BUGFIX: forced-fail smtp option tls_sni would dereference NULL
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.81
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6
7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 26
a3fb9793 27PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 32 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 33
d27f98fe 34TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 35
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36JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
37
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38JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
39
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40PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
41
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45
46PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
47 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
48 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
49
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50NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
51
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52NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
53 improved.
54
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55NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
56
c1e794ba 57PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 58
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59PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
60
61PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
62 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
63
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64PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
65 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
66
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67PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
68 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
69
f1e05cc7 70PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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71 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
72 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 73
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74PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
75
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76PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
77 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
78
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79PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
80
c45dd180 81PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 82
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83PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
84 non-compliant senders.
85 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
86
eae0036b 87NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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88 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
89 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
90
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91PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
92 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
93 in spool file corruption.
94
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95PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
96 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
97 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
98 "Got SSL error 2".
99
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100TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
101 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
102 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
103
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104JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
105 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
106
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107JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
108
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109PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
110 diagnostics.
111 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
112
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113PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
114 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
115 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
116
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117PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
118 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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119 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
120 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 121
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122PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
123 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
124
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125PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
126 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
127 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
128 resolver implementation change.
129
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130PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
131 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
132
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133PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
134
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135PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
136
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137PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
138 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
139
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140PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
141 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
142
9e45c72b 143JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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144 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
145
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146PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
147 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
148 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
149 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 150 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 151
53947857 152PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 153
eae0036b 154PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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155 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
156 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 157
9e45c72b 158JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 159
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160PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
161 read-only, out of scope).
162 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
163
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164PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
165 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
166 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
167 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
168
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169PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
170
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171PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
172 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
173 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
174 real issues in debug logging.
175
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176PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
177 assignment on my part. Fixed.
178
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179PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
180 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
181 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
182
183PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
184 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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185 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
186 problems.
3375e053 187
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188PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
189 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
190
57eb9e91 191PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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192 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
193 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
194 needs to override this, it can.
195
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196PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
197 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
198 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
199
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200PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
201 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
202 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
203 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
204
3ecab157 205PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 206
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208Exim version 4.77
209-----------------
210
211PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
212 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
213
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214TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
215
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216TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
217 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 218
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219TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
220 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
221
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222TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
223 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
224 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
225
226 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
227 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
228 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
229 not safe for signals.
230
231 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
232 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
233 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
234 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
235 exiwhat.
236
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237TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
238
239 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
240 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
241 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
242 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
243 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
244
245 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
246 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
247 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
248 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
249 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
250 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
251
252 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
253 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
254 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
255 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
256
257 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
258 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
259 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
260 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
261
262 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
263 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
264 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
265 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
266 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
267 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
268 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
269 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
270 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
271
272 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
273 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
274 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
275 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
276
277 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
278 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
279 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
280 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
281 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
282 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
283 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
284 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
285 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
286 details in the main documentation.
287
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288TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
289
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290TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
291
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292TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
293 repository when doing development or release builds.
294
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295PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
296 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 297
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298PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
299 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
300 Bugzilla 97.
301
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302PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
303
9e949f00 304PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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305 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
306
307PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
308 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 309
555ae6af 310PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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311 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
312
313PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
314 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 315
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316PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
317 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
318
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319PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
320 Bugzilla 1156.
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321 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
322 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 323
d6cc7c78 324PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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325 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
326 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
327
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328PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
329
3399bb60 330PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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331
332PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
333 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
334
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336Exim version 4.76
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338
339PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
340
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341PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
342 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
343
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344PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
345
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346PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
347
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348PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
349 Bugzilla 1098.
350
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351PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
352 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 353
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354TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
355 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
356
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357PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
358 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
359
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360PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
361 Bugzilla 1104.
362
c8d52a00 363TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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364 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
365
366TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
367 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
368 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
369 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
370
371PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
372 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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375Exim version 4.75
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377
4c9ef03a 378NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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379 Bugzilla 1073
380
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381TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
382 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
383 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
384
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385TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
386 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
387
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388PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
389 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
390 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
391
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392PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
393 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
394
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395PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
396 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
397
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398NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
399 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
400
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401NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
402 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
403
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404PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
405 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 406
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407NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
408 Fixes bug 943.
409
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410PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
411 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
412
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413PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
414 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
415
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416PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
417 SQL string expansion failure details.
418 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
419
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420PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
421 Patch from Simon Arlott.
422
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423PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
424 extern declarations in function scope.
425 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
426
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427PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
428 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
429 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
430 a kernel bug).
431
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432PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
433 Patch from Mark Zealey.
434
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435PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
436 Patch from Mark Zealey.
437
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438PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
439 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
440
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441PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
442 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
443
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444NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
445 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
446 Dennis Davis.
447
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448PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
449
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450PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
451
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452NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
453 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 454
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455TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
456 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
457
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461
462TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
463 consequences so log it to the panic log.
464
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465TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
466 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
467
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468TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
469
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470DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
471 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
472 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
473
474PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
475 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
476 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
477
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478PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
479 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
480 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
481 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
482
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483PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
484 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
485 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
486 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
487
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488PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
489 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
490 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
491 arbitrary files.
492
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493PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
494 (Wolfgang Breyha)
495
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496PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
497 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
498 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
499 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
500 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
501
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505
506PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
507 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
508 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
509
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510PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
511 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
512
a8c8d6b5
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513JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
514
77bb000f
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515PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
516
a29e5231
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517PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
518
ec5a0394 519PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 520
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521PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
522
453a6645 523PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
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524 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
525 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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526 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
527
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528PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
529 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
530 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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531 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
532 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 533
83e029d5
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534PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
535
ed7f7860
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536PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
537
7d9f747b
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538PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
539
4b2241d2
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540PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
541
10385c15
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542PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
543
dbc4b90d
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544PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
545
532be449
PP
546PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
547
6a8de854 548PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
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549 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
550 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 551
5dc43717
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552JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
553
554JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
555 "exim" to be used
55c75993 556
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557PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
558 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
559
491fab4c
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560PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
561 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
562 Notification from John Horne.
563
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564PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
565 compatible.
566
567PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
568 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
569 it normally works.
570
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571DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
572 access.
573
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574DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
575 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
576 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
577
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578DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
579 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
580 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
581 configuration file.
582
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583DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
584 option (effectively making it always true).
585
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586DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
587 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
588
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589DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
590 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
591
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592PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
593 run-time user, instead of root.
594
43236f35 595PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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596 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
597
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598DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
599 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
600 arguments.
3346ab01 601
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602DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
603 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
604 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
605
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606DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
607
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608NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
609
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611Exim version 4.72
612-----------------
613
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614JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
615 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
616 typos
465e92cf 617
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618JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
619 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
620 (Finput)
edae0343 621
9bd3e22c
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622NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
623 Patch from Alain Williams
624
bb576ff7
NM
625NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
626
5a1a5845
NM
627NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
628 Patch from Andreas Metzler
629
981a9fad
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630NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
631 Patch from Kirill Miazine
632
7fc497ee
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633NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
634
1a41defa
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635JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
636
a466095c 637NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 638 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 639
94a6bd0b
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640TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
641
642TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
643
644MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
645 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
646 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
647
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648NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
649 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 650
b26eacf1 651NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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652 Patch by Simon Arlott
653
179c5980 654PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 655 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 656
9bd3e22c 657
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658Exim version 4.71
659-----------------
660
7d9f747b 661TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 662
f013fb92
NM
663NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
664
0eb8eedd
NM
665NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
666
663ee6d9
NM
667NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
668
177ebd9b
NM
669NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
670
7c6d71af 671
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672Exim version 4.70
673-----------------
674
cdd3bb85 675TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 676 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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677
678TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
679 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 680 Hirsch).
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681
682TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
683 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 684 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
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685
686TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
687 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
688
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689NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
690 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
691 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
692 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
693
deafd5b3
NM
694NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
695 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 696 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 697
089793a4
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698TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
699
5f16ca82
TF
700TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
701
dae9d94e 702NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 703 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 704
7d9f747b 705NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 706
06864c44
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707TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
708 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
709 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
710 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
711
65a7d8c3 712NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 713 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 714
23510047 715TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 716
7d9f747b 717NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 718
7d8eec3a 719NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 720 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 721
89dec7b6
TF
722TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
723 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 724
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725TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
726 that they are available at delivery time.
727
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728TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
729
7199e1ee
TF
730TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
731 incoming_port log selectors.
732
e276e04b
TF
733TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
734 setting expands to an empty string.
735
ce552449 736NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 737 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 738
e765a0f1 739NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 740 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 741
4f054c63 742NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 743 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 744
7d9f747b
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745NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
746 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 747
7d9f747b
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748NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
749 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 750
b52bc06e 751NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 752 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 753
447de4b0
NM
754NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
755
4c69d561 756NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 757 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 758
d5c39246 759NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 760 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 761
0b23848a
TK
762TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
763
8f3414a1 764NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 765 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 766
fb6f955d
NM
767NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
768
769NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 770
7d9f747b
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771NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
772 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 773
7d9f747b
PP
774NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
775 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 776
7d9f747b
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777NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
778 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 779
7d9f747b
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780NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
781 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 782
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783NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
784 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 785
7d9f747b
PP
786NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
787 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 788
7d9f747b
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789NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
790 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 791
7d9f747b 792NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 793 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 794
7d9f747b 795NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 796
7d9f747b
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797NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
798 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 799
7d9f747b 800NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 801
7d9f747b 802NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 803
7d9f747b 804NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 805
7d9f747b 806NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 807
17792b53 808NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 809 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 810
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811NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
812 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 813
91576cec 814NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 815 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 816
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817NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
818 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 819
7d9f747b 820NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 821
7d9f747b 822NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 823
7d9f747b 824NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 825
7d9f747b 826NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 827
deafd5b3 828
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829Exim version 4.69
830-----------------
831
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832TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
833 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
834 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
835
836 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
837 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
838 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
839 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
840 build errors in sieve.c.
