Document heimdal_gssapi as it works now.
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.78
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6
7PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
8 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
9 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
10
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11NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
12
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13NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
14 improved.
15
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16NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
17
c1e794ba 18PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
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20PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
21
22PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
23 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
24
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26Exim version 4.77
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28
29PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
30 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
31
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32TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
33
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34TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
35 whitespace trailer
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37TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
38 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
39
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40TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
41 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
42 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
43
44 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
45 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
46 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
47 not safe for signals.
48
49 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
50 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
51 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
52 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
53 exiwhat.
54
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55TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
56
57 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
58 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
59 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
60 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
61 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
62
63 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
64 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
65 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
66 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
67 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
68 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
69
70 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
71 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
72 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
73 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
74
75 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
76 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
77 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
78 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
79
80 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
81 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
82 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
83 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
84 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
85 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
86 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
87 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
88 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
89
90 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
91 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
92 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
93 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
94
95 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
96 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
97 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
98 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
99 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
100 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
101 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
102 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
103 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
104 details in the main documentation.
105
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106TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
107
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108TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
109
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110TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
111 repository when doing development or release builds.
112
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113PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
114 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 115
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116PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
117 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
118 Bugzilla 97.
119
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120PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
121
9e949f00 122PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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123 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
124
125PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
126 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 127
555ae6af 128PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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129 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
130
131PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
132 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 133
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134PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
135 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
136
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137PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
138 Bugzilla 1156.
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139 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
140 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 141
d6cc7c78 142PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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143 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
144 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
145
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146PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
147
3399bb60 148PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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149
150PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
151 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
152
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154Exim version 4.76
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156
157PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
158
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159PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
160 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
161
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162PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
163
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164PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
165
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166PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
167 Bugzilla 1098.
168
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169PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
170 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 171
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172TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
173 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
174
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175PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
176 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
177
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178PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
179 Bugzilla 1104.
180
c8d52a00 181TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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182 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
183
184TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
185 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
186 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
187 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
188
189PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
190 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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193Exim version 4.75
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195
4c9ef03a 196NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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197 Bugzilla 1073
198
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199TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
200 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
201 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
202
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203TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
204 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
205
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206PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
207 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
208 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
209
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210PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
211 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
212
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213PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
214 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
215
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216NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
217 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
218
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219NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
220 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
221
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222PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
223 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 224
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225NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
226 Fixes bug 943.
227
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228PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
229 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
230
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231PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
232 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
233
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234PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
235 SQL string expansion failure details.
236 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
237
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238PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
239 Patch from Simon Arlott.
240
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241PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
242 extern declarations in function scope.
243 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
244
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245PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
246 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
247 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
248 a kernel bug).
249
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250PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
251 Patch from Mark Zealey.
252
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253PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
254 Patch from Mark Zealey.
255
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256PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
257 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
258
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259PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
260 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
261
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262NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
263 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
264 Dennis Davis.
265
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266PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
267
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268PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
269
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270NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
271 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 272
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273TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
274 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
275
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277Exim version 4.74
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279
280TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
281 consequences so log it to the panic log.
282
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283TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
284 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
285
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286TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
287
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288DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
289 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
290 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
291
292PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
293 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
294 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
295
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296PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
297 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
298 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
299 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
300
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301PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
302 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
303 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
304 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
305
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306PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
307 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
308 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
309 arbitrary files.
310
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311PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
312 (Wolfgang Breyha)
313
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314PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
315 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
316 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
317 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
318 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
319
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324PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
325 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
326 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
327
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328PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
329 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
330
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331JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
332
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333PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
334
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335PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
336
ec5a0394 337PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 338
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339PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
340
453a6645 341PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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342 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
343 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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344 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
345
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346PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
347 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
348 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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349 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
350 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 351
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352PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
353
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354PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
355
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356PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
357
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358PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
359
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360PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
361
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362PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
363
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364PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
365
6a8de854 366PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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367 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
368 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 369
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370JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
371
372JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
373 "exim" to be used
55c75993 374
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375PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
376 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
377
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378PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
379 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
380 Notification from John Horne.
381
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382PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
383 compatible.
384
385PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
386 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
387 it normally works.
388
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389DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
390 access.
391
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392DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
393 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
394 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
395
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396DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
397 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
398 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
399 configuration file.
400
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401DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
402 option (effectively making it always true).
403
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404DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
405 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
406
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407DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
408 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
409
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410PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
411 run-time user, instead of root.
412
43236f35 413PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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414 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
415
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416DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
417 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
418 arguments.
