6f44
NM
431925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4320 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4321 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4322
432326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4324 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4325
ea3a6f44
NM
432627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4327 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4328
ea3a6f44
NM
432928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4330 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4331 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4332 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4333
433429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4335 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4336 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4337
ea3a6f44
NM
433830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4339 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4340 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4341 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4342
ea3a6f44
NM
434331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4344 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4345 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4346
ea3a6f44
NM
434731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4348 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4349
ea3a6f44
NM
435032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4351 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4352 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4353 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4354 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4355 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4356 is going on).
bbe902f0 4357
ea3a6f44
NM
435833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4359 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4360 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4361 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4362 CAN-2005-0021
4363
ea3a6f44
NM
436434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4365 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4366 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4367 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4368 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4369 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4370 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4371
4372 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4373 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4374 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4375 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4376 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4377 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4378 CAN-2005-0021
4379
ea3a6f44
NM
438035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4381 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4382 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4383 CAN-2005-0022
4384
ea3a6f44
NM
438536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4386 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4387 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4388 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4389 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4390
ea3a6f44
NM
439137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4392 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4393 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4394 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4395 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4396
ea3a6f44
NM
439738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4398 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4399 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4400 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4401 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4402
4403
495ae4b0
PH
4404Exim version 4.43
4405-----------------
4406
4407 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4408 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4409 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4410 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4411 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4412 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4413 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4414
4415 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4416 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4417 the delivery.
4418
4419 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4420
4421 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4422
4423 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4424 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4425 to local_scan().
4426
4427 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4428 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4429 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4430 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4431 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4432
4433 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4434 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4435
4436 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4437
4438 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4439
444010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4441 header_sender only.
4442
444311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4444 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4445
444612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4447 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4448 affecting debugging statements).
4449
445013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4451
445214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4453 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4454 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4455 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4456 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4457 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4458 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4459 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4460 after the received time, and all would be well.
4461
446215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4463 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4464 condition in an expansion string.
4465
446616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4467
446817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4469 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4470 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4471 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4472 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4473 job under whatever limits there are.
4474
447518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4476
447719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4478 space).
4479
448020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4481 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4482 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4483 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4484 return path is set.
4485
448621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4487 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4488 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4489 binary data in such strings.
4490
449122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4492
449323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4494 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4495 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4496 failure, which is pointless.
4497
449824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4499
450025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4501
450226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4503 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4504 Sender: header lines.
4505
450627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4507 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4508 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4509
451028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4511 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4512 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4513 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4514 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4515 happens.
4516
451729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4518 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4519 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4520 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4521 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4522
452330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4524 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4525 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4526 1024.
4527
452831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4529 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4530
453132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4532 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4533
453433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4535
453632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4537
453833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4539
454034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4541 syntax error.
4542
454335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4544
454536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4546
454737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4548 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4549 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4550 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4551
455238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4553 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4554
4555
4556Exim version 4.42
4557-----------------
4558
4559 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4560 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4561 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4562 it was not quoted.
4563 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4564 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4565 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4566 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4567 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4568 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4569
4570 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4571 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4572 verification failure".
4573
4574 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4575 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4576 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4577 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4578
4579 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4580 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4581 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4582 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4583 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4584 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4585 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4586 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4587 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4588 treated as a timeout.
4589
4590 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4591 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4592 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4593 not set for Exim filters).
4594
4595 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4596 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4597 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4598
4599 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4600
4601 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4602 try to make them clearer.
4603
4604 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4605 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4606
4607 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4608
4609 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4610
461110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4612 only the Cygwin environment.
4613
461411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4615 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4616 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4617 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4618 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4619
462012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4621 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4622 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4623 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4624 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4625 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4626 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4627
462813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4629 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4630
463114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4632
4633 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4634 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4635 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4636
4637 To: susanne@some.where
4638
4639 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4640 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4641 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4642 of addresses in From: header lines).
