Suppress tls_advertise_hosts warning during 'make install'
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.88
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6JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
7 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
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9JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
10 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
11 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
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14Exim version 4.87
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16JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
17 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
18 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
19 client dropping the TLS connection.
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21TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
22 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
23
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24TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
25 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
26 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
27 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
28 outgoing I= field.
29
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30JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
31 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
32 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
33 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
34 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
35 check on the next write.
36
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37HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
38 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
39 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
40 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
41 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
42
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43JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
44 mime_regex ACL conditions.
45
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46JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
47 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
48 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
49
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50JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
51 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
52 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
53 an authenticate fail is not an error.
54
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55HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
56 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
57
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58JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
59 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
60
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61JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
62 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
63 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
64 distinct.
65
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66JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
67
68JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
69
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70JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
71
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72JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
73 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
74
98b98887 75JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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76 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
77
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78JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
79
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80JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
81 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
82
83JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
84
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85JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
86 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
87
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88JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
89
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90JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
91 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
92 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
93 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
94 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
95 they will retry in-clear.
96 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
97 at installation time.
98
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99HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
100 with the $config_file variable.
101
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102JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
103 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
104 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
105 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
106 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
107
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108GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
109 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
110 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
111 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
112 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
113
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114JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
115
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116JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
117 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
118 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
119 list order is no longer honoured.
120
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121JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
122 for DKIM processing.
123
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124JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
125 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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127JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
128 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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129 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
130 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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132JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
133 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
134
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135JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
136 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
137
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138JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
139 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
140
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141JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
142
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143JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
144 cached by the daemon.
145
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146JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
147 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
148
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149JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
150 keys are given for lookup.
151
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152JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
153 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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154 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
155 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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157JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
158 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
159 server-side so match that on older versions.
160
07c73177 161JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 162 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 163 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 164
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165JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
166 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
167
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168JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
169 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
170 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 171 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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172 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
173 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
174 initial truncated version.
175
ab9152ff 176JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
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178JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
179
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180JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
181 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
182
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183JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
184
bc3c7bb7 185HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 186
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187JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
188 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
189 induced overflows.
190
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191JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
192 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
193 stage.
194
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195JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
196 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
197
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198JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
199 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
200 former class.
201
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202JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
203 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
204 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
205
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206JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
207 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
208 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
209 extraction. Accept either.
210
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215JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
216 expanded.
217
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218JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
219
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220JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
221 it.
222
01a4a5c5 223JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 224 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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225 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
226 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
227
cb1d7830 228JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 229 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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230 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
231
610ff438 232JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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233 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
234 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
235 TLS connections
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237JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
238 sites use this now.
239
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240JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
241 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
242 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
243 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
244 have a dsn_lasthop option.
245
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246JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
247 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 248 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 249
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250JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
251
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252JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
253 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
254
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255JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
256 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
257
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258JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
259 /defer_ok option.
260
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261JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
262 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
263
fd4d8871 264JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 265 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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266 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
267
268JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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269 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
270 specify a port-range.
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272JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
273 timeout value per server.
274
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275JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
276 now have the list separator specified.
277
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278JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
279 option values.
280
82c0c8ea 281JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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282 under OpenSSL.
283
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284JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
285
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286JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
287 rather than the verbs used.
288
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289JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
290 from 255 to 1024 chars.
291
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292JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
293
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294HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
295 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 296
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297JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
298 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
299
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300HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
301 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
302
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303JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
304
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305JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
306
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307JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
308 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
309 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
310 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
311
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312JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
313
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314JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
315 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
316
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317JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
318 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
319
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320JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
321
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322JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
323
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324JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
325
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326JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
327 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
328
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329JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
330 added for tls authenticator.
331
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335TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
336 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
337 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
338 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
339 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
340 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
341 the script parsing/test process like normal.
342
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343TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
344 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
345 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
346 function when detected.
347
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348JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
349 cause callback expansion.
350
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351TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
352 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
353 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
354 instead of bool when processing it.
355
0f06b4f2 356JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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357 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
358
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359JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
360
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361JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
362
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363TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
364
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365TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
366 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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368JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
369 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
370 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
371 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
372 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
373 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
374
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375JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
376 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
377 exceeded it.
378
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379JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
380 version 3.3.6 or later.
381
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382JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
383 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
384 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 385 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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386 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
387 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
388 option is defined.
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390TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
391 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
392
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393JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
394 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
395 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
396 matches.
397
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398JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
399 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
400 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
401
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402JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
403 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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405JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
406 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
407 syntax errors.
408
3394b36a 409JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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410
411JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
412 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
413
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414TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
415 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
416 tarball.
417
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418JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
419
420JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
421 Bug 1561.
422
423JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
424 output list separator was used.
425
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429TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
430 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
431 return.
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433JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
434 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
435
436JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
437
438TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 439 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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445TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
446
447 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
448 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
449 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
450 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
451 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
452 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
453
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454TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
455 utilities have not been installed.
456
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457JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
458 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
459
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460TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
461 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
462
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463TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
464 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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465 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
466 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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468JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
469
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470TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
471 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
472
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473PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
474 not dns_use_dnssec.
475
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476JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
477
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478TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
479 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
480 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
481
8ddef691 482TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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483 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
484 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
485 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
486 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 487 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 488
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489JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
490
e45a1c37
JH
491JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
492 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
493
67d81c10
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494JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
495 failed delivery.
496
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497JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
498
511a6c14 499JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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500
501JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
502 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 503
51c7471d
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504JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
505 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
506
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507TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
508
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509JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
510
76146973
JH
511JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
512 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
513
514 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
515 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
516 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
517
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518TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
519 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
520 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
521 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 522
35aba663
JH
523JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
524
8c51eead 525JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
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526 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
527 lookup).
8c51eead 528
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529TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
530 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
531 Schlichting.
35aba663 532
fd3b6a4a 533JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 534 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 535
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536TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
537 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
538
2b4a568d
JH
539JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
540
d2af03f4
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541TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
542 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
543 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
544
9d1c15ef
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545JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
546 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
547
44662487
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548JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
549 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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550 hosts_request_ocsp.
551
ed3bba5f 552JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 553 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 554 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 555
8ccd00b1
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556JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
557
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558TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
559 Christian Aistleitner.
560
f2de3a33
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561JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
562
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563TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
564 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
565
00bff6f6
JH
566JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
567 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
568
071c51f7
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569JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
570 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
571
a6d4c44e
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572TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
573 support and error reporting did not work properly.
574
3ae173e7
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575TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
576 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
577
c13d09b8
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578TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
579 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
580 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
581
0df4ab80
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582JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
583
66be95e0
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584PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
585 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
586 Jasper Wallace.
587
1bd0d12b
JH
588JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
589
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590TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
591 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
592 CVE-2014-2972
593
fd3b6a4a 594
2c422e6f 595Exim version 4.82
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597
598PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
599
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600PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
601 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
602
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603PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
604 by GnuTLS.
605
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606PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
607 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
608 routines.
609
13363eba 610PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 611
66645890 612PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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613 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
614 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
615 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
616 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 617
a3fb9793 618PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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619 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
620 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
621 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 622 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 623 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 624
d27f98fe 625TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 626
6822b909
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627TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
628
e7568d51
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629TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
630 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
631
ae0e32ee 632TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 633 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 634 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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635
636TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 637
e2658fff
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638TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
639
83712b39
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640TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
641 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
642
976b7e9f
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643JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
644
be4a1376
JH
645JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
646
ec4b68e5
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647PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
648
d7148a07
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649NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
650 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 651
585121e2 652JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 653
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654PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
655 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
656 function.
a5f239e4 657
13d08c90
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658PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
659 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
660
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661JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
662 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
663 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 664
846726c5
JH
665JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
666
3a796370
JH
667JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
668
ea722490 669JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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670 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
671
b1b05573
JH
672JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
673 Bugzilla 884.
674
362145b5
JH
675JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
676 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
677
3c0a92dc
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678JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
679 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
680
6d7c6175
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681PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
682 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 683 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 684
6f123593
JH
685JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
686 authenticators.
687
c8e2fc1e
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688JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
689 for control.
690
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691PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
692
3f1df0e3
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693PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
694 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
695 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
696 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
697
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698TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
699
700 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
701 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
702 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
703 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
704 the retry rules.
705
706 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
707 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
708 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
709
710 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
711 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
712 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
713 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
714
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715 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
716 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
717 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
718 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
719 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
720 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
721 delivery, as in LMTP.
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722
723 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
724 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
725
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726TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
727
728 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
729
730 Resent-From: f
731
732 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
733 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
734 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
735 username as equal to the username.
736
737 This change corrects that bug.
738
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739GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
740 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
741 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
742
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743TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
744
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745PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
746 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
747 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
748 NULL dereference and crash.
749
94eaf700
PP
750JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
751
6f5a440a
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752PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
753 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
754 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
755
514ee161
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756SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
757
fd98a5c6
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758JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
759 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
760 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
761 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
762 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
763 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
764 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
765 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
766 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
767 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
768 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
769
035c7f1e
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770PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
771 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
772
ff284120
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773PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
774 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
775 Bugzilla 880.
776
26e72755
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777PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
778 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
779 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
780 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
781 an empty string is now equivalent.
782
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783PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
784 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
785 not performing validation itself.
786
700d22f3
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787PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
788 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
789
fcc8e047
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790JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
791 Bugzilla 321, 823.
792
7142daca
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793TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
794
8c020188
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795PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
796 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
797 other false fix of the same issue.
798 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
799 Bugzilla 1363.
800
d13cdd30
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801PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
802 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
803
e2fbf4a2
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804PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
805 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
806 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
807
f4c1088b
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808PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
809 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
810 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
811
c5c2182f
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812TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
813
73431ca9
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814JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
815
2d07a215
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816TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
817 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
818
a30a8861
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819TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
820 Alexander Miroch.
821
33382dd9
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822TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
823 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
824 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
825 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
826 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 827
046172e6
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828TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
829 the src/util/ subdirectory.
830
581d7bee 831TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 832 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
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833 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
834
835TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
836 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
837 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
838 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
839
237b2cf2
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840TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
841
9fc5a352
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842TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
843 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
844 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 845
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846TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
847
e2cebd74
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848TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
849 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
850 interaction.
851
852TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
853 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
854
2519e60d
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855TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
856 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
857
e78e6ecf 858
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859Exim version 4.80.1
860-------------------
861
862PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
863 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 864 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 865
ea722490 866
b1770b6e 867Exim version 4.80
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869
870PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
871 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
872 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
873
23c7e742
NM
874NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
875
b322aac8
NM
876NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
877 improved.
878
4a891427
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879NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
880
c1e794ba 881PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 882
97753960
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883PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
884
885PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
886 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
887
df6303fa
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888PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
889 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
890
7e6a8985
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891PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
892 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
893
f1e05cc7 894PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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895 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
896 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 897
4c287009
PP
898PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
899
b98bb9ac
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900PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
901 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
902
4a6a987a
PP
903PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
904
c45dd180 905PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 906
7db8d074
PP
907PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
908 non-compliant senders.