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420DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
421 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
422 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
423
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424DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
425
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426NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
427
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429Exim version 4.72
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431
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432JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
433 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
434 typos
465e92cf 435
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436JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
437 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
438 (Finput)
edae0343 439
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440NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
441 Patch from Alain Williams
442
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443NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
444
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445NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
446 Patch from Andreas Metzler
447
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448NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
449 Patch from Kirill Miazine
450
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451NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
452
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453JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
454
a466095c 455NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 456 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 457
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458TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
459
460TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
461
462MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
463 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
464 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
465
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466NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
467 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 468
b26eacf1 469NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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470 Patch by Simon Arlott
471
179c5980 472PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 473 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 474
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476Exim version 4.71
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478
7d9f747b 479TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 480
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481NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
482
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483NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
484
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485NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
486
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487NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
488
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490Exim version 4.70
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492
cdd3bb85 493TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 494 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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496TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
497 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 498 Hirsch).
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500TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
501 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 502 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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504TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
505 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
506
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507NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
508 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
509 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
510 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
511
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512NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
513 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 514 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 515
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516TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
517
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518TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
519
dae9d94e 520NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 521 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 522
7d9f747b 523NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 524
06864c44
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525TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
526 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
527 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
528 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
529
65a7d8c3 530NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 531 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 532
23510047 533TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 534
7d9f747b 535NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 536
7d8eec3a 537NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 538 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 539
89dec7b6
TF
540TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
541 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 542
a99de90c
TF
543TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
544 that they are available at delivery time.
545
e2803e40
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546TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
547
7199e1ee
TF
548TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
549 incoming_port log selectors.
550
e276e04b
TF
551TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
552 setting expands to an empty string.
553
ce552449 554NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 555 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 556
e765a0f1 557NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 558 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 559
4f054c63 560NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 561 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 562
7d9f747b
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563NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
564 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 565
7d9f747b
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566NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
567 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 568
b52bc06e 569NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 570 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 571
447de4b0
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572NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
573
4c69d561 574NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 575 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 576
d5c39246 577NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 578 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 579
0b23848a
TK
580TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
581
8f3414a1 582NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 583 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 584
fb6f955d
NM
585NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
586
587NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 588
7d9f747b
PP
589NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
590 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 591
7d9f747b
PP
592NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
593 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 594
7d9f747b
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595NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
596 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 597
7d9f747b
PP
598NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
599 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 600
7d9f747b
PP
601NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
602 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 603
7d9f747b
PP
604NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
605 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 606
7d9f747b
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607NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
608 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 609
7d9f747b 610NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 611 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 612
7d9f747b 613NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 614
7d9f747b
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615NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
616 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 617
7d9f747b 618NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 619
7d9f747b 620NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 621
7d9f747b 622NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 623
7d9f747b 624NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 625
17792b53 626NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 627 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 628
7d9f747b
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629NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
630 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 631
7d9f747b
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632NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
633 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 634
7d9f747b
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635NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
636 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 637
7d9f747b 638NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 639
7d9f747b 640NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 641
7d9f747b 642NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 643
7d9f747b 644NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 645
deafd5b3 646
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647Exim version 4.69
648-----------------
649
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650TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
651 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
652 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
653
654 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
655 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
656 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
657 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
658 build errors in sieve.c.
659
81ea09ca
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660NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
661 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
662 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
663
f13cddcb
SC
664SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
665
7d9f747b 666NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 667
7d9f747b 668NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 669
7d9f747b 670NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
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671
672
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673Exim version 4.68
674-----------------
675
676PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
677
6a3bceb1
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678PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
679 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
680 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
681 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
682 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
683 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
684 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
685 for iplsearch lookups.
686
687 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
688 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
689 previously such lookups could never work.
690
691 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
692 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
693 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
694
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695TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
696 version.
697
0806a9c5
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698MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
699 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
700 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
701 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
702 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
703 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
704
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705TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
706 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
707
0f2cbd1b
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708MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
709 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
710 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
711 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
712 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
713 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
714
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715PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
716 local_scan API.
717
93655c46
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718PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
719
6c512171
PH
720PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
721 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
722 encrypted.
723
724PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
725 by clients under certain conditions.
726
aa6dc513
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727PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
728 "_responses" off the end of the name.
729
a96603a0
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730PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
731
8f240103
PH
732PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
733 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
734
735PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
736
d677b2f2
PH
737PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
738
d52120f2
PH
739PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
740
64f2600a
PH
741PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
742 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
743
8669f003
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744PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
745
a4dc33a8
PH
746PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
747 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
748
d6a60c0f
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749PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
750
8f128379
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751PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
752
8932dffe
PH
753PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
754 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
755 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
756 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 757
ddea74fa 758PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
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759 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
760 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
761
ddea74fa 762PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
763 and InterBase are left for another time.)
764
ddea74fa
PH
765PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
766
ce9f225c
PH
767PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
768
19897d52
PH
769PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
770
bc64a74d
PH
771PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
772 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
773 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
774
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776Exim version 4.67
777-----------------
778
22ad45c9
MH
779MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
780 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
781 Jan Srzednicki.
782
b4ed4da0
PH
783PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
784 issue a MAIL command.