4643
4644 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4645 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4646 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4647
4648 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4649 treated as non-personal.
4650
4651 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4652 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4653
465415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4655
465616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4657
465817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4659 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4660 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4661
466218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4663 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4664
466519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4666 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4667 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4668 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4669 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4670 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4671
467220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4673 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4674 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4675 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4676 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4677 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4678 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4679 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4680
4681 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4682
468321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4684 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4685
468622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4687 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4688 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4689
469023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4691 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4692
469324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4694 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4695 rather than long int.
4696
469725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4698
469926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4700
4701
4702Exim version 4.41
4703-----------------
4704
4705 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4706 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4707 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4708 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4709 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4710 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4711
4712
4713Exim version 4.40
4714-----------------
4715
4716 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4717 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4718
4719 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4720 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4721 socklen_t is defined.
4722
4723 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4724 always exist.
4725
4726 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4727 configured.
4728
4729 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4730 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4731 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4732 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4733 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4734
4735 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4736 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4737 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4738 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4739
4740 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4741 of flapping under certain conditions.
4742
4743 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4744 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4745 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4746
4747 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4748
474910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4750
475111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4752 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4753 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4754 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4755
475612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4757 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4758 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4759 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4760 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4761 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4762 preserved with the message after it was received.
4763
476413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4765 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4766 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4767 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4768 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4769 test suite worked just fine.
4770
477114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4772 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4773 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4774
477515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4776 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4777 string.
4778
477916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4780 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4781 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4782 does not fully solve it.
4783
478417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4785 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4786 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4787 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4788 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4789
479018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4791 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4792 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4793
479419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4795 string, for example:
4796
4797 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4798
4799 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4800 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4801 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4802 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4803 the routers could not see them.
4804
480520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4806 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4807
480821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4809 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4810 output).
4811
481222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4813 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4814 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4815 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4816 that needed quoting.
4817
481823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4819 was not being matched caselessly.
4820
482124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4822 backslashes.
4823
482425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4825 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4826 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4827 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4828 when use_sender is false.
4829
483026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4831
483227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4833
483428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4835
483629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4837 the configuration file.
4838
483930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4840 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4841
484231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4843
484432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4845 bytes in the message body.
4846
484733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4848 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4849 delivery.
4850
485134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4852
485335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4854
485536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4856 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4857 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4858 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4859 another IP address.
4860
4861
4862Exim version 4.34
4863-----------------
4864
4865 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4866 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4867
4868 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4869 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4870 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4871 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4872 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4873
4874 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4875 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4876
4877 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4878 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4879 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4880
4881 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4882 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4883 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4884
4885 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4886 for routers.
4887
4888 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4889 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4890 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4891 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4892 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4893 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4894 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4895
4896
4897Exim version 4.33
4898-----------------
4899
4900 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4901 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4902 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4903 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4904 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4905 default (and expected) setting.
4906
4907 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4908 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4909 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4910 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4911
4912 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4913 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4914
4915 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4916 in domain lists.
4917
4918 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4919 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4920 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4921 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4922 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4923 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4924
4925 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4926 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4927 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4928
4929 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4930 part (NOT match_host).
4931
4932 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4933
4934 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4935 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4936 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4937 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4938 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4939 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4940 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4941 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4942 the same named file.
4943
494410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4945 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4946 when Exim is built.
4947
494811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4949 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4950 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4951 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4952 a host name.
4953
495412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4955 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4956 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4957
495813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4959
496014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4961
496215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4963
496416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4965 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4966
496717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4968 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4969 before starting the TLS session.
4970
497118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4972
497319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4974 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4975
497620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4977 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4978 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4979 colon in the middle).
4980
4981
4982Exim version 4.32
4983-----------------
4984
4985 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4986 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4987 multiple configurations are in use.
4988
4989 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4990 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4991 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4992 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4993 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4994 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4995
4996 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4997 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4998
4999 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5000 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5001 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5002
5003 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5004 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5005 occurs.