909 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
910
eae0036b 911NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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912 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
913 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
914
dec5017e
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915PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
916 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
917 in spool file corruption.
918
c80c5570
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919PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
920 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
921 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
922 "Got SSL error 2".
923
076b11e2
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924TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
925 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
926 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
927
5407bfff
JH
928JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
929 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
930
9e45c72b
PP
931JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
932
e74376d8
PP
933PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
934 diagnostics.
935 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
936
da3ad30d
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937PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
938 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
939 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
940
7be682ca
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941PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
942 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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943 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
944 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 945
ef840681
PP
946PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
947 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
948
5bfb4cdf
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949PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
950 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
951 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
952 resolver implementation change.
953
c6e95d22
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954PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
955 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
956
9cbad13b
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957PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
958
9ee44efb
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959PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
960
6a6084f8
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961PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
962 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
963
12dd53c7
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964PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
965 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
966
9e45c72b 967JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
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968 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
969
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970PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
971 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
972 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
973 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 974 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 975
53947857 976PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 977
eae0036b 978PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
979 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
980 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 981
9e45c72b 982JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 983
7390e768
PP
984PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
985 read-only, out of scope).
986 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
987
08488c86
PP
988PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
989 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
990 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
991 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
992
6475bd82
PP
993PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
994
81f91683
PP
995PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
996 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
997 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
998 real issues in debug logging.
999
5779e6aa
PP
1000PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1001 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1002
3375e053
PP
1003PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1004 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1005 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1006
1007PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1008 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1009 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1010 problems.
3375e053 1011
9d26b8c0
PP
1012PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1013 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1014
57eb9e91 1015PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1016 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1017 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1018 needs to override this, it can.
1019
16880d1a
PP
1020PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1021 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1022 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1023
a799883d
PP
1024PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1025 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1026 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1027 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1028
3ecab157 1029PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1030
0599f9cf 1031
867fcbf5
PP
1032Exim version 4.77
1033-----------------
1034
1035PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1036 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1037
f1a29782
TF
1038TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1039
ab42bd23
TK
1040TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1041 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1042
0ca0cf52
TF
1043TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1044 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1045
921b12ca
TF
1046TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1047 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1048 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1049
1050 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1051 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1052 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1053 not safe for signals.
1054
1055 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1056 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1057 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1058 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1059 exiwhat.
1060
c99ce5c9
TF
1061TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1062
1063 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1064 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1065 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1066 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1067 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1068
1069 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1070 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1071 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1072 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1073 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1074 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1075
1076 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1077 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1078 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1079 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1080
1081 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1082 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1083 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1084 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1085
1086 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1087 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1088 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1089 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1090 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1091 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1092 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1093 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1094 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1095
1096 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1097 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1098 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1099 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1100
1101 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1102 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1103 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1104 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1105 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1106 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1107 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1108 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1109 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1110 details in the main documentation.
1111
3634fc25
TF
1112TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1113
792e8a19
TF
1114TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1115
5901f0ab
TF
1116TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1117 repository when doing development or release builds.
1118
7f2a2a43
PP
1119PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1120 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1121
061b7ebd
PP
1122PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1123 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1124 Bugzilla 97.
1125
e12f8c32
PP
1126PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1127
9e949f00 1128PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1129 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1130
1131PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1132 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1133
555ae6af 1134PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1135 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1136
1137PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1138 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1139
6f7fe114
PP
1140PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1141 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1142
c566dd90
PP
1143PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1144 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1145 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1146 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1147
d6cc7c78 1148PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1149 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1150 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1151
0d0e4455
PP
1152PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1153
3399bb60 1154PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1155
1156PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1157 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1158
0ca0cf52 1159
10906672
PP
1160Exim version 4.76
1161-----------------
1162
1163PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1164
754a0503
PP
1165PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1166 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1167
c0c7b2da
PP
1168PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1169
e97d1f08
PP
1170PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1171
084c1d8c
PP
1172PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1173 Bugzilla 1098.
1174
4e7ee012
PP
1175PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1176 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1177
c8d52a00
PP
1178TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1179 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1180
54e7ce4a
PP
1181PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1182 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1183
5ee6f336
PP
1184PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1185 Bugzilla 1104.
1186
c8d52a00 1187TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1188 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1189
1190TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1191 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1192 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1193 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1194
1195PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1196 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1197
10906672 1198
aa097c4c
NM
1199Exim version 4.75
1200-----------------
1201
4c9ef03a 1202NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1203 Bugzilla 1073
1204
7f3d9eff
TF
1205TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1206 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1207 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1208
159f52d2
TF
1209TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1210 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1211
0cc9542a
PP
1212PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1213 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1214 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1215
f7274286
PP
1216PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1217 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1218
7b797365
PP
1219PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1220 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1221
caacae52
NM
1222NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1223 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1224
09dcaba9
NM
1225NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1226 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1227
bc19a55b
PP
1228PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1229 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1230
bd4c9759
NM
1231NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1232 Fixes bug 943.
1233
b72aab72
PP
1234PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1235 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1236
2fe76745
PP
1237PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1238 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1239
76aa570c
PP
1240PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1241 SQL string expansion failure details.
1242 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1243
f1e5fef5
PP
1244PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1245 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1246
4d805ee9
PP
1247PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1248 extern declarations in function scope.
1249 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1250
cd59ab18
PP
1251PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1252 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1253 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1254 a kernel bug).
1255
332f5cf3
PP
1256PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1257 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1258
29cfeb94
PP
1259PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1260 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1261
660242ad
PP
1262PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1263 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1264
bc4bc4c5
PP
1265PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1266 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1267
2e64baa9
NM
1268NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1269 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1270 Dennis Davis.
1271
bddd7526
PP
1272PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1273
6bac1a9a
PP
1274PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1275
552193f0
NM
1276NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1277 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1278
1b587e48
TF
1279TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1280 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1281
aa097c4c 1282
8c07b69f
TF
1283Exim version 4.74
1284-----------------
1285
1286TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1287 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1288
c0ea85ab
TF
1289TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1290 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1291
0761d44e
TF
1292TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1293
0a349494
PP
1294DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1295 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1296 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1297
1298PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1299 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1300 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1301
fea24b2e
PP
1302PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1303 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1304 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1305 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1306
6545de78
PP
1307PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1308 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1309 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1310 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1311
1670ef10
PP
1312PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1313 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1314 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1315 arbitrary files.
1316
c0886197
PP
1317PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1318 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1319
b7487bce
PP
1320PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1321 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1322 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1323 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1324 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1325
8c07b69f 1326
97fd1e48 1327Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1328-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1329
1330PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1331 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1332 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1333
6901c596
PP
1334PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1335 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1336
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1337JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1338
77bb000f
PP
1339PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1340
a29e5231
PP
1341PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1342
ec5a0394 1343PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1344
55c75993
PP
1345PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1346
453a6645 1347PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1348 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1349 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1350 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1351
8544e77a
PP
1352PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1353 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1354 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1355 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1356 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1357
83e029d5
PP
1358PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1359
ed7f7860
PP
1360PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1361
7d9f747b
PP
1362PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1363
4b2241d2
PP
1364PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1365
10385c15
PP
1366PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1367
dbc4b90d
PP
1368PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1369
532be449
PP
1370PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1371
6a8de854 1372PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1373 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1374 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1375
5dc43717
JJ
1376JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1377
1378JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1379 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1380
3346ab01
PP
1381PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1382 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1383
491fab4c
PP
1384PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1385 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1386 Notification from John Horne.
1387
13eb9497
PP
1388PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1389 compatible.
1390
1391PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1392 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1393 it normally works.
1394
7f36d675
DW
1395DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1396 access.
1397
c1d94452
DW
1398DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1399 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1400 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1401
e2f5dc15
DW
1402DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1403 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1404 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1405 configuration file.
1406
cd25e41d
DW
1407DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1408 option (effectively making it always true).
1409
261dc43e
DW
1410DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1411 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1412
fa32850b
DW
1413DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1414 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1415
79d4bc3d
PP
1416PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1417 run-time user, instead of root.
1418
43236f35 1419PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1420 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1421
fb08281f
DW
1422DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1423 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1424 arguments.
3346ab01 1425
74935b98
DW
1426DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1427 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1428 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1429
90b6341f
DW
1430DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1431
57730b52
ML
1432NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1433
66581d1e 1434
465e92cf
JJ
1435Exim version 4.72
1436-----------------
1437
453a6645
PP
1438JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1439 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1440 typos
465e92cf 1441
453a6645
PP
1442JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1443 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1444 (Finput)
edae0343 1445
9bd3e22c
NM
1446NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1447 Patch from Alain Williams
1448
bb576ff7
NM
1449NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1450
5a1a5845
NM
1451NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1452 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1453
981a9fad
NM
1454NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1455 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1456
7fc497ee
NM
1457NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1458
1a41defa
JJ
1459JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1460
a466095c 1461NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1462 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1463
94a6bd0b
NM
1464TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1465
1466TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1467
1468MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1469 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1470 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1471
c1b141a8
NM
1472NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1473 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1474
b26eacf1 1475NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1476 Patch by Simon Arlott
1477
179c5980 1478PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1479 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1480
9bd3e22c 1481
7c6d71af
NM
1482Exim version 4.71
1483-----------------
1484
7d9f747b 1485TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1486
f013fb92
NM
1487NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1488
0eb8eedd
NM
1489NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1490
663ee6d9
NM
1491NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1492
177ebd9b
NM
1493NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1494
7c6d71af 1495
210f147e
NM
1496Exim version 4.70
1497-----------------
1498
cdd3bb85 1499TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1500 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1501
1502TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1503 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1504 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1505
1506TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1507 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1508 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1509
1510TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1511 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1512
210f147e
NM
1513NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1514 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1515 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1516 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1517
deafd5b3
NM
1518NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1519 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1520 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1521
089793a4
TF
1522TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1523
5f16ca82
TF
1524TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1525
dae9d94e 1526NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1527 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1528
7d9f747b 1529NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1530
06864c44
TF
1531TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1532 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1533 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1534 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1535
65a7d8c3 1536NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1537 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1538
23510047 1539TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1540
7d9f747b 1541NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1542
7d8eec3a 1543NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1544 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1545
89dec7b6
TF
1546TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1547 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1548
a99de90c
TF
1549TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1550 that they are available at delivery time.
1551
e2803e40
TF
1552TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1553
7199e1ee
TF
1554TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1555 incoming_port log selectors.
1556
e276e04b
TF
1557TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1558 setting expands to an empty string.