785
431b7361
PH
786PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
787
788 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
789
790 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
791 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
792 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
793 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
794 item. This has been fixed.
795
796PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
797 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
798
83da1223
PH
799PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
800 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
801
54fc8428
PH
802PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
803 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
804 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
805
34c5e8dd
SC
806SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
807
bbe15da8
PH
808PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
809 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
810 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
811 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
812 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
813
0e8a9471
MH
814MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
815 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
816 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
817
f0872424
PH
818PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
819 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
820 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
821 the server_setid option was incorrect.
822
b01dd148
PH
823PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
824
6bf342e1
PH
825PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
826
273f34d0
PH
827PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
828 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
829 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
830 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
831 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
832
cf8b11a5
PH
833PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
834
41c7c167
PH
835PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
836 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
837 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
838 values).
839
9c57cbc0
PH
840PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
841
f3f065bb
PH
842PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
843
047bdd8c
PH
844PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
845
0ce9abe6
PH
846PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
847
0e22dfd1
PH
848PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
849
4c590bd1
PH
850PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
851 no_callout_flush is set.
852
09945f1e
PH
853PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
854 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
855 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
856 fixed.
857
c51b8e75
PH
858PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
859
e28326d8
PH
860PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
861 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
862 other ACL rejections are.
863
75b1493f
PH
864PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
865 with slight modification.
866
7c5214ec
PH
867PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
868 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
869
4311097e
PH
870PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
871 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
872 connection.
873
29f89cad
PH
874PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
875 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
876
5e687460
SC
877SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
878
c3611384
PH
879PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
880 expansion side effects.
881
5a11a7b4
PH
882PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
883 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
884 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
885 be the same.
886
0e20aff9
MH
887MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
888 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
889 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
890
ca86f471
PH
891PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
892 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
893 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
894 were accidentally chopped off.
895
a14e5636
PH
896PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
897 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
898 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
899 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
900 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
901 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
902 pipelining has not been advertised.
903
ec95d1a6
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904PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
905
42855d71
PH
906PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
907 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
908 This has been fixed.
909
57c2c631
PH
910PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
911 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
912 reported on Solaris.
913
58c01c94
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914PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
915 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
916 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
917 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
918 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
919 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
920 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
921
dee5a20a
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922PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
923 cpus.
924
d2ee6114
PH
925PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
926
b2d5182b
PH
927PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
928
79749a79
PH
929PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
930 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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PH
931 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
932 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
933 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
934 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 935
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936PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
937 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
938 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
939 host_all_ignored option.
940
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941PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
942 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
943 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
944 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
945 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
946 is what is supposed to happen).
947
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948PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
949 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
950 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
951 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
952 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
953 uses the Exim user.
954
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955PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
956 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
957 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
958 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
959 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
960 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
961 users.
962
84024b72
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963PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
964
8005d38e
SC
965SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
966 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
967 (Jez Hancock).
968 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
969 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
970
3298c6c6
SC
971SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
972
a43a27c5
PH
973PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
974
58eb016e 975PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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976 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
977 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
978 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
979 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
980 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
981 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
982 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 983 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
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984 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
985 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 986
b43a74ea
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987PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
988 advertised in response to EHLO.
989
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991Exim version 4.66
992-----------------
993
994PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
995 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
996
997 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
998 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
999
1000 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1001 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1002 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1003
1004 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1005 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1006 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1007 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1008 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1009
1010
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TK
1011Exim version 4.65
1012-----------------
1013
1014TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1015 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1016 versions. (#438)
1017
d6066548
MH
1018MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1019 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1020 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1021
4362ff0d
PH
1022PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1023 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1024 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1025 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1026 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1027 rather than extend the field.
1028
93cfa765 1029
944e9e9c
TF
1030Exim version 4.64
1031-----------------
aa41d2de 1032
21d74bd9
TK
1033TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1034 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1035 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1036 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1037 these files.
1038
1039TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1040 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1041 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1042
1043TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1044 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1045 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1046
1047TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1048 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1049 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1050 in the field name.
1051
2b1c6e3a
PH
1052PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1053 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1054 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1055 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1056 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1057 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1058 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1059 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1060 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1061 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1062 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1063
1f872c80
PH
1064PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1065 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1066
1067PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1068 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1069 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1070 ignores EPIPE as well.
1071
d203e649
PH
1072PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1073 (quoted-printable decoding).
1074
cc2ed8f7 1075PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1076 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1077
ddfcd446
PH
1078PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1079
d45b1de8
PH
1080PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1081
1082PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1083
38a0a95f 1084PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1085 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1086
a2405d83
JJ
1087JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1088 in 4.64-PH/09.
1089
1090JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1091 miscellaneous code fixes
1092
6ea85e9a
PH
1093PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1094 rejections.
1095
26da7e20
PH
1096PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1097 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1098 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1099 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1100 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1101 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1102 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1103 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1104
14aa5a05 1105PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1106 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1107 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1108 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1109 function.
