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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Exim version 4.93
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10
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11JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
12 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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fc243e94 14JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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15 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
16 its own TCP segment.
17
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18JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
19 each verb.
20
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21JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
22
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23JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
24
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25JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
26 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
27
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28JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
29 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
30 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
31 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
32 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
33 suitably configured).
34
c05bdbd6 35JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
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36 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
37
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38JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
39 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
40 crash could result.
41
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42JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
43 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
44
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45JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
46 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
47 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
48 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
49 to this system.
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51JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
52 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
53 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
54
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55JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
56 output.
57
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58JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
59 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
60
3c55eef2 61JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 62 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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63 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
64 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
65 input).
66
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67HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
68 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
69 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
70 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
71 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
72
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73HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
74 shared (NFS) environment.
75
76HS/02 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
77 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
78 affected.
79
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80JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
81 on some platforms for bit 31.
82
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83JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
84 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
85 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
86 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
87 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
88 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
89 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
90 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
91
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92JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
93
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95Exim version 4.92
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97
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98JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
99 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
100
101JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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102 non-signal-safe functions being used.
103
104JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
105 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
106 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
9723f966 107
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108JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
109 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
110 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
111
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112JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
113 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
114 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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115 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
116 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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117 messed with.
118
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119PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
120 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
121
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122JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
123 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
124 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
125 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
126 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
127 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
128 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
129
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130JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
131 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
132
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133JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
134 legitimate.
135
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136JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
137 Previously this would segfault.
138
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139JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
140 segfault.
141
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142JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
143 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
144 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
145 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
146 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
147 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
148
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149JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
150
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151JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
152 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
153 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
154 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
155
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156JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
157
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158JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
159 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
160 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
161 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
162
5054c4fd 163JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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164
165JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
5054c4fd 166
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167JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
168 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
169 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
170
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171JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
172 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
173 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
174
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175PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
176
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177JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
178 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
179 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
180 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
181
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182PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
183 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
184 promised '?' replacement.
185
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186PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
187
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188JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
189 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
190 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
191 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
192 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
193
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194JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
195 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
196 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
197
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198JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
199 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
200 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
201
7ea1237c 202JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 203 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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204 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
205
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206JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
207 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
208 hope that is portable enough.
209
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210JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
211 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
212 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
213 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
214
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215JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
216 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
217 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
218
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219JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
220 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
221 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
222 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
223
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224JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
225 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
226
75c121f0 227JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 228 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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229 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
230 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
231
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232JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
233 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
234 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
235
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236JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
237 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
238 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
239 the previous G, M, k.
240
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241JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
242 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
243 it was unset.
244
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245JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
246 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
247 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
248 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
249
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250JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
251 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
252
de6f74f2 253JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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254 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
255 off past the nul-terimation.
256
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257JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
258 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
259 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
260 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
261 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
262
aa6e77af 263JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
aaf3e414 264
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265JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
266 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
267 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
268 actually does fail.
269
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270AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
271 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
272
273JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
274 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
275 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
518b70e9 276
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277JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
278 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
279 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
280
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281JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
282 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
283
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285Exim version 4.91
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459fca58 287
c39c8870 288GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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289 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
290 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
291 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
292 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
293 be defined in redis_servers.
c39c8870 294
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295GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
296 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
297
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298JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
299 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
300 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
301 extant use locations.
302
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303JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
304 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
305
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306JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
307 Previously only the last row was returned.
308
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309JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
310 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
311 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
312 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
313 input.
314
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315JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
316 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
317 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
318 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
319 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
320 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
321 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
322 Main pool for expansions.
323 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
324 active in the testsuite.
325 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
326
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327JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
328 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
329 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
330 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
331 round-robin DNS.
332
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333JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
334 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
335 failure response.
336
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337JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
338 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
339 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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340
341JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
342 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
343 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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345JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
346 rows affected is given instead).
347
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348JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
349 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
350
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351JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
352 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
353 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
354 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
355 for all multi-message initiating connections.
356
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357JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
358 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
359 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
360
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361JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
362 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
363 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
364 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
365 separate.
366
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367JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
368 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
369 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
370 fake-reject.
371
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372HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
373
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374JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
375 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
376
aab9a843 377PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 378 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 379 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 380
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381JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
382 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
383 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
384 and send a quit.
385
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386JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
387 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
388
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389JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
390 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
391 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
392
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393JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
394 for the build is renamed.
395
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396JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
397 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
398 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
399
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400JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
401 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
402 result replacing the original.
403
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404JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
405 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
406 and the resources needed to be freed.
407
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408JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
409
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410JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
411 was not propagated.
412
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413JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
414 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
415 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
416 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
417
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418JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
419 length value. Previously this would segfault.
420
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421HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
422 newer versions of the scanner.
423
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424JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
425 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
426 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
427 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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428 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
429 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
430 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 431
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432JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
433 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
434 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
435 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
436 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
437 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
438 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
439 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
440 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
441 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
442
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443JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
444 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
445
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446JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
447
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448HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
449 allows proper process termination in container environments.
450
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451JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
452 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
453
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454JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
455 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
456 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
457
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458JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
459 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
460 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 461 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 462
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463JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
464 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
465 would be spooled.
466
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467PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
468 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
469
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470HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
471 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
472 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
473 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
474 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 475
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476JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
477 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
478 lines.
479
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480JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
481 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
482
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483PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
484 suffix list.
485
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486JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
487 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
488 "bare" representation.
489
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490JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
491 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
492 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
493 corrupted the output.
494
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498
499JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
500 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
501 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
502 pairs of long lines into single ones.
503
856d1e16
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504PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
505 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
506
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507JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
508 This permits better logging.
509
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510JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
511 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
512 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
513 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
514 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 515 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 516
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517JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
518 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
519 "exiwhat" output.
520
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521PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
522 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
523 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
524
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525JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
526 than 255 are no longer allowed.
527
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528JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
529 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
530 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
531 client, there is no benefit for these.
532 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
533 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
534 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
535 is used (3.2.4 +).
536
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537PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
538 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
539
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540JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
541 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
542 erroneously found still-pending ones.
543
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544JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
545 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
546
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547JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
548 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
549 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
550 signature and again for transmission.
551
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552JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
553 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 554 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 555
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556JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
557 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
558 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
559 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
560 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
561 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
562 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
563
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564JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
565 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
566 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 567 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 568
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569PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
570 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
571 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
572 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
573 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
574 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
575 processing options.
576
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577JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
578 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
579 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
580 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
581 connections.
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583PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
584 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
585 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
586 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
587 versions.
588
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589JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
590 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
591 inaccessible.
592
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593JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
594 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
595 banner-time rejection.
596
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597JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
598 callout/hold.
599
8e041ae0
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600PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
601 is the name of a transport.
833c70bc
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602 Fixes bug 2140.
603
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604HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
605
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606JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
607 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
608
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609JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
610 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
611 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
612 during compilation.
613
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614JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
615 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
616 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 617 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 618
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619JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
620 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
621 initial verify call returned a defer.
622
ad1a76fe 623JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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624 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
625
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626JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
627 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
628
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629JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
630 if present. Previously it was ignored.
631
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632JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
633 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
634
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635JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
636 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
637 extensible.
638
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639PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
640 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
641
dc4de9cc
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642PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
643 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
644 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
645
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646JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
647 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
648 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
649 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
650
0768462d 651HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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652 and confused the parent.
653
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654JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
655 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
656
9e0ed81f
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657JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
658 for log purposes.
659
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660JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
661 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
662 out-of-order delivery.
663
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664JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
665 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
666 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
667 error for the HELO.
668
e99a3a6c
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669JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
670 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
671 desynchronisation.
672
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673JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
674 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
675 one run was done. Bug 2189.
676
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677JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
678 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
679 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
680 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
681 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
682 message is still "Temporary local problem".
683
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684JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
685 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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686 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
687
688HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
689 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
690 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 691
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692JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
693 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
694 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
695 though a different problem.
696
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4c57a40e 700
9427e879 701JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 702 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 703
7b283890
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704JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
705
4c57a40e
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706PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
707 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
708
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709JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
710 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
711
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712JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
713 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
714 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
715 before acknowledging the chunk.
716
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717PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
718 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
719 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
720
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721JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
722 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
723 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
724 should.
725
726JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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727 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
728 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 729
bd8fbe36 730JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
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731 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
732
bd8fbe36
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733JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
734 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
735 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
736 body hash calculated value.
737
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738JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
739 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
740 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
741
44e6651b
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742JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
743
744JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
745 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
746
747JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
748 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
749 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
750
751JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
752 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
753 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
754 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
755 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
756 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
757
758JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
759 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
760 past that check, despite the cost.
761
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762JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
763 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
764 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
765
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766PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
767 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
768 TLS library to consume.
769
da88acae
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770PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
771
f6ef9370
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772PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
773
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774JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
775 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
776 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
777 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
778 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
779 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
780 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
781
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782PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
783
784PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
785
786PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
787 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
788 should be warning-free.
789
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790JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
791
792HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
793 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
794
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795HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
796 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
797 general solution here.
798
7dc5f827
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799PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
800 already-broken messages in the queue.
801
4bb432cb
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802JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
803
3b1a84c8
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804JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
805
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810JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
811 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 812
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813JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
814 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
815 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
816
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817JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
818 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
819 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
820 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
821 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
822 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
823 if one fails this test.
824 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
825 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
826
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827JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
828 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
829
23bb6982 830JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 831 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 832
0bd1b1ed 833JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 834 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 835
20b9a2dc
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836JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
837 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
838
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839JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
840 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
841
1a6230a3
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842JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
843
cfab9d68
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844JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
845 certificate).
846
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847JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
848 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
849 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
850 connection after a verify cache hit.
851 Do not update it with the verify result either.
852
853JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
854 when routing results in more than one destination address.
855
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856JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
857 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
858 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
859 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
860 when the cutthrough connection is made).
861
0d9fa8c0
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862JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
863 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
864
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865JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
866 Previously they were not counted.
867
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868JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
869 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
870 that needed the lookup.
871
4c04137d 872JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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873 distinguished as "(=".
874
1435d4b2
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875JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
876 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
877
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878JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
879
880JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
881 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 882
4c04137d 883JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
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884 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
885
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886JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
887 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
888 compatible.
889
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890JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
891 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
892 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
893 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
894
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895JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
896
f59aaaaa 897JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
JH
898 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
899 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 900
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901JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
902 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
903 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
904 be lost.
905
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906JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
907 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
908 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
909 itself :(
910
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911JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
912 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
913 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
914
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915JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
916 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
917 options.
918
ae5afa61
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919JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
920
317e40ac
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921PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
922 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
923
8b0fb68e
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924PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
925 are not in the system include path.
926
ad7fc6eb 927JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 928 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
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929 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
930 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 931
ee5b1e28
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932JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
933 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
934 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
935
5ddc9771
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936JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
937
8d73599f
JH
938HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
939 an incoming connection.
940
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941HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
942 to rspamd.
943
8e53a4fc
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944HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
945 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 946
87cb4a16 947JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 948 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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949
950
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954JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
955 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
956 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
957 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 958
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959TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
960 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
961
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962TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
963 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
964 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
965 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
966 outgoing I= field.
967
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968JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
969 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
970 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
971 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
972 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
973 check on the next write.
974
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975HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
976 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
977 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
978 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
979 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
980
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981JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
982 mime_regex ACL conditions.
983
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984JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
985 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
986 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
987
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988JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
989 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
990 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
991 an authenticate fail is not an error.
992
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993HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
994 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
995
4c04137d 996JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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997 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
998
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999JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1000 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1001 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1002 distinct.
1003
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1004JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1005
1006JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1007
ec0eb1a3
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1008JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1009
41e93589
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1010JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1011 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1012
98b98887 1013JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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1014 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1015
98b98887
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1016JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1017
858e91c2
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1018JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1019 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1020
1021JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1022
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1023JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1024 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1025
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1026JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1027
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1028JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1029 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1030 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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1031 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1032 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1033 they will retry in-clear.
1034 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1035 at installation time.
1036
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1037HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1038 with the $config_file variable.
1039
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1040JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1041 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1042 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1043 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1044 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1045
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1046GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1047 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1048 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1049 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1050 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1051
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1052JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1053
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1054JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1055 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1056 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1057 list order is no longer honoured.
1058
4c04137d 1059JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1060 for DKIM processing.
1061
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1062JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1063 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1064
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1065JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1066 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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1067 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1068 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1069
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1070JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1071 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1072
2d8d625b
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1073JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1074 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1075
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1076JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1077 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1078
f2f2c91b
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1079JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1080
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1081JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1082 cached by the daemon.