1559
ce552449 1560NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1561 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1562
e765a0f1 1563NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1564 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1565
4f054c63 1566NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1567 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1568
7d9f747b
PP
1569NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1570 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1571
7d9f747b
PP
1572NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1573 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1574
b52bc06e 1575NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1576 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1577
447de4b0
NM
1578NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1579
4c69d561 1580NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1581 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1582
d5c39246 1583NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1584 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1585
0b23848a
TK
1586TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1587
8f3414a1 1588NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1589 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1590
fb6f955d
NM
1591NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1592
1593NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1594
7d9f747b
PP
1595NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1596 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1597
7d9f747b
PP
1598NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1599 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1600
7d9f747b
PP
1601NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1602 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1603
7d9f747b
PP
1604NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1605 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1606
7d9f747b
PP
1607NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1608 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1609
7d9f747b
PP
1610NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1611 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1612
7d9f747b
PP
1613NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1614 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1615
7d9f747b 1616NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1617 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1618
7d9f747b 1619NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1620
7d9f747b
PP
1621NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1622 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1623
7d9f747b 1624NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1625
7d9f747b 1626NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1627
7d9f747b 1628NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1629
7d9f747b 1630NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1631
17792b53 1632NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1633 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1634
7d9f747b
PP
1635NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1636 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1637
91576cec 1638NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1639 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1640
7d9f747b
PP
1641NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1642 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1643
7d9f747b 1644NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1645
7d9f747b 1646NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1647
7d9f747b 1648NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1649
7d9f747b 1650NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1651
deafd5b3 1652
47db1125
NM
1653Exim version 4.69
1654-----------------
1655
4b3504d0
TK
1656TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1657 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1658 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1659
1660 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1661 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1662 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1663 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1664 build errors in sieve.c.
1665
81ea09ca
NM
1666NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1667 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1668 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1669
f13cddcb
SC
1670SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1671
7d9f747b 1672NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1673
7d9f747b 1674NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1675
7d9f747b 1676NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1677
1678
eb4c0de6
PH
1679Exim version 4.68
1680-----------------
1681
1682PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1683
6a3bceb1
PH
1684PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1685 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1686 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1687 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1688 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1689 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1690 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1691 for iplsearch lookups.
1692
1693 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1694 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1695 previously such lookups could never work.
1696
1697 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1698 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1699 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1700
2e30fa9d
TK
1701TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1702 version.
1703
0806a9c5
MH
1704MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1705 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1706 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1707 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1708 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1709 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1710
ae276964
TK
1711TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1712 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1713
0f2cbd1b
MH
1714MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1715 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1716 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1717 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1718 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1719 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1720
2b85bce7
PH
1721PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1722 local_scan API.
1723
93655c46
PH
1724PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1725
6c512171
PH
1726PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1727 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1728 encrypted.
1729
1730PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1731 by clients under certain conditions.
1732
aa6dc513
PH
1733PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1734 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1735
a96603a0
PH
1736PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1737
8f240103
PH
1738PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1739 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1740
1741PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1742
d677b2f2
PH
1743PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1744
d52120f2
PH
1745PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1746
64f2600a
PH
1747PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1748 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1749
8669f003
PH
1750PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1751
a4dc33a8
PH
1752PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1753 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1754
d6a60c0f
PH
1755PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1756
8f128379
PH
1757PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1758
8932dffe
PH
1759PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1760 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1761 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1762 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1763
ddea74fa 1764PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1765 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1766 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1767
ddea74fa 1768PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1769 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1770
ddea74fa
PH
1771PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1772
ce9f225c
PH
1773PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1774
19897d52
PH
1775PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1776
bc64a74d
PH
1777PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1778 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1779 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1780
eb4c0de6 1781
b4ed4da0
PH
1782Exim version 4.67
1783-----------------
1784
22ad45c9
MH
1785MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1786 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1787 Jan Srzednicki.
1788
b4ed4da0
PH
1789PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1790 issue a MAIL command.
1791
431b7361
PH
1792PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1793
1794 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1795
1796 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1797 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1798 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1799 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1800 item. This has been fixed.
1801
1802PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1803 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1804
83da1223
PH
1805PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1806 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1807
54fc8428
PH
1808PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1809 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1810 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1811
34c5e8dd
SC
1812SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1813
bbe15da8
PH
1814PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1815 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1816 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1817 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1818 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1819
0e8a9471
MH
1820MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1821 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1822 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1823
f0872424
PH
1824PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1825 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1826 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1827 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1828
b01dd148
PH
1829PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1830
6bf342e1
PH
1831PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1832
273f34d0
PH
1833PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1834 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1835 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1836 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1837 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1838
cf8b11a5
PH
1839PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1840
41c7c167
PH
1841PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1842 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1843 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1844 values).
1845
9c57cbc0
PH
1846PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1847
f3f065bb
PH
1848PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1849
047bdd8c
PH
1850PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1851
0ce9abe6
PH
1852PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1853
0e22dfd1
PH
1854PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1855
4c590bd1
PH
1856PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1857 no_callout_flush is set.
1858
09945f1e
PH
1859PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1860 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1861 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1862 fixed.
1863
c51b8e75
PH
1864PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1865
e28326d8
PH
1866PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1867 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1868 other ACL rejections are.
1869
75b1493f
PH
1870PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1871 with slight modification.
1872
7c5214ec
PH
1873PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1874 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1875
4311097e
PH
1876PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1877 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1878 connection.
1879
29f89cad
PH
1880PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1881 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1882
5e687460
SC
1883SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1884
c3611384
PH
1885PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1886 expansion side effects.
1887
5a11a7b4
PH
1888PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1889 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1890 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1891 be the same.
1892
0e20aff9
MH
1893MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1894 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1895 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1896
ca86f471
PH
1897PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1898 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1899 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1900 were accidentally chopped off.
1901
a14e5636
PH
1902PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1903 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1904 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1905 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1906 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1907 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1908 pipelining has not been advertised.
1909
ec95d1a6
PH
1910PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1911
42855d71
PH
1912PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1913 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1914 This has been fixed.
1915
57c2c631
PH
1916PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1917 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1918 reported on Solaris.
1919
58c01c94
PH
1920PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1921 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1922 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1923 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1924 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1925 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1926 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1927
dee5a20a
PH
1928PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1929 cpus.
1930
d2ee6114
PH
1931PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1932
b2d5182b
PH
1933PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1934
79749a79
PH
1935PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1936 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1937 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1938 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1939 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1940 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1941
c456d9bb
PH
1942PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1943 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1944 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1945 host_all_ignored option.
1946
cd9868ec
PH
1947PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1948 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1949 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1950 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1951 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1952 is what is supposed to happen).
1953
ebeaf996
PH
1954PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1955 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1956 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1957 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1958 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1959 uses the Exim user.
1960
2679d413
PH
1961PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1962 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1963 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1964 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1965 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1966 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1967 users.
1968
84024b72
PH
1969PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1970
8005d38e
SC
1971SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1972 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1973 (Jez Hancock).
1974 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1975 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1976
3298c6c6
SC
1977SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1978
a43a27c5
PH
1979PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1980
58eb016e 1981PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1982 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1983 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1984 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1985 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1986 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1987 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1988 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1989 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1990 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1991 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1992
b43a74ea
PH
1993PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1994 advertised in response to EHLO.
1995
b4ed4da0 1996
5dd1517f
PH
1997Exim version 4.66
1998-----------------
1999
2000PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2001 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2002
2003 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2004 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2005
2006 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2007 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2008 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2009
2010 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2011 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2012 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2013 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2014 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2015
2016
93cfa765
TK
2017Exim version 4.65
2018-----------------
2019
2020TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2021 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2022 versions. (#438)
2023
d6066548
MH
2024MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2025 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2026 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2027
4362ff0d
PH
2028PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2029 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2030 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2031 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2032 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2033 rather than extend the field.
2034
93cfa765 2035
944e9e9c
TF
2036Exim version 4.64
2037-----------------
aa41d2de 2038
21d74bd9
TK
2039TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2040 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2041 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2042 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2043 these files.
2044
2045TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2046 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2047 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2048
2049TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2050 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2051 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2052
2053TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2054 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2055 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2056 in the field name.
2057
2b1c6e3a
PH
2058PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2059 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2060 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2061 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2062 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2063 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2064 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2065 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2066 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2067 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2068 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2069
1f872c80
PH
2070PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2071 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2072
2073PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2074 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2075 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2076 ignores EPIPE as well.
2077
d203e649
PH
2078PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2079 (quoted-printable decoding).
2080
cc2ed8f7 2081PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2082 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2083
ddfcd446
PH
2084PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2085
d45b1de8
PH
2086PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2087
2088PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2089
38a0a95f 2090PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2091 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2092
a2405d83
JJ
2093JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2094 in 4.64-PH/09.
2095
2096JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2097 miscellaneous code fixes
2098
6ea85e9a
PH
2099PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2100 rejections.
2101
26da7e20
PH
2102PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2103 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2104 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2105 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2106 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2107 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2108 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2109 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2110
14aa5a05 2111PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2112 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2113 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2114 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2115 function.
2116 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2117 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2118 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2119 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2120 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2121 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2122 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2123 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2124 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2125
ff75a1f7
PH
2126PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2127 decoding.
2128
e6f6568e
PH
2129PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2130 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2131 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2132 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2133 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2134 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2135 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2136 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2137
d6f6e0dc
PH
2138PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2139 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2140 list.
2141
322050c2
PH
2142PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2143 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2144 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2145 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2146 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2147 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2148 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2149 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2150 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2151 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2152 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2153 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2154 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2155
08955dd3
PH
2156PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2157 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2158 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2159 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2160 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2161 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2162 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2163
1eccaa59
PH
2164PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2165 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2166 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2167 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2168 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2169 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2170 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2171 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2172 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2173 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2174
602e59e5
PH
2175PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2176 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2177 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2178 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2179 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2180
411ef850
PH
2181PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2182 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2183 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2184 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2185 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2186 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2187 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2188
7befa435
PH
2189PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2190 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2191 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2192 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2193 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2194 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2195 been verified.
2196
48da4259 2197PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2198 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2199 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2200 and authorization.)
2201
48da4259
PH
2202PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2203 if any retry times were supplied.
2204
d1d5595c
PH
2205PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2206 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2207 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2208
0ef732d9
PH
2209PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2210
328895cc
PH
2211PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2212
fd700877
PH
2213PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2214 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2215 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2216 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2217 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2218 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2219
8dce1a6f
PH
2220PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2221 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2222
17af4a17
PH
2223PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2224 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2225 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2226
2227PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2228 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2229 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2230 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2231 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2232 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2233 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2234 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2235 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2236
2237 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2238 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2239 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2240 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2241 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2242 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2243 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2244 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2245 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2246
2247 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2248 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2249 hammering the server.
2250
c1114884
PH
2251PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2252 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2253
7a0743eb
PH
2254PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2255
0d85fa3f
PH
2256PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2257 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2258 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2259
1bf43b78
PH
2260PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2261 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2262 one case where this was not true.
2263
520de300
PH
2264PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2265 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2266 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2267 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2268 fails.
2269
48c7f9e2
PH
2270PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2271 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2272 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2273 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2274 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2275 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2276 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2277 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2278 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2279 smtp transport.