1110 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1111 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1112 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1113 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1114 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1115 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1116 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1117 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1118 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1119
ff75a1f7
PH
1120PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1121 decoding.
1122
e6f6568e
PH
1123PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1124 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1125 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1126 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1127 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1128 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1129 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1130 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1131
d6f6e0dc
PH
1132PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1133 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1134 list.
1135
322050c2
PH
1136PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1137 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1138 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1139 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1140 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1141 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1142 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1143 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1144 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1145 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1146 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1147 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1148 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1149
08955dd3
PH
1150PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1151 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1152 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1153 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1154 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1155 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1156 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1157
1eccaa59
PH
1158PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1159 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1160 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1161 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1162 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1163 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1164 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1165 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1166 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1167 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1168
602e59e5
PH
1169PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1170 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1171 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1172 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1173 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1174
411ef850
PH
1175PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1176 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1177 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1178 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1179 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1180 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1181 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1182
7befa435
PH
1183PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1184 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1185 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1186 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1187 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1188 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1189 been verified.
1190
48da4259 1191PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1192 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1193 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1194 and authorization.)
1195
48da4259
PH
1196PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1197 if any retry times were supplied.
1198
d1d5595c
PH
1199PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1200 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1201 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1202
0ef732d9
PH
1203PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1204
328895cc
PH
1205PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1206
fd700877
PH
1207PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1208 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1209 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1210 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1211 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1212 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1213
8dce1a6f
PH
1214PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1215 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1216
17af4a17
PH
1217PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1218 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1219 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1220
1221PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1222 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1223 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1224 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1225 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1226 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1227 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1228 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1229 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1230
1231 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1232 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1233 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1234 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1235 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1236 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1237 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1238 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1239 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1240
1241 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1242 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1243 hammering the server.
1244
c1114884
PH
1245PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1246 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1247
7a0743eb
PH
1248PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1249
0d85fa3f
PH
1250PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1251 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1252 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1253
1bf43b78
PH
1254PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1255 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1256 one case where this was not true.
1257
520de300
PH
1258PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1259 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1260 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1261 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1262 fails.
1263
48c7f9e2
PH
1264PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1265 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1266 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1267 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1268 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1269 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1270 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1271 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1272 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1273 smtp transport.
1274
99ea1c86
PH
1275PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1276 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1277 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1278 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1279
a2042e78
PH
1280PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1281 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1282
4fbcfc2e
PH
1283PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1284 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1285 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1286
aa41d2de
PH
1287PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1288
af561417
PH
1289PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1290
3cc66b45
PH
1291PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1292
194cc0e4
PH
1293PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1294 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1295 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1296 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1297
a401ddaa
PH
1298PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1299 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1300
4e88a19f
PH
1301PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1302 be meaningful with "accept".
1303
d7d7b289
SC
1304SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1305 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1306
1307SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1308 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1309 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1310
1311SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1312 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1313 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1314 there is data to show.
1315 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1316
1317SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1318 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1319 as well as the number of messages.
1320
1321SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1322 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1323 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1324
1325SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1326 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1327 have a flag are now skipped.
1328
1329SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1330 Added the -emptyok flag.
1331
1332SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1333 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1334
0ea2a468
JJ
1335JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1336 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1337 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1338
1339JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1340 match 4.64-PH/13
1341
1342JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1343 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1344
1345JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1346
1347JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1348 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1349
8a10f5a4
PH
1350PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1351
30e18802
PH
1352PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1353 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1354 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1355 contravention of the specifications.
1356
55728a4f
PH
1357PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1358 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1359 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1360
d7837193
PH
1361PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1362 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1363 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1364
87054a31
PH
1365PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1366
ea2c01d2
MH
1367MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1368 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1369 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1370 some point in the past.
1371
e4fa6968
PH
1372PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1373 transport during callout processing was broken.
1374
56f5d9bd
PH
1375PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1376 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1377
922e1c28
PH
1378PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1379 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1380
21eb6e72
PH
1381PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1382 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1383
a0540757
PH
1384PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1385
944e9e9c 1386
478be7b0
SC
1387Exim version 4.63
1388-----------------
1389
1390SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1391 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1392
1393SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1394 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1395 there is data to show.
1396 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1397
1398SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1399 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1400
2b965a65
TF
1401TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1402 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1403
45b91596
PH
1404TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1405 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1406
c59f5781
TF
1407TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1408 submissions from trusted users.
1409
90fc3069
TF
1410TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1411 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1412
6083aca0
TF
1413TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1414 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1415 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1416 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1417 there is now a framework to start from.
1418
765b530f
PH
1419PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1420 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1421 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1422
4e167a8c
PH
1423PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1424
4608d683
PH
1425PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1426
b8dc3e4a
PH
1427PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1428
5418e93b
PH
1429PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1430 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1431 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1432
b4a9bda2
PH
1433PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1434 libradius.