1083
de78e2d5
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1084JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1085 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1086
379ba7d0
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1087JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1088 keys are given for lookup.
1089
f444c2c7
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1090JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1091 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1092 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1093 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1094
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1095JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1096 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1097 server-side so match that on older versions.
1098
07c73177 1099JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1100 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1101 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1102
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1103JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1104 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1105
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1106JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1107 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1108 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1109 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1110 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1111 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1112 initial truncated version.
1113
ab9152ff 1114JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1115
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1116JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1117
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1118JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1119 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1120
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1121JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1122
bc3c7bb7 1123HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1124
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1125JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1126 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1127 induced overflows.
1128
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1129JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1130 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1131 stage.
1132
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1133JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1134 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1135
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1136JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1137 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1138 former class.
1139
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1140JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1141 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1142 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1143
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1144JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1145 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1146 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1147 extraction. Accept either.
1148
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1153JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1154 expanded.
1155
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1156JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1157
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1158JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1159 it.
1160
01a4a5c5 1161JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1162 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1163 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1164 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1165
cb1d7830 1166JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1167 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1168 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1169
610ff438 1170JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1171 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1172 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1173 TLS connections
610ff438 1174
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1175JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1176 sites use this now.
1177
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1178JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1179 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1180 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1181 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1182 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1183
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1184JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1185 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1186 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1187
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1188JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1189
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1190JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1191 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1192
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1193JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1194 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1195
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1196JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1197 /defer_ok option.
1198
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1199JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1200 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1201
fd4d8871 1202JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1203 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1204 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1205
1206JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1207 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1208 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1209
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1210JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1211 timeout value per server.
1212
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1213JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1214 now have the list separator specified.
1215
8a512ed5 1216JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1217 option values.
8a512ed5 1218
82c0c8ea 1219JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1220 under OpenSSL.
1221
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1222JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1223
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1224JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1225 rather than the verbs used.
1226
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1227JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1228 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1229
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1230JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1231
cfab9d68 1232HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1233 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1234
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1235JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1236 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1237
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1238HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1239 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1240
4c04137d 1241JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1242
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1243JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1244
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1245JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1246 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1247 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1248 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1249
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1250JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1251
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1252JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1253 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1254
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1255JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1256 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1257
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1258JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1259
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1260JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1261
7137ca4b
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1262JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1263
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1264JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1265 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1266
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1267JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1268 added for tls authenticator.
1269
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1270HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1271
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1276TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1277 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1278 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1279 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1280 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1281 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1282 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1283
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1284TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1285 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1286 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1287 function when detected.
1288
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1289JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1290 cause callback expansion.
1291
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1292TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1293 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1294 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1295 instead of bool when processing it.
1296
0f06b4f2 1297JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1298 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1299
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1300JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1301
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1302JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1303
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1304TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1305
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1306TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1307 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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1309JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1310 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1311 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1312 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1313 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1314 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1315
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1316JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1317 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1318 exceeded it.
1319
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1320JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1321 version 3.3.6 or later.
1322
4c04137d 1323JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1324 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1325 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1326 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1327 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1328 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1329 option is defined.
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1331TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1332 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1333
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1334JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1335 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1336 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1337 matches.
1338
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1339JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1340 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1341 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1342
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1343JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1344 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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1345
1346JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1347 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1348 syntax errors.
1349
3394b36a 1350JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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1351
1352JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1353 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1354
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1355TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1356 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1357 tarball.
1358
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1359JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1360
4c04137d 1361JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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1362 Bug 1561.
1363
1364JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1365 output list separator was used.
1366
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1370TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1371 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1372 return.
1f0ebb98 1373
a612424f 1374JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1375 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1377JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1378
1379TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1380 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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1385
1386TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1387
1388 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1389 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1390 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1391 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1392 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1393 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1394
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1395TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1396 utilities have not been installed.
1397
fd5dad68
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1398JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1399 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1400
5428a946
TL
1401TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1402 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1403
a3c86431
TL
1404TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1405 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
TL
1406 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1407 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1408
aa26e137
JH
1409JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1410
5a1b8443
WB
1411TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1412 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1413
72c9e342
PP
1414PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1415 not dns_use_dnssec.
1416
76f44207
WB
1417JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1418
770747fd
MFM
1419TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1420 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1421 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1422
8ddef691 1423TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1424 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1425 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1426 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1427 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1428 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1429
b9c2e32f
AR
1430JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1431
e45a1c37
JH
1432JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1433 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1434
67d81c10
JH
1435JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1436 failed delivery.
1437
b1f8e4f8
JH
1438JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1439
511a6c14 1440JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1441
1442JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1443 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1444
51c7471d
JH
1445JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1446 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1447
3695be34
TL
1448TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1449
1e06383a
TL
1450JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1451
76146973
JH
1452JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1453 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1454
1455 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1456 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1457 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1458
8c8b8274
TL
1459TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1460 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1461 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1462 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1463
35aba663
JH
1464JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1465
8c51eead 1466JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1467 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1468 lookup).
8c51eead 1469
deae092e
HS
1470TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1471 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1472 Schlichting.
35aba663 1473
fd3b6a4a 1474JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1475 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1476
8d91c6dc
LT
1477TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1478 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1479
2b4a568d
JH
1480JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1481
d2af03f4
HS
1482TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1483 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1484 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1485
9d1c15ef
JH
1486JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1487 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1488
44662487
JH
1489JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1490 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1491 hosts_request_ocsp.
1492
ed3bba5f 1493JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1494 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1495 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1496
8ccd00b1
JH
1497JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1498
8ded8589
TL
1499TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1500 Christian Aistleitner.
1501
f2de3a33
JH
1502JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1503
6eb02f88
TL
1504TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1505 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1506
00bff6f6
JH
1507JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1508 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1509
071c51f7
JH
1510JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1511 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1512
a6d4c44e
TF
1513TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1514 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1515
3ae173e7
ACK
1516TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1517 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1518
c13d09b8
TL
1519TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1520 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1521 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1522
0df4ab80
JH
1523JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1524
66be95e0
PP
1525PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1526 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1527 Jasper Wallace.
1528
1bd0d12b
JH
1529JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1530
0de7239e
TL
1531TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1532 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1533 CVE-2014-2972
1534
fd3b6a4a 1535
2c422e6f 1536Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1537-----------------
1538
1539PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1540
12f69989
PP
1541PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1542 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1543
54c90be1
PP
1544PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1545 by GnuTLS.
1546
1f4a55da
PP
1547PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1548 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1549 routines.
1550
13363eba 1551PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1552
66645890 1553PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1554 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1555 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1556 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1557 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1558
a3fb9793 1559PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1560 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1561 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1562 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1563 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1564 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1565
d27f98fe 1566TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1567
6822b909
TL
1568TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1569
e7568d51
TL
1570TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1571 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1572
ae0e32ee 1573TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1574 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1575 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1576
1577TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1578
e2658fff
TL
1579TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1580
83712b39
TL
1581TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1582 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1583
976b7e9f
JH
1584JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1585
be4a1376
JH
1586JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1587
ec4b68e5
PP
1588PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1589
d7148a07
NM
1590NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1591 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1592
585121e2 1593JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1594
2519e60d
TL
1595PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1596 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1597 function.
a5f239e4 1598
13d08c90
PP
1599PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1600 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1601
bef3ea7f
JH
1602JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1603 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1604 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1605
846726c5
JH
1606JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1607
3a796370
JH
1608JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1609
ea722490 1610JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1611 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1612
b1b05573
JH
1613JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1614 Bugzilla 884.
1615
362145b5
JH
1616JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1617 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1618
3c0a92dc
JH
1619JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1620 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1621
6d7c6175
PP
1622PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1623 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1624 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1625
6f123593
JH
1626JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1627 authenticators.
1628
c8e2fc1e
JH
1629JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1630 for control.
1631
005ac57f
PP
1632PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1633
3f1df0e3
PP
1634PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1635 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1636 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1637 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1638
67bd1ab3
TF
1639TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1640
1641 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1642 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1643 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1644 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1645 the retry rules.
1646
1647 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1648 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1649 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1650
1651 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1652 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1653 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1654 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1655
1ddeb334
TF
1656 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1657 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1658 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1659 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1660 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1661 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1662 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1663
1664 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1665 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1666
326cdc37
TF
1667TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1668
1669 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1670
1671 Resent-From: f
1672
1673 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1674 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1675 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1676 username as equal to the username.
1677
1678 This change corrects that bug.
1679
f62514b3
GF
1680GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1681 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1682 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1683
eb505532
TF
1684TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1685
14c7b357
PP
1686PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1687 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1688 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1689 NULL dereference and crash.
1690
94eaf700
PP
1691JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1692
6f5a440a
PP
1693PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1694 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1695 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1696
514ee161
SC
1697SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1698
fd98a5c6
JH
1699JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1700 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1701 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1702 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1703 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1704 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1705 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1706 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1707 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1708 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1709 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1710
035c7f1e
PP
1711PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1712 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1713
ff284120
PP
1714PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1715 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1716 Bugzilla 880.
1717
26e72755
PP
1718PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1719 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1720 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1721 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1722 an empty string is now equivalent.
1723
0fbd9bff
PP
1724PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1725 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1726 not performing validation itself.
1727
700d22f3
PP
1728PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1729 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1730
fcc8e047
JH
1731JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1732 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1733
4c04137d 1734TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1735
8c020188
PP
1736PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1737 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1738 other false fix of the same issue.
1739 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1740 Bugzilla 1363.
1741
d13cdd30
PP
1742PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1743 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1744
e2fbf4a2
PP
1745PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1746 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1747 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1748
f4c1088b
PP
1749PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1750 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1751 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1752
c5c2182f
PP
1753TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1754
73431ca9
JH
1755JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1756
2d07a215
TL
1757TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1758 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1759
a30a8861
TL
1760TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1761 Alexander Miroch.
1762
33382dd9
TL
1763TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1764 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1765 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1766 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1767 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1768
046172e6
TL
1769TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1770 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1771
581d7bee 1772TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1773 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1774 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1775
1776TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1777 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1778 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1779 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1780
237b2cf2
TL
1781TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1782
9fc5a352
TL
1783TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1784 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1785 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1786
b10e4ec2
TL
1787TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1788
e2cebd74
TL
1789TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1790 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1791 interaction.
1792
1793TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1794 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1795
2519e60d
TL
1796TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1797 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1798
e78e6ecf 1799
4263f395
PP
1800Exim version 4.80.1
1801-------------------
1802
1803PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1804 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1805 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1806
ea722490 1807
b1770b6e 1808Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1809-----------------
1810
1811PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1812 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1813 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1814
23c7e742
NM
1815NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1816
b322aac8
NM
1817NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1818 improved.
1819
4a891427
NM
1820NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1821
c1e794ba 1822PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1823
97753960
PP
1824PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1825
1826PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1827 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1828
df6303fa
PP
1829PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1830 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1831
7e6a8985
PP
1832PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1833 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1834
f1e05cc7 1835PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1836 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1837 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1838
4c287009
PP
1839PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1840
b98bb9ac
PP
1841PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1842 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1843
4a6a987a
PP
1844PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1845
c45dd180 1846PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1847
7db8d074
PP
1848PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1849 non-compliant senders.
1850 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1851
eae0036b 1852NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1853 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1854 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1855
dec5017e
PP
1856PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1857 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1858 in spool file corruption.
1859
c80c5570
PP
1860PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1861 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1862 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1863 "Got SSL error 2".
1864
076b11e2
PP
1865TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1866 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1867 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1868
5407bfff
JH
1869JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1870 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1871
9e45c72b
PP
1872JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1873
e74376d8
PP
1874PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1875 diagnostics.
1876 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1877
4c04137d 1878PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1879 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1880 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1881
7be682ca
PP
1882PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1883 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1884 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1885 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1886
ef840681
PP
1887PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1888 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1889
5bfb4cdf
PP
1890PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1891 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1892 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1893 resolver implementation change.
1894
c6e95d22
PP
1895PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1896 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1897
9cbad13b
PP
1898PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1899
9ee44efb
PP
1900PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1901
6a6084f8
PP
1902PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1903 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1904
12dd53c7
PP
1905PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1906 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1907
9e45c72b 1908JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1909 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1910
17c76198
PP
1911PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1912 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1913 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1914 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1915 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1916
53947857 1917PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1918
eae0036b 1919PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1920 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1921 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1922
9e45c72b 1923JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1924
7390e768
PP
1925PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1926 read-only, out of scope).