2280
99ea1c86
PH
2281PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2282 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2283 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2284 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2285
a2042e78
PH
2286PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2287 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2288
4fbcfc2e
PH
2289PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2290 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2291 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2292
aa41d2de
PH
2293PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2294
af561417
PH
2295PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2296
3cc66b45
PH
2297PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2298
194cc0e4
PH
2299PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2300 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2301 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2302 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2303
a401ddaa
PH
2304PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2305 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2306
4e88a19f
PH
2307PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2308 be meaningful with "accept".
2309
d7d7b289
SC
2310SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2311 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2312
2313SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2314 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2315 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2316
2317SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2318 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2319 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2320 there is data to show.
2321 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2322
2323SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2324 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2325 as well as the number of messages.
2326
2327SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2328 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2329 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2330
2331SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2332 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2333 have a flag are now skipped.
2334
2335SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2336 Added the -emptyok flag.
2337
2338SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2339 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2340
0ea2a468
JJ
2341JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2342 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2343 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2344
2345JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2346 match 4.64-PH/13
2347
2348JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2349 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2350
2351JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2352
2353JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2354 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2355
8a10f5a4
PH
2356PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2357
30e18802
PH
2358PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2359 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2360 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2361 contravention of the specifications.
2362
55728a4f
PH
2363PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2364 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2365 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2366
d7837193
PH
2367PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2368 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2369 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2370
87054a31
PH
2371PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2372
ea2c01d2
MH
2373MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2374 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2375 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2376 some point in the past.
2377
e4fa6968
PH
2378PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2379 transport during callout processing was broken.
2380
56f5d9bd
PH
2381PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2382 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2383
922e1c28
PH
2384PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2385 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2386
21eb6e72
PH
2387PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2388 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2389
a0540757
PH
2390PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2391
944e9e9c 2392
478be7b0
SC
2393Exim version 4.63
2394-----------------
2395
2396SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2397 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2398
2399SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2400 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2401 there is data to show.
2402 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2403
2404SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2405 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2406
2b965a65
TF
2407TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2408 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2409
45b91596
PH
2410TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2411 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2412
c59f5781
TF
2413TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2414 submissions from trusted users.
2415
90fc3069
TF
2416TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2417 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2418
6083aca0
TF
2419TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2420 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2421 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2422 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2423 there is now a framework to start from.
2424
765b530f
PH
2425PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2426 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2427 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2428
4e167a8c
PH
2429PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2430
4608d683
PH
2431PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2432
b8dc3e4a
PH
2433PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2434
5418e93b
PH
2435PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2436 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2437 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2438
b4a9bda2
PH
2439PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2440 libradius.
2441
45b91596
PH
2442PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2443 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2444 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2445
5547e2c5
PH
2446PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2447 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2448 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2449 its arguments.
2450
dbcef0ea
PH
2451PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2452 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2453 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2454 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2455 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2456
25257489
PH
2457PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2458 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2459
c816d124
PH
2460PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2461
a9ccd69a
PH
2462PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2463 operations in malware.c.
2464
75fa1910
PH
2465PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2466 signatures.
2467
a7d7aa58
PH
2468PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2469 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2470 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2471 all.
2472
42119b09
PH
2473PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2474 statements to "add_header".
2475
41609df5
PH
2476PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2477 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2478
a5bd321b
PH
2479PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2480 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2481 latter.
2482
e85a7ad5 2483PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2484 so that it is now:
2485
e85a7ad5
PH
2486 ${if or { \
2487 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2488 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2489 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2490 }{no}{yes}}
2491
e85a7ad5
PH
2492 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2493 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2494
d8fe1c03
PH
2495PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2496 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2497
16282d2b
PH
2498PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2499 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2500 any possible encoding problems.
2501
35d40a98
PH
2502PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2503 but not after initializing Perl.
2504
034d99ab
PH
2505PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2506 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2507 apparently, which is not desirable.
2508
6ec97b1b
PH
2509PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2510 queries.
2511
e22ca4ac
JJ
2512JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2513 --not options
2514
2515JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2516
33d73e3b
PH
2517PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2518 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2519 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2520 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2521
9ecb03f3
PH
2522PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2523 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2524 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2525
084efe8d
PH
2526PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2527 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2528 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2529 0.12.
2530
366fc9f0
PH
2531PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2532 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2533 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2534 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2535 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2536
c59f5781 2537
c887c79e
TF
2538Exim version 4.62
2539-----------------
2540
2541TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2542 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2543
1cce3af8
PH
2544PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2545 patch).
2546
afb3eaaf
PH
2547PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2548 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2549 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2550 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2551 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2552 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2553 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2554 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2555 451 error is used.
2556
e173618b
PH
2557PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2558
dd16e114
PH
2559PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2560 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2561 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2562
f7fd3850
PH
2563PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2564 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2565 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2566 odd errors.
2567
d87df92c
PH
2568PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2569 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2570
7e9f683d
PH
2571PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2572 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2573 option (which defaults to 0600).
2574
bfad5236
PH
2575PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2576
01c490df
PH
2577PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2578 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2579 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2580 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2581 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2582 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2583 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2584
d6629cdc
PH
2585PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2586
1cce3af8 2587
214e2000
PH
2588Exim version 4.61
2589-----------------
2590
2591PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2592 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2593 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2594 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2595 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2596 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2597 addresses as local.
2598
f9daeae0
PH
2599PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2600 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2601
7e66e54d
PH
2602PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2603
c8ea1597
PH
2604PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2605 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2606 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2607 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2608 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2609 grumble.
2610
911f6fde
PH
2611PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2612 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2613
47ca6d6c
PH
2614PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2615 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2616 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2617 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2618 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2619
ed0e9820
PH
2620PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2621 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2622 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2623 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2624
eff37e47
PH
2625PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2626 be the same on different OS.
2627
1921d2ea
PH
2628PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2629 testing.
2630
b3f69ca8
JJ
2631JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2632 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2633
2634JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2635 in 4.61-PH/06
2636
424a1c63
PH
2637PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2638 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2639 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2640 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2641 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2642 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2643 bounce message.
2644
7a100415
PH
2645PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2646 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2647 when Exim was called.
2648
19b9dc85
PH
2649PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2650 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2651
309bd837
PH
2652PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2653 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2654 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2655 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2656
59e82a2a
PH
2657PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2658 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2659 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2660 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2661 changes:
2662
2663 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2664 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2665 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2666
2667 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2668 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2669 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2670
9edc04ce
PH
2671PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2672 feature).
2673
1349e1e5
PH
2674PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2675 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2676 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2677 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2678 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2679 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2680 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2681 values from the SRV records were lost.
2682
ea49d0e1
PH
2683PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2684 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2685 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2686
064a94c9
PH
2687PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2688 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2689 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2690
727071f8
PH
2691PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2692 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2693 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2694 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2695 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2696 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2697 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2698 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2699 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2700 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2701
f78eb7c6
PH
2702PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2703 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2704 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2705
21c28500
PH
2706PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2707 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2708
2709PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2710 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2711 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2712 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2713 is given.
2714
1688f43b
PH
2715PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2716 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2717 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2718
2719PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2720 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2721 PH/23 above applies.
2722
9675b384
PH
2723PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2724 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2725 (for which there is an explicit test).
2726
6a3f1455
PH
2727PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2728
dac79d3e
PH
2729PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2730 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2731 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2732 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2733 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2734
5977a0b3
PH
2735PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2736 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2737 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2738 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2739
c91535f3
PH
2740PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2741 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2742 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2743
0d46a8c8
PH
2744PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2745
278c6e6c
PH
2746PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2747
2cbb4081
PH
2748PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2749 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2750 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2751
3eef829e
PH
2752PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2753 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2754 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2755 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2756 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2757
1ab95fa6
PH
2758PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2759 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2760 the message gets confusing).
2761
230205fc
PH
2762PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2763 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2764 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2765 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2766
75e0e026
PH
2767PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2768 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2769 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2770 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2771 same order.
2772
2773PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2774 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2775 the different processes.
2776
145396a6
PH
2777PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2778
3cd34f13
PH
2779PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2780
11121d3d
JJ
2781JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2782 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2783
2784JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2785 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2786
2787JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2788 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2789 messages matching specified criteria.
2790
8def5aaf
PH
2791PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2792
929ba01c
PH
2793PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2794 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2795
2632889e
PH
2796PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2797 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2798 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2799 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2800 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2801 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2802 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2803 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2804 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2805 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2806
944a9c55
PH
2807PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2808 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2809 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2810
4a23603b
PH
2811PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2812
4730f942
PH
2813PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2814 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2815 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2816 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2817 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2818 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2819 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2820 the variable.
2821
30dba1e6
PH
2822PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2823 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2824
382afc6b
PH
2825PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2826
a86229cf
PH
2827PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2828
50c99ba6
PH
2829PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2830
d35e429d
PH
2831PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2832 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2833 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2834 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2835 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2836 size of the count of files.
2837
f90d018c
PH
2838PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2839
75def545
PH
2840PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2841 used in LMTP mode:
2842
2843 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2844 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2845 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2846 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2847
2848 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2849 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2850 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2851
2852PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2853 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2854 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2855 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2856 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2857
c46782ef
PH
2858PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2859 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2860
71fafd95
PH
2861PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2862 will now be deprecated.
2863
2c5db4fd
PH
2864PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2865
9cf6b11a
JJ
2866JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2867 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2868 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2869
2870JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2871 with very large, slow to parse queues
2872
2873JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2874
2875JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2876
898d150f
PH
2877PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2878 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2879 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2880 SMTP output lines.
2881
46218253
PH
2882PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2883 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2884 Sieve code now uses this.
2885
e97957bc
PH
2886PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2887 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2888
81e509d7
PH
2889PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2890 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2891
3d240ff7
PH
2892PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2893
b37c4101
PH
2894PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2895 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2896 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2897 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2898 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2899
79378e0f
PH
2900PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2901 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2902 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2903 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2904
e49c7bb4
PH
2905PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2906
d114ec46
PH
2907PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2908
f3d7df6c
PH
2909PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2910 is preferred over IPv4.
2911
715ab376
PH
2912PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2913 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2914 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2915 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2916 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2917 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2918 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2919
6b31b150
PH
2920PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2921 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2922 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2923
2924PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2925
d515a917
PH
2926PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2927 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2928 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2929 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2930 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2931 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2932 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2933 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2934 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2935 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2936 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2937
9b8fadde
PH
2938PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2939 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2940 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2941
214e2000 2942
5de37277
PH
2943Exim version 4.60
2944-----------------
2945
cc38ddbf
PH
2946PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2947
2948 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2949 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2950
2951 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2952 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2953 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2954
72fdd6ae
PH
2955PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2956
2957 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2958 not a single digit.
2959
2960 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2961 string.
2962
2963 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2964 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2965 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2966 silly things.