5006
5007 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5008 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5009
5010 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5011
5012 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5013 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5014
5015 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5016
5017 -prval:sval
5018
5019 is equivalent to
5020
5021 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5022
5023 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5024 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5025 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5026 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5027 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5028
502910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5030 Exim's behaviour:
5031
5032 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5033 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5034 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5035 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5036 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5037 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5038
5039 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5040 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5041 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5042 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5043 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5044 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5045 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5046 string.
5047
5048 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5049 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5050 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5051 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5052 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5053
505411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5055
505612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5057 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5058 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5059
506013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5061
506214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5063 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5064 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5065 information.
5066
506715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5068 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5069
507016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5071 Three changes have been made:
5072
5073 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5074 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5075 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5076 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5077 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5078
5079 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5080 been restored.
5081
5082 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5083 the modified behaviour.
5084
5085
5086Exim version 4.31
5087-----------------
5088
5089 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5090 Larry Rosenman.
5091
5092 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5093 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5094
5095 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5096 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5097 try to track down a specific problem.
5098
5099 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5100 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5101 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5102
5103 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5104 warning.
5105
5106 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5107 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5108 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5109 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5110 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5111 some earlier ones do not.
5112
5113 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5114
5115 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5116 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5117 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5118 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5119 address literals are enabled, of course).
5120
5121 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5122
512310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5124 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5125 by a command such as
5126
5127 exim -f "" ...
5128
5129 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5130
513111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5132
513312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5134 remained set. It is now erased.
5135
513613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5137 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5138
513914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5140 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5141 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5142 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5143 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5144 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5145 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5146 appropriate error code.
5147
514815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5149 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5150 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5151 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5152 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5153 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5154
515516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5156 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5157 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5158
515917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5160 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5161 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5162 terminate the header.
5163
516418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5165 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5166 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5167
516819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5169 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5170 (4.30/29). In particular:
5171
5172 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5173 imposed.
5174
5175 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5176 to write a maildirsize file.
5177
5178 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5179 the transport, the new value overrides.
5180
5181 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5182 count.
5183
518420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5185 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5186 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5187 space or a tab.
5188
518921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5190 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5191 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5192 the fallback hosts.
5193
519422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5195 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5196 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5197
519823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5199 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5200 using a union.
5201
520224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5203 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5204 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5205
520625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5207
520826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5209
521027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5211
521228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5213 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5214 become corrupted.
5215
521629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5217 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5218 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5219 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5220 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5221 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5222 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5223 too great.
5224
522530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5226 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5227 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5228 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5229 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5230 incorrectly.
5231
523231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5233 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5234 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5235 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5236 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5237 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5238 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5239 cached value only when the same options are set.
5240
524132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5242
524333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5244 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5245 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5246 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5247 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5248
524934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5250 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5251 it is clearly obsolete.
5252
525335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5254 transport.
5255
525636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5257 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5258 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5259 times.
5260
526137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5262 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5263 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5264 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5265 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5266
526738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5268 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5269 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5270 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5271
527239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5273
5274 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5275
5276 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5277 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5278 2^31.
5279
528040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5281 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5282 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5283 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5284 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5285 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5286 $localpart_data.
5287
528841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5289 with the -f command-line option.
5290
529142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5292 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5293 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5294 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5295 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5296 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5297
529843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5299 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5300 line.
5301
530244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5303 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5304 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5305 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5306 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5307 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5308 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5309 buffer is too small.
5310
531145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5312 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5313
531446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5315 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5316 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5317 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5318 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5319 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5320 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5321 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5322 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5323
532447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5325 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5326 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5327
532848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5329 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5330 ACL").
5331
533249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5333 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5334 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5335 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5336 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5337
533850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5339 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5340 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5341 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5342 is set.