841
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NM
842NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
843 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
844 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
845
f13cddcb
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846SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
847
7d9f747b 848NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 849
7d9f747b 850NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 851
7d9f747b 852NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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854
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855Exim version 4.68
856-----------------
857
858PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
859
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860PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
861 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
862 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
863 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
864 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
865 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
866 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
867 for iplsearch lookups.
868
869 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
870 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
871 previously such lookups could never work.
872
873 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
874 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
875 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
876
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877TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
878 version.
879
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880MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
881 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
882 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
883 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
884 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
885 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
886
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887TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
888 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
889
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890MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
891 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
892 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
893 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
894 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
895 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
896
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897PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
898 local_scan API.
899
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900PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
901
6c512171
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902PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
903 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
904 encrypted.
905
906PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
907 by clients under certain conditions.
908
aa6dc513
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909PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
910 "_responses" off the end of the name.
911
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912PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
913
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914PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
915 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
916
917PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
918
d677b2f2
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919PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
920
d52120f2
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921PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
922
64f2600a
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923PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
924 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
925
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926PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
927
a4dc33a8
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928PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
929 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
930
d6a60c0f
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931PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
932
8f128379
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933PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
934
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935PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
936 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
937 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
938 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 939
ddea74fa 940PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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941 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
942 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
943
ddea74fa 944PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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945 and InterBase are left for another time.)
946
ddea74fa
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947PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
948
ce9f225c
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949PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
950
19897d52
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951PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
952
bc64a74d
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953PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
954 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
955 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
956
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960
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961MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
962 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
963 Jan Srzednicki.
964
b4ed4da0
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965PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
966 issue a MAIL command.
967
431b7361
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968PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
969
970 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
971
972 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
973 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
974 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
975 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
976 item. This has been fixed.
977
978PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
979 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
980
83da1223
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981PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
982 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
983
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984PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
985 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
986 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
987
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988SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
989
bbe15da8
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990PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
991 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
992 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
993 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
994 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
995
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996MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
997 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
998 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
999
f0872424
PH
1000PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1001 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1002 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1003 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1004
b01dd148
PH
1005PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1006
6bf342e1
PH
1007PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1008
273f34d0
PH
1009PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1010 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1011 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1012 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1013 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1014
cf8b11a5
PH
1015PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1016
41c7c167
PH
1017PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1018 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1019 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1020 values).
1021
9c57cbc0
PH
1022PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1023
f3f065bb
PH
1024PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1025
047bdd8c
PH
1026PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1027
0ce9abe6
PH
1028PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1029
0e22dfd1
PH
1030PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1031
4c590bd1
PH
1032PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1033 no_callout_flush is set.
1034
09945f1e
PH
1035PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1036 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1037 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1038 fixed.
1039
c51b8e75
PH
1040PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1041
e28326d8
PH
1042PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1043 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1044 other ACL rejections are.
1045
75b1493f
PH
1046PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1047 with slight modification.
1048
7c5214ec
PH
1049PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1050 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1051
4311097e
PH
1052PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1053 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1054 connection.
1055
29f89cad
PH
1056PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1057 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1058
5e687460
SC
1059SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1060
c3611384
PH
1061PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1062 expansion side effects.
1063
5a11a7b4
PH
1064PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1065 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1066 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1067 be the same.
1068
0e20aff9
MH
1069MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1070 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1071 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1072
ca86f471
PH
1073PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1074 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1075 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1076 were accidentally chopped off.
1077
a14e5636
PH
1078PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1079 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1080 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1081 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1082 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1083 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1084 pipelining has not been advertised.
1085
ec95d1a6
PH
1086PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1087
42855d71
PH
1088PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1089 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1090 This has been fixed.
1091
57c2c631
PH
1092PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1093 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1094 reported on Solaris.
1095
58c01c94
PH
1096PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1097 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1098 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1099 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1100 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1101 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1102 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1103
dee5a20a
PH
1104PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1105 cpus.
1106
d2ee6114
PH
1107PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1108
b2d5182b
PH
1109PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1110
79749a79
PH
1111PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1112 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1113 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1114 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1115 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1116 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1117
c456d9bb
PH
1118PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1119 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1120 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1121 host_all_ignored option.
1122
cd9868ec
PH
1123PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1124 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1125 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1126 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1127 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1128 is what is supposed to happen).
1129
ebeaf996
PH
1130PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1131 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1132 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1133 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1134 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1135 uses the Exim user.
1136
2679d413
PH
1137PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1138 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1139 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1140 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1141 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1142 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1143 users.
1144
84024b72
PH
1145PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1146
8005d38e
SC
1147SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1148 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1149 (Jez Hancock).
1150 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1151 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1152
3298c6c6
SC
1153SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1154
a43a27c5
PH
1155PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1156
58eb016e 1157PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1158 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1159 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1160 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1161 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1162 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1163 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1164 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1165 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1166 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1167 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1168
b43a74ea
PH
1169PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1170 advertised in response to EHLO.
1171
b4ed4da0 1172
5dd1517f
PH
1173Exim version 4.66
1174-----------------
1175
1176PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1177 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1178
1179 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1180 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1181
1182 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1183 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1184 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1185
1186 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1187 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1188 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1189 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1190 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1191
1192
93cfa765
TK
1193Exim version 4.65
1194-----------------
1195
1196TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1197 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1198 versions. (#438)
1199
d6066548
MH
1200MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1201 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1202 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1203
4362ff0d
PH
1204PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1205 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1206 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1207 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1208 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1209 rather than extend the field.
1210
93cfa765 1211
944e9e9c
TF
1212Exim version 4.64
1213-----------------
aa41d2de 1214
21d74bd9
TK
1215TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1216 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1217 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1218 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1219 these files.
1220
1221TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1222 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1223 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1224
1225TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1226 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1227 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1228
1229TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1230 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1231 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1232 in the field name.
1233
2b1c6e3a
PH
1234PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1235 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1236 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1237 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1238 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1239 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1240 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1241 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1242 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1243 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1244 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1245
1f872c80
PH
1246PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1247 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1248
1249PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1250 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1251 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1252 ignores EPIPE as well.
1253
d203e649
PH
1254PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1255 (quoted-printable decoding).
1256
cc2ed8f7 1257PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1258 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1259
ddfcd446
PH
1260PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1261
d45b1de8
PH
1262PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1263
1264PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1265
38a0a95f 1266PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1267 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1268
a2405d83
JJ
1269JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1270 in 4.64-PH/09.
1271
1272JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1273 miscellaneous code fixes
1274
6ea85e9a
PH
1275PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1276 rejections.
1277
26da7e20
PH
1278PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1279 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1280 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1281 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1282 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1283 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1284 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1285 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1286
14aa5a05 1287PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1288 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1289 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1290 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1291 function.
1292 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1293 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1294 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1295 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1296 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1297 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1298 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1299 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1300 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1301
ff75a1f7
PH
1302PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1303 decoding.
1304
e6f6568e
PH
1305PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1306 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1307 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1308 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1309 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1310 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1311 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1312 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1313
d6f6e0dc
PH
1314PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1315 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1316 list.
1317
322050c2
PH
1318PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1319 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1320 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1321 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1322 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1323 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1324 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1325 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1326 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1327 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1328 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1329 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1330 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1331
08955dd3
PH
1332PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1333 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1334 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1335 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1336 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1337 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1338 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1339
1eccaa59
PH
1340PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1341 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1342 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1343 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1344 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1345 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1346 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1347 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1348 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1349 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1350
602e59e5
PH
1351PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1352 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1353 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1354 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1355 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1356
411ef850
PH
1357PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1358 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1359 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1360 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1361 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1362 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1363 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1364
7befa435
PH
1365PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1366 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1367 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1368 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1369 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1370 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1371 been verified.
1372
48da4259 1373PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1374 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1375 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1376 and authorization.)
1377
48da4259
PH
1378PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1379 if any retry times were supplied.
1380
d1d5595c
PH
1381PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1382 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1383 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1384
0ef732d9
PH
1385PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1386
328895cc
PH
1387PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1388
fd700877
PH
1389PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1390 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1391 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1392 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1393 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1394 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1395
8dce1a6f
PH
1396PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1397 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1398
17af4a17
PH
1399PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1400 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1401 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1402
1403PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1404 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1405 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1406 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1407 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1408 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1409 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1410 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1411 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1412
1413 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1414 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1415 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1416 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1417 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1418 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1419 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1420 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1421 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1422
1423 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1424 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1425 hammering the server.