2967
2968 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2969 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2970
2971 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2972 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2973
cb741023
PH
2974PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2975 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2976 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2977
f174f16e
PH
2978PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2979 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2980
c25242d7
PH
2981PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2982 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2983
2984 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2985
2986 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2987 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2988 this:
2989
2990 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2991
82c19f95
PH
2992PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2993 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2994 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2995 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2996 identical. For example:
2997
2998 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2999
3000 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3001 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3002 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3003
d7ffbc12
PH
3004PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3005 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3006 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3007 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3008
9f526266
PH
3009PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3010 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3011 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3012 message.
3013
87fcc8b9
PH
3014PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3015
3016 o fixes some comments
3017 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3018 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3019 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3020 and documents the missing references header update
3021
3022 and most important:
3023
3024 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3025 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3026 result)
3027
456682f5
PH
3028PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3029 Electronic Mail") by including:
3030
3031 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3032
3033 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3034 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3035 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3036 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3037 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3038
3039 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3040
3041 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3042
3043 The auto-replied keyword:
3044
3045 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3046 message by an automatic process,
3047
3048 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3049
3050 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3051 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3052
3053 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3054 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3055 other messages.
3056
3e46c1aa
PH
3057PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3058 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3059
49826d12
PH
3060PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3061
eba0c039
PH
3062PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3063 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3064 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3065
a0d6ba8a
PH
3066PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3067 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3068 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3069
f0917727
PH
3070PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3071 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3072 and treats the condition as false.
3073
096fee00
PH
3074PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3075
024bd3c2
PH
3076PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3077 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3078 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3079 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3080 not changing the active code.
3081
3082 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3083 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3084
3085 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3086 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3087
df199fec
PH
3088PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3089 (Bugzilla #53).
3090
d27f1df3
PH
3091PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3092 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3093 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3094 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3095 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3096 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3097 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3098 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3099 the text comparison.
3100
96776534
PH
3101PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3102 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3103 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3104 The same fix has been applied.
3105
5de37277 3106
9a799bc0
PH
3107Exim version 4.54
3108-----------------
3109
3110PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3111 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3112 It now does.
3113
99a4b039
PH
3114PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3115 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3116
3117PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3118
4b233853
PH
3119PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3120 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3121 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3122 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3123 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3124
8857ccfd
PH
3125TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3126 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3127 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3128 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3129 or /domain=).
3130
433a2980
PH
3131PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3132 testing suite.
3133
3e46c1aa 3134
9a799bc0 3135
e3a311ba
TK
3136Exim version 4.53
3137-----------------
3138
3139TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3140 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3141
13b685f9
PH
3142PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3143
395ff96d
PH
3144PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3145
5b68f6e4
PH
3146PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3147 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3148 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3149
1ab52c69
PH
3150PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3151 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3152 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3153
b07e6aa3
PH
3154PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3155 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3156 operating systems.
3157
254e032f
PH
3158PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3159 ${stat: expansion item.
3160
3af76a81
PH
3161PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3162 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3163
2548ba04
PH
3164PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3165 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3166 file for comments.
3167
b6c6011d
PH
3168PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3169
cf39cf57
PH
3170PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3171 setting.
3172
f1513293
PH
3173PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3174 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3175
727549a4
PH
3176TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3177
af46795e
PH
3178PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3179 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3180 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3181 the end of the subprocess.
3182
d7b47fd0
PH
3183PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3184 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3185 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3186 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3187 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3188
ee744174
JJ
3189JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3190
b582ab87
PH
3191TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3192
41a13e0a
PH
3193PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3194 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3195
f625cc5a
PH
3196PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3197
3198PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3199
21f7af35
PH
3200PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3201 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3202 HP-UX compiler.
3203
31480e42
PH
3204PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3205
2d280592
PH
3206PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3207 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3208 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3209
7cd1141b
PH
3210PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3211 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3212
3213PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3214 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3215
750af86e
PH
3216PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3217 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3218
3219 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3220 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3221
3222 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3223 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3224 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3225 contributed by a Radius user.
3226
3227PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3228 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3229
4304270b
TK
3230TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3231 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3232
750af86e
PH
3233PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3234 available.
3235
64ffc24f
PH
3236PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3237 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3238 received.
3239
5dd9625b
PH
3240PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3241 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3242 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3243 header lines when this was not necessary.
3244
5591031b
PH
3245PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3246
ba18e66a
PH
3247PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3248 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3249 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3250 exists".
3251
9cec981f
PH
3252PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3253 -bV or -d is used.
3254
aa2b5c79
PH
3255PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3256 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3257 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3258 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3259
48a53b7f
PH
3260PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3261
1c59d63b
PH
3262PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3263
671012da
TK
3264TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3265
1509d3a8
PH
3266PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3267
3268PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3269 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3270 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3271 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3272 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3273 settings.
3274
3275PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3276
2fe1a124
PH
3277PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3278 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3279 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3280 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3281 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3282 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3283 which is clearly wrong.
3284
8800895a
PH
3285PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3286
ccfdb010
PH
3287PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3288 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3289 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3290 subsequently added.
3291
1130bfb0
PH
3292PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3293 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3294
ebcb507f
PH
3295PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3296
c35e155c
PH
3297PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3298 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3299
95d1f782
PH
3300PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3301 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3302
fd6de02e
PH
3303PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3304 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3305
58de37c5
PH
3306PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3307 recipients, not senders.
3308
261cf466
TF
3309TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3310 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3311
3ee512ff
PH
3312PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3313
e08c430f
PH
3314PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3315
bef5a11f
PH
3316PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3317 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3318 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3319 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3320
7546de58
TF
3321TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3322
e5d5a95f
TF
3323TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3324 clock is set back in time.
3325
2e88a017
TF
3326TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3327 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3328
a5f65aa4
TF
3329TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3330 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3331
e7726cbf
PH
3332PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3333 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3334 (see PH/47 above).
3335
a7fdad5b
TF
3336TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3337 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3338 header rewrites.
3339
6af56900
PH
3340PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3341 type ("H").
3342
0925ede6
PH
3343PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3344
66afa403
TF
3345TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3346 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3347 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3348
0154e85a
TF
3349TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3350 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3351 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3352 helo verification defer as a failure.
3353
16f12c76
PH
3354PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3355 actual error message.
3356
bbe902f0 3357
e5a9dba6
PH
3358Exim version 4.52
3359-----------------
3360
3361TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3362
22c3b60b
PH
3363PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3364 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3365 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3366 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3367
06a9b4b5
PH
3368TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3369
c1ac6996
PH
3370PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3371 can still be requested.
3372
9c7a242c
PH
3373PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3374 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3375 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3376 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3377
87ba3f5f
PH
3378TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3379 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3380 circumstances, but probably never did.
3381
3382PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3383 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3384 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3385 in the header line.
3386
29aba418
TF
3387TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3388
fe0dab11
TF
3389TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3390 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3391
11d337a4
TK
3392TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3393
3394TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3395
415c8f3b
PH
3396PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3397 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3398 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3399 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3400 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3401 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3402
958541e9
PH
3403PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3404 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3405 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3406 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3407 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3408 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3409
c206415f
TK
3410TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3411 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3412
2a4be8f9
PH
3413PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3414 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3415
1cba11c5
SC
3416SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3417 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3418
3419SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3420
3421SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3422
3423SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3424
3425SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3426
3427SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3428
3429SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3430
1005d00e
TK
3431TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3432
3433TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3434 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3435 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3436
3437TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3438 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3439 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3440 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3441
9b4768fa
PH
3442PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3443 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3444 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3445
3446PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3447 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3448 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3449 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3450
0d7eb84a
PH
3451PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3452 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3453 to be made).
3454
3455PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3456 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3457 should work with maildirs and everything.
3458
40727bee
TK
3459TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3460 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3461
554d2369
TF
3462TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3463 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3464
1f922db1
PH
3465PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3466 function for BDB 4.3.
3467
ef213c3b
PH
3468PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3469
8ac170f3
PH
3470PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3471 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3472 involved.
3473
b1c749bb
PH
3474PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3475 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3476 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3477 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3478 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3479 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3480
4aac9b49
PH
3481PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3482 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3483 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3484 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3485 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3486 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3487 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3488 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3489
294520c8
TK
3490TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3491 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3492 details.
3493
5bd022fe
PH
3494PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3495 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3496
90e9ce59
PH
3497PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3498 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3499 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3500 test. It is now used for both.
3501
5ea81592
PH
3502PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3503 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3504 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3505 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3506 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3507 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3508
c6c2dc1d
PH
3509PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3510 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3511 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3512 string_vformat().
3513
fffffe4c
PH
3514PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3515 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3516 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3517
9a26b6b2
PH
3518PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3519 experimental DomainKeys support:
3520
3521 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3522 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3523 the control was given.
3524
3525 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3526
4aee0225
PH
3527PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3528
32d668a5
PH
3529PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3530
8187c3f3
PH
3531PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3532 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3533 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3534 db.h files).
3535
ff790e47 3536PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3537 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3538 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3539 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3540 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3541 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3542 course.
ff790e47 3543
5417f6d1
PH
3544PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3545 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3546 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3547 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3548 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3549 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3550
59cf8544
PH
3551PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3552 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3553 do -d+all out of habit.
3554
e7ad8a65
PH
3555PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3556 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3557 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3558
ade42478
PH
3559PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3560 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3561 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3562 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3563 record types that Exim uses.
3564
182ad5cf
PH
3565PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3566 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3567 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3568 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3569 non-existent file that was broken.
3570
b0d9fc80
TK
3571TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3572 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3573
3574TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3575 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3576 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3577
3578TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3579
47c7a64a
PH
3580PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3581 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3582 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3583 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3584 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3585 same time.
3586
a388bce4
SC
3587SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3588 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3589 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3590 at a slight CPU cost.
3591
3592SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3593 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3594
3595SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3596 by Marc Sherman.
3597
0793e4ed
SC
3598SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3599
c58b88df
PH
3600PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3601 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3602
e7ad8a65 3603
7982096b
PH
3604Exim version 4.51
3605-----------------
3606
1a46a8c5
PH
3607TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3608 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3609
2f079f46 3610TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3611
3612TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3613
3614PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3615 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3616
3617PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3618 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3619 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3620 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3621 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3622 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3623 file.
3624
3625PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3626 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3627 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3628 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3629 these two options.
3630
3631PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3632 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3633 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3634 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3635 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3636 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3637 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3638 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3639
3640PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3641 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3642
3643PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3644 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3645 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3646 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3647 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3648 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3649
3650PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3651 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3652 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3653 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3654
3655PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3656 Finch).
3657
3658PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3659 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3660
49c2d5ea
PH
3661PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3662 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3663 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3664 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3665 message.
49c2d5ea 3666
bf759a8b
PH
3667PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3668
83364d30
PH
3669PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3670 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3671
7999bbd7
PH
3672PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3673 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3674 to what was transported.)
3675
7dbf77c9
PH
3676TF/01 Added $received_time.
3677
74e0617f
PH
3678PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3679 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3680 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3681 spamd_address settings.
3682
2f079f46
PH
3683PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3684 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3685 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3686 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3687 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3688
8c841523
PH
3689PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3690
7766a4f0
PH
3691PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3692 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3693 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3694 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3695 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3696
8b417f2c
PH
3697PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3698 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3699
901f42cb
PH
3700PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3701 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3702 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3703 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3704 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3705 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3706 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3707 for failure.