5343
534451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5345
534652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5347
534853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5349 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5350
535154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5352 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5353 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5354
535555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5356 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5357 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5358 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5359 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5360
536156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5362 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5363 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5364 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5365 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5366 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5367 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5368
536957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5370 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5371 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5372 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5373 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5374 the test of how many are available.
5375
537658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5377 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5378 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5379 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5380 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5381 new message is started.
5382
538359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5384 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5385
538660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5387 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5388
538961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5390 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5391 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5392 is no long logged.
5393
539462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5395 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5396 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5397 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5398 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5399 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5400 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5401
540263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5403 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5404 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5405 interpreted as octal.
5406
540764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5408 setting.
5409
541065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5411 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5412 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5413 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5414 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5415 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5416
541766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5418 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5419 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5420 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5421
5422 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5423 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5424 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5425 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5426
5427 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5428 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5429 is a bug fix.
5430
5431 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5432 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5433
543467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5435
543668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5437 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5438 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5439 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5440
544169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5442 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5443 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5444 supplied", which is not helpful.
5445
544670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5447 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5448 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5449
545071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5451 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5452 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5453 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5454 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5455 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5456 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5457 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5458
545972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5460 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5461 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5462 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5463 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5464
546573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5466 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5467 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5468 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5469 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5470 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5471
547274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5473 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5474 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5475
547675. Added write_rejectlog option.
5477
547876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5479 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5480 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5481 variables.
5482
548377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5484
548578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5486 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5487 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5488 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5489 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5490 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5491 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5492 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5493
549479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5495 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5496 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5497 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5498 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5499
550080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5501 Haardt.
5502
550381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5504 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5505 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5506 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5507 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5508 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5509 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5510 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5511 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5512
5513
5514Exim version 4.30
5515-----------------
5516
5517 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5518 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5519 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5520
5521 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5522 fixed.
5523
5524 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5525 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5526 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5527
5528 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5529 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5530 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5531 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5532 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5533 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5534
5535 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5536 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5537 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5538 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5539 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5540 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5541 the Exim test suite.
5542
5543 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5544 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5545 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5546 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5547
5548 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5549 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5550 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5551 specify it in this variable.
5552
5553 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5554 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5555 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5556 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5557
5558 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5559 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5560 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5561 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5562
5563 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5564 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5565 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5566 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5567 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5568
5569 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5570
557110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5572 they are logged.
5573
557411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5575 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5576 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5577 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5578 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5579
558012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5581 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5582
558313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5584 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5585 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5586 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5587 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5588
558914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5590 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5591
559215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5593 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5594 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5595
559616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5597 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5598
559917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5600 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5601
560218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5603 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5604 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5605
560619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5607 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5608
560920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5610 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5611 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5612 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5613
561421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5615
561622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5617 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5618 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5619 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5620
562123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5622
562324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5624 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5625
562625. Added .include_if_exists.
5627
562826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5629 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5630 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5631 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5632 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5633 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5634
563527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5636
563728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5638 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5639 this.
5640
564129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5642
564330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5644 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5645
5646 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5647 550 Sender verify failed
5648
5649 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5650 the final line of the response.
5651
565231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5653 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5654 all other user lookups.
5655
565632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5657 delivery time.
5658
565933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5660 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5661 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5662 result into an int without checking.
5663
566434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5665 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5666 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5667
566835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5669 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5670 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5671 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5672
567336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5674 correctly.
5675
567637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5677 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5678
567938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5680 to the empty sender.
5681
568239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5683 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5684 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5685 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5686 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5687 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5688 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5689 panic log.
5690
569140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5692 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5693 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5694 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5695 used.
5696
569741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5698 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5699
570042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5701 timestamps.
5702
570343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5704 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5705
570644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5707
570845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5709 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5710 logs.
5711
571246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5713 as soon as it is encountered.
5714
571547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5716
571748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5718 rewritten to "<>".
5719
572049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5721 recognizes a tab character.