1435
45b91596
PH
1436PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1437 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1438 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1439
5547e2c5
PH
1440PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1441 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1442 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1443 its arguments.
1444
dbcef0ea
PH
1445PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1446 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1447 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1448 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1449 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1450
25257489
PH
1451PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1452 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1453
c816d124
PH
1454PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1455
a9ccd69a
PH
1456PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1457 operations in malware.c.
1458
75fa1910
PH
1459PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1460 signatures.
1461
a7d7aa58
PH
1462PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1463 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1464 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1465 all.
1466
42119b09
PH
1467PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1468 statements to "add_header".
1469
41609df5
PH
1470PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1471 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1472
a5bd321b
PH
1473PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1474 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1475 latter.
1476
e85a7ad5 1477PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1478 so that it is now:
1479
e85a7ad5
PH
1480 ${if or { \
1481 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1482 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1483 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1484 }{no}{yes}}
1485
e85a7ad5
PH
1486 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1487 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1488
d8fe1c03
PH
1489PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1490 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1491
16282d2b
PH
1492PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1493 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1494 any possible encoding problems.
1495
35d40a98
PH
1496PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1497 but not after initializing Perl.
1498
034d99ab
PH
1499PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1500 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1501 apparently, which is not desirable.
1502
6ec97b1b
PH
1503PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1504 queries.
1505
e22ca4ac
JJ
1506JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1507 --not options
1508
1509JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1510
33d73e3b
PH
1511PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1512 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1513 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1514 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1515
9ecb03f3
PH
1516PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1517 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1518 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1519
084efe8d
PH
1520PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1521 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1522 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1523 0.12.
1524
366fc9f0
PH
1525PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1526 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1527 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1528 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1529 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1530
c59f5781 1531
c887c79e
TF
1532Exim version 4.62
1533-----------------
1534
1535TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1536 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1537
1cce3af8
PH
1538PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1539 patch).
1540
afb3eaaf
PH
1541PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1542 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1543 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1544 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1545 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1546 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1547 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1548 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1549 451 error is used.
1550
e173618b
PH
1551PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1552
dd16e114
PH
1553PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1554 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1555 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1556
f7fd3850
PH
1557PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1558 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1559 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1560 odd errors.
1561
d87df92c
PH
1562PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1563 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1564
7e9f683d
PH
1565PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1566 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1567 option (which defaults to 0600).
1568
bfad5236
PH
1569PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1570
01c490df
PH
1571PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1572 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1573 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1574 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1575 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1576 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1577 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1578
d6629cdc
PH
1579PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1580
1cce3af8 1581
214e2000
PH
1582Exim version 4.61
1583-----------------
1584
1585PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1586 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1587 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1588 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1589 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1590 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1591 addresses as local.
1592
f9daeae0
PH
1593PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1594 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1595
7e66e54d
PH
1596PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1597
c8ea1597
PH
1598PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1599 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1600 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1601 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1602 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1603 grumble.
1604
911f6fde
PH
1605PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1606 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1607
47ca6d6c
PH
1608PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1609 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1610 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1611 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1612 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1613
ed0e9820
PH
1614PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1615 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1616 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1617 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1618
eff37e47
PH
1619PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1620 be the same on different OS.
1621
1921d2ea
PH
1622PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1623 testing.
1624
b3f69ca8
JJ
1625JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1626 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1627
1628JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1629 in 4.61-PH/06
1630
424a1c63
PH
1631PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1632 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1633 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1634 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1635 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1636 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1637 bounce message.
1638
7a100415
PH
1639PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1640 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1641 when Exim was called.
1642
19b9dc85
PH
1643PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1644 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1645
309bd837
PH
1646PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1647 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1648 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1649 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1650
59e82a2a
PH
1651PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1652 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1653 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1654 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1655 changes:
1656
1657 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1658 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1659 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1660
1661 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1662 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1663 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1664
9edc04ce
PH
1665PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1666 feature).
1667
1349e1e5
PH
1668PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1669 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1670 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1671 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1672 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1673 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1674 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1675 values from the SRV records were lost.
1676
ea49d0e1
PH
1677PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1678 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1679 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1680
064a94c9
PH
1681PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1682 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1683 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1684
727071f8
PH
1685PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1686 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1687 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1688 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1689 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1690 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1691 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1692 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1693 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1694 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1695
f78eb7c6
PH
1696PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1697 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1698 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1699
21c28500
PH
1700PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1701 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1702
1703PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1704 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1705 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1706 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1707 is given.
1708
1688f43b
PH
1709PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1710 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1711 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1712
1713PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1714 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1715 PH/23 above applies.
1716
9675b384
PH
1717PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1718 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1719 (for which there is an explicit test).