1426
c1114884
PH
1427PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1428 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1429
7a0743eb
PH
1430PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1431
0d85fa3f
PH
1432PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1433 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1434 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1435
1bf43b78
PH
1436PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1437 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1438 one case where this was not true.
1439
520de300
PH
1440PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1441 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1442 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1443 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1444 fails.
1445
48c7f9e2
PH
1446PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1447 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1448 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1449 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1450 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1451 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1452 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1453 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1454 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1455 smtp transport.
1456
99ea1c86
PH
1457PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1458 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1459 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1460 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1461
a2042e78
PH
1462PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1463 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1464
4fbcfc2e
PH
1465PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1466 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1467 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1468
aa41d2de
PH
1469PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1470
af561417
PH
1471PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1472
3cc66b45
PH
1473PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1474
194cc0e4
PH
1475PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1476 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1477 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1478 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1479
a401ddaa
PH
1480PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1481 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1482
4e88a19f
PH
1483PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1484 be meaningful with "accept".
1485
d7d7b289
SC
1486SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1487 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1488
1489SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1490 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1491 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1492
1493SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1494 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1495 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1496 there is data to show.
1497 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1498
1499SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1500 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1501 as well as the number of messages.
1502
1503SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1504 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1505 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1506
1507SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1508 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1509 have a flag are now skipped.
1510
1511SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1512 Added the -emptyok flag.
1513
1514SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1515 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1516
0ea2a468
JJ
1517JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1518 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1519 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1520
1521JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1522 match 4.64-PH/13
1523
1524JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1525 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1526
1527JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1528
1529JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1530 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1531
8a10f5a4
PH
1532PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1533
30e18802
PH
1534PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1535 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1536 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1537 contravention of the specifications.
1538
55728a4f
PH
1539PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1540 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1541 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1542
d7837193
PH
1543PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1544 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1545 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1546
87054a31
PH
1547PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1548
ea2c01d2
MH
1549MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1550 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1551 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1552 some point in the past.
1553
e4fa6968
PH
1554PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1555 transport during callout processing was broken.
1556
56f5d9bd
PH
1557PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1558 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1559
922e1c28
PH
1560PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1561 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1562
21eb6e72
PH
1563PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1564 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1565
a0540757
PH
1566PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1567
944e9e9c 1568
478be7b0
SC
1569Exim version 4.63
1570-----------------
1571
1572SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1573 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1574
1575SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1576 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1577 there is data to show.
1578 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1579
1580SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1581 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1582
2b965a65
TF
1583TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1584 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1585
45b91596
PH
1586TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1587 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1588
c59f5781
TF
1589TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1590 submissions from trusted users.
1591
90fc3069
TF
1592TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1593 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1594
6083aca0
TF
1595TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1596 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1597 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1598 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1599 there is now a framework to start from.
1600
765b530f
PH
1601PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1602 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1603 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1604
4e167a8c
PH
1605PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1606
4608d683
PH
1607PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1608
b8dc3e4a
PH
1609PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1610
5418e93b
PH
1611PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1612 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1613 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1614
b4a9bda2
PH
1615PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1616 libradius.
1617
45b91596
PH
1618PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1619 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1620 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1621
5547e2c5
PH
1622PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1623 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1624 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1625 its arguments.
1626
dbcef0ea
PH
1627PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1628 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1629 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1630 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1631 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1632
25257489
PH
1633PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1634 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1635
c816d124
PH
1636PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1637
a9ccd69a
PH
1638PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1639 operations in malware.c.
1640
75fa1910
PH
1641PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1642 signatures.
1643
a7d7aa58
PH
1644PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1645 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1646 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1647 all.
1648
42119b09
PH
1649PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1650 statements to "add_header".
1651
41609df5
PH
1652PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1653 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1654
a5bd321b
PH
1655PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1656 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1657 latter.
1658
e85a7ad5 1659PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1660 so that it is now:
1661
e85a7ad5
PH
1662 ${if or { \
1663 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1664 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1665 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1666 }{no}{yes}}
1667
e85a7ad5
PH
1668 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1669 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1670
d8fe1c03
PH
1671PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1672 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1673
16282d2b
PH
1674PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1675 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1676 any possible encoding problems.
1677
35d40a98
PH
1678PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1679 but not after initializing Perl.
1680
034d99ab
PH
1681PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1682 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1683 apparently, which is not desirable.
1684
6ec97b1b
PH
1685PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1686 queries.
1687
e22ca4ac
JJ
1688JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1689 --not options
1690
1691JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1692
33d73e3b
PH
1693PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1694 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1695 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1696 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1697
9ecb03f3
PH
1698PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1699 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1700 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1701
084efe8d
PH
1702PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1703 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1704 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1705 0.12.
1706
366fc9f0
PH
1707PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1708 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1709 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1710 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1711 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1712
c59f5781 1713
c887c79e
TF
1714Exim version 4.62
1715-----------------
1716
1717TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1718 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1719
1cce3af8
PH
1720PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1721 patch).
1722
afb3eaaf
PH
1723PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1724 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1725 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1726 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1727 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1728 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1729 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1730 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1731 451 error is used.
1732
e173618b
PH
1733PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1734
dd16e114
PH
1735PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1736 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1737 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1738
f7fd3850
PH
1739PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1740 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1741 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1742 odd errors.
1743
d87df92c
PH
1744PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1745 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1746
7e9f683d
PH
1747PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1748 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1749 option (which defaults to 0600).
1750
bfad5236
PH
1751PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1752
01c490df
PH
1753PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1754 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1755 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1756 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1757 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1758 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1759 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1760
d6629cdc
PH
1761PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1762
1cce3af8 1763
214e2000
PH
1764Exim version 4.61
1765-----------------
1766
1767PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1768 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1769 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1770 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1771 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1772 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1773 addresses as local.
1774
f9daeae0
PH
1775PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1776 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1777
7e66e54d
PH
1778PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1779
c8ea1597
PH
1780PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1781 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1782 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1783 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1784 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1785 grumble.
1786
911f6fde
PH
1787PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1788 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1789
47ca6d6c
PH
1790PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1791 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1792 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1793 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1794 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1795
ed0e9820
PH
1796PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1797 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1798 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1799 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1800
eff37e47
PH
1801PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1802 be the same on different OS.
1803
1921d2ea
PH
1804PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1805 testing.
1806
b3f69ca8
JJ
1807JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1808 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1809
1810JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1811 in 4.61-PH/06
1812
424a1c63
PH
1813PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1814 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1815 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1816 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1817 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1818 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1819 bounce message.
1820
7a100415
PH
1821PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1822 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1823 when Exim was called.
1824
19b9dc85
PH
1825PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1826 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1827
309bd837
PH
1828PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1829 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1830 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1831 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1832
59e82a2a
PH
1833PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1834 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1835 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1836 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1837 changes:
1838
1839 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1840 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1841 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1842
1843 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1844 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1845 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1846
9edc04ce
PH
1847PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1848 feature).
1849
1349e1e5
PH
1850PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1851 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1852 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1853 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1854 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1855 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1856 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1857 values from the SRV records were lost.
1858
ea49d0e1
PH
1859PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1860 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1861 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1862
064a94c9
PH
1863PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1864 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1865 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1866
727071f8
PH
1867PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1868 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1869 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1870 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1871 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1872 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1873 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1874 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1875 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1876 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1877
f78eb7c6
PH
1878PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1879 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1880 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1881
21c28500
PH
1882PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1883 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1884
1885PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1886 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1887 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1888 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1889 is given.
1890
1688f43b
PH
1891PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1892 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1893 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1894
1895PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1896 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1897 PH/23 above applies.
1898
9675b384
PH
1899PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1900 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1901 (for which there is an explicit test).
1902
6a3f1455
PH
1903PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1904
dac79d3e
PH
1905PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1906 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1907 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1908 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1909 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1910
5977a0b3
PH
1911PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1912 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1913 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1914 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1915
c91535f3
PH
1916PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1917 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1918 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1919
0d46a8c8
PH
1920PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1921
278c6e6c
PH
1922PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1923
2cbb4081
PH
1924PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1925 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1926 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1927
3eef829e
PH
1928PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1929 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1930 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1931 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1932 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1933
1ab95fa6
PH
1934PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1935 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1936 the message gets confusing).
1937
230205fc
PH
1938PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1939 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1940 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1941 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1942
75e0e026
PH
1943PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1944 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1945 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1946 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1947 same order.
1948
1949PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1950 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1951 the different processes.
1952
145396a6
PH
1953PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1954
3cd34f13
PH
1955PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1956
11121d3d
JJ
1957JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1958 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1959
1960JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1961 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1962
1963JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1964 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1965 messages matching specified criteria.
1966
8def5aaf
PH
1967PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1968
929ba01c
PH
1969PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1970 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1971
2632889e
PH
1972PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1973 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1974 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1975 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1976 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1977 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1978 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1979 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1980 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1981 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1982
944a9c55
PH
1983PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1984 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1985 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1986
4a23603b
PH
1987PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1988
4730f942
PH
1989PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1990 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1991 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1992 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1993 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1994 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1995 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1996 the variable.
1997
30dba1e6
PH
1998PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1999 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2000
382afc6b
PH
2001PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2002
a86229cf
PH
2003PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2004
50c99ba6
PH
2005PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2006
d35e429d
PH
2007PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2008 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2009 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2010 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2011 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2012 size of the count of files.