1927 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1928
08488c86
PP
1929PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1930 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1931 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1932 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1933
6475bd82
PP
1934PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1935
81f91683
PP
1936PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1937 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1938 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1939 real issues in debug logging.
1940
5779e6aa
PP
1941PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1942 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1943
3375e053
PP
1944PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1945 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1946 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1947
1948PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1949 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1950 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1951 problems.
3375e053 1952
9d26b8c0
PP
1953PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1954 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1955
57eb9e91 1956PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1957 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1958 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1959 needs to override this, it can.
1960
16880d1a
PP
1961PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1962 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1963 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1964
a799883d
PP
1965PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1966 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1967 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1968 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1969
3ecab157 1970PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1971
0599f9cf 1972
867fcbf5
PP
1973Exim version 4.77
1974-----------------
1975
1976PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1977 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1978
f1a29782
TF
1979TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1980
ab42bd23
TK
1981TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1982 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1983
0ca0cf52
TF
1984TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1985 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1986
921b12ca
TF
1987TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1988 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1989 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1990
1991 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1992 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1993 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1994 not safe for signals.
1995
1996 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1997 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1998 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1999 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2000 exiwhat.
2001
c99ce5c9
TF
2002TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2003
2004 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2005 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2006 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2007 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2008 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2009
2010 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2011 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2012 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2013 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2014 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2015 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2016
2017 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2018 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2019 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2020 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2021
2022 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2023 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2024 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2025 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2026
2027 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2028 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2029 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2030 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2031 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2032 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2033 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2034 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2035 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2036
2037 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2038 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2039 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2040 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2041
2042 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2043 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2044 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2045 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2046 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2047 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2048 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2049 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2050 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2051 details in the main documentation.
2052
3634fc25
TF
2053TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2054
792e8a19
TF
2055TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2056
5901f0ab
TF
2057TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2058 repository when doing development or release builds.
2059
7f2a2a43
PP
2060PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2061 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2062
061b7ebd
PP
2063PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2064 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2065 Bugzilla 97.
2066
e12f8c32
PP
2067PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2068
9e949f00 2069PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2070 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2071
2072PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2073 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2074
555ae6af 2075PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2076 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2077
2078PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2079 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2080
6f7fe114
PP
2081PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2082 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2083
c566dd90
PP
2084PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2085 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2086 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2087 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2088
d6cc7c78 2089PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2090 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2091 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2092
0d0e4455
PP
2093PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2094
3399bb60 2095PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2096
2097PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2098 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2099
0ca0cf52 2100
10906672
PP
2101Exim version 4.76
2102-----------------
2103
2104PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2105
754a0503
PP
2106PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2107 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2108
c0c7b2da
PP
2109PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2110
e97d1f08
PP
2111PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2112
084c1d8c
PP
2113PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2114 Bugzilla 1098.
2115
4e7ee012
PP
2116PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2117 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2118
c8d52a00
PP
2119TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2120 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2121
54e7ce4a
PP
2122PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2123 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2124
5ee6f336
PP
2125PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2126 Bugzilla 1104.
2127
c8d52a00 2128TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2129 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2130
2131TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2132 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2133 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2134 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2135
2136PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2137 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2138
10906672 2139
aa097c4c
NM
2140Exim version 4.75
2141-----------------
2142
4c04137d 2143NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2144 Bugzilla 1073
2145
7f3d9eff
TF
2146TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2147 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2148 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2149
159f52d2
TF
2150TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2151 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2152
0cc9542a
PP
2153PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2154 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2155 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2156
f7274286
PP
2157PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2158 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2159
7b797365
PP
2160PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2161 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2162
caacae52
NM
2163NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2164 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2165
09dcaba9
NM
2166NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2167 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2168
bc19a55b
PP
2169PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2170 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2171
bd4c9759
NM
2172NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2173 Fixes bug 943.
2174
b72aab72
PP
2175PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2176 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2177
2fe76745
PP
2178PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2179 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2180
76aa570c
PP
2181PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2182 SQL string expansion failure details.
2183 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2184
f1e5fef5
PP
2185PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2186 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2187
4d805ee9
PP
2188PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2189 extern declarations in function scope.
2190 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2191
cd59ab18
PP
2192PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2193 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2194 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2195 a kernel bug).
2196
332f5cf3
PP
2197PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2198 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2199
29cfeb94
PP
2200PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2201 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2202
660242ad
PP
2203PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2204 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2205
bc4bc4c5
PP
2206PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2207 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2208
2e64baa9
NM
2209NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2210 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2211 Dennis Davis.
2212
4c04137d 2213PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2214
6bac1a9a
PP
2215PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2216
552193f0
NM
2217NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2218 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2219
1b587e48
TF
2220TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2221 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2222
aa097c4c 2223
8c07b69f
TF
2224Exim version 4.74
2225-----------------
2226
2227TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2228 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2229
c0ea85ab
TF
2230TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2231 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2232
0761d44e
TF
2233TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2234
0a349494
PP
2235DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2236 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2237 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2238
2239PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2240 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2241 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2242
fea24b2e
PP
2243PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2244 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2245 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2246 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2247
6545de78
PP
2248PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2249 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2250 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2251 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2252
1670ef10
PP
2253PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2254 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2255 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2256 arbitrary files.
2257
c0886197
PP
2258PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2259 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2260
b7487bce
PP
2261PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2262 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2263 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2264 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2265 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2266
8c07b69f 2267
97fd1e48 2268Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2269-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2270
2271PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2272 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2273 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2274
6901c596
PP
2275PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2276 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2277
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2278JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2279
77bb000f
PP
2280PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2281
a29e5231
PP
2282PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2283
ec5a0394 2284PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2285
55c75993
PP
2286PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2287
453a6645 2288PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2289 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2290 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2291 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2292
8544e77a
PP
2293PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2294 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2295 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2296 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2297 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2298
83e029d5
PP
2299PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2300
ed7f7860
PP
2301PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2302
7d9f747b
PP
2303PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2304
4b2241d2
PP
2305PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2306
10385c15
PP
2307PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2308
dbc4b90d
PP
2309PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2310
532be449
PP
2311PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2312
6a8de854 2313PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2314 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2315 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2316
5dc43717
JJ
2317JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2318
2319JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2320 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2321
3346ab01
PP
2322PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2323 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2324
491fab4c
PP
2325PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2326 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2327 Notification from John Horne.
2328
13eb9497
PP
2329PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2330 compatible.
2331
2332PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2333 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2334 it normally works.
2335
7f36d675
DW
2336DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2337 access.
2338
c1d94452
DW
2339DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2340 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2341 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2342
e2f5dc15
DW
2343DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2344 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2345 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2346 configuration file.
2347
cd25e41d
DW
2348DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2349 option (effectively making it always true).
2350
261dc43e
DW
2351DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2352 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2353
fa32850b
DW
2354DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2355 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2356
79d4bc3d
PP
2357PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2358 run-time user, instead of root.
2359
43236f35 2360PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2361 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2362
fb08281f
DW
2363DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2364 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2365 arguments.
3346ab01 2366
74935b98
DW
2367DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2368 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2369 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2370
90b6341f
DW
2371DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2372
57730b52
ML
2373NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2374
66581d1e 2375
465e92cf
JJ
2376Exim version 4.72
2377-----------------
2378
453a6645
PP
2379JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2380 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2381 typos
465e92cf 2382
453a6645
PP
2383JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2384 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2385 (Finput)
edae0343 2386
9bd3e22c
NM
2387NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2388 Patch from Alain Williams
2389
bb576ff7
NM
2390NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2391
5a1a5845
NM
2392NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2393 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2394
981a9fad
NM
2395NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2396 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2397
7fc497ee
NM
2398NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2399
1a41defa
JJ
2400JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2401
a466095c 2402NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2403 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2404
94a6bd0b
NM
2405TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2406
2407TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2408
2409MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2410 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2411 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2412
c1b141a8
NM
2413NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2414 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2415
b26eacf1 2416NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2417 Patch by Simon Arlott
2418
179c5980 2419PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2420 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2421
9bd3e22c 2422
7c6d71af
NM
2423Exim version 4.71
2424-----------------
2425
7d9f747b 2426TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2427
f013fb92
NM
2428NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2429
0eb8eedd
NM
2430NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2431
663ee6d9
NM
2432NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2433
177ebd9b
NM
2434NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2435
7c6d71af 2436
210f147e
NM
2437Exim version 4.70
2438-----------------
2439
cdd3bb85 2440TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2441 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2442
2443TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2444 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2445 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2446
2447TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2448 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2449 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2450
2451TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2452 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2453
210f147e
NM
2454NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2455 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2456 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2457 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2458
deafd5b3
NM
2459NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2460 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2461 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2462
089793a4
TF
2463TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2464
5f16ca82
TF
2465TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2466
dae9d94e 2467NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2468 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2469
7d9f747b 2470NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2471
06864c44
TF
2472TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2473 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2474 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2475 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2476
65a7d8c3 2477NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2478 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2479
23510047 2480TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2481
7d9f747b 2482NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2483
7d8eec3a 2484NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2485 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2486
89dec7b6
TF
2487TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2488 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2489
a99de90c
TF
2490TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2491 that they are available at delivery time.
2492
e2803e40
TF
2493TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2494
7199e1ee
TF
2495TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2496 incoming_port log selectors.
2497
e276e04b
TF
2498TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2499 setting expands to an empty string.
2500
ce552449 2501NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2502 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2503
e765a0f1 2504NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2505 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2506
4f054c63 2507NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2508 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2509
7d9f747b
PP
2510NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2511 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2512
7d9f747b
PP
2513NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2514 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2515
b52bc06e 2516NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2517 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2518
447de4b0
NM
2519NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2520
4c69d561 2521NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2522 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2523
d5c39246 2524NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2525 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2526
0b23848a
TK
2527TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2528
8f3414a1 2529NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2530 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2531
fb6f955d
NM
2532NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2533
2534NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2535
7d9f747b
PP
2536NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2537 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2538
7d9f747b
PP
2539NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2540 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2541
7d9f747b
PP
2542NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2543 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2544
7d9f747b
PP
2545NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2546 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2547
7d9f747b
PP
2548NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2549 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2550
7d9f747b
PP
2551NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2552 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2553
7d9f747b
PP
2554NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2555 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2556
7d9f747b 2557NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2558 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2559
7d9f747b 2560NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2561
7d9f747b
PP
2562NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2563 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2564
7d9f747b 2565NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2566
7d9f747b 2567NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2568
7d9f747b 2569NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2570
7d9f747b 2571NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2572
17792b53 2573NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2574 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2575
7d9f747b
PP
2576NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2577 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2578
91576cec 2579NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2580 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2581
7d9f747b
PP
2582NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2583 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2584
7d9f747b 2585NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2586
7d9f747b 2587NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2588
7d9f747b 2589NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2590
7d9f747b 2591NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2592
deafd5b3 2593
47db1125
NM
2594Exim version 4.69
2595-----------------
2596
4b3504d0
TK
2597TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2598 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2599 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2600
2601 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2602 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2603 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2604 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2605 build errors in sieve.c.
2606
81ea09ca
NM
2607NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2608 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2609 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2610
f13cddcb
SC
2611SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2612
7d9f747b 2613NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2614
7d9f747b 2615NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2616
7d9f747b 2617NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2618
2619
eb4c0de6
PH
2620Exim version 4.68
2621-----------------
2622
2623PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2624
6a3bceb1
PH
2625PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2626 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2627 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2628 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2629 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2630 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2631 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2632 for iplsearch lookups.
2633
2634 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2635 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2636 previously such lookups could never work.
2637
4c04137d 2638 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2639 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2640 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2641
2e30fa9d
TK
2642TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2643 version.
2644
0806a9c5
MH
2645MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2646 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2647 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2648 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2649 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2650 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2651
ae276964
TK
2652TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2653 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2654
0f2cbd1b
MH
2655MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2656 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2657 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2658 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2659 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2660 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2661
2b85bce7
PH
2662PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2663 local_scan API.
2664
93655c46
PH
2665PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2666
6c512171
PH
2667PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2668 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2669 encrypted.
2670
2671PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2672 by clients under certain conditions.