5722
572350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5724 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5725 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5726 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5727
572851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5729
573052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5731 crash.
5732
573353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5734
573554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5736
573755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5738 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5739 2822.
5740
574156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5742 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5743 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5744 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5745 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5746
574757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5748 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5749
575058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5751 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5752 list (.included file names were always shown).
5753
575459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5755 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5756 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5757 root at that time.
5758
575960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5760 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5761
576261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5763
576462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5765
576663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5767
576864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5769 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5770 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5771 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5772 failures to open the logs.
5773
577465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5775 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5776 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5777 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5778 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5779 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5780 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5781
5782
5783Exim version 4.24
5784-----------------
5785
5786 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5787 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5788 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5789 change 4.23/1.
5790
5791 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5792 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5793 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5794
5795 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5796 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5797 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5798
5799 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5800 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5801 causing some misleading effects.
5802
5803 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5804 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5805 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5806
5807 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5808 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5809 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5810 queue-runner function directly.
5811
5812
5813Exim version 4.23
5814-----------------
5815
5816 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5817 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5818
5819 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5820 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5821 was always written to the default place.
5822
5823 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5824 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5825 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5826
5827 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5828
5829 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5830
5831 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5832 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5833 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5834
5835 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5836 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5837 must start.
5838
5839 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5840 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5841 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5842
5843 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5844 command line option is disabled.
5845
5846 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5847 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5848
5849 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5850
5851 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5852
5853 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5854 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5855
585610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5857
585811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5859 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5860 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5861 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5862 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5863 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5864
586512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5866 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5867 timeout.
5868
586913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5870 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5871
587214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5873 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5874
587515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5876 received was valid base64.
5877
587816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5879 name of the variable that was being set.
5880
588117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5882
588318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5884 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5885 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5886 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5887 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5888 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5889
589019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5891
589220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5893 nor realm was specified.
5894
589521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5896 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5897 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5898 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5899
590022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5901 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5902 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5903
590423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5905 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5906 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5907
590824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5909 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5910 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5911 some systems use these upper case variants.
5912
591325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5914 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5915 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5916 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5917
591826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5919
592027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5921 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5922
592328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5924 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5925 expansion variable.
5926
592729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5928
592930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5930 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5931 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5932 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5933
593431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5935 using it.
5936
593732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5938 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5939 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5940
594133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5942 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5943
594434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5945 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5946 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5947 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5948
594935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5950 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5951 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5952
595336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5954
595537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5956 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5957 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5958 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5959 aborted.
5960
596138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5962 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5963 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5964
596539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5966
596740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5968 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5969
597041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5971 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5972
597342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5974 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5975 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5976 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5977 when emails are that large.
5978
5979
5980
5981Exim version 4.22
5982-----------------
5983
5984 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5985 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5986
5987 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5988 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5989 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5990
5991 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5992 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5993 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5994
5995 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5996 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5997 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5998 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5999 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6000
6001 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6002 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6003 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6004 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6005 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6006 ever.
6007
6008 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6009 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6010 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6011 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6012 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6013 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6014 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6015 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6016 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6017 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6018 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6019 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6020 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6021 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6022
6023 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6024 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6025 parameterised it.
6026
6027 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6028 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6029 error should be diagnosed.
6030
6031 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6032 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6033 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6034 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6035 appeared instead of "NULL".
6036
603710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6038 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6039 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6040 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6041 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6042 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6043 proceeds).
6044
6045 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6046 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6047 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6048
6049
6050Exim version 4.21
6051-----------------
6052
6053 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6054 or receiver verification errors.
6055
6056 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6057 name.
6058
6059 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6060 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6061 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6062 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6063
6064 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6065 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6066 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6067 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6068 shouldn't happen again.
6069
6070 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6071 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6072 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6073
6074 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6075 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6076
6077 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6078
6079 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6080 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6081
6082 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6083 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6084 RFC.