2013
f90d018c
PH
2014PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2015
75def545
PH
2016PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2017 used in LMTP mode:
2018
2019 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2020 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2021 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2022 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2023
2024 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2025 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2026 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2027
2028PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2029 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2030 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2031 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2032 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2033
c46782ef
PH
2034PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2035 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2036
71fafd95
PH
2037PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2038 will now be deprecated.
2039
2c5db4fd
PH
2040PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2041
9cf6b11a
JJ
2042JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2043 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2044 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2045
2046JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2047 with very large, slow to parse queues
2048
2049JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2050
2051JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2052
898d150f
PH
2053PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2054 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2055 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2056 SMTP output lines.
2057
46218253
PH
2058PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2059 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2060 Sieve code now uses this.
2061
e97957bc
PH
2062PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2063 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2064
81e509d7
PH
2065PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2066 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2067
3d240ff7
PH
2068PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2069
b37c4101
PH
2070PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2071 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2072 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2073 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2074 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2075
79378e0f
PH
2076PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2077 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2078 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2079 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2080
e49c7bb4
PH
2081PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2082
d114ec46
PH
2083PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2084
f3d7df6c
PH
2085PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2086 is preferred over IPv4.
2087
715ab376
PH
2088PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2089 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2090 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2091 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2092 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2093 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2094 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2095
6b31b150
PH
2096PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2097 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2098 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2099
2100PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2101
d515a917
PH
2102PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2103 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2104 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2105 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2106 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2107 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2108 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2109 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2110 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2111 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2112 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2113
9b8fadde
PH
2114PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2115 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2116 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2117
214e2000 2118
5de37277
PH
2119Exim version 4.60
2120-----------------
2121
cc38ddbf
PH
2122PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2123
2124 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2125 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2126
2127 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2128 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2129 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2130
72fdd6ae
PH
2131PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2132
2133 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2134 not a single digit.
2135
2136 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2137 string.
2138
2139 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2140 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2141 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2142 silly things.
2143
2144 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2145 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2146
2147 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2148 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2149
cb741023
PH
2150PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2151 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2152 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2153
f174f16e
PH
2154PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2155 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2156
c25242d7
PH
2157PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2158 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2159
2160 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2161
2162 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2163 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2164 this:
2165
2166 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2167
82c19f95
PH
2168PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2169 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2170 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2171 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2172 identical. For example:
2173
2174 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2175
2176 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2177 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2178 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2179
d7ffbc12
PH
2180PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2181 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2182 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2183 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2184
9f526266
PH
2185PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2186 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2187 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2188 message.
2189
87fcc8b9
PH
2190PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2191
2192 o fixes some comments
2193 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2194 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2195 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2196 and documents the missing references header update
2197
2198 and most important:
2199
2200 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2201 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2202 result)
2203
456682f5
PH
2204PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2205 Electronic Mail") by including:
2206
2207 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2208
2209 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2210 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2211 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2212 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2213 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2214
2215 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2216
2217 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2218
2219 The auto-replied keyword:
2220
2221 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2222 message by an automatic process,
2223
2224 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2225
2226 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2227 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2228
2229 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2230 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2231 other messages.
2232
3e46c1aa
PH
2233PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2234 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2235
49826d12
PH
2236PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2237
eba0c039
PH
2238PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2239 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2240 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2241
a0d6ba8a
PH
2242PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2243 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2244 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2245
f0917727
PH
2246PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2247 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2248 and treats the condition as false.
2249
096fee00
PH
2250PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2251
024bd3c2
PH
2252PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2253 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2254 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2255 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2256 not changing the active code.
2257
2258 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2259 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2260
2261 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2262 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2263
df199fec
PH
2264PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2265 (Bugzilla #53).
2266
d27f1df3
PH
2267PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2268 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2269 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2270 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2271 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2272 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2273 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2274 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2275 the text comparison.
2276
96776534
PH
2277PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2278 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2279 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2280 The same fix has been applied.
2281
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9a799bc0
PH
2283Exim version 4.54
2284-----------------
2285
2286PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2287 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2288 It now does.
2289
99a4b039
PH
2290PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2291 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2292
2293PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2294
4b233853
PH
2295PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2296 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2297 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2298 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2299 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2300
8857ccfd
PH
2301TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2302 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2303 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2304 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2305 or /domain=).
2306
433a2980
PH
2307PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2308 testing suite.
2309
3e46c1aa 2310
9a799bc0 2311
e3a311ba
TK
2312Exim version 4.53
2313-----------------
2314
2315TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2316 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2317
13b685f9
PH
2318PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2319
395ff96d
PH
2320PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2321
5b68f6e4
PH
2322PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2323 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2324 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2325
1ab52c69
PH
2326PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2327 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2328 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2329
b07e6aa3
PH
2330PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2331 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2332 operating systems.
2333
254e032f
PH
2334PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2335 ${stat: expansion item.
2336
3af76a81
PH
2337PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2338 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2339
2548ba04
PH
2340PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2341 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2342 file for comments.
2343
b6c6011d
PH
2344PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2345
cf39cf57
PH
2346PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2347 setting.
2348
f1513293
PH
2349PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2350 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2351
727549a4
PH
2352TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2353
af46795e
PH
2354PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2355 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2356 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2357 the end of the subprocess.
2358
d7b47fd0
PH
2359PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2360 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2361 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2362 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2363 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2364
ee744174
JJ
2365JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2366
b582ab87
PH
2367TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2368
41a13e0a
PH
2369PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2370 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2371
f625cc5a
PH
2372PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2373
2374PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2375
21f7af35
PH
2376PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2377 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2378 HP-UX compiler.
2379
31480e42
PH
2380PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2381
2d280592
PH
2382PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2383 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2384 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2385
7cd1141b
PH
2386PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2387 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2388
2389PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2390 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2391
750af86e
PH
2392PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2393 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2394
2395 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2396 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2397
2398 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2399 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2400 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2401 contributed by a Radius user.
2402
2403PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2404 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2405
4304270b
TK
2406TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2407 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2408
750af86e
PH
2409PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2410 available.
2411
64ffc24f
PH
2412PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2413 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2414 received.
2415
5dd9625b
PH
2416PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2417 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2418 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2419 header lines when this was not necessary.
2420
5591031b
PH
2421PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2422
ba18e66a
PH
2423PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2424 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2425 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2426 exists".
2427
9cec981f
PH
2428PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2429 -bV or -d is used.
2430
aa2b5c79
PH
2431PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2432 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2433 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2434 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2435
48a53b7f
PH
2436PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2437
1c59d63b
PH
2438PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2439
671012da
TK
2440TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2441
1509d3a8
PH
2442PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2443
2444PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2445 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2446 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2447 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2448 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2449 settings.
2450
2451PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2452
2fe1a124
PH
2453PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2454 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2455 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2456 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2457 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2458 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2459 which is clearly wrong.
2460
8800895a
PH
2461PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2462
ccfdb010
PH
2463PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2464 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2465 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2466 subsequently added.
2467
1130bfb0
PH
2468PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2469 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2470
ebcb507f
PH
2471PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2472
c35e155c
PH
2473PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2474 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2475
95d1f782
PH
2476PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2477 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2478
fd6de02e
PH
2479PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2480 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2481
58de37c5
PH
2482PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2483 recipients, not senders.
2484
261cf466
TF
2485TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2486 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2487
3ee512ff
PH
2488PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2489
e08c430f
PH
2490PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2491
bef5a11f
PH
2492PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2493 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2494 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2495 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2496
7546de58
TF
2497TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2498
e5d5a95f
TF
2499TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2500 clock is set back in time.
2501
2e88a017
TF
2502TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2503 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2504
a5f65aa4
TF
2505TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2506 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2507
e7726cbf
PH
2508PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2509 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2510 (see PH/47 above).
2511
a7fdad5b
TF
2512TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2513 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2514 header rewrites.
2515
6af56900
PH
2516PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2517 type ("H").
2518
0925ede6
PH
2519PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2520
66afa403
TF
2521TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2522 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2523 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2524
0154e85a
TF
2525TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2526 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2527 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2528 helo verification defer as a failure.
2529
16f12c76
PH
2530PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2531 actual error message.
2532
bbe902f0 2533
e5a9dba6
PH
2534Exim version 4.52
2535-----------------
2536
2537TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2538
22c3b60b
PH
2539PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2540 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2541 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2542 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2543
06a9b4b5
PH
2544TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2545
c1ac6996
PH
2546PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2547 can still be requested.
2548
9c7a242c
PH
2549PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2550 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2551 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2552 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2553
87ba3f5f
PH
2554TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2555 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2556 circumstances, but probably never did.
2557
2558PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2559 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2560 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2561 in the header line.
2562
29aba418
TF
2563TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2564
fe0dab11
TF
2565TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2566 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2567
11d337a4
TK
2568TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2569
2570TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2571
415c8f3b
PH
2572PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2573 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2574 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2575 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2576 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2577 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2578
958541e9
PH
2579PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2580 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2581 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2582 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2583 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2584 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2585
c206415f
TK
2586TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2587 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2588
2a4be8f9
PH
2589PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2590 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2591
1cba11c5
SC
2592SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2593 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2594
2595SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2596
2597SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2598
2599SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2600
2601SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2602
2603SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2604
2605SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2606
1005d00e
TK
2607TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2608
2609TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2610 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2611 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2612
2613TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2614 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2615 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2616 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2617
9b4768fa
PH
2618PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2619 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2620 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2621
2622PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2623 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2624 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2625 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2626
0d7eb84a
PH
2627PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2628 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2629 to be made).