2673
aa6dc513
PH
2674PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2675 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2676
a96603a0
PH
2677PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2678
8f240103
PH
2679PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2680 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2681
2682PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2683
d677b2f2
PH
2684PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2685
d52120f2
PH
2686PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2687
64f2600a
PH
2688PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2689 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2690
8669f003
PH
2691PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2692
a4dc33a8
PH
2693PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2694 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2695
d6a60c0f
PH
2696PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2697
8f128379
PH
2698PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2699
8932dffe
PH
2700PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2701 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2702 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2703 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2704
ddea74fa 2705PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2706 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2707 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2708
ddea74fa 2709PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2710 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2711
ddea74fa
PH
2712PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2713
ce9f225c
PH
2714PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2715
19897d52
PH
2716PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2717
bc64a74d
PH
2718PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2719 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2720 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2721
eb4c0de6 2722
b4ed4da0
PH
2723Exim version 4.67
2724-----------------
2725
22ad45c9
MH
2726MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2727 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2728 Jan Srzednicki.
2729
b4ed4da0
PH
2730PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2731 issue a MAIL command.
2732
431b7361
PH
2733PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2734
2735 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2736
2737 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2738 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2739 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2740 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2741 item. This has been fixed.
2742
2743PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2744 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2745
83da1223
PH
2746PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2747 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2748
54fc8428
PH
2749PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2750 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2751 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2752
34c5e8dd
SC
2753SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2754
bbe15da8
PH
2755PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2756 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2757 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2758 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2759 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2760
0e8a9471
MH
2761MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2762 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2763 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2764
f0872424
PH
2765PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2766 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2767 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2768 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2769
b01dd148
PH
2770PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2771
6bf342e1
PH
2772PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2773
273f34d0
PH
2774PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2775 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2776 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2777 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2778 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2779
cf8b11a5
PH
2780PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2781
41c7c167
PH
2782PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2783 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2784 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2785 values).
2786
9c57cbc0
PH
2787PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2788
f3f065bb
PH
2789PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2790
047bdd8c
PH
2791PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2792
0ce9abe6
PH
2793PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2794
0e22dfd1
PH
2795PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2796
4c590bd1
PH
2797PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2798 no_callout_flush is set.
2799
09945f1e
PH
2800PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2801 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2802 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2803 fixed.
2804
c51b8e75
PH
2805PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2806
e28326d8 2807PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2808 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2809 other ACL rejections are.
2810
75b1493f
PH
2811PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2812 with slight modification.
2813
7c5214ec
PH
2814PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2815 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2816
4311097e
PH
2817PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2818 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2819 connection.
2820
29f89cad
PH
2821PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2822 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2823
5e687460
SC
2824SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2825
c3611384
PH
2826PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2827 expansion side effects.
2828
5a11a7b4
PH
2829PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2830 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2831 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2832 be the same.
2833
0e20aff9
MH
2834MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2835 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2836 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2837
ca86f471
PH
2838PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2839 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2840 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2841 were accidentally chopped off.
2842
a14e5636
PH
2843PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2844 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2845 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2846 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2847 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2848 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2849 pipelining has not been advertised.
2850
ec95d1a6
PH
2851PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2852
42855d71
PH
2853PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2854 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2855 This has been fixed.
2856
57c2c631
PH
2857PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2858 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2859 reported on Solaris.
2860
58c01c94
PH
2861PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2862 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2863 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2864 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2865 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2866 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2867 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2868
dee5a20a
PH
2869PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2870 cpus.
2871
d2ee6114
PH
2872PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2873
b2d5182b
PH
2874PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2875
79749a79
PH
2876PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2877 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2878 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2879 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2880 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2881 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2882
c456d9bb
PH
2883PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2884 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2885 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2886 host_all_ignored option.
2887
cd9868ec
PH
2888PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2889 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2890 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2891 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2892 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2893 is what is supposed to happen).
2894
ebeaf996
PH
2895PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2896 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2897 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2898 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2899 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2900 uses the Exim user.
2901
2679d413
PH
2902PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2903 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2904 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2905 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2906 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2907 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2908 users.
2909
84024b72
PH
2910PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2911
8005d38e
SC
2912SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2913 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2914 (Jez Hancock).
2915 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2916 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2917
3298c6c6
SC
2918SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2919
a43a27c5
PH
2920PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2921
58eb016e 2922PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2923 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2924 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2925 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2926 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2927 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2928 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2929 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2930 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2931 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2932 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2933
b43a74ea
PH
2934PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2935 advertised in response to EHLO.
2936
b4ed4da0 2937
5dd1517f
PH
2938Exim version 4.66
2939-----------------
2940
2941PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2942 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2943
2944 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2945 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2946
2947 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2948 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2949 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2950
2951 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2952 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2953 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2954 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2955 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2956
2957
93cfa765
TK
2958Exim version 4.65
2959-----------------
2960
2961TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2962 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2963 versions. (#438)
2964
d6066548
MH
2965MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2966 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2967 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2968
4362ff0d
PH
2969PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2970 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2971 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2972 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2973 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2974 rather than extend the field.
2975
93cfa765 2976
944e9e9c
TF
2977Exim version 4.64
2978-----------------
aa41d2de 2979
21d74bd9
TK
2980TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2981 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2982 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2983 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2984 these files.
2985
2986TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2987 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2988 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2989
2990TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2991 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2992 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2993
2994TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2995 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2996 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2997 in the field name.
2998
2b1c6e3a
PH
2999PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3000 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3001 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3002 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3003 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3004 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3005 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3006 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3007 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3008 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3009 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3010
1f872c80
PH
3011PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3012 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3013
3014PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3015 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3016 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3017 ignores EPIPE as well.
3018
d203e649
PH
3019PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3020 (quoted-printable decoding).
3021
cc2ed8f7 3022PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3023 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3024
ddfcd446
PH
3025PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3026
d45b1de8
PH
3027PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3028
3029PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3030
38a0a95f 3031PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3032 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3033
a2405d83
JJ
3034JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3035 in 4.64-PH/09.
3036
3037JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3038 miscellaneous code fixes
3039
6ea85e9a
PH
3040PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3041 rejections.
3042
26da7e20
PH
3043PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3044 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3045 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3046 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3047 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3048 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3049 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3050 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3051
14aa5a05 3052PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3053 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3054 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3055 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3056 function.
3057 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3058 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3059 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3060 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3061 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3062 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3063 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3064 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3065 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3066
ff75a1f7
PH
3067PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3068 decoding.
3069
e6f6568e
PH
3070PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3071 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3072 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3073 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3074 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3075 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3076 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3077 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3078
d6f6e0dc
PH
3079PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3080 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3081 list.
3082
322050c2
PH
3083PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3084 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3085 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3086 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3087 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3088 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3089 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3090 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3091 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3092 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3093 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3094 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3095 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3096
08955dd3
PH
3097PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3098 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3099 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3100 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3101 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3102 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3103 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3104
1eccaa59
PH
3105PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3106 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3107 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3108 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3109 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3110 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3111 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3112 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3113 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3114 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3115
602e59e5
PH
3116PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3117 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3118 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3119 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3120 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3121
411ef850
PH
3122PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3123 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3124 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3125 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3126 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3127 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3128 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3129
7befa435
PH
3130PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3131 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3132 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3133 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3134 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3135 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3136 been verified.
3137
48da4259 3138PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3139 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3140 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3141 and authorization.)
3142
48da4259
PH
3143PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3144 if any retry times were supplied.
3145
d1d5595c
PH
3146PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3147 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3148 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3149
0ef732d9
PH
3150PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3151
328895cc
PH
3152PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3153
fd700877
PH
3154PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3155 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3156 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3157 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3158 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3159 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3160
8dce1a6f
PH
3161PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3162 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3163
17af4a17
PH
3164PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3165 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3166 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3167
3168PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3169 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3170 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3171 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3172 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3173 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3174 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3175 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3176 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3177
3178 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3179 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3180 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3181 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3182 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3183 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3184 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3185 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3186 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3187
3188 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3189 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3190 hammering the server.
3191
c1114884
PH
3192PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3193 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3194
7a0743eb
PH
3195PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3196
0d85fa3f
PH
3197PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3198 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3199 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3200
1bf43b78
PH
3201PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3202 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3203 one case where this was not true.
3204
520de300
PH
3205PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3206 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3207 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3208 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3209 fails.
3210
48c7f9e2
PH
3211PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3212 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3213 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3214 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3215 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3216 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3217 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3218 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3219 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3220 smtp transport.
3221
99ea1c86
PH
3222PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3223 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3224 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3225 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3226
a2042e78
PH
3227PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3228 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3229
4fbcfc2e
PH
3230PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3231 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3232 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3233
aa41d2de
PH
3234PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3235
af561417
PH
3236PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3237
3cc66b45
PH
3238PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3239
194cc0e4
PH
3240PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3241 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3242 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3243 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3244
a401ddaa
PH
3245PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3246 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3247
4e88a19f
PH
3248PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3249 be meaningful with "accept".
3250
d7d7b289
SC
3251SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3252 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3253
3254SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3255 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3256 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3257
3258SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3259 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3260 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3261 there is data to show.
3262 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3263
3264SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3265 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3266 as well as the number of messages.
3267
3268SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3269 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3270 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3271
3272SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3273 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3274 have a flag are now skipped.
3275
3276SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3277 Added the -emptyok flag.
3278
3279SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3280 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3281
0ea2a468
JJ
3282JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3283 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3284 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3285
3286JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3287 match 4.64-PH/13
3288
3289JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3290 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3291
3292JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3293
3294JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3295 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3296
8a10f5a4
PH
3297PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3298
30e18802
PH
3299PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3300 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3301 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3302 contravention of the specifications.
3303
55728a4f
PH
3304PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3305 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3306 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3307
d7837193
PH
3308PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3309 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3310 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3311
87054a31
PH
3312PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3313
ea2c01d2
MH
3314MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3315 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3316 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3317 some point in the past.
3318
e4fa6968
PH
3319PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3320 transport during callout processing was broken.
3321
56f5d9bd
PH
3322PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3323 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3324
922e1c28
PH
3325PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3326 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3327
21eb6e72
PH
3328PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3329 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3330
a0540757
PH
3331PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3332
944e9e9c 3333
478be7b0
SC
3334Exim version 4.63
3335-----------------
3336
3337SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3338 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3339
3340SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3341 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3342 there is data to show.
3343 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3344
3345SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3346 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3347
2b965a65
TF
3348TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3349 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3350
45b91596
PH
3351TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3352 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3353
c59f5781
TF
3354TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3355 submissions from trusted users.
3356
90fc3069
TF
3357TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3358 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3359
6083aca0
TF
3360TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3361 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3362 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3363 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3364 there is now a framework to start from.
3365
765b530f
PH
3366PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3367 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3368 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3369
4e167a8c
PH
3370PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3371
4608d683
PH
3372PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3373
b8dc3e4a
PH
3374PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3375
5418e93b
PH
3376PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3377 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3378 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3379
b4a9bda2
PH
3380PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3381 libradius.
3382
45b91596
PH
3383PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3384 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3385 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3386
5547e2c5
PH
3387PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3388 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3389 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3390 its arguments.
3391
dbcef0ea
PH
3392PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3393 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3394 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3395 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3396 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3397
25257489
PH
3398PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3399 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3400
c816d124
PH
3401PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3402
a9ccd69a
PH
3403PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3404 operations in malware.c.
3405
75fa1910
PH
3406PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3407 signatures.
3408
a7d7aa58
PH
3409PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3410 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3411 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3412 all.
3413
42119b09
PH
3414PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3415 statements to "add_header".
3416
41609df5
PH
3417PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3418 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3419
a5bd321b
PH
3420PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3421 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3422 latter.
3423
e85a7ad5 3424PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3425 so that it is now:
3426
e85a7ad5
PH
3427 ${if or { \
3428 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3429 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3430 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3431 }{no}{yes}}
3432
e85a7ad5
PH
3433 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3434 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3435
d8fe1c03
PH
3436PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3437 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3438
16282d2b
PH
3439PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3440 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3441 any possible encoding problems.
3442
35d40a98
PH
3443PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3444 but not after initializing Perl.
3445
034d99ab
PH
3446PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3447 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3448 apparently, which is not desirable.
3449
6ec97b1b
PH
3450PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3451 queries.
3452
e22ca4ac
JJ
3453JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3454 --not options
3455
3456JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3457
33d73e3b
PH
3458PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3459 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3460 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3461 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3462
9ecb03f3
PH
3463PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3464 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3465 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3466
084efe8d
PH
3467PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3468 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3469 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3470 0.12.
3471
366fc9f0
PH
3472PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3473 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3474 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3475 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3476 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3477
c59f5781 3478
c887c79e
TF
3479Exim version 4.62
3480-----------------
3481
3482TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3483 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3484
1cce3af8
PH
3485PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3486 patch).
3487
afb3eaaf
PH
3488PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3489 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3490 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3491 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3492 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3493 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3494 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3495 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3496 451 error is used.