3708
f9b9210e
PH
3709PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3710 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3711 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3712 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3713 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3714 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3715 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3716 "input=".
3717
54cdb463
PH
3718PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3719
cf00dad6
PH
3720PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3721 driver and ACL definitions.
3722
acb1b346
PH
3723PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3724 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3725
c5ddb310
PH
3726PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3727 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3728 understands it better than I do:
3729
3730 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3731 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3732
3733 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3734 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3735 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3736 => three warnings about OTP not working
3737 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3738
3739 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3740 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3741 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3742 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3743 for each call.)
3744 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3745 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3746
3747 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3748 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3749 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3750
31619da6
PH
3751PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3752 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3753 specified.
3754
bebaf0fc
PH
3755PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3756 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3757 "Linux".
3758
475fe28a
PH
3759PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3760 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3761 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3762
3763 warn !verify = sender
3764 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3765
3766 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3767 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3768
7e8bec7a
PH
3769PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3770
3771 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3772 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3773
3774 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3775 nomenclature these days.)
3776
e4a89c47
PH
3777PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3778 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3779
5ca2a9a1
PH
3780PH/30 In these circumstances:
3781 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3782 . First host does not offer TLS;
3783 . First host accepts first address;
3784 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3785 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3786 . Second host accepts second address.
3787 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3788 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3789 address.
7e8bec7a 3790
c688b954
PH
3791PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3792 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3793 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3794 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3795 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3796
fed77020
PH
3797PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3798 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3799
7fe1560f
PH
3800PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3801 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3802
ebb6e6d5
PH
3803PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3804 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3805 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3806
9c4e8f60
PH
3807PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3808 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3809 overlooked.
3810
3811PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3812
d7174846
PH
3813PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3814 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3815 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3816 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3817 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3818 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3819 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3820
3821 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3822 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3823 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3824 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3825 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3826
3827 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3828 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3829 routed further.
3830
cfe75fc3
PH
3831PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3832 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3833 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3834 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3835 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3836 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3837
be22d70e
PH
3838PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3839
0612b098
PH
3840PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3841 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3842 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3843 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3844 printable escape sequences.
3845
2e0c1448
PH
3846PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3847 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3848 body only.
3849
447d236c
PH
3850PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3851 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3852 are as follows:
3853
3854 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3855 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3856 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3857 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3858 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3859
3860 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3861 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3862 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3863
d20976dc
PH
3864PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3865
f656d135
PH
3866PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3867 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3868 play with."
3869
2e2a30b4
PH
3870PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3871 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3872 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3873 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3874 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3875 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3876 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3877 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3878 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3879 the log output.
3880
9176e9f0
PH
3881PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3882 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3883 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3884 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3885 "make".
3886
7982096b 3887
bbe902f0
PH
3888A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3889----------------------------------------
3890
3891Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3892changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3893needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3894in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3895that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3896release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3897from 4.43.
3898
3899I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
39004.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3901those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3902historical information.
3903
3904
f7b63901 3905Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3906-----------------
3907
5fe762f6
PH
3908 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3909
139059f6 3910 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3911 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3912
7086e875
PH
3913 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3914 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3915 place.
3916
35af9f61
PH
3917 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3918 filter fails to execute.
3919
b668c215
PH
3920 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3921 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3922 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3923 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3924 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3925
a494b1e1
PH
3926 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3927
3928 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3929 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3930 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3931 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3932
c5fcb476
PH
3933 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3934 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3935 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3936 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3937 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3938
69358f02
PH
3939 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3940
5be20824
PH
394110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3942
eb2c0248
PH
394311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3944 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3945 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3946 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3947
2a3eea10
PH
394812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3949 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3950 sender verification.
3951
395213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3953 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3954
23c7ff99
PH
395514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3956
4deaf07d
PH
395715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3958 connection timeout.
3959
926e1192
PH
396016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3961 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3962
650edc6f
PH
396317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3964 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3965
2c7db3f5
PH
396618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3967 information about exactly what failed.
3968
3d235903
PH
396919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3970
7c7ad977
PH
397120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3972 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3973 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3974
981756db
PH
397521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3976 It is now set to "smtps".
3977
d4eb88df
PH
397822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3979 ignore_target_hosts.
3980
398123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3982 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3983 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3984 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3985 "[x.x.x.x]".
3986
7d468ab8
PH
398724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3988 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3989 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3990
399125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3992 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3993 wake it up if nothing else does.
3994
62c0818f
PH
399526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3996 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3997 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3998 end up negative.
3999
26034054
PH
400027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4001 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4002
af66f652
PH
400328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4004
90af77f4
PH
400529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4006 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4007 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4008 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4009 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4010 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4011 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4012 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4013
d8ef3577
PH
401430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4015 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4016 than one IP address.
4017
5cb8cbc6
PH
401831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4019 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4020 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4021 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4022
14702f5b
PH
402332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4024 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4025 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4026 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4027 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4028 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4029
063b1e99
PH
403033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4031 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4032 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4033 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4034
652e1b65
PH
403534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4036 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4037 respected.
4038
6f0c9a4f
PH
403935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4040 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4041 $sender_host_address.
4042
33397d19
PH
404336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4044 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4045 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4046 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4047 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4048 very small.
4049
7bb56e1f
PH
405037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4051
4052 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4053 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4054
ea3bc19b
PH
4055 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4056 just the host names, not the priorities.
4057
4058 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4059 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4060 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4061
ea3bc19b 4062 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4063 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4064
0bcb2a0e
PH
406538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4066 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4067 domain.
4068
2ac0e484
PH
406939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4070
4e1fde53
PH
407140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4072 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4073
de365ded
PH
407441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4075 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4076 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4077
f05da2e8
PH
407842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4079
d6453af2
PH
408043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4081
f7b63901
PH
408244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4083
408445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4085 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4086 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4087 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4088 because the tests only now provoked it.
4089
a444213a
PH
409046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4091 (this can affect the format of dates).
4092
0ec020ea
PH
409347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4094 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4095 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4096 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4097
b1206957
PH
409848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4099
410049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4101 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4102 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4103 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4104
26dd5a95
PH
410550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4106 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4107 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4108
343b2385
PH
410951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4110 autoreply.
4111
1c5466b9
PH
411252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4113 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4114 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4115 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4116 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4117 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4118 is going on).
4119
55ee9ee3
PH
412053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4121 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4122 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4123 the line.
4124
d38f8232
PH
412554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4126 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4127 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4128
4129 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4130 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4131 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4132 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4133 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4134 so I produce this patch..."
4135
3295e65b
PH
4136 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4137 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4138 is not defined.
4139
7102e136
PH
414055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4141 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4142 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4143 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4144 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4145
3ca0ba97
PH
414656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4147
c2bcbe20
PH
414857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4149 long debug lines gets shown.
4150
18ce445d
PH
415158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4152 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4153
1f5b4c3d
PH
415459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4155
4156 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4157 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4158 of $primary_hostname.
4159
b975ba52
PH
416060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4161 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4162 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4163 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4164 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4165 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4166 by change 4.50/55 above.
4167
4168 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4169 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4170 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4171 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4172 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4173 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4174 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4175
417661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4177 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4178 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4179 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4180
17ffcae7
PH
418162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4182 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4183
d95f9fdb
PH
418463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4185 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4186 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4187 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4188 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4189
86b8287f
PH
419064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4191 This has been fixed.
4192
60dc5e56
PH
419365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4194 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4195 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4196 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4197 the caching.)
4198
533244af
PH
419966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4200
a5a28604
PH
420167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4202 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4203 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4204 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4205
7e634d24
PH
420668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4207 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4208
3e11c26b
PH
420969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4210 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4211 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4212
6729cf78
PH
421370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4214 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4215 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4216 message there.
4217
00f00ca5
PH
421871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4219 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4220 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4221
c9bdd01c
PH
422272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4223 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4224 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4225 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4226
d43194df
PH
422773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4228 during host lookups.
4229
fe5b5d0b
PH
423074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4231 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4232
4233 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4234
76a2d7ba
PH
423575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4236 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4237 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4238 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4239 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4240 background.
4241
424276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4243 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4244
04f7d5b9
PH
424577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4246 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4247 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4248
bc60667e
PH
424978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4250
bb6e88ff
PH
425179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4252 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4253 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4254 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4255 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4256 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4257 process earlier.
4258
1e70f85b
PH
425980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4260 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4261 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4262 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4263 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4264
426581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4266 tables).
4267
4e01f9d6
PH
426882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4269
1ee1cef2
PH
427083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4271 "vacation" handling.
4272
6e2b4ccc
PH
427384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4274 OS variants using glibc.
4275
8e669ac1
PH
427685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4277
495ae4b0 4278
bbe902f0
PH
4279----------------------------------------------------
4280See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4281----------------------------------------------------
4282
4283
4284Exim version 4.44
4285-----------------
4286
4287 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4288 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4289 transport
4290
4291 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4292 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4293 place.
4294
4295 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4296 filter fails to execute.
4297
4298 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4299 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4300 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4301 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4302 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4303
4304 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4305 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4306 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4307 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4308
4309 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4310 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4311 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4312 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4313 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4314
4315 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4316
4317 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4318 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4319 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4320 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4321
4322 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4323 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4324 sender verification.
4325
432610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4327 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4328
432911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4330 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4331
433212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4333 ignore_target_hosts.
4334
433513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4336 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4337 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4338 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4339 "[x.x.x.x]".
4340
434114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4342 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4343 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4344
434515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4346 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4347 wake it up if nothing else does.
4348
434916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4350 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4351 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4352 end up negative.
4353
435417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4355 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4356
ea3a6f44 435718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4358
435919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4360 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4361 empty pattern.
4362
436320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4364 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4365 one IP address.
4366
ea3a6f44
NM
436721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4368 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4369 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4370 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4371 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4372 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4373
ea3a6f44
NM
437422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4375 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4376 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4377
437823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4379 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4380 $sender_host_address.
4381
438224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4383
ea3a6f44
NM
438425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4385 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4386 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4387
438826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4389 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4390
ea3a6f44
NM
439127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4392 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4393
ea3a6f44
NM
439428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4395 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4396 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4397 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4398
439929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4400 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4401 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4402
ea3a6f44
NM
440330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4404 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4405 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4406 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4407
ea3a6f44
NM
440831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4409 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4410 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4411
ea3a6f44
NM
441231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4413 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4414
ea3a6f44
NM
441532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4416 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4417 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4418 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4419 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4420 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4421 is going on).
bbe902f0 4422
ea3a6f44
NM
442333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4424 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4425 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4426 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4427 CAN-2005-0021
4428
ea3a6f44
NM
442934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4430 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4431 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4432 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4433 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4434 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4435 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4436
4437 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4438 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4439 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4440 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4441 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4442 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4443 CAN-2005-0021
4444
ea3a6f44
NM
444535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4446 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4447 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4448 CAN-2005-0022
4449
ea3a6f44
NM
445036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4451 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4452 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4453 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4454 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4455
ea3a6f44
NM
445637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4457 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4458 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4459 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4460 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4461
ea3a6f44
NM
446238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4463 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4464 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4465 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4466 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4467
4468
495ae4b0
PH
4469Exim version 4.43
4470-----------------
4471
4472 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4473 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4474 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4475 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4476 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4477 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4478 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4479
4480 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4481 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4482 the delivery.