2630
2631PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2632 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2633 should work with maildirs and everything.
2634
40727bee
TK
2635TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2636 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2637
554d2369
TF
2638TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2639 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2640
1f922db1
PH
2641PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2642 function for BDB 4.3.
2643
ef213c3b
PH
2644PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2645
8ac170f3
PH
2646PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2647 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2648 involved.
2649
b1c749bb
PH
2650PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2651 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2652 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2653 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2654 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2655 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2656
4aac9b49
PH
2657PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2658 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2659 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2660 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2661 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2662 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2663 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2664 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2665
294520c8
TK
2666TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2667 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2668 details.
2669
5bd022fe
PH
2670PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2671 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2672
90e9ce59
PH
2673PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2674 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2675 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2676 test. It is now used for both.
2677
5ea81592
PH
2678PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2679 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2680 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2681 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2682 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2683 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2684
c6c2dc1d
PH
2685PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2686 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2687 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2688 string_vformat().
2689
fffffe4c
PH
2690PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2691 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2692 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2693
9a26b6b2
PH
2694PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2695 experimental DomainKeys support:
2696
2697 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2698 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2699 the control was given.
2700
2701 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2702
4aee0225
PH
2703PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2704
32d668a5
PH
2705PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2706
8187c3f3
PH
2707PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2708 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2709 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2710 db.h files).
2711
ff790e47 2712PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2713 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2714 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2715 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2716 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2717 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2718 course.
ff790e47 2719
5417f6d1
PH
2720PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2721 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2722 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2723 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2724 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2725 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2726
59cf8544
PH
2727PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2728 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2729 do -d+all out of habit.
2730
e7ad8a65
PH
2731PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2732 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2733 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2734
ade42478
PH
2735PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2736 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2737 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2738 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2739 record types that Exim uses.
2740
182ad5cf
PH
2741PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2742 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2743 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2744 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2745 non-existent file that was broken.
2746
b0d9fc80
TK
2747TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2748 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2749
2750TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2751 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2752 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2753
2754TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2755
47c7a64a
PH
2756PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2757 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2758 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2759 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2760 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2761 same time.
2762
a388bce4
SC
2763SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2764 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2765 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2766 at a slight CPU cost.
2767
2768SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2769 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2770
2771SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2772 by Marc Sherman.
2773
0793e4ed
SC
2774SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2775
c58b88df
PH
2776PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2777 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2778
e7ad8a65 2779
7982096b
PH
2780Exim version 4.51
2781-----------------
2782
1a46a8c5
PH
2783TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2784 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2785
2f079f46 2786TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2787
2788TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2789
2790PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2791 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2792
2793PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2794 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2795 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2796 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2797 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2798 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2799 file.
2800
2801PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2802 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2803 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2804 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2805 these two options.
2806
2807PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2808 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2809 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2810 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2811 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2812 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2813 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2814 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2815
2816PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2817 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2818
2819PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2820 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2821 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2822 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2823 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2824 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2825
2826PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2827 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2828 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2829 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2830
2831PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2832 Finch).
2833
2834PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2835 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2836
49c2d5ea
PH
2837PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2838 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2839 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2840 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2841 message.
49c2d5ea 2842
bf759a8b
PH
2843PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2844
83364d30
PH
2845PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2846 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2847
7999bbd7
PH
2848PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2849 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2850 to what was transported.)
2851
7dbf77c9
PH
2852TF/01 Added $received_time.
2853
74e0617f
PH
2854PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2855 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2856 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2857 spamd_address settings.
2858
2f079f46
PH
2859PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2860 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2861 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2862 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2863 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2864
8c841523
PH
2865PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2866
7766a4f0
PH
2867PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2868 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2869 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2870 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2871 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2872
8b417f2c
PH
2873PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2874 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2875
901f42cb
PH
2876PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2877 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2878 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2879 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2880 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2881 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2882 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2883 for failure.
2884
f9b9210e
PH
2885PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2886 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2887 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2888 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2889 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2890 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2891 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2892 "input=".
2893
54cdb463
PH
2894PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2895
cf00dad6
PH
2896PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2897 driver and ACL definitions.
2898
acb1b346
PH
2899PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2900 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2901
c5ddb310
PH
2902PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2903 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2904 understands it better than I do:
2905
2906 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2907 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2908
2909 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2910 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2911 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2912 => three warnings about OTP not working
2913 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2914
2915 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2916 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2917 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2918 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2919 for each call.)
2920 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2921 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2922
2923 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2924 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2925 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2926
31619da6
PH
2927PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2928 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2929 specified.
2930
bebaf0fc
PH
2931PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2932 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2933 "Linux".
2934
475fe28a
PH
2935PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2936 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2937 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2938
2939 warn !verify = sender
2940 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2941
2942 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2943 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2944
7e8bec7a
PH
2945PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2946
2947 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2948 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2949
2950 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2951 nomenclature these days.)
2952
e4a89c47
PH
2953PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2954 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2955
5ca2a9a1
PH
2956PH/30 In these circumstances:
2957 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2958 . First host does not offer TLS;
2959 . First host accepts first address;
2960 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2961 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2962 . Second host accepts second address.
2963 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2964 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2965 address.
7e8bec7a 2966
c688b954
PH
2967PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2968 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2969 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2970 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2971 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2972
fed77020
PH
2973PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2974 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2975
7fe1560f
PH
2976PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2977 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2978
ebb6e6d5
PH
2979PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2980 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2981 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2982
9c4e8f60
PH
2983PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2984 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2985 overlooked.
2986
2987PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2988
d7174846
PH
2989PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2990 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2991 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2992 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2993 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2994 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2995 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2996
2997 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2998 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2999 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3000 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3001 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3002
3003 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3004 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3005 routed further.
3006
cfe75fc3
PH
3007PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3008 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3009 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3010 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3011 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3012 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3013
be22d70e
PH
3014PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3015
0612b098
PH
3016PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3017 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3018 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3019 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3020 printable escape sequences.
3021
2e0c1448
PH
3022PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3023 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3024 body only.
3025
447d236c
PH
3026PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3027 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3028 are as follows:
3029
3030 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3031 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3032 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3033 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3034 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3035
3036 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3037 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3038 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3039
d20976dc
PH
3040PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3041
f656d135
PH
3042PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3043 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3044 play with."
3045
2e2a30b4
PH
3046PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3047 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3048 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3049 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3050 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3051 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3052 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3053 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3054 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3055 the log output.
3056
9176e9f0
PH
3057PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3058 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3059 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3060 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3061 "make".
3062
7982096b 3063
bbe902f0
PH
3064A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3065----------------------------------------
3066
3067Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3068changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3069needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3070in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3071that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3072release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3073from 4.43.
3074
3075I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
30764.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3077those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3078historical information.
3079
3080
f7b63901 3081Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3082-----------------
3083
5fe762f6
PH
3084 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3085
139059f6 3086 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3087 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3088
7086e875
PH
3089 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3090 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3091 place.
3092
35af9f61
PH
3093 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3094 filter fails to execute.
3095
b668c215
PH
3096 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3097 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3098 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3099 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3100 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3101
a494b1e1
PH
3102 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3103
3104 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3105 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3106 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3107 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3108
c5fcb476
PH
3109 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3110 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3111 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3112 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3113 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3114
69358f02
PH
3115 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3116
5be20824
PH
311710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3118
eb2c0248
PH
311911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3120 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3121 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3122 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3123
2a3eea10
PH
312412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3125 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3126 sender verification.
3127
312813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3129 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3130
23c7ff99
PH
313114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3132
4deaf07d
PH
313315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3134 connection timeout.
3135
926e1192
PH
313616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3137 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3138
650edc6f
PH
313917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3140 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3141
2c7db3f5
PH
314218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3143 information about exactly what failed.
3144
3d235903
PH
314519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3146
7c7ad977
PH
314720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3148 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3149 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3150
981756db
PH
315121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3152 It is now set to "smtps".
3153
d4eb88df
PH
315422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3155 ignore_target_hosts.
3156
315723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3158 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3159 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3160 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3161 "[x.x.x.x]".
3162
7d468ab8
PH
316324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3164 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3165 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3166
316725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3168 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3169 wake it up if nothing else does.
3170
62c0818f
PH
317126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3172 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3173 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3174 end up negative.
3175
26034054
PH
317627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3177 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3178
af66f652
PH
317928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3180
90af77f4
PH
318129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3182 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3183 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3184 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3185 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3186 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3187 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3188 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3189
d8ef3577
PH
319030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3191 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3192 than one IP address.
3193
5cb8cbc6
PH
319431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3195 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3196 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3197 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3198
14702f5b
PH
319932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3200 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3201 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3202 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3203 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3204 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3205
063b1e99
PH
320633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3207 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3208 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3209 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3210
652e1b65
PH
321134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3212 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3213 respected.
3214
6f0c9a4f
PH
321535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3216 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3217 $sender_host_address.
3218
33397d19
PH
321936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3220 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3221 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3222 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3223 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3224 very small.