3497
e173618b
PH
3498PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3499
dd16e114
PH
3500PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3501 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3502 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3503
f7fd3850
PH
3504PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3505 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3506 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3507 odd errors.
3508
d87df92c
PH
3509PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3510 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3511
7e9f683d
PH
3512PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3513 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3514 option (which defaults to 0600).
3515
bfad5236
PH
3516PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3517
01c490df
PH
3518PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3519 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3520 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3521 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3522 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3523 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3524 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3525
d6629cdc
PH
3526PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3527
1cce3af8 3528
214e2000
PH
3529Exim version 4.61
3530-----------------
3531
3532PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3533 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3534 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3535 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3536 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3537 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3538 addresses as local.
3539
f9daeae0
PH
3540PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3541 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3542
7e66e54d
PH
3543PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3544
c8ea1597
PH
3545PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3546 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3547 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3548 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3549 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3550 grumble.
3551
911f6fde
PH
3552PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3553 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3554
47ca6d6c
PH
3555PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3556 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3557 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3558 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3559 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3560
ed0e9820
PH
3561PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3562 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3563 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3564 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3565
eff37e47
PH
3566PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3567 be the same on different OS.
3568
1921d2ea
PH
3569PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3570 testing.
3571
b3f69ca8
JJ
3572JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3573 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3574
3575JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3576 in 4.61-PH/06
3577
424a1c63
PH
3578PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3579 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3580 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3581 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3582 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3583 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3584 bounce message.
3585
7a100415
PH
3586PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3587 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3588 when Exim was called.
3589
19b9dc85
PH
3590PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3591 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3592
309bd837
PH
3593PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3594 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3595 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3596 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3597
59e82a2a
PH
3598PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3599 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3600 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3601 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3602 changes:
3603
3604 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3605 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3606 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3607
3608 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3609 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3610 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3611
9edc04ce
PH
3612PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3613 feature).
3614
1349e1e5
PH
3615PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3616 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3617 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3618 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3619 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3620 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3621 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3622 values from the SRV records were lost.
3623
ea49d0e1
PH
3624PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3625 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3626 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3627
064a94c9
PH
3628PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3629 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3630 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3631
727071f8
PH
3632PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3633 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3634 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3635 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3636 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3637 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3638 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3639 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3640 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3641 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3642
f78eb7c6
PH
3643PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3644 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3645 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3646
21c28500
PH
3647PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3648 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3649
3650PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3651 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3652 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3653 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3654 is given.
3655
1688f43b
PH
3656PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3657 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3658 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3659
3660PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3661 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3662 PH/23 above applies.
3663
9675b384
PH
3664PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3665 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3666 (for which there is an explicit test).
3667
6a3f1455
PH
3668PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3669
dac79d3e
PH
3670PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3671 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3672 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3673 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3674 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3675
5977a0b3
PH
3676PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3677 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3678 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3679 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3680
c91535f3
PH
3681PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3682 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3683 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3684
0d46a8c8
PH
3685PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3686
278c6e6c
PH
3687PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3688
2cbb4081
PH
3689PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3690 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3691 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3692
3eef829e
PH
3693PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3694 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3695 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3696 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3697 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3698
1ab95fa6
PH
3699PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3700 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3701 the message gets confusing).
3702
230205fc
PH
3703PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3704 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3705 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3706 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3707
75e0e026
PH
3708PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3709 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3710 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3711 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3712 same order.
3713
3714PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3715 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3716 the different processes.
3717
145396a6
PH
3718PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3719
3cd34f13
PH
3720PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3721
11121d3d
JJ
3722JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3723 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3724
3725JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3726 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3727
3728JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3729 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3730 messages matching specified criteria.
3731
8def5aaf
PH
3732PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3733
929ba01c
PH
3734PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3735 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3736
2632889e
PH
3737PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3738 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3739 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3740 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3741 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3742 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3743 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3744 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3745 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3746 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3747
944a9c55
PH
3748PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3749 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3750 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3751
4a23603b
PH
3752PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3753
4730f942
PH
3754PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3755 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3756 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3757 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3758 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3759 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3760 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3761 the variable.
3762
30dba1e6
PH
3763PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3764 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3765
382afc6b
PH
3766PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3767
a86229cf
PH
3768PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3769
50c99ba6
PH
3770PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3771
d35e429d
PH
3772PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3773 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3774 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3775 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3776 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3777 size of the count of files.
3778
f90d018c
PH
3779PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3780
75def545
PH
3781PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3782 used in LMTP mode:
3783
3784 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3785 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3786 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3787 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3788
3789 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3790 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3791 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3792
3793PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3794 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3795 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3796 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3797 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3798
c46782ef
PH
3799PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3800 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3801
71fafd95
PH
3802PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3803 will now be deprecated.
3804
2c5db4fd
PH
3805PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3806
9cf6b11a
JJ
3807JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3808 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3809 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3810
3811JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3812 with very large, slow to parse queues
3813
3814JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3815
3816JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3817
898d150f
PH
3818PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3819 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3820 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3821 SMTP output lines.
3822
46218253
PH
3823PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3824 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3825 Sieve code now uses this.
3826
e97957bc
PH
3827PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3828 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3829
81e509d7
PH
3830PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3831 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3832
3d240ff7
PH
3833PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3834
b37c4101
PH
3835PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3836 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3837 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3838 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3839 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3840
79378e0f
PH
3841PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3842 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3843 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3844 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3845
e49c7bb4
PH
3846PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3847
d114ec46
PH
3848PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3849
f3d7df6c
PH
3850PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3851 is preferred over IPv4.
3852
715ab376
PH
3853PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3854 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3855 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3856 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3857 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3858 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3859 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3860
6b31b150
PH
3861PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3862 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3863 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3864
3865PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3866
d515a917
PH
3867PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3868 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3869 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3870 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3871 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3872 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3873 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3874 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3875 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3876 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3877 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3878
9b8fadde
PH
3879PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3880 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3881 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3882
214e2000 3883
5de37277
PH
3884Exim version 4.60
3885-----------------
3886
cc38ddbf
PH
3887PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3888
3889 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3890 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3891
3892 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3893 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3894 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3895
72fdd6ae
PH
3896PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3897
3898 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3899 not a single digit.
3900
3901 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3902 string.
3903
3904 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3905 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3906 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3907 silly things.
3908
3909 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3910 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3911
3912 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3913 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3914
cb741023
PH
3915PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3916 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3917 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3918
f174f16e
PH
3919PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3920 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3921
c25242d7
PH
3922PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3923 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3924
3925 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3926
3927 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3928 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3929 this:
3930
3931 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3932
82c19f95
PH
3933PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3934 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3935 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3936 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3937 identical. For example:
3938
3939 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3940
3941 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3942 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3943 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3944
d7ffbc12
PH
3945PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3946 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3947 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3948 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3949
9f526266
PH
3950PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3951 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3952 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3953 message.
3954
87fcc8b9
PH
3955PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3956
3957 o fixes some comments
3958 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3959 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3960 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3961 and documents the missing references header update
3962
3963 and most important:
3964
3965 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3966 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3967 result)
3968
456682f5
PH
3969PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3970 Electronic Mail") by including:
3971
3972 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3973
3974 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3975 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3976 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3977 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3978 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3979
3980 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3981
3982 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3983
3984 The auto-replied keyword:
3985
3986 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3987 message by an automatic process,
3988
3989 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3990
3991 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3992 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3993
3994 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3995 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3996 other messages.
3997
3e46c1aa
PH
3998PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3999 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4000
49826d12
PH
4001PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4002
eba0c039
PH
4003PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4004 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4005 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4006
a0d6ba8a
PH
4007PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4008 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4009 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4010
f0917727
PH
4011PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4012 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4013 and treats the condition as false.
4014
096fee00
PH
4015PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4016
024bd3c2
PH
4017PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4018 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4019 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4020 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4021 not changing the active code.
4022
4023 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4024 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4025
4026 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4027 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4028
df199fec
PH
4029PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4030 (Bugzilla #53).
4031
d27f1df3
PH
4032PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4033 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4034 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4035 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4036 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4037 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4038 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4039 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4040 the text comparison.
4041
96776534
PH
4042PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4043 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4044 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4045 The same fix has been applied.
4046
5de37277 4047
9a799bc0
PH
4048Exim version 4.54
4049-----------------
4050
4051PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4052 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4053 It now does.
4054
99a4b039
PH
4055PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4056 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4057
4058PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4059
4b233853
PH
4060PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4061 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4062 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4063 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4064 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4065
8857ccfd
PH
4066TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4067 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4068 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4069 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4070 or /domain=).
4071
433a2980
PH
4072PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4073 testing suite.
4074
3e46c1aa 4075
9a799bc0 4076
e3a311ba
TK
4077Exim version 4.53
4078-----------------
4079
4080TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4081 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4082
13b685f9
PH
4083PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4084
395ff96d
PH
4085PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4086
5b68f6e4
PH
4087PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4088 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4089 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4090
1ab52c69
PH
4091PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4092 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4093 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4094
b07e6aa3
PH
4095PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4096 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4097 operating systems.
4098
254e032f
PH
4099PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4100 ${stat: expansion item.
4101
3af76a81
PH
4102PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4103 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4104
2548ba04
PH
4105PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4106 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4107 file for comments.
4108
b6c6011d
PH
4109PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4110
cf39cf57
PH
4111PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4112 setting.
4113
f1513293
PH
4114PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4115 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4116
727549a4
PH
4117TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4118
af46795e
PH
4119PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4120 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4121 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4122 the end of the subprocess.
4123
d7b47fd0
PH
4124PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4125 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4126 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4127 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4128 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4129
ee744174
JJ
4130JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4131
b582ab87
PH
4132TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4133
41a13e0a
PH
4134PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4135 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4136
f625cc5a
PH
4137PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4138
4139PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4140
21f7af35
PH
4141PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4142 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4143 HP-UX compiler.
4144
31480e42
PH
4145PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4146
2d280592
PH
4147PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4148 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4149 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4150
7cd1141b
PH
4151PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4152 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4153
4154PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4155 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4156
750af86e
PH
4157PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4158 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4159
4160 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4161 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4162
4163 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4164 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4165 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4166 contributed by a Radius user.
4167
4168PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4169 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4170
4304270b
TK
4171TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4172 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4173
750af86e
PH
4174PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4175 available.
4176
64ffc24f
PH
4177PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4178 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4179 received.
4180
5dd9625b
PH
4181PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4182 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4183 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4184 header lines when this was not necessary.
4185
5591031b
PH
4186PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4187
ba18e66a
PH
4188PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4189 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4190 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4191 exists".
4192
9cec981f
PH
4193PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4194 -bV or -d is used.
4195
aa2b5c79
PH
4196PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4197 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4198 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4199 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4200
48a53b7f
PH
4201PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4202
1c59d63b
PH
4203PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4204
671012da
TK
4205TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4206
1509d3a8
PH
4207PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4208
4209PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4210 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4211 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4212 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4213 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4214 settings.
4215
4216PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4217
2fe1a124
PH
4218PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4219 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4220 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4221 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4222 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4223 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4224 which is clearly wrong.
4225
8800895a
PH
4226PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4227
ccfdb010
PH
4228PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4229 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4230 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4231 subsequently added.
4232
1130bfb0
PH
4233PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4234 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4235
ebcb507f
PH
4236PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4237
c35e155c
PH
4238PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4239 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4240
95d1f782
PH
4241PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4242 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4243
fd6de02e
PH
4244PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4245 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4246
58de37c5
PH
4247PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4248 recipients, not senders.
4249
261cf466
TF
4250TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4251 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4252
3ee512ff
PH
4253PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4254
e08c430f
PH
4255PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4256
bef5a11f
PH
4257PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4258 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4259 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4260 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4261
7546de58
TF
4262TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4263
e5d5a95f
TF
4264TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4265 clock is set back in time.
4266
2e88a017
TF
4267TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4268 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4269
a5f65aa4
TF
4270TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4271 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4272
e7726cbf
PH
4273PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4274 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4275 (see PH/47 above).
4276
a7fdad5b
TF
4277TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4278 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4279 header rewrites.
4280
6af56900
PH
4281PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4282 type ("H").
4283
0925ede6
PH
4284PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4285
66afa403
TF
4286TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4287 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4288 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4289
0154e85a
TF
4290TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4291 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4292 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4293 helo verification defer as a failure.
4294
16f12c76
PH
4295PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4296 actual error message.
4297
bbe902f0 4298
e5a9dba6
PH
4299Exim version 4.52
4300-----------------
4301
4302TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4303
22c3b60b
PH
4304PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4305 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4306 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4307 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4308
06a9b4b5
PH
4309TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4310
c1ac6996
PH
4311PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4312 can still be requested.