1720
6a3f1455
PH
1721PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1722
dac79d3e
PH
1723PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1724 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1725 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1726 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1727 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1728
5977a0b3
PH
1729PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1730 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1731 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1732 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1733
c91535f3
PH
1734PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1735 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1736 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1737
0d46a8c8
PH
1738PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1739
278c6e6c
PH
1740PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1741
2cbb4081
PH
1742PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1743 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1744 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1745
3eef829e
PH
1746PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1747 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1748 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1749 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1750 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1751
1ab95fa6
PH
1752PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1753 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1754 the message gets confusing).
1755
230205fc
PH
1756PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1757 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1758 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1759 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1760
75e0e026
PH
1761PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1762 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1763 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1764 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1765 same order.
1766
1767PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1768 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1769 the different processes.
1770
145396a6
PH
1771PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1772
3cd34f13
PH
1773PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1774
11121d3d
JJ
1775JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1776 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1777
1778JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1779 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1780
1781JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1782 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1783 messages matching specified criteria.
1784
8def5aaf
PH
1785PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1786
929ba01c
PH
1787PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1788 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1789
2632889e
PH
1790PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1791 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1792 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1793 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1794 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1795 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1796 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1797 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1798 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1799 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1800
944a9c55
PH
1801PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1802 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1803 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1804
4a23603b
PH
1805PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1806
4730f942
PH
1807PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1808 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1809 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1810 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1811 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1812 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1813 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1814 the variable.
1815
30dba1e6
PH
1816PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1817 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1818
382afc6b
PH
1819PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1820
a86229cf
PH
1821PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1822
50c99ba6
PH
1823PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1824
d35e429d
PH
1825PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1826 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1827 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1828 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1829 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1830 size of the count of files.
1831
f90d018c
PH
1832PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1833
75def545
PH
1834PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1835 used in LMTP mode:
1836
1837 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1838 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1839 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1840 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1841
1842 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1843 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1844 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1845
1846PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1847 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1848 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1849 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1850 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1851
c46782ef
PH
1852PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1853 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1854
71fafd95
PH
1855PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1856 will now be deprecated.
1857
2c5db4fd
PH
1858PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1859
9cf6b11a
JJ
1860JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1861 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1862 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1863
1864JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1865 with very large, slow to parse queues
1866
1867JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1868
1869JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1870
898d150f
PH
1871PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1872 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1873 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1874 SMTP output lines.
1875
46218253
PH
1876PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1877 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1878 Sieve code now uses this.
1879
e97957bc
PH
1880PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1881 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1882
81e509d7
PH
1883PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1884 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1885
3d240ff7
PH
1886PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1887
b37c4101
PH
1888PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1889 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1890 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1891 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1892 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1893
79378e0f
PH
1894PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1895 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1896 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1897 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1898
e49c7bb4
PH
1899PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1900
d114ec46
PH
1901PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1902
f3d7df6c
PH
1903PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1904 is preferred over IPv4.
1905
715ab376
PH
1906PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1907 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1908 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1909 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1910 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1911 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1912 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1913
6b31b150
PH
1914PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1915 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1916 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1917
1918PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1919
d515a917
PH
1920PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1921 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1922 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1923 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1924 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1925 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1926 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1927 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1928 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1929 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1930 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1931
9b8fadde
PH
1932PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1933 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1934 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1935
214e2000 1936
5de37277
PH
1937Exim version 4.60
1938-----------------
1939
cc38ddbf
PH
1940PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1941
1942 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1943 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1944
1945 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1946 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1947 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1948
72fdd6ae
PH
1949PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1950
1951 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1952 not a single digit.
1953
1954 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1955 string.
1956
1957 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1958 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1959 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1960 silly things.
1961
1962 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1963 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1964
1965 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1966 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1967
cb741023
PH
1968PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1969 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1970 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1971
f174f16e
PH
1972PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1973 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1974
c25242d7
PH
1975PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1976 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1977
1978 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1979
1980 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1981 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1982 this:
1983
1984 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1985
82c19f95
PH
1986PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1987 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1988 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1989 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1990 identical. For example:
1991
1992 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1993
1994 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1995 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1996 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1997
d7ffbc12
PH
1998PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1999 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2000 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2001 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2002
9f526266
PH
2003PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2004 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2005 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2006 message.
2007
87fcc8b9
PH
2008PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2009
2010 o fixes some comments
2011 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2012 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2013 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2014 and documents the missing references header update
2015
2016 and most important:
2017
2018 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2019 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2020 result)
2021
456682f5
PH
2022PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2023 Electronic Mail") by including:
2024
2025 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2026
2027 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2028 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2029 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2030 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2031 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2032
2033 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2034
2035 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2036
2037 The auto-replied keyword:
2038
2039 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2040 message by an automatic process,
2041
2042 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2043
2044 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2045 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2046
2047 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2048 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2049 other messages.