3225
7bb56e1f
PH
322637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3227
3228 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3229 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3230
ea3bc19b
PH
3231 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3232 just the host names, not the priorities.
3233
3234 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3235 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3236 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3237
ea3bc19b 3238 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3239 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3240
0bcb2a0e
PH
324138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3242 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3243 domain.
3244
2ac0e484
PH
324539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3246
4e1fde53
PH
324740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3248 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3249
de365ded
PH
325041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3251 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3252 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3253
f05da2e8
PH
325442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3255
d6453af2
PH
325643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3257
f7b63901
PH
325844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3259
326045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3261 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3262 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3263 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3264 because the tests only now provoked it.
3265
a444213a
PH
326646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3267 (this can affect the format of dates).
3268
0ec020ea
PH
326947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3270 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3271 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3272 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3273
b1206957
PH
327448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3275
327649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3277 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3278 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3279 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3280
26dd5a95
PH
328150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3282 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3283 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3284
343b2385
PH
328551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3286 autoreply.
3287
1c5466b9
PH
328852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3289 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3290 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3291 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3292 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3293 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3294 is going on).
3295
55ee9ee3
PH
329653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3297 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3298 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3299 the line.
3300
d38f8232
PH
330154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3302 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3303 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3304
3305 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3306 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3307 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3308 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3309 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3310 so I produce this patch..."
3311
3295e65b
PH
3312 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3313 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3314 is not defined.
3315
7102e136
PH
331655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3317 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3318 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3319 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3320 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3321
3ca0ba97
PH
332256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3323
c2bcbe20
PH
332457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3325 long debug lines gets shown.
3326
18ce445d
PH
332758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3328 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3329
1f5b4c3d
PH
333059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3331
3332 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3333 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3334 of $primary_hostname.
3335
b975ba52
PH
333660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3337 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3338 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3339 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3340 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3341 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3342 by change 4.50/55 above.
3343
3344 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3345 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3346 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3347 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3348 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3349 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3350 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3351
335261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3353 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3354 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3355 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3356
17ffcae7
PH
335762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3358 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3359
d95f9fdb
PH
336063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3361 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3362 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3363 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3364 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3365
86b8287f
PH
336664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3367 This has been fixed.
3368
60dc5e56
PH
336965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3370 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3371 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3372 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3373 the caching.)
3374
533244af
PH
337566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3376
a5a28604
PH
337767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3378 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3379 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3380 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3381
7e634d24
PH
338268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3383 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3384
3e11c26b
PH
338569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3386 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3387 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3388
6729cf78
PH
338970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3390 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3391 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3392 message there.
3393
00f00ca5
PH
339471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3395 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3396 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3397
c9bdd01c
PH
339872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3399 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3400 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3401 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3402
d43194df
PH
340373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3404 during host lookups.
3405
fe5b5d0b
PH
340674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3407 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3408
3409 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3410
76a2d7ba
PH
341175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3412 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3413 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3414 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3415 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3416 background.
3417
341876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3419 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3420
04f7d5b9
PH
342177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3422 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3423 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3424
bc60667e
PH
342578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3426
bb6e88ff
PH
342779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3428 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3429 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3430 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3431 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3432 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3433 process earlier.
3434
1e70f85b
PH
343580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3436 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3437 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3438 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3439 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3440
344181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3442 tables).
3443
4e01f9d6
PH
344482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3445
1ee1cef2
PH
344683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3447 "vacation" handling.
3448
6e2b4ccc
PH
344984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3450 OS variants using glibc.
3451
8e669ac1
PH
345285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3453
495ae4b0 3454
bbe902f0
PH
3455----------------------------------------------------
3456See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3457----------------------------------------------------
3458
3459
3460Exim version 4.44
3461-----------------
3462
3463 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3464 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3465 transport
3466
3467 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3468 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3469 place.
3470
3471 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3472 filter fails to execute.
3473
3474 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3475 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3476 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3477 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3478 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3479
3480 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3481 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3482 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3483 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3484
3485 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3486 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3487 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3488 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3489 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3490
3491 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3492
3493 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3494 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3495 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3496 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3497
3498 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3499 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3500 sender verification.
3501
350210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3503 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3504
350511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3506 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3507
350812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3509 ignore_target_hosts.
3510
351113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3512 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3513 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3514 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3515 "[x.x.x.x]".
3516
351714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3518 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3519 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3520
352115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3522 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3523 wake it up if nothing else does.
3524
352516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3526 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3527 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3528 end up negative.
3529
353017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3531 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3532
ea3a6f44 353318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3534
353519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3536 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3537 empty pattern.
3538
353920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3540 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3541 one IP address.
3542
ea3a6f44
NM
354321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3544 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3545 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3546 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3547 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3548 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3549
ea3a6f44
NM
355022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3551 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3552 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3553
355423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3555 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3556 $sender_host_address.
3557
355824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3559
ea3a6f44
NM
356025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3561 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3562 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3563
356426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3565 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3566
ea3a6f44
NM
356727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3568 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3569
ea3a6f44
NM
357028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3571 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3572 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3573 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3574
357529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3576 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3577 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3578
ea3a6f44
NM
357930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3580 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3581 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3582 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3583
ea3a6f44
NM
358431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3585 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3586 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3587
ea3a6f44
NM
358831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3589 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3590
ea3a6f44
NM
359132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3592 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3593 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3594 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3595 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3596 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3597 is going on).
bbe902f0 3598
ea3a6f44
NM
359933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3600 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3601 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3602 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3603 CAN-2005-0021
3604
ea3a6f44
NM
360534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3606 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3607 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3608 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3609 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3610 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3611 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3612
3613 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3614 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3615 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3616 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3617 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3618 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3619 CAN-2005-0021
3620
ea3a6f44
NM
362135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3622 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3623 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3624 CAN-2005-0022
3625
ea3a6f44
NM
362636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3627 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3628 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3629 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3630 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3631
ea3a6f44
NM
363237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3633 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3634 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3635 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3636 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3637
ea3a6f44
NM
363838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3639 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3640 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3641 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3642 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3643
3644
495ae4b0
PH
3645Exim version 4.43
3646-----------------
3647
3648 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3649 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3650 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3651 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3652 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3653 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3654 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3655
3656 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3657 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3658 the delivery.
3659
3660 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3661
3662 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3663
3664 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3665 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3666 to local_scan().
3667
3668 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3669 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3670 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3671 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3672 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3673
3674 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3675 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3676
3677 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3678
3679 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3680
368110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3682 header_sender only.
3683
368411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3685 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3686
368712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3688 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3689 affecting debugging statements).
3690
369113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3692
369314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3694 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3695 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3696 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3697 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3698 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3699 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3700 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3701 after the received time, and all would be well.
3702
370315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3704 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3705 condition in an expansion string.
3706
370716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3708
370917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3710 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3711 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3712 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3713 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3714 job under whatever limits there are.
3715
371618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3717
371819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3719 space).
3720
372120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3722 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3723 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3724 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3725 return path is set.
3726
372721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3728 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3729 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3730 binary data in such strings.
3731
373222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3733
373423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3735 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3736 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3737 failure, which is pointless.
3738
373924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3740
374125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3742
374326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3744 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3745 Sender: header lines.
3746
374727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3748 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3749 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3750
375128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3752 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3753 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3754 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3755 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3756 happens.
3757
375829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3759 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3760 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3761 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3762 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3763
376430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3765 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3766 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3767 1024.
3768
376931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3770 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3771
377232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3773 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3774
377533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3776
377732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3778
377933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3780
378134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3782 syntax error.
3783
378435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3785
378636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3787
378837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3789 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3790 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3791 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3792
379338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3794 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3795
3796
3797Exim version 4.42
3798-----------------
3799
3800 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3801 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3802 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3803 it was not quoted.
3804 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3805 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3806 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3807 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3808 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3809 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3810
3811 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3812 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3813 verification failure".
3814
3815 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3816 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3817 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3818 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3819
3820 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3821 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3822 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3823 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3824 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3825 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3826 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3827 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3828 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3829 treated as a timeout.
3830
3831 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3832 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3833 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3834 not set for Exim filters).
3835
3836 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3837 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3838 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3839
3840 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3841
3842 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3843 try to make them clearer.
3844
3845 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3846 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3847
3848 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3849
3850 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3851
385210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3853 only the Cygwin environment.
3854
385511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3856 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3857 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3858 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3859 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3860
386112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3862 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3863 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3864 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3865 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3866 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3867 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3868
386913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3870 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3871
387214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3873
3874 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3875 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3876 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3877
3878 To: susanne@some.where
3879
3880 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3881 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3882 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3883 of addresses in From: header lines).
3884
3885 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3886 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3887 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3888
3889 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3890 treated as non-personal.
3891
3892 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3893 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3894
389515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3896
389716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3898
389917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3900 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3901 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3902
390318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3904 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3905
390619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3907 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3908 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3909 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3910 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3911 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3912
391320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3914 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3915 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3916 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3917 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3918 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3919 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3920 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3921
3922 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3923
392421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3925 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3926
392722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3928 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3929 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3930
393123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3932 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3933
393424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3935 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3936 rather than long int.