4313
9c7a242c
PH
4314PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4315 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4316 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4317 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4318
87ba3f5f
PH
4319TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4320 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4321 circumstances, but probably never did.
4322
4323PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4324 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4325 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4326 in the header line.
4327
29aba418
TF
4328TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4329
fe0dab11
TF
4330TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4331 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4332
11d337a4
TK
4333TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4334
4335TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4336
415c8f3b
PH
4337PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4338 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4339 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4340 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4341 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4342 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4343
958541e9
PH
4344PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4345 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4346 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4347 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4348 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4349 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4350
c206415f
TK
4351TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4352 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4353
2a4be8f9
PH
4354PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4355 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4356
1cba11c5
SC
4357SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4358 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4359
4c04137d 4360SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4361
4362SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4363
4364SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4365
4366SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4367
4368SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4369
4370SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4371
1005d00e
TK
4372TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4373
4374TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4375 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4376 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4377
4378TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4379 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4380 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4381 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4382
9b4768fa
PH
4383PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4384 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4385 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4386
4387PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4388 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4389 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4390 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4391
0d7eb84a
PH
4392PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4393 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4394 to be made).
4395
4396PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4397 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4398 should work with maildirs and everything.
4399
40727bee
TK
4400TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4401 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4402
554d2369
TF
4403TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4404 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4405
1f922db1
PH
4406PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4407 function for BDB 4.3.
4408
ef213c3b
PH
4409PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4410
8ac170f3
PH
4411PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4412 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4413 involved.
4414
b1c749bb
PH
4415PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4416 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4417 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4418 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4419 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4420 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4421
4aac9b49
PH
4422PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4423 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4424 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4425 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4426 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4427 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4428 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4429 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4430
294520c8
TK
4431TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4432 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4433 details.
4434
5bd022fe
PH
4435PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4436 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4437
90e9ce59
PH
4438PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4439 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4440 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4441 test. It is now used for both.
4442
5ea81592
PH
4443PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4444 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4445 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4446 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4447 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4448 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4449
c6c2dc1d
PH
4450PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4451 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4452 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4453 string_vformat().
4454
fffffe4c
PH
4455PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4456 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4457 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4458
9a26b6b2
PH
4459PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4460 experimental DomainKeys support:
4461
4462 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4463 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4464 the control was given.
4465
4466 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4467
4aee0225
PH
4468PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4469
32d668a5
PH
4470PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4471
8187c3f3
PH
4472PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4473 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4474 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4475 db.h files).
4476
ff790e47 4477PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4478 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4479 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4480 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4481 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4482 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4483 course.
ff790e47 4484
5417f6d1
PH
4485PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4486 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4487 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4488 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4489 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4490 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4491
59cf8544
PH
4492PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4493 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4494 do -d+all out of habit.
4495
e7ad8a65
PH
4496PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4497 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4498 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4499
ade42478
PH
4500PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4501 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4502 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4503 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4504 record types that Exim uses.
4505
182ad5cf
PH
4506PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4507 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4508 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4509 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4510 non-existent file that was broken.
4511
b0d9fc80
TK
4512TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4513 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4514
4515TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4516 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4517 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4518
4519TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4520
47c7a64a
PH
4521PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4522 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4523 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4524 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4525 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4526 same time.
4527
a388bce4
SC
4528SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4529 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4530 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4531 at a slight CPU cost.
4532
4533SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4534 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4535
4536SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4537 by Marc Sherman.
4538
0793e4ed
SC
4539SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4540
c58b88df
PH
4541PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4542 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4543
e7ad8a65 4544
7982096b
PH
4545Exim version 4.51
4546-----------------
4547
1a46a8c5
PH
4548TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4549 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4550
2f079f46 4551TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4552
4553TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4554
4555PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4556 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4557
4558PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4559 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4560 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4561 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4562 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4563 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4564 file.
4565
4566PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4567 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4568 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4569 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4570 these two options.
4571
4572PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4573 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4574 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4575 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4576 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4577 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4578 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4579 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4580
4581PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4582 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4583
4584PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4585 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4586 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4587 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4588 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4589 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4590
4591PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4592 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4593 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4594 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4595
4596PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4597 Finch).
4598
4599PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4600 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4601
49c2d5ea
PH
4602PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4603 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4604 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4605 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4606 message.
49c2d5ea 4607
bf759a8b
PH
4608PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4609
83364d30
PH
4610PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4611 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4612
7999bbd7
PH
4613PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4614 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4615 to what was transported.)
4616
7dbf77c9
PH
4617TF/01 Added $received_time.
4618
74e0617f
PH
4619PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4620 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4621 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4622 spamd_address settings.
4623
2f079f46
PH
4624PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4625 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4626 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4627 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4628 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4629
8c841523
PH
4630PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4631
7766a4f0
PH
4632PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4633 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4634 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4635 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4636 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4637
8b417f2c
PH
4638PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4639 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4640
901f42cb
PH
4641PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4642 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4643 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4644 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4645 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4646 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4647 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4648 for failure.
4649
f9b9210e
PH
4650PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4651 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4652 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4653 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4654 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4655 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4656 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4657 "input=".
4658
54cdb463
PH
4659PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4660
cf00dad6
PH
4661PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4662 driver and ACL definitions.
4663
acb1b346
PH
4664PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4665 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4666
c5ddb310
PH
4667PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4668 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4669 understands it better than I do:
4670
4671 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4672 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4673
4674 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4675 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4676 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4677 => three warnings about OTP not working
4678 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4679
4680 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4681 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4682 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4683 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4684 for each call.)
4685 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4686 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4687
4688 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4689 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4690 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4691
31619da6
PH
4692PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4693 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4694 specified.
4695
bebaf0fc
PH
4696PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4697 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4698 "Linux".
4699
475fe28a
PH
4700PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4701 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4702 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4703
4704 warn !verify = sender
4705 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4706
4707 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4708 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4709
7e8bec7a
PH
4710PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4711
4712 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4713 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4714
4715 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4716 nomenclature these days.)
4717
e4a89c47
PH
4718PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4719 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4720
5ca2a9a1
PH
4721PH/30 In these circumstances:
4722 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4723 . First host does not offer TLS;
4724 . First host accepts first address;
4725 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4726 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4727 . Second host accepts second address.
4728 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4729 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4730 address.
7e8bec7a 4731
c688b954
PH
4732PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4733 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4734 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4735 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4736 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4737
fed77020
PH
4738PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4739 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4740
7fe1560f
PH
4741PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4742 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4743
ebb6e6d5
PH
4744PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4745 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4746 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4747
9c4e8f60
PH
4748PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4749 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4750 overlooked.
4751
4752PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4753
d7174846
PH
4754PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4755 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4756 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4757 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4758 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4759 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4760 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4761
4762 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4763 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4764 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4765 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4766 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4767
4768 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4769 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4770 routed further.
4771
cfe75fc3
PH
4772PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4773 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4774 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4775 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4776 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4777 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4778
be22d70e
PH
4779PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4780
0612b098
PH
4781PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4782 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4783 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4784 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4785 printable escape sequences.
4786
2e0c1448
PH
4787PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4788 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4789 body only.
4790
447d236c
PH
4791PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4792 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4793 are as follows:
4794
4795 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4796 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4797 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4798 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4799 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4800
4801 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4802 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4803 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4804
d20976dc
PH
4805PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4806
f656d135
PH
4807PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4808 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4809 play with."
4810
2e2a30b4
PH
4811PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4812 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4813 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4814 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4815 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4816 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4817 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4818 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4819 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4820 the log output.
4821
9176e9f0
PH
4822PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4823 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4824 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4825 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4826 "make".
4827
7982096b 4828
bbe902f0
PH
4829A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4830----------------------------------------
4831
4832Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4833changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4834needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4835in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4836that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4837release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4838from 4.43.
4839
4840I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
48414.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4842those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4843historical information.
4844
4845
f7b63901 4846Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4847-----------------
4848
5fe762f6
PH
4849 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4850
139059f6 4851 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4852 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4853
7086e875
PH
4854 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4855 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4856 place.
4857
35af9f61
PH
4858 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4859 filter fails to execute.
4860
b668c215
PH
4861 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4862 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4863 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4864 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4865 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4866
a494b1e1
PH
4867 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4868
4869 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4870 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4871 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4872 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4873
c5fcb476
PH
4874 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4875 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4876 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4877 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4878 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4879
69358f02
PH
4880 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4881
5be20824
PH
488210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4883
eb2c0248
PH
488411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4885 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4886 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4887 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4888
2a3eea10
PH
488912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4890 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4891 sender verification.
4892
489313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4894 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4895
23c7ff99
PH
489614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4897
4deaf07d
PH
489815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4899 connection timeout.
4900
926e1192
PH
490116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4902 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4903
650edc6f
PH
490417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4905 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4906
2c7db3f5
PH
490718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4908 information about exactly what failed.
4909
3d235903
PH
491019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4911
7c7ad977
PH
491220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4913 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4914 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4915
981756db
PH
491621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4917 It is now set to "smtps".
4918
d4eb88df
PH
491922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4920 ignore_target_hosts.
4921
492223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4923 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4924 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4925 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4926 "[x.x.x.x]".
4927
7d468ab8
PH
492824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4929 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4930 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4931
493225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4933 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4934 wake it up if nothing else does.
4935
62c0818f
PH
493626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4937 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4938 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4939 end up negative.
4940
26034054
PH
494127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4942 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4943
af66f652
PH
494428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4945
90af77f4
PH
494629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4947 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4948 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4949 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4950 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4951 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4952 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4953 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4954
d8ef3577
PH
495530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4956 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4957 than one IP address.
4958
5cb8cbc6
PH
495931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4960 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4961 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4962 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4963
14702f5b
PH
496432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4965 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4966 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4967 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4968 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4969 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4970
063b1e99
PH
497133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4972 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4973 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4974 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4975
652e1b65
PH
497634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4977 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4978 respected.
4979
6f0c9a4f
PH
498035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4981 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4982 $sender_host_address.
4983
33397d19
PH
498436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4985 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4986 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4987 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4988 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4989 very small.
4990
7bb56e1f
PH
499137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4992
4993 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4994 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4995
ea3bc19b
PH
4996 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4997 just the host names, not the priorities.
4998
4999 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5000 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5001 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5002
ea3bc19b 5003 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5004 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5005
0bcb2a0e
PH
500638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5007 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5008 domain.
5009
2ac0e484
PH
501039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5011
4e1fde53
PH
501240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5013 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5014
de365ded
PH
501541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5016 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5017 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5018
f05da2e8
PH
501942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5020
d6453af2
PH
502143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5022
f7b63901
PH
502344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5024
502545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5026 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5027 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5028 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5029 because the tests only now provoked it.
5030
a444213a
PH
503146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5032 (this can affect the format of dates).
5033
0ec020ea
PH
503447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5035 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5036 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5037 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5038
b1206957
PH
503948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5040
504149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5042 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5043 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5044 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5045
26dd5a95
PH
504650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5047 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5048 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5049
343b2385
PH
505051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5051 autoreply.
5052
1c5466b9
PH
505352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5054 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5055 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5056 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5057 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5058 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5059 is going on).
5060
55ee9ee3
PH
506153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5062 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5063 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5064 the line.
5065
d38f8232
PH
506654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5067 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5068 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5069
5070 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5071 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5072 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5073 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5074 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5075 so I produce this patch..."
5076
3295e65b
PH
5077 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5078 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5079 is not defined.
5080
7102e136
PH
508155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5082 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5083 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5084 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5085 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5086
3ca0ba97
PH
508756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5088
c2bcbe20
PH
508957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5090 long debug lines gets shown.
5091
18ce445d
PH
509258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5093 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5094
1f5b4c3d
PH
509559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5096
5097 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5098 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5099 of $primary_hostname.
5100
b975ba52
PH
510160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5102 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5103 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5104 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5105 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5106 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5107 by change 4.50/55 above.
5108
5109 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5110 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5111 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5112 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5113 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5114 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5115 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5116
511761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5118 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5119 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5120 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5121
17ffcae7
PH
512262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5123 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5124
d95f9fdb
PH
512563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5126 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5127 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5128 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5129 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5130
86b8287f
PH
513164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5132 This has been fixed.
5133
60dc5e56
PH
513465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5135 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5136 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5137 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5138 the caching.)
5139
533244af
PH
514066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5141
a5a28604
PH
514267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5143 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5144 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5145 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5146
7e634d24
PH
514768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5148 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5149
3e11c26b
PH
515069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5151 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5152 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5153
6729cf78
PH
515470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5155 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5156 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5157 message there.