4483
4484 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4485
4486 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4487
4488 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4489 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4490 to local_scan().
4491
4492 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4493 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4494 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4495 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4496 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4497
4498 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4499 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4500
4501 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4502
4503 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4504
450510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4506 header_sender only.
4507
450811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4509 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4510
451112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4512 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4513 affecting debugging statements).
4514
451513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4516
451714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4518 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4519 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4520 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4521 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4522 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4523 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4524 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4525 after the received time, and all would be well.
4526
452715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4528 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4529 condition in an expansion string.
4530
453116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4532
453317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4534 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4535 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4536 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4537 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4538 job under whatever limits there are.
4539
454018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4541
454219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4543 space).
4544
454520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4546 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4547 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4548 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4549 return path is set.
4550
455121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4552 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4553 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4554 binary data in such strings.
4555
455622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4557
455823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4559 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4560 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4561 failure, which is pointless.
4562
456324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4564
456525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4566
456726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4568 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4569 Sender: header lines.
4570
457127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4572 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4573 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4574
457528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4576 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4577 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4578 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4579 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4580 happens.
4581
458229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4583 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4584 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4585 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4586 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4587
458830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4589 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4590 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4591 1024.
4592
459331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4594 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4595
459632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4597 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4598
459933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4600
460132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4602
460333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4604
460534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4606 syntax error.
4607
460835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4609
461036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4611
461237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4613 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4614 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4615 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4616
461738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4618 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4619
4620
4621Exim version 4.42
4622-----------------
4623
4624 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4625 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4626 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4627 it was not quoted.
4628 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4629 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4630 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4631 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4632 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4633 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4634
4635 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4636 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4637 verification failure".
4638
4639 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4640 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4641 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4642 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4643
4644 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4645 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4646 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4647 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4648 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4649 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4650 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4651 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4652 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4653 treated as a timeout.
4654
4655 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4656 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4657 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4658 not set for Exim filters).
4659
4660 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4661 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4662 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4663
4664 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4665
4666 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4667 try to make them clearer.
4668
4669 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4670 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4671
4672 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4673
4674 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4675
467610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4677 only the Cygwin environment.
4678
467911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4680 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4681 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4682 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4683 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4684
468512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4686 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4687 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4688 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4689 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4690 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4691 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4692
469313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4694 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4695
469614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4697
4698 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4699 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4700 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4701
4702 To: susanne@some.where
4703
4704 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4705 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4706 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4707 of addresses in From: header lines).
4708
4709 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4710 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4711 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4712
4713 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4714 treated as non-personal.
4715
4716 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4717 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4718
471915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4720
472116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4722
472317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4724 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4725 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4726
472718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4728 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4729
473019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4731 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4732 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4733 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4734 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4735 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4736
473720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4738 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4739 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4740 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4741 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4742 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4743 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4744 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4745
4746 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4747
474821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4749 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4750
475122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4752 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4753 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4754
475523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4756 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4757
475824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4759 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4760 rather than long int.
4761
476225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4763
476426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4765
4766
4767Exim version 4.41
4768-----------------
4769
4770 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4771 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4772 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4773 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4774 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4775 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4776
4777
4778Exim version 4.40
4779-----------------
4780
4781 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4782 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4783
4784 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4785 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4786 socklen_t is defined.
4787
4788 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4789 always exist.
4790
4791 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4792 configured.
4793
4794 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4795 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4796 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4797 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4798 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4799
4800 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4801 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4802 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4803 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4804
4805 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4806 of flapping under certain conditions.
4807
4808 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4809 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4810 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4811
4812 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4813
481410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4815
481611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4817 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4818 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4819 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4820
482112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4822 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4823 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4824 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4825 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4826 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4827 preserved with the message after it was received.
4828
482913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4830 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4831 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4832 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4833 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4834 test suite worked just fine.
4835
483614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4837 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4838 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4839
484015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4841 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4842 string.
4843
484416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4845 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4846 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4847 does not fully solve it.
4848
484917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4850 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4851 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4852 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4853 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4854
485518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4856 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4857 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4858
485919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4860 string, for example:
4861
4862 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4863
4864 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4865 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4866 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4867 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4868 the routers could not see them.
4869
487020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4871 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4872
487321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4874 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4875 output).
4876
487722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4878 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4879 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4880 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4881 that needed quoting.
4882
488323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4884 was not being matched caselessly.
4885
488624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4887 backslashes.
4888
488925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4890 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4891 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4892 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4893 when use_sender is false.
4894
489526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4896
489727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4898
489928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4900
490129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4902 the configuration file.
4903
490430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4905 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4906
490731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4908
490932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4910 bytes in the message body.
4911
491233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4913 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4914 delivery.
4915
491634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4917
491835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4919
492036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4921 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4922 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4923 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4924 another IP address.
4925
4926
4927Exim version 4.34
4928-----------------
4929
4930 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4931 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4932
4933 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4934 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4935 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4936 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4937 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4938
4939 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4940 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4941
4942 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4943 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4944 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4945
4946 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4947 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4948 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4949
4950 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4951 for routers.
4952
4953 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4954 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4955 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4956 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4957 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4958 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4959 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4960
4961
4962Exim version 4.33
4963-----------------
4964
4965 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4966 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4967 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4968 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4969 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4970 default (and expected) setting.
4971
4972 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4973 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4974 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4975 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4976
4977 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4978 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4979
4980 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4981 in domain lists.
4982
4983 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4984 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4985 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4986 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4987 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4988 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4989
4990 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4991 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4992 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4993
4994 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4995 part (NOT match_host).
4996
4997 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4998
4999 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5000 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5001 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5002 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5003 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5004 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5005 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5006 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5007 the same named file.
5008
500910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5010 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5011 when Exim is built.
5012
501311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5014 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5015 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5016 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5017 a host name.
5018
501912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5020 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5021 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5022
502313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5024
502514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5026
502715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5028
502916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5030 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5031
503217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5033 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5034 before starting the TLS session.
5035
503618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5037
503819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5039 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5040
504120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5042 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5043 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5044 colon in the middle).
5045
5046
5047Exim version 4.32
5048-----------------
5049
5050 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5051 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5052 multiple configurations are in use.
5053
5054 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5055 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5056 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5057 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5058 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5059 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5060
5061 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5062 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5063
5064 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5065 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5066 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5067
5068 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5069 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5070 occurs.
5071
5072 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5073 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5074
5075 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5076
5077 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5078 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5079
5080 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5081
5082 -prval:sval
5083
5084 is equivalent to
5085
5086 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5087
5088 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5089 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5090 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5091 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5092 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5093
509410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5095 Exim's behaviour:
5096
5097 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5098 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5099 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5100 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5101 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5102 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5103
5104 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5105 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5106 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5107 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5108 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5109 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5110 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5111 string.
5112
5113 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5114 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5115 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5116 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5117 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5118
511911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5120
512112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5122 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5123 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5124
512513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5126
512714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5128 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5129 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5130 information.
5131
513215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5133 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5134
513516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5136 Three changes have been made:
5137
5138 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5139 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5140 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5141 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5142 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5143
5144 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5145 been restored.
5146
5147 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5148 the modified behaviour.
5149
5150
5151Exim version 4.31
5152-----------------
5153
5154 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5155 Larry Rosenman.
5156
5157 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5158 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5159
5160 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5161 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5162 try to track down a specific problem.
5163
5164 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5165 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5166 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5167
5168 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5169 warning.
5170
5171 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5172 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5173 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5174 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5175 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5176 some earlier ones do not.
5177
5178 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5179
5180 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5181 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5182 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5183 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5184 address literals are enabled, of course).
5185
5186 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5187
518810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5189 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5190 by a command such as
5191
5192 exim -f "" ...
5193
5194 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5195
519611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5197
519812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5199 remained set. It is now erased.
5200
520113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5202 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5203
520414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5205 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5206 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5207 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5208 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5209 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5210 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5211 appropriate error code.
5212
521315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5214 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5215 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5216 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5217 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5218 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5219
522016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5221 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5222 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5223
522417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5225 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5226 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5227 terminate the header.
5228
522918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5230 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5231 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5232
523319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5234 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5235 (4.30/29). In particular:
5236
5237 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5238 imposed.
5239
5240 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5241 to write a maildirsize file.
5242
5243 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5244 the transport, the new value overrides.
5245
5246 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5247 count.
5248
524920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5250 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5251 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5252 space or a tab.
5253
525421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5255 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5256 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5257 the fallback hosts.
5258
525922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5260 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5261 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5262
526323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5264 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5265 using a union.
5266
526724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5268 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5269 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5270
527125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5272
527326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5274
527527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5276
527728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5278 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5279 become corrupted.
5280
528129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5282 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5283 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5284 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5285 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5286 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5287 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5288 too great.
5289
529030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5291 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5292 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5293 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5294 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5295 incorrectly.
5296
529731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5298 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5299 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5300 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5301 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5302 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5303 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5304 cached value only when the same options are set.
5305
530632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5307
530833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5309 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5310 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5311 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5312 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5313
531434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5315 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5316 it is clearly obsolete.
5317
531835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5319 transport.
5320
532136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5322 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5323 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5324 times.
5325
532637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5327 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5328 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5329 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5330 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5331
533238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5333 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5334 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5335 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5336
533739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5338
5339 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5340
5341 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5342 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5343 2^31.
5344
534540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5346 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5347 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5348 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5349 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5350 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5351 $localpart_data.
5352
535341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5354 with the -f command-line option.
5355
535642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5357 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5358 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5359 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5360 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5361 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5362
536343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5364 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5365 line.
5366
536744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5368 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5369 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5370 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5371 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5372 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5373 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5374 buffer is too small.
5375
537645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5377 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5378
537946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5380 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5381 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5382 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5383 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5384 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5385 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5386 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5387 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5388
538947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5390 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5391 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5392
539348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5394 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5395 ACL").
5396
539749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5398 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5399 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5400 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5401 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5402
540350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5404 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5405 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5406 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5407 is set.
5408
540951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5410
541152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5412
541353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5414 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5415
541654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5417 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5418 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5419
542055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5421 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5422 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5423 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5424 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5425
542656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5427 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5428 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5429 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5430 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5431 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5432 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5433
543457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5435 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5436 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5437 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5438 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5439 the test of how many are available.
5440
544158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5442 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5443 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5444 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5445 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5446 new message is started.
5447
544859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5449 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5450
545160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5452 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5453
545461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5455 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5456 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5457 is no long logged.