3937
393825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3939
394026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3941
3942
3943Exim version 4.41
3944-----------------
3945
3946 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3947 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3948 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3949 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3950 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3951 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3952
3953
3954Exim version 4.40
3955-----------------
3956
3957 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3958 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3959
3960 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3961 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3962 socklen_t is defined.
3963
3964 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3965 always exist.
3966
3967 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3968 configured.
3969
3970 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3971 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3972 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3973 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3974 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3975
3976 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3977 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3978 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3979 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3980
3981 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3982 of flapping under certain conditions.
3983
3984 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3985 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3986 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3987
3988 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3989
399010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3991
399211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3993 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3994 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3995 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3996
399712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3998 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3999 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4000 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4001 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4002 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4003 preserved with the message after it was received.
4004
400513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4006 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4007 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4008 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4009 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4010 test suite worked just fine.
4011
401214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4013 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4014 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4015
401615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4017 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4018 string.
4019
402016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4021 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4022 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4023 does not fully solve it.
4024
402517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4026 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4027 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4028 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4029 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4030
403118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4032 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4033 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4034
403519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4036 string, for example:
4037
4038 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4039
4040 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4041 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4042 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4043 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4044 the routers could not see them.
4045
404620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4047 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4048
404921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4050 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4051 output).
4052
405322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4054 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4055 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4056 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4057 that needed quoting.
4058
405923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4060 was not being matched caselessly.
4061
406224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4063 backslashes.
4064
406525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4066 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4067 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4068 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4069 when use_sender is false.
4070
407126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4072
407327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4074
407528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4076
407729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4078 the configuration file.
4079
408030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4081 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4082
408331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4084
408532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4086 bytes in the message body.
4087
408833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4089 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4090 delivery.
4091
409234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4093
409435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4095
409636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4097 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4098 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4099 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4100 another IP address.
4101
4102
4103Exim version 4.34
4104-----------------
4105
4106 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4107 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4108
4109 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4110 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4111 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4112 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4113 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4114
4115 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4116 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4117
4118 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4119 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4120 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4121
4122 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4123 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4124 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4125
4126 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4127 for routers.
4128
4129 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4130 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4131 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4132 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4133 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4134 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4135 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4136
4137
4138Exim version 4.33
4139-----------------
4140
4141 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4142 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4143 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4144 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4145 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4146 default (and expected) setting.
4147
4148 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4149 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4150 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4151 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4152
4153 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4154 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4155
4156 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4157 in domain lists.
4158
4159 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4160 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4161 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4162 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4163 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4164 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4165
4166 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4167 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4168 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4169
4170 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4171 part (NOT match_host).
4172
4173 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4174
4175 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4176 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4177 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4178 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4179 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4180 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4181 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4182 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4183 the same named file.
4184
418510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4186 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4187 when Exim is built.
4188
418911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4190 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4191 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4192 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4193 a host name.
4194
419512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4196 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4197 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4198
419913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4200
420114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4202
420315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4204
420516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4206 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4207
420817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4209 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4210 before starting the TLS session.
4211
421218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4213
421419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4215 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4216
421720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4218 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4219 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4220 colon in the middle).
4221
4222
4223Exim version 4.32
4224-----------------
4225
4226 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4227 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4228 multiple configurations are in use.
4229
4230 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4231 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4232 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4233 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4234 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4235 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4236
4237 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4238 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4239
4240 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4241 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4242 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4243
4244 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4245 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4246 occurs.
4247
4248 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4249 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4250
4251 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4252
4253 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4254 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4255
4256 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4257
4258 -prval:sval
4259
4260 is equivalent to
4261
4262 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4263
4264 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4265 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4266 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4267 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4268 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4269
427010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4271 Exim's behaviour:
4272
4273 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4274 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4275 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4276 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4277 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4278 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4279
4280 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4281 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4282 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4283 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4284 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4285 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4286 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4287 string.
4288
4289 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4290 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4291 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4292 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4293 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4294
429511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4296
429712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4298 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4299 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4300
430113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4302
430314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4304 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4305 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4306 information.
4307
430815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4309 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4310
431116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4312 Three changes have been made:
4313
4314 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4315 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4316 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4317 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4318 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4319
4320 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4321 been restored.
4322
4323 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4324 the modified behaviour.
4325
4326
4327Exim version 4.31
4328-----------------
4329
4330 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4331 Larry Rosenman.
4332
4333 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4334 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4335
4336 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4337 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4338 try to track down a specific problem.
4339
4340 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4341 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4342 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4343
4344 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4345 warning.
4346
4347 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4348 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4349 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4350 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4351 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4352 some earlier ones do not.
4353
4354 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4355
4356 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4357 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4358 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4359 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4360 address literals are enabled, of course).
4361
4362 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4363
436410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4365 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4366 by a command such as
4367
4368 exim -f "" ...
4369
4370 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4371
437211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4373
437412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4375 remained set. It is now erased.
4376
437713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4378 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4379
438014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4381 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4382 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4383 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4384 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4385 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4386 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4387 appropriate error code.
4388
438915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4390 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4391 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4392 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4393 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4394 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4395
439616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4397 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4398 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4399
440017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4401 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4402 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4403 terminate the header.
4404
440518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4406 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4407 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4408
440919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4410 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4411 (4.30/29). In particular:
4412
4413 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4414 imposed.
4415
4416 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4417 to write a maildirsize file.
4418
4419 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4420 the transport, the new value overrides.
4421
4422 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4423 count.
4424
442520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4426 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4427 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4428 space or a tab.
4429
443021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4431 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4432 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4433 the fallback hosts.
4434
443522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4436 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4437 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4438
443923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4440 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4441 using a union.
4442
444324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4444 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4445 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4446
444725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4448
444926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4450
445127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4452
445328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4454 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4455 become corrupted.
4456
445729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4458 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4459 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4460 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4461 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4462 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4463 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4464 too great.
4465
446630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4467 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4468 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4469 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4470 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4471 incorrectly.
4472
447331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4474 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4475 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4476 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4477 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4478 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4479 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4480 cached value only when the same options are set.
4481
448232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4483
448433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4485 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4486 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4487 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4488 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4489
449034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4491 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4492 it is clearly obsolete.
4493
449435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4495 transport.
4496
449736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4498 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4499 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4500 times.
4501
450237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4503 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4504 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4505 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4506 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4507
450838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4509 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4510 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4511 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4512
451339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4514
4515 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4516
4517 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4518 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4519 2^31.
4520
452140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4522 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4523 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4524 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4525 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4526 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4527 $localpart_data.
4528
452941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4530 with the -f command-line option.
4531
453242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4533 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4534 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4535 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4536 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4537 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4538
453943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4540 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4541 line.
4542
454344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4544 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4545 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4546 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4547 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4548 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4549 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4550 buffer is too small.
4551
455245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4553 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4554
455546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4556 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4557 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4558 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4559 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4560 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4561 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4562 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4563 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4564
456547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4566 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4567 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4568
456948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4570 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4571 ACL").
4572
457349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4574 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4575 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4576 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4577 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4578
457950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4580 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4581 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4582 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4583 is set.
4584
458551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4586
458752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4588
458953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4590 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4591
459254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4593 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4594 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4595
459655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4597 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4598 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4599 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4600 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4601
460256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4603 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4604 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4605 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4606 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4607 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4608 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4609
461057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4611 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4612 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4613 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4614 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4615 the test of how many are available.
4616
461758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4618 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4619 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4620 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4621 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4622 new message is started.
4623
462459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4625 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4626
462760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4628 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4629
463061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4631 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4632 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4633 is no long logged.
4634
463562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4636 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4637 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4638 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4639 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4640 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4641 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4642
464363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4644 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4645 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4646 interpreted as octal.
4647
464864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4649 setting.
4650
465165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4652 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4653 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4654 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4655 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4656 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4657
465866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4659 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4660 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4661 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4662
4663 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4664 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4665 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4666 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4667
4668 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4669 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4670 is a bug fix.
4671
4672 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4673 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4674
467567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4676
467768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4678 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4679 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4680 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4681
468269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4683 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4684 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4685 supplied", which is not helpful.
4686
468770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4688 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4689 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4690
469171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4692 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4693 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4694 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4695 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4696 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4697 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4698 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4699
470072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4701 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4702 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4703 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4704 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4705
470673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4707 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4708 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4709 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4710 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4711 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4712
471374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4714 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4715 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4716
471775. Added write_rejectlog option.
4718
471976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4720 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4721 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4722 variables.
4723
472477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4725
472678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4727 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4728 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4729 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4730 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4731 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4732 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4733 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4734
473579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4736 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4737 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4738 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4739 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4740
474180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4742 Haardt.
4743
474481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4745 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4746 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4747 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4748 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4749 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4750 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4751 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4752 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4753
4754
4755Exim version 4.30
4756-----------------
4757
4758 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4759 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4760 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4761
4762 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4763 fixed.
4764
4765 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4766 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4767 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4768
4769 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4770 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4771 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4772 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4773 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4774 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4775
4776 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4777 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4778 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4779 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4780 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4781 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4782 the Exim test suite.
4783
4784 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4785 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4786 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4787 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4788
4789 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4790 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4791 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4792 specify it in this variable.
4793
4794 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4795 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4796 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4797 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4798
4799 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4800 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4801 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4802 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4803
4804 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4805 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4806 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4807 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4808 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4809
4810 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4811
481210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4813 they are logged.