5158
00f00ca5
PH
515971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5160 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5161 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5162
c9bdd01c
PH
516372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5164 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5165 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5166 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5167
d43194df
PH
516873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5169 during host lookups.
5170
fe5b5d0b
PH
517174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5172 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5173
5174 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5175
76a2d7ba
PH
517675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5177 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5178 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5179 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5180 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5181 background.
5182
518376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5184 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5185
04f7d5b9
PH
518677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5187 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5188 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5189
bc60667e
PH
519078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5191
bb6e88ff
PH
519279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5193 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5194 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5195 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5196 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5197 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5198 process earlier.
5199
1e70f85b
PH
520080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5201 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5202 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5203 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5204 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5205
520681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5207 tables).
5208
4e01f9d6
PH
520982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5210
1ee1cef2
PH
521183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5212 "vacation" handling.
5213
6e2b4ccc
PH
521484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5215 OS variants using glibc.
5216
8e669ac1
PH
521785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5218
495ae4b0 5219
bbe902f0
PH
5220----------------------------------------------------
5221See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5222----------------------------------------------------
5223
5224
5225Exim version 4.44
5226-----------------
5227
5228 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5229 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5230 transport
5231
5232 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5233 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5234 place.
5235
5236 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5237 filter fails to execute.
5238
5239 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5240 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5241 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5242 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5243 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5244
5245 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5246 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5247 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5248 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5249
5250 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5251 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5252 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5253 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5254 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5255
5256 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5257
5258 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5259 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5260 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5261 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5262
5263 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5264 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5265 sender verification.
5266
526710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5268 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5269
527011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5271 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5272
527312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5274 ignore_target_hosts.
5275
527613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5277 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5278 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5279 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5280 "[x.x.x.x]".
5281
528214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5283 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5284 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5285
528615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5287 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5288 wake it up if nothing else does.
5289
529016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5291 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5292 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5293 end up negative.
5294
529517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5296 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5297
ea3a6f44 529818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5299
530019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5301 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5302 empty pattern.
5303
530420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5305 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5306 one IP address.
5307
ea3a6f44
NM
530821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5309 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5310 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5311 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5312 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5313 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5314
ea3a6f44
NM
531522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5316 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5317 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5318
531923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5320 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5321 $sender_host_address.
5322
532324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5324
ea3a6f44
NM
532525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5326 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5327 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5328
532926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5330 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5331
ea3a6f44
NM
533227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5333 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5334
ea3a6f44
NM
533528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5336 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5337 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5338 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5339
534029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5341 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5342 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5343
ea3a6f44
NM
534430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5345 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5346 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5347 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5348
ea3a6f44
NM
534931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5350 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5351 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5352
ea3a6f44
NM
535331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5354 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5355
ea3a6f44
NM
535632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5357 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5358 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5359 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5360 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5361 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5362 is going on).
bbe902f0 5363
ea3a6f44
NM
536433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5365 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5366 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5367 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5368 CAN-2005-0021
5369
ea3a6f44
NM
537034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5371 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5372 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5373 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5374 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5375 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5376 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5377
5378 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5379 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5380 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5381 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5382 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5383 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5384 CAN-2005-0021
5385
ea3a6f44
NM
538635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5387 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5388 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5389 CAN-2005-0022
5390
ea3a6f44
NM
539136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5392 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5393 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5394 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5395 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5396
ea3a6f44
NM
539737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5398 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5399 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5400 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5401 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5402
ea3a6f44
NM
540338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5404 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5405 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5406 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5407 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5408
5409
495ae4b0
PH
5410Exim version 4.43
5411-----------------
5412
5413 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5414 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5415 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5416 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5417 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5418 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5419 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5420
5421 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5422 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5423 the delivery.
5424
5425 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5426
5427 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5428
5429 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5430 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5431 to local_scan().
5432
5433 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5434 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5435 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5436 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5437 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5438
5439 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5440 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5441
5442 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5443
5444 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5445
544610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5447 header_sender only.
5448
544911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5450 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5451
545212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5453 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5454 affecting debugging statements).
5455
545613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5457
545814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5459 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5460 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5461 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5462 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5463 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5464 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5465 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5466 after the received time, and all would be well.
5467
546815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5469 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5470 condition in an expansion string.
5471
547216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5473
547417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5475 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5476 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5477 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5478 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5479 job under whatever limits there are.
5480
548118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5482
548319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5484 space).
5485
548620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5487 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5488 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5489 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5490 return path is set.
5491
549221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5493 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5494 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5495 binary data in such strings.
5496
549722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5498
549923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5500 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5501 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5502 failure, which is pointless.
5503
550424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5505
550625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5507
550826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5509 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5510 Sender: header lines.
5511
551227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5513 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5514 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5515
551628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5517 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5518 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5519 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5520 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5521 happens.
5522
552329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5524 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5525 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5526 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5527 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5528
552930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5530 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5531 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5532 1024.
5533
553431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5535 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5536
553732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5538 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5539
554033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5541
554232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5543
554433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5545
554634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5547 syntax error.
5548
554935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5550
555136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5552
555337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5554 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5555 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5556 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5557
555838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5559 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5560
5561
5562Exim version 4.42
5563-----------------
5564
5565 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5566 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5567 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5568 it was not quoted.
5569 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5570 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5571 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5572 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5573 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5574 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5575
5576 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5577 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5578 verification failure".
5579
5580 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5581 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5582 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5583 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5584
5585 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5586 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5587 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5588 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5589 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5590 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5591 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5592 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5593 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5594 treated as a timeout.
5595
5596 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5597 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5598 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5599 not set for Exim filters).
5600
5601 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5602 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5603 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5604
5605 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5606
5607 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5608 try to make them clearer.
5609
5610 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5611 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5612
5613 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5614
5615 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5616
561710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5618 only the Cygwin environment.
5619
562011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5621 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5622 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5623 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5624 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5625
562612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5627 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5628 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5629 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5630 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5631 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5632 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5633
563413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5635 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5636
563714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5638
5639 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5640 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5641 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5642
5643 To: susanne@some.where
5644
5645 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5646 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5647 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5648 of addresses in From: header lines).
5649
5650 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5651 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5652 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5653
5654 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5655 treated as non-personal.
5656
5657 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5658 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5659
566015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5661
566216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5663
566417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5665 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5666 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5667
566818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5669 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5670
567119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5672 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5673 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5674 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5675 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5676 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5677
567820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5679 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5680 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5681 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5682 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5683 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5684 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5685 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5686
5687 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5688
568921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5690 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5691
569222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5693 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5694 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5695
569623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5697 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5698
569924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5700 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5701 rather than long int.
5702
570325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5704
570526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5706
5707
5708Exim version 4.41
5709-----------------
5710
5711 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5712 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5713 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5714 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5715 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5716 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5717
5718
5719Exim version 4.40
5720-----------------
5721
5722 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5723 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5724
5725 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5726 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5727 socklen_t is defined.
5728
5729 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5730 always exist.
5731
5732 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5733 configured.
5734
5735 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5736 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5737 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5738 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5739 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5740
5741 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5742 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5743 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5744 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5745
5746 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5747 of flapping under certain conditions.
5748
5749 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5750 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5751 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5752
5753 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5754
575510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5756
575711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5758 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5759 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5760 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5761
576212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5763 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5764 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5765 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5766 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5767 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5768 preserved with the message after it was received.
5769
577013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5771 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5772 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5773 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5774 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5775 test suite worked just fine.
5776
577714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5778 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5779 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5780
578115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5782 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5783 string.
5784
578516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5786 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5787 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5788 does not fully solve it.
5789
579017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5791 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5792 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5793 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5794 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5795
579618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5797 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5798 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5799
580019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5801 string, for example:
5802
5803 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5804
5805 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5806 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5807 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5808 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5809 the routers could not see them.
5810
581120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5812 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5813
581421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5815 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5816 output).
5817
581822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5819 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5820 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5821 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5822 that needed quoting.
5823
582423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5825 was not being matched caselessly.
5826
582724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5828 backslashes.
5829
583025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5831 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5832 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5833 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5834 when use_sender is false.
5835
583626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5837
583827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5839
584028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5841
584229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5843 the configuration file.
5844
584530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5846 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5847
584831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5849
585032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5851 bytes in the message body.
5852
585333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5854 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5855 delivery.
5856
585734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5858
585935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5860
586136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5862 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5863 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5864 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5865 another IP address.
5866
5867
5868Exim version 4.34
5869-----------------
5870
5871 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5872 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5873
5874 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5875 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5876 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5877 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5878 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5879
5880 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5881 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5882
5883 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5884 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5885 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5886
5887 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5888 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5889 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5890
5891 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5892 for routers.
5893
5894 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5895 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5896 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5897 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5898 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5899 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5900 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5901
5902
5903Exim version 4.33
5904-----------------
5905
5906 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5907 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5908 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5909 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5910 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5911 default (and expected) setting.
5912
5913 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5914 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5915 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5916 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5917
5918 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5919 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5920
5921 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5922 in domain lists.
5923
5924 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5925 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5926 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5927 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5928 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5929 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5930
5931 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5932 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5933 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5934
5935 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5936 part (NOT match_host).
5937
5938 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5939
5940 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5941 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5942 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5943 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5944 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5945 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5946 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5947 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5948 the same named file.
5949
595010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5951 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5952 when Exim is built.
5953
595411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5955 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5956 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5957 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5958 a host name.
5959
596012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5961 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5962 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5963
596413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5965
596614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5967
596815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5969
597016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5971 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5972
597317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5974 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5975 before starting the TLS session.
5976
597718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5978
597919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5980 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5981
598220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5983 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5984 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5985 colon in the middle).
5986
5987
5988Exim version 4.32
5989-----------------
5990
5991 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5992 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5993 multiple configurations are in use.
5994
5995 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5996 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5997 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5998 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5999 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6000 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6001
6002 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6003 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6004
6005 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6006 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6007 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6008
6009 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6010 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6011 occurs.
6012
6013 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6014 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6015
6016 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6017
6018 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6019 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6020
6021 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6022
6023 -prval:sval
6024
6025 is equivalent to
6026
6027 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6028
6029 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6030 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6031 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6032 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6033 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6034
603510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6036 Exim's behaviour:
6037
6038 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6039 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6040 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6041 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6042 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6043 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6044
6045 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6046 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6047 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6048 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6049 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6050 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6051 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6052 string.
6053
6054 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6055 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6056 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6057 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6058 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6059
606011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6061
606212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6063 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6064 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6065
606613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6067
606814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6069 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6070 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6071 information.
6072
607315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6074 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6075
607616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6077 Three changes have been made:
6078
6079 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6080 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6081 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6082 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6083 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6084
6085 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6086 been restored.
6087
6088 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6089 the modified behaviour.
6090
6091
6092Exim version 4.31
6093-----------------
6094
6095 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6096 Larry Rosenman.
6097
6098 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6099 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6100
6101 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6102 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6103 try to track down a specific problem.
6104
6105 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6106 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6107 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6108
6109 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6110 warning.
6111
6112 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6113 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6114 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6115 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6116 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6117 some earlier ones do not.
6118
6119 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6120
6121 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6122 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6123 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6124 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6125 address literals are enabled, of course).
6126
6127 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6128
612910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6130 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6131 by a command such as
6132
6133 exim -f "" ...
6134
6135 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6136
613711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6138
613912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6140 remained set. It is now erased.
6141
614213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6143 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6144
614514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6146 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6147 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6148 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6149 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6150 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6151 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6152 appropriate error code.
6153
615415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6155 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6156 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6157 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6158 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6159 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6160
616116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6162 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6163 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6164
616517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6166 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6167 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6168 terminate the header.
6169
617018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6171 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6172 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6173
617419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6175 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6176 (4.30/29). In particular:
6177
6178 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6179 imposed.
6180
6181 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6182 to write a maildirsize file.
6183
6184 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6185 the transport, the new value overrides.
6186
6187 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6188 count.
6189
619020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6191 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6192 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6193 space or a tab.
6194
619521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6196 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6197 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6198 the fallback hosts.
6199
620022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6201 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6202 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6203
620423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6205 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6206 using a union.
6207
620824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6209 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6210 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6211
621225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6213
621426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6215
621627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6217
621828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6219 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6220 become corrupted.
6221
622229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6223 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6224 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6225 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6226 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6227 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6228 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6229 too great.
6230
623130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6232 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6233 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6234 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6235 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6236 incorrectly.
6237
623831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6239 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6240 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6241 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6242 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6243 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6244 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6245 cached value only when the same options are set.