2050
3e46c1aa
PH
2051PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2052 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2053
49826d12
PH
2054PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2055
eba0c039
PH
2056PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2057 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2058 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2059
a0d6ba8a
PH
2060PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2061 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2062 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2063
f0917727
PH
2064PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2065 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2066 and treats the condition as false.
2067
096fee00
PH
2068PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2069
024bd3c2
PH
2070PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2071 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2072 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2073 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2074 not changing the active code.
2075
2076 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2077 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2078
2079 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2080 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2081
df199fec
PH
2082PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2083 (Bugzilla #53).
2084
d27f1df3
PH
2085PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2086 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2087 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2088 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2089 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2090 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2091 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2092 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2093 the text comparison.
2094
96776534
PH
2095PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2096 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2097 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2098 The same fix has been applied.
2099
5de37277 2100
9a799bc0
PH
2101Exim version 4.54
2102-----------------
2103
2104PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2105 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2106 It now does.
2107
99a4b039
PH
2108PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2109 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2110
2111PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2112
4b233853
PH
2113PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2114 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2115 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2116 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2117 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2118
8857ccfd
PH
2119TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2120 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2121 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2122 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2123 or /domain=).
2124
433a2980
PH
2125PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2126 testing suite.
2127
3e46c1aa 2128
9a799bc0 2129
e3a311ba
TK
2130Exim version 4.53
2131-----------------
2132
2133TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2134 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2135
13b685f9
PH
2136PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2137
395ff96d
PH
2138PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2139
5b68f6e4
PH
2140PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2141 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2142 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2143
1ab52c69
PH
2144PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2145 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2146 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2147
b07e6aa3
PH
2148PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2149 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2150 operating systems.
2151
254e032f
PH
2152PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2153 ${stat: expansion item.
2154
3af76a81
PH
2155PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2156 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2157
2548ba04
PH
2158PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2159 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2160 file for comments.
2161
b6c6011d
PH
2162PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2163
cf39cf57
PH
2164PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2165 setting.
2166
f1513293
PH
2167PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2168 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2169
727549a4
PH
2170TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2171
af46795e
PH
2172PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2173 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2174 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2175 the end of the subprocess.
2176
d7b47fd0
PH
2177PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2178 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2179 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2180 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2181 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2182
ee744174
JJ
2183JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2184
b582ab87
PH
2185TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2186
41a13e0a
PH
2187PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2188 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2189
f625cc5a
PH
2190PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2191
2192PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2193
21f7af35
PH
2194PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2195 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2196 HP-UX compiler.
2197
31480e42
PH
2198PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2199
2d280592
PH
2200PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2201 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2202 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2203
7cd1141b
PH
2204PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2205 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2206
2207PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2208 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2209
750af86e
PH
2210PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2211 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2212
2213 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2214 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2215
2216 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2217 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2218 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2219 contributed by a Radius user.
2220
2221PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2222 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2223
4304270b
TK
2224TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2225 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2226
750af86e
PH
2227PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2228 available.
2229
64ffc24f
PH
2230PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2231 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2232 received.
2233
5dd9625b
PH
2234PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2235 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2236 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2237 header lines when this was not necessary.
2238
5591031b
PH
2239PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2240
ba18e66a
PH
2241PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2242 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2243 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2244 exists".
2245
9cec981f
PH
2246PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2247 -bV or -d is used.
2248
aa2b5c79
PH
2249PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2250 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2251 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2252 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2253
48a53b7f
PH
2254PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2255
1c59d63b
PH
2256PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2257
671012da
TK
2258TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2259
1509d3a8
PH
2260PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2261
2262PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2263 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2264 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2265 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2266 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2267 settings.
2268
2269PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2270
2fe1a124
PH
2271PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2272 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2273 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2274 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2275 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2276 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2277 which is clearly wrong.
2278
8800895a
PH
2279PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2280
ccfdb010
PH
2281PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2282 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2283 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2284 subsequently added.
2285
1130bfb0
PH
2286PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2287 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2288
ebcb507f
PH
2289PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2290
c35e155c
PH
2291PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2292 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2293
95d1f782
PH
2294PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2295 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2296
fd6de02e
PH
2297PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2298 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2299
58de37c5
PH
2300PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2301 recipients, not senders.
2302
261cf466
TF
2303TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2304 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2305
3ee512ff
PH
2306PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2307
e08c430f
PH
2308PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2309
bef5a11f
PH
2310PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2311 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2312 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2313 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2314
7546de58
TF
2315TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2316
e5d5a95f
TF
2317TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2318 clock is set back in time.
2319
2e88a017
TF
2320TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2321 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2322
a5f65aa4
TF
2323TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2324 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2325
e7726cbf
PH
2326PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2327 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2328 (see PH/47 above).
2329
a7fdad5b
TF
2330TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2331 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2332 header rewrites.
2333
6af56900
PH
2334PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2335 type ("H").