4814
481511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4816 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4817 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4818 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4819 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4820
482112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4822 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4823
482413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4825 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4826 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4827 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4828 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4829
483014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4831 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4832
483315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4834 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4835 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4836
483716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4838 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4839
484017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4841 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4842
484318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4844 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4845 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4846
484719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4848 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4849
485020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4851 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4852 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4853 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4854
485521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4856
485722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4858 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4859 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4860 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4861
486223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4863
486424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4865 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4866
486725. Added .include_if_exists.
4868
486926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4870 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4871 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4872 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4873 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4874 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4875
487627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4877
487828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4879 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4880 this.
4881
488229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4883
488430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4885 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4886
4887 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4888 550 Sender verify failed
4889
4890 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4891 the final line of the response.
4892
489331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4894 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4895 all other user lookups.
4896
489732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4898 delivery time.
4899
490033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4901 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4902 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4903 result into an int without checking.
4904
490534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4906 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4907 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4908
490935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4910 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4911 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4912 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4913
491436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4915 correctly.
4916
491737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4918 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4919
492038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4921 to the empty sender.
4922
492339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4924 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4925 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4926 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4927 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4928 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4929 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4930 panic log.
4931
493240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4933 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4934 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4935 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4936 used.
4937
493841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4939 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4940
494142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4942 timestamps.
4943
494443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4945 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4946
494744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4948
494945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4950 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4951 logs.
4952
495346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4954 as soon as it is encountered.
4955
495647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4957
495848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4959 rewritten to "<>".
4960
496149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4962 recognizes a tab character.
4963
496450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4965 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4966 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4967 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4968
496951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4970
497152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4972 crash.
4973
497453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4975
497654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4977
497855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4979 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4980 2822.
4981
498256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4983 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4984 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4985 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4986 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4987
498857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4989 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4990
499158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4992 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4993 list (.included file names were always shown).
4994
499559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4996 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4997 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4998 root at that time.
4999
500060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5001 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5002
500361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5004
500562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5006
500763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5008
500964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5010 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5011 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5012 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5013 failures to open the logs.
5014
501565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5016 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5017 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5018 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5019 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5020 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5021 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5022
5023
5024Exim version 4.24
5025-----------------
5026
5027 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5028 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5029 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5030 change 4.23/1.
5031
5032 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5033 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5034 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5035
5036 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5037 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5038 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5039
5040 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5041 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5042 causing some misleading effects.
5043
5044 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5045 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5046 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5047
5048 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5049 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5050 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5051 queue-runner function directly.
5052
5053
5054Exim version 4.23
5055-----------------
5056
5057 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5058 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5059
5060 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5061 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5062 was always written to the default place.
5063
5064 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5065 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5066 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5067
5068 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5069
5070 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5071
5072 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5073 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5074 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5075
5076 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5077 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5078 must start.
5079
5080 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5081 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5082 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5083
5084 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5085 command line option is disabled.
5086
5087 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5088 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5089
5090 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5091
5092 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5093
5094 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5095 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5096
509710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5098
509911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5100 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5101 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5102 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5103 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5104 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5105
510612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5107 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5108 timeout.
5109
511013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5111 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5112
511314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5114 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5115
511615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5117 received was valid base64.
5118
511916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5120 name of the variable that was being set.
5121
512217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5123
512418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5125 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5126 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5127 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5128 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5129 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5130
513119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5132
513320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5134 nor realm was specified.
5135
513621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5137 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5138 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5139 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5140
514122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5142 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5143 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5144
514523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5146 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5147 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5148
514924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5150 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5151 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5152 some systems use these upper case variants.
5153
515425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5155 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5156 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5157 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5158
515926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5160
516127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5162 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5163
516428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5165 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5166 expansion variable.
5167
516829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5169
517030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5171 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5172 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5173 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5174
517531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5176 using it.
5177
517832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5179 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5180 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5181
518233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5183 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5184
518534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5186 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5187 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5188 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5189
519035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5191 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5192 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5193
519436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5195
519637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5197 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5198 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5199 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5200 aborted.
5201
520238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5203 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5204 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5205
520639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5207
520840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5209 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5210
521141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5212 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5213
521442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5215 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5216 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5217 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5218 when emails are that large.
5219
5220
5221
5222Exim version 4.22
5223-----------------
5224
5225 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5226 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5227
5228 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5229 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5230 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5231
5232 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5233 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5234 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5235
5236 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5237 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5238 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5239 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5240 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5241
5242 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5243 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5244 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5245 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5246 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5247 ever.
5248
5249 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5250 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5251 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5252 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5253 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5254 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5255 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5256 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5257 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5258 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5259 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5260 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5261 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5262 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5263
5264 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5265 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5266 parameterised it.
5267
5268 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5269 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5270 error should be diagnosed.
5271
5272 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5273 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5274 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5275 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5276 appeared instead of "NULL".
5277
527810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5279 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5280 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5281 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5282 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5283 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5284 proceeds).
5285
5286 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5287 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5288 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5289
5290
5291Exim version 4.21
5292-----------------
5293
5294 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5295 or receiver verification errors.
5296
5297 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5298 name.
5299
5300 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5301 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5302 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5303 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5304
5305 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5306 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5307 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5308 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5309 shouldn't happen again.
5310
5311 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5312 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5313 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5314
5315 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5316 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5317
5318 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5319
5320 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5321 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5322
5323 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5324 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5325 RFC.
5326
532710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5328 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5329 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5330
533111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5332 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5333 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5334 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5335
533612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5337 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5338 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5339 to define what should happen).
5340
534113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5342 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5343 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5344
534514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5346
534715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5348
534916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5350 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5351
535217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5353 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5354 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5355 structure in all cases.
5356
5357 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5358 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5359 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5360 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5361
536218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5363 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5364 domain name.
5365
536619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5367 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5368
536920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5370 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5371
537221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5373 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5374 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5375
537622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5377 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5378 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5379
538023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5381 the book and for uniformity.
5382
538324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5384
538525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5386 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5387 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5388 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5389 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5390 non-existent command as the problem.
5391
539226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5393 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5394 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5395
539627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5397
539828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5399 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5400 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5401
540229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5403 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5404 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5405 timestamps using strftime().
5406
540730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5408 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5409
541032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5411 transport-time rewrites.
5412
541333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5414 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5415 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5416 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5417
541834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5419 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5420
542135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5422 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5423 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5424 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5425 comma and a space.
5426
542736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5428 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5429 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5430 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5431 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5432 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5433 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5434
543537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5436 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5437 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5438 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5439 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5440
544138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5442 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5443 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5444 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5445 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5446 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5447 remaining text gets split now.
5448
544939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5450 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5451 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5452 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5453
545440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5455 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5456 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5457 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5458 $return_path.
5459
546041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5461 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5462 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5463 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5464 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5465 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5466 passed through if needed.
5467
546842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5469 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5470 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5471 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5472 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5473 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5474
547543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5476 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5477 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5478 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5479 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5480
548144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5482 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5483 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5484 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5485 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5486
548745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5488 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5489 noticed.
5490
549146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5492 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5493 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5494 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5495 mayhem of various kinds.
5496
549747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5498 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5499 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5500 the right test for positive values.
5501
550248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5503 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5504 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5505 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5506 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5507 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5508 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5509 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5510 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5511 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5512 envelope.
5513
551449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5515 module.
5516
551750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5518 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5519 forbidding it.
5520
552151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5522 the existing equality matching.
5523
552452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5525 dealing with inode numbers.
5526
552753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5528 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5529 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5530
553154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5532 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5533 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5534 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5535 local_scan().
5536
553755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5538 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5539 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5540 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5541 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5542 relay addresses has also been removed.
5543
554456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5545
554657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5547 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5548 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5549
555058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5551 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5552 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5553 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5554 processing applies to CR:
5555
5556 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5557 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5558
5559 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5560 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5561 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5562 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5563
556459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5565 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5566 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5567
556860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5569 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5570 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5571 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5572 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5573 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5574 arisen.
5575
557661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5577 program routers.
5578
557962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5580 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5581 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5582 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5583 adds:
5584
5585 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5586
5587 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5588
5589 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5590
559163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5592 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5593 not considered personal.
5594
559564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5596
559765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5598
559966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5600
560167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5602 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5603 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5604 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5605 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5606 header lines, and spool format errors.
5607
560868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5609 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5610 for more flexibility.
5611
561269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5613 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5614 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5615
561670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5617 Sabourenkov.
5618
561971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5620 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5621 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5622 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5623 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5624 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5625 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5626 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5627 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5628
562972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5630 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5631 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5632 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5633 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5634 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5635 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5636
563773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5638 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5639 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5640
564174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5642 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5643 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5644 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5645 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5646 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5647 instead of killing the process with assert().
5648
564975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5650 than Unicode encoding.
5651
565276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5653 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5654 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5655 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5656
565777. Added process_log_path.
5658
565978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5660 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5661
566279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5663 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5664
566580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5666 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5667 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5668
566981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5670 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5671 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5672 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5673 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5674 were applied:
5675
5676 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5677 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5678 as invalid.
5679
568082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5681 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5682 they will be used during message reception.
5683
5684
5685Exim version 4.20
5686-----------------
5687
5688The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5689
5690****