6246
624732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6248
624933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6250 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6251 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6252 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6253 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6254
625534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6256 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6257 it is clearly obsolete.
6258
625935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6260 transport.
6261
626236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6263 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6264 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6265 times.
6266
626737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6268 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6269 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6270 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6271 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6272
627338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6274 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6275 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6276 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6277
627839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6279
6280 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6281
6282 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6283 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6284 2^31.
6285
628640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6287 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6288 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6289 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6290 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6291 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6292 $localpart_data.
6293
629441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6295 with the -f command-line option.
6296
629742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6298 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6299 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6300 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6301 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6302 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6303
630443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6305 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6306 line.
6307
630844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6309 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6310 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6311 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6312 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6313 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6314 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6315 buffer is too small.
6316
631745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6318 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6319
632046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6321 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6322 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6323 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6324 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6325 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6326 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6327 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6328 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6329
633047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6331 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6332 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6333
633448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6335 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6336 ACL").
6337
633849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6339 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6340 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6341 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6342 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6343
634450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6345 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6346 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6347 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6348 is set.
6349
635051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6351
635252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6353
635453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6355 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6356
635754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6358 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6359 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6360
636155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6362 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6363 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6364 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6365 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6366
636756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6368 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6369 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6370 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6371 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6372 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6373 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6374
637557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6376 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6377 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6378 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6379 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6380 the test of how many are available.
6381
638258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6383 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6384 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6385 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6386 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6387 new message is started.
6388
638959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6390 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6391
639260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6393 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6394
639561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6396 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6397 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6398 is no long logged.
6399
640062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6401 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6402 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6403 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6404 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6405 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6406 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6407
640863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6409 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6410 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6411 interpreted as octal.
6412
641364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6414 setting.
6415
641665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6417 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6418 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6419 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6420 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6421 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6422
642366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6424 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6425 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6426 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6427
6428 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6429 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6430 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6431 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6432
6433 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6434 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6435 is a bug fix.
6436
6437 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6438 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6439
644067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6441
644268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6443 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6444 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6445 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6446
644769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6448 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6449 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6450 supplied", which is not helpful.
6451
645270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6453 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6454 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6455
645671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6457 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6458 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6459 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6460 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6461 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6462 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6463 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6464
646572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6466 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6467 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6468 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6469 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6470
647173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6472 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6473 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6474 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6475 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6476 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6477
647874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6479 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6480 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6481
648275. Added write_rejectlog option.
6483
648476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6485 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6486 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6487 variables.
6488
648977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6490
649178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6492 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6493 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6494 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6495 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6496 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6497 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6498 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6499
650079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6501 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6502 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6503 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6504 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6505
650680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6507 Haardt.
6508
650981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6510 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6511 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6512 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6513 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6514 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6515 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6516 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6517 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6518
6519
6520Exim version 4.30
6521-----------------
6522
6523 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6524 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6525 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6526
6527 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6528 fixed.
6529
6530 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6531 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6532 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6533
6534 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6535 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6536 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6537 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6538 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6539 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6541 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6542 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6543 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6544 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6545 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6546 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6547 the Exim test suite.
6548
6549 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6550 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6551 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6552 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6553
6554 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6555 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6556 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6557 specify it in this variable.
6558
6559 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6560 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6561 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6562 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6563
6564 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6565 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6566 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6567 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6568
6569 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6570 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6571 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6572 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6573 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6574
6575 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6576
657710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6578 they are logged.
6579
658011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6581 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6582 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6583 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6584 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6585
658612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6587 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6588
658913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6590 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6591 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6592 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6593 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6594
659514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6596 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6597
659815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6599 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6600 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6601
660216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6603 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6604
660517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6606 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6607
660818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6609 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6610 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6611
661219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6613 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6614
661520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6616 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6617 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6618 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6619
662021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6621
662222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6623 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6624 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6625 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6626
662723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6628
662924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6630 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6631
663225. Added .include_if_exists.
6633
663426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6635 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6636 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6637 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6638 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6639 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6640
664127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6642
664328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6644 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6645 this.
6646
664729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6648
664930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6650 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6651
6652 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6653 550 Sender verify failed
6654
6655 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6656 the final line of the response.
6657
665831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6659 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6660 all other user lookups.
6661
666232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6663 delivery time.
6664
666533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6666 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6667 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6668 result into an int without checking.
6669
667034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6671 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6672 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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667435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6675 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6676 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6677 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6678
667936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6680 correctly.
6681
668237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6683 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6684
668538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6686 to the empty sender.
6687
668839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6689 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6690 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6691 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6692 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6693 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6694 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6695 panic log.
6696
669740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6698 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6699 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6700 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6701 used.
6702
670341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6704 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6705
670642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6707 timestamps.
6708
670943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6710 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6711
671244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6713
671445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6715 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6716 logs.
6717
671846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6719 as soon as it is encountered.
6720
672147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6722
672348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6724 rewritten to "<>".
6725
672649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6727 recognizes a tab character.
6728
672950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6730 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6731 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6732 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6733
673451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6735
673652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6737 crash.
6738
673953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6740
674154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6742
674355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6744 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6745 2822.
6746
674756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6748 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6749 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6750 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6751 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6752
675357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6754 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6755
675658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6757 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6758 list (.included file names were always shown).
6759
676059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6761 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6762 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6763 root at that time.
6764
676560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6766 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6767
676861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6769
677062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6771
677263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6773
677464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6775 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6776 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6777 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6778 failures to open the logs.
6779
678065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6781 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6782 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6783 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6784 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6785 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6786 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6787
6788
6789Exim version 4.24
6790-----------------
6791
6792 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6793 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6794 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6795 change 4.23/1.
6796
6797 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6798 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6799 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6800
6801 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6802 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6803 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6804
6805 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6806 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6807 causing some misleading effects.
6808
6809 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6810 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6811 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6812
6813 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6814 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6815 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6816 queue-runner function directly.
6817
6818
6819Exim version 4.23
6820-----------------
6821
6822 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6823 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6824
6825 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6826 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6827 was always written to the default place.
6828
6829 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6830 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6831 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6832
6833 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6834
6835 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6836
6837 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6838 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6839 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6840
6841 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6842 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6843 must start.
6844
6845 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6846 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6847 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6848
6849 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6850 command line option is disabled.
6851
6852 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6853 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6854
6855 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6856
6857 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6858
6859 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6860 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6861
686210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6863
686411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6865 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6866 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6867 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6868 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6869 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6870
687112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6872 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6873 timeout.
6874
687513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6876 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6877
687814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6879 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6880
688115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6882 received was valid base64.
6883
688416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6885 name of the variable that was being set.
6886
688717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6888
688918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6890 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6891 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6892 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6893 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6894 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6895
689619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6897
689820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6899 nor realm was specified.
6900
690121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6902 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6903 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6904 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6905
690622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6907 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6908 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6909
691023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6911 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6912 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6913
691424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6915 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6916 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6917 some systems use these upper case variants.
6918
691925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6920 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6921 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6922 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6923
692426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6925
692627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6927 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6928
692928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6930 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6931 expansion variable.
6932
693329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6934
693530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6936 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6937 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6938 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6939
694031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6941 using it.
6942
694332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6944 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6945 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6946
694733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6948 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6949
695034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6951 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6952 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6953 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6954
695535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6956 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6957 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6958
695936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6960
696137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6962 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6963 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6964 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6965 aborted.
6966
696738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6968 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6969 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6970
697139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6972
697340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6974 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6975
697641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6977 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6978
697942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6980 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6981 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6982 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6983 when emails are that large.
6984
6985
6986
6987Exim version 4.22
6988-----------------
6989
6990 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6991 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6992
6993 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6994 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6995 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6996
6997 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6998 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6999 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7000
7001 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7002 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7003 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7004 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7005 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7006
7007 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7008 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7009 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7010 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7011 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7012 ever.
7013
7014 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7015 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7016 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7017 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7018 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7019 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7020 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7021 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7022 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7023 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7024 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7025 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7026 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7027 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7028
7029 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7030 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7031 parameterised it.
7032
7033 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7034 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7035 error should be diagnosed.
7036
7037 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7038 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7039 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7040 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7041 appeared instead of "NULL".
7042
704310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7044 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7045 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7046 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7047 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7048 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7049 proceeds).
7050
7051 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7052 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7053 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7054
7055
7056Exim version 4.21
7057-----------------
7058
7059 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7060 or receiver verification errors.
7061
7062 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7063 name.
7064
7065 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7066 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7067 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7068 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7069
7070 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7071 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7072 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7073 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7074 shouldn't happen again.
7075
7076 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7077 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7078 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7079
7080 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7081 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7082
7083 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7084
7085 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7086 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7087
7088 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7089 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7090 RFC.
7091
709210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7093 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7094 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7095
709611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7097 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7098 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7099 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7100
710112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7102 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7103 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7104 to define what should happen).
7105
710613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7107 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7108 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7109
711014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7111
711215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7113
711416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7115 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7116
4c04137d 711717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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7118 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7119 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7120 structure in all cases.
7121
7122 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7123 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7124 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7125 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7126
712718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7128 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7129 domain name.
7130
713119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7132 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7133
713420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7135 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7136
713721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7138 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7139 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7140
714122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7142 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7143 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7144
714523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7146 the book and for uniformity.
7147
714824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7149
715025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7151 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
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7152 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7153 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7154 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7155 non-existent command as the problem.
7156
715726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7158 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7159 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7160
716127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7162
716328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7164 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7165 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7166
716729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7168 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7169 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7170 timestamps using strftime().
7171
717230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7173 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7174
717532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7176 transport-time rewrites.
7177
717833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7179 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7180 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7181 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7182
718334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7184 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7185
718635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7187 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7188 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7189 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7190 comma and a space.
7191
719236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7193 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7194 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7195 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7196 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7197 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7198 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7199
720037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7201 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7202 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7203 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7204 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7205
720638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7207 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7208 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7209 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7210 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7211 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7212 remaining text gets split now.
7213
721439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7215 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7216 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7217 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7218
721940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7220 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7221 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7222 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7223 $return_path.
7224
722541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7226 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7227 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7228 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7229 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7230 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7231 passed through if needed.
7232
723342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7234 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7235 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7236 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7237 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7238 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7239
724043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7241 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7242 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7243 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7244 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7245
724644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7247 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7248 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7249 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7250 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7251
725245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7253 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7254 noticed.
7255
725646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7257 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7258 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7259 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7260 mayhem of various kinds.
7261
726247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7263 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7264 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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7265 the right test for positive values.
7266
726748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7268 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7269 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7270 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7271 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7272 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7273 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7274 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7275 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7276 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7277 envelope.
7278
727949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7280 module.
7281
728250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7283 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7284 forbidding it.
7285
728651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7287 the existing equality matching.
7288
728952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7290 dealing with inode numbers.
7291
729253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7293 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7294 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7295
729654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7297 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7298 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7299 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7300 local_scan().
7301
730255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7303 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7304 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7305 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7306 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7307 relay addresses has also been removed.
7308
730956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7310
731157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7312 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7313 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7314
731558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7316 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7317 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7318 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7319 processing applies to CR:
7320
7321 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7322 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7323
7324 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7325 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7326 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7327 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7328
732959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7330 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7331 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7332
733360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7334 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7335 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7336 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7337 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7338 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7339 arisen.
7340
734161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7342 program routers.
7343
734462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7345 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7346 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7347 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7348 adds:
7349
7350 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7351
7352 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7353
7354 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7355
735663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7357 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7358 not considered personal.
7359
736064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7361
736265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7363
736466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7365
736667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7367 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7368 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7369 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7370 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7371 header lines, and spool format errors.
7372
737368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7374 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7375 for more flexibility.
7376
737769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7378 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7379 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7380
738170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7382 Sabourenkov.
7383
738471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7385 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7386 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7387 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7388 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7389 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7390 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7391 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7392 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7393
739472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7395 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7396 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7397 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7398 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7399 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7400 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7401
740273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7403 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7404 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7405
740674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7407 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7408 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7409 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7410 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7411 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7412 instead of killing the process with assert().
7413
741475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7415 than Unicode encoding.
7416
741776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7418 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7419 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7420 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7421
742277. Added process_log_path.
7423
742478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7425 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7426
742779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7428 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7429
743080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7431 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7432 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7433
743481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7435 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7436 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7437 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7438 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7439 were applied:
7440
7441 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7442 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7443 as invalid.
7444
744582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7446 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7447 they will be used during message reception.
7448
7449
7450Exim version 4.20
7451-----------------
7452
7453The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7454
7455****