5458
545962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5460 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5461 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5462 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5463 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5464 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5465 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5466
546763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5468 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5469 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5470 interpreted as octal.
5471
547264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5473 setting.
5474
547565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5476 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5477 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5478 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5479 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5480 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5481
548266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5483 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5484 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5485 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5486
5487 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5488 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5489 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5490 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5491
5492 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5493 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5494 is a bug fix.
5495
5496 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5497 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5498
549967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5500
550168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5502 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5503 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5504 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5505
550669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5507 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5508 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5509 supplied", which is not helpful.
5510
551170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5512 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5513 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5514
551571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5516 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5517 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5518 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5519 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5520 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5521 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5522 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5523
552472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5525 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5526 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5527 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5528 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5529
553073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5531 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5532 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5533 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5534 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5535 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5536
553774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5538 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5539 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5540
554175. Added write_rejectlog option.
5542
554376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5544 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5545 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5546 variables.
5547
554877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5549
555078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5551 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5552 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5553 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5554 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5555 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5556 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5557 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5558
555979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5560 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5561 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5562 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5563 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5564
556580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5566 Haardt.
5567
556881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5569 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5570 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5571 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5572 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5573 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5574 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5575 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5576 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5577
5578
5579Exim version 4.30
5580-----------------
5581
5582 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5583 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5584 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5585
5586 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5587 fixed.
5588
5589 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5590 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5591 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5592
5593 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5594 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5595 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5596 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5597 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5598 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5599
5600 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5601 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5602 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5603 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5604 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5605 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5606 the Exim test suite.
5607
5608 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5609 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5610 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5611 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5612
5613 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5614 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5615 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5616 specify it in this variable.
5617
5618 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5619 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5620 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5621 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5622
5623 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5624 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5625 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5626 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5627
5628 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5629 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5630 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5631 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5632 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5633
5634 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5635
563610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5637 they are logged.
5638
563911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5640 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5641 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5642 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5643 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5644
564512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5646 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5647
564813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5649 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5650 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5651 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5652 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5653
565414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5655 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5656
565715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5658 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5659 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5660
566116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5662 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5663
566417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5665 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5666
566718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5668 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5669 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5670
567119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5672 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5673
567420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5675 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5676 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5677 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5678
567921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5680
568122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5682 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5683 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5684 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5685
568623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5687
568824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5689 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5690
569125. Added .include_if_exists.
5692
569326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5694 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5695 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5696 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5697 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5698 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5699
570027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5701
570228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5703 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5704 this.
5705
570629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5707
570830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5709 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5710
5711 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5712 550 Sender verify failed
5713
5714 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5715 the final line of the response.
5716
571731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5718 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5719 all other user lookups.
5720
572132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5722 delivery time.
5723
572433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5725 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5726 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5727 result into an int without checking.
5728
572934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5730 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5731 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5732
573335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5734 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5735 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5736 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5737
573836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5739 correctly.
5740
574137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5742 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5743
574438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5745 to the empty sender.
5746
574739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5748 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5749 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5750 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5751 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5752 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5753 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5754 panic log.
5755
575640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5757 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5758 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5759 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5760 used.
5761
576241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5763 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5764
576542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5766 timestamps.
5767
576843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5769 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5770
577144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5772
577345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5774 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5775 logs.
5776
577746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5778 as soon as it is encountered.
5779
578047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5781
578248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5783 rewritten to "<>".
5784
578549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5786 recognizes a tab character.
5787
578850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5789 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5790 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5791 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5792
579351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5794
579552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5796 crash.
5797
579853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5799
580054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5801
580255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5803 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5804 2822.
5805
580656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5807 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5808 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5809 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5810 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5811
581257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5813 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5814
581558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5816 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5817 list (.included file names were always shown).
5818
581959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5820 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5821 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5822 root at that time.
5823
582460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5825 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5826
582761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5828
582962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5830
583163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5832
583364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5834 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5835 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5836 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5837 failures to open the logs.
5838
583965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5840 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5841 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5842 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5843 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5844 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5845 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5846
5847
5848Exim version 4.24
5849-----------------
5850
5851 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5852 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5853 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5854 change 4.23/1.
5855
5856 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5857 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5858 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5859
5860 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5861 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5862 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5863
5864 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5865 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5866 causing some misleading effects.
5867
5868 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5869 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5870 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5871
5872 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5873 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5874 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5875 queue-runner function directly.
5876
5877
5878Exim version 4.23
5879-----------------
5880
5881 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5882 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5883
5884 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5885 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5886 was always written to the default place.
5887
5888 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5889 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5890 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5891
5892 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5893
5894 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5895
5896 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5897 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5898 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5899
5900 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5901 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5902 must start.
5903
5904 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5905 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5906 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5907
5908 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5909 command line option is disabled.
5910
5911 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5912 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5913
5914 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5915
5916 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5917
5918 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5919 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5920
592110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5922
592311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5924 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5925 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5926 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5927 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5928 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5929
593012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5931 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5932 timeout.
5933
593413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5935 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5936
593714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5938 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5939
594015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5941 received was valid base64.
5942
594316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5944 name of the variable that was being set.
5945
594617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5947
594818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5949 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5950 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5951 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5952 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5953 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5954
595519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5956
595720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5958 nor realm was specified.
5959
596021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5961 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5962 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5963 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5964
596522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5966 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5967 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5968
596923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5970 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5971 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5972
597324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5974 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5975 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5976 some systems use these upper case variants.
5977
597825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5979 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5980 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5981 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5982
598326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5984
598527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5986 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5987
598828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5989 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5990 expansion variable.
5991
599229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5993
599430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5995 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5996 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5997 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5998
599931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6000 using it.
6001
600232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6003 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6004 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6005
600633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6007 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6008
600934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6010 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6011 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6012 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6013
601435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6015 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6016 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6017
601836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6019
602037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6021 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6022 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6023 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6024 aborted.
6025
602638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6027 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6028 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6029
603039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6031
603240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6033 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6034
603541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6036 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6037
603842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6039 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6040 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6041 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6042 when emails are that large.
6043
6044
6045
6046Exim version 4.22
6047-----------------
6048
6049 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6050 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6051
6052 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6053 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6054 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6055
6056 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6057 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6058 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6059
6060 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6061 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6062 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6063 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6064 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6065
6066 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6067 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6068 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6069 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6070 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6071 ever.
6072
6073 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6074 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6075 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6076 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6077 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6078 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6079 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6080 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6081 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6082 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6083 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6084 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6085 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6086 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6087
6088 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6089 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6090 parameterised it.
6091
6092 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6093 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6094 error should be diagnosed.
6095
6096 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6097 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6098 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6099 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6100 appeared instead of "NULL".
6101
610210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6103 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6104 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6105 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6106 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6107 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6108 proceeds).
6109
6110 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6111 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6112 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6113
6114
6115Exim version 4.21
6116-----------------
6117
6118 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6119 or receiver verification errors.
6120
6121 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6122 name.
6123
6124 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6125 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6126 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6127 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6128
6129 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6130 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6131 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6132 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6133 shouldn't happen again.
6134
6135 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6136 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6137 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6138
6139 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6140 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6141
6142 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6143
6144 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6145 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6146
6147 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6148 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6149 RFC.
6150
615110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6152 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6153 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6154
615511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6156 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6157 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6158 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6159
616012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6161 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6162 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6163 to define what should happen).
6164
616513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6166 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6167 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6168
616914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6170
617115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6172
617316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6174 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6175
617617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6177 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6178 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6179 structure in all cases.
6180
6181 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6182 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6183 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6184 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6185
618618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6187 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6188 domain name.
6189
619019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6191 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6192
619320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6194 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6195
619621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6197 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6198 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6199
620022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6201 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6202 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6203
620423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6205 the book and for uniformity.
6206
620724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6208
620925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6210 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6211 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6212 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6213 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6214 non-existent command as the problem.
6215
621626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6217 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6218 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6219
622027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6221
622228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6223 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6224 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6225
622629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6227 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6228 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6229 timestamps using strftime().
6230
623130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6232 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6233
623432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6235 transport-time rewrites.
6236
623733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6238 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6239 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6240 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6241
624234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6243 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6244
624535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6246 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6247 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6248 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6249 comma and a space.
6250
625136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6252 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6253 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6254 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6255 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6256 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6257 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6258
625937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6260 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6261 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6262 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6263 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6264
626538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6266 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6267 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6268 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6269 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6270 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6271 remaining text gets split now.
6272
627339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6274 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6275 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6276 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6277
627840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6279 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6280 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6281 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6282 $return_path.
6283
628441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6285 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6286 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6287 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6288 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6289 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6290 passed through if needed.
6291
629242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6293 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6294 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6295 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6296 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6297 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6298
629943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6300 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6301 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6302 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6303 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6304
630544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6306 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6307 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6308 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6309 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6310
631145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6312 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6313 noticed.
6314
631546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6316 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6317 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6318 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6319 mayhem of various kinds.
6320
632147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6322 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6323 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6324 the right test for positive values.
6325
632648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6327 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6328 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6329 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6330 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6331 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6332 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6333 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6334 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6335 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6336 envelope.
6337
633849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6339 module.
6340
634150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6342 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6343 forbidding it.
6344
634551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6346 the existing equality matching.
6347
634852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6349 dealing with inode numbers.
6350
635153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6352 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6353 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6354
635554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6356 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6357 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6358 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6359 local_scan().
6360
636155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6362 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6363 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6364 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6365 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6366 relay addresses has also been removed.
6367
636856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6369
637057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6371 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6372 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6373
637458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6375 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6376 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6377 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6378 processing applies to CR:
6379
6380 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6381 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6382
6383 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6384 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6385 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6386 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6387
638859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6389 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6390 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6391
639260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6393 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6394 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6395 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6396 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6397 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6398 arisen.
6399
640061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6401 program routers.
6402
640362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6404 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6405 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6406 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6407 adds:
6408
6409 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6410
6411 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6412
6413 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6414
641563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6416 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6417 not considered personal.
6418
641964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6420
642165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6422
642366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6424
642567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6426 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6427 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6428 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6429 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6430 header lines, and spool format errors.
6431
643268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6433 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6434 for more flexibility.
6435
643669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6437 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6438 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6439
644070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6441 Sabourenkov.
6442
644371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6444 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6445 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6446 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6447 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6448 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6449 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6450 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6451 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6452
645372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6454 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6455 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6456 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6457 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6458 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6459 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6460
646173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6462 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6463 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6464
646574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6466 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6467 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6468 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6469 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6470 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6471 instead of killing the process with assert().
6472
647375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6474 than Unicode encoding.
6475
647676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6477 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6478 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6479 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6480
648177. Added process_log_path.
6482
648378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6484 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6485
648679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6487 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6488
648980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6490 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6491 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6492
649381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6494 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6495 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6496 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6497 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6498 were applied:
6499
6500 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6501 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6502 as invalid.
6503
650482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6505 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6506 they will be used during message reception.
6507
6508
6509Exim version 4.20
6510-----------------
6511
6512The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6513
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