6085
608610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6087 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6088 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6089
609011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6091 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6092 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6093 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6094
609512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6096 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6097 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6098 to define what should happen).
6099
610013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6101 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6102 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6103
610414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6105
610615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6107
610816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6109 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6110
611117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6112 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6113 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6114 structure in all cases.
6115
6116 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6117 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6118 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6119 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6120
612118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6122 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6123 domain name.
6124
612519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6126 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6127
612820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6129 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6130
613121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6132 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6133 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6134
613522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6136 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6137 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6138
613923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6140 the book and for uniformity.
6141
614224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6143
614425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6145 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6146 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6147 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6148 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6149 non-existent command as the problem.
6150
615126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6152 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6153 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6154
615527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6156
615728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6158 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6159 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6160
616129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6162 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6163 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6164 timestamps using strftime().
6165
616630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6167 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6168
616932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6170 transport-time rewrites.
6171
617233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6173 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6174 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6175 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6176
617734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6178 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6179
618035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6181 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6182 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6183 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6184 comma and a space.
6185
618636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6187 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6188 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6189 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6190 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6191 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6192 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6193
619437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6195 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6196 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6197 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6198 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6199
620038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6201 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6202 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6203 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6204 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6205 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6206 remaining text gets split now.
6207
620839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6209 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6210 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6211 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6212
621340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6214 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6215 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6216 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6217 $return_path.
6218
621941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6220 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6221 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6222 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6223 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6224 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6225 passed through if needed.
6226
622742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6228 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6229 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6230 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6231 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6232 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6233
623443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6235 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6236 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6237 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6238 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6239
624044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6241 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6242 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6243 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6244 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6245
624645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6247 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6248 noticed.
6249
625046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6251 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6252 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6253 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6254 mayhem of various kinds.
6255
625647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6257 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6258 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6259 the right test for positive values.
6260
626148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6262 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6263 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6264 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6265 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6266 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6267 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6268 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6269 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6270 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6271 envelope.
6272
627349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6274 module.
6275
627650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6277 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6278 forbidding it.
6279
628051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6281 the existing equality matching.
6282
628352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6284 dealing with inode numbers.
6285
628653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6287 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6288 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6289
629054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6291 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6292 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6293 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6294 local_scan().
6295
629655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6297 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6298 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6299 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6300 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6301 relay addresses has also been removed.
6302
630356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6304
630557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6306 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6307 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6308
630958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6310 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6311 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6312 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6313 processing applies to CR:
6314
6315 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6316 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6317
6318 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6319 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6320 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6321 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6322
632359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6324 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6325 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6326
632760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6328 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6329 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6330 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6331 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6332 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6333 arisen.
6334
633561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6336 program routers.
6337
633862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6339 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6340 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6341 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6342 adds:
6343
6344 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6345
6346 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6347
6348 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6349
635063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6351 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6352 not considered personal.
6353
635464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6355
635665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6357
635866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6359
636067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6361 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6362 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6363 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6364 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6365 header lines, and spool format errors.
6366
636768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6368 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6369 for more flexibility.
6370
637169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6372 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6373 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6374
637570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6376 Sabourenkov.
6377
637871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6379 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6380 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6381 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6382 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6383 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6384 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6385 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6386 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6387
638872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6389 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6390 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6391 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6392 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6393 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6394 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6395
639673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6397 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6398 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6399
640074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6401 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6402 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6403 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6404 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6405 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6406 instead of killing the process with assert().
6407
640875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6409 than Unicode encoding.
6410
641176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6412 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6413 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6414 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6415
641677. Added process_log_path.
6417
641878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6419 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6420
642179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6422 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6423
642480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6425 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6426 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6427
642881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6429 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6430 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6431 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6432 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6433 were applied:
6434
6435 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6436 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6437 as invalid.
6438
643982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6440 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6441 they will be used during message reception.
6442
6443
6444Exim version 4.20
6445-----------------
6446
6447The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6448
6449****