2336
0925ede6
PH
2337PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2338
66afa403
TF
2339TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2340 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2341 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2342
0154e85a
TF
2343TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2344 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2345 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2346 helo verification defer as a failure.
2347
16f12c76
PH
2348PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2349 actual error message.
2350
bbe902f0 2351
e5a9dba6
PH
2352Exim version 4.52
2353-----------------
2354
2355TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2356
22c3b60b
PH
2357PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2358 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2359 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2360 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2361
06a9b4b5
PH
2362TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2363
c1ac6996
PH
2364PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2365 can still be requested.
2366
9c7a242c
PH
2367PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2368 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2369 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2370 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2371
87ba3f5f
PH
2372TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2373 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2374 circumstances, but probably never did.
2375
2376PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2377 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2378 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2379 in the header line.
2380
29aba418
TF
2381TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2382
fe0dab11
TF
2383TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2384 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2385
11d337a4
TK
2386TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2387
2388TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2389
415c8f3b
PH
2390PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2391 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2392 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2393 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2394 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2395 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2396
958541e9
PH
2397PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2398 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2399 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2400 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2401 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2402 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2403
c206415f
TK
2404TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2405 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2406
2a4be8f9
PH
2407PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2408 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2409
1cba11c5
SC
2410SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2411 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2412
2413SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2414
2415SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2416
2417SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2418
2419SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2420
2421SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2422
2423SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2424
1005d00e
TK
2425TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2426
2427TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2428 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2429 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2430
2431TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2432 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2433 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2434 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2435
9b4768fa
PH
2436PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2437 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2438 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2439
2440PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2441 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2442 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2443 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2444
0d7eb84a
PH
2445PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2446 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2447 to be made).
2448
2449PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2450 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2451 should work with maildirs and everything.
2452
40727bee
TK
2453TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2454 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2455
554d2369
TF
2456TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2457 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2458
1f922db1
PH
2459PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2460 function for BDB 4.3.
2461
ef213c3b
PH
2462PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2463
8ac170f3
PH
2464PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2465 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2466 involved.
2467
b1c749bb
PH
2468PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2469 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2470 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2471 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2472 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2473 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2474
4aac9b49
PH
2475PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2476 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2477 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2478 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2479 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2480 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2481 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2482 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2483
294520c8
TK
2484TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2485 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2486 details.
2487
5bd022fe
PH
2488PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2489 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2490
90e9ce59
PH
2491PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2492 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2493 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2494 test. It is now used for both.
2495
5ea81592
PH
2496PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2497 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2498 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2499 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2500 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2501 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2502
c6c2dc1d
PH
2503PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2504 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2505 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2506 string_vformat().
2507
fffffe4c
PH
2508PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2509 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2510 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2511
9a26b6b2
PH
2512PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2513 experimental DomainKeys support:
2514
2515 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2516 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2517 the control was given.
2518
2519 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2520
4aee0225
PH
2521PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2522
32d668a5
PH
2523PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2524
8187c3f3
PH
2525PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2526 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2527 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2528 db.h files).
2529
ff790e47 2530PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2531 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2532 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2533 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2534 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2535 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2536 course.
ff790e47 2537
5417f6d1
PH
2538PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2539 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2540 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2541 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2542 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2543 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2544
59cf8544
PH
2545PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2546 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2547 do -d+all out of habit.
2548
e7ad8a65
PH
2549PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2550 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2551 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2552
ade42478
PH
2553PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2554 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2555 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2556 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2557 record types that Exim uses.
2558
182ad5cf
PH
2559PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2560 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2561 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2562 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2563 non-existent file that was broken.
2564
b0d9fc80
TK
2565TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2566 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2567
2568TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2569 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2570 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2571
2572TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2573
47c7a64a
PH
2574PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2575 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2576 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2577 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2578 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2579 same time.
2580
a388bce4
SC
2581SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2582 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2583 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2584 at a slight CPU cost.
2585
2586SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2587 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2588
2589SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2590 by Marc Sherman.
2591
0793e4ed
SC
2592SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2593
c58b88df
PH
2594PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2595 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2596
e7ad8a65 2597
7982096b
PH
2598Exim version 4.51
2599-----------------
2600
1a46a8c5
PH
2601TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2602 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2603
2f079f46 2604TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2605
2606TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2607
2608PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2609 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2610
2611PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2612 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2613 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2614 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2615 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2616 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2617 file.
2618
2619PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2620 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2621 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2622 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2623 these two options.
2624
2625PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2626 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2627 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2628 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2629 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2630 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2631 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2632 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2633
2634PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2635 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2636
2637PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2638 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2639 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2640 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2641 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2642 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2643
2644PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2645 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2646 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2647 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2648
2649PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2650 Finch).
2651
2652PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2653 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2654
49c2d5ea
PH
2655PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2656 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2657 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2658 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2659 message.
49c2d5ea 2660
bf759a8b
PH
2661PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2662
83364d30
PH
2663PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2664 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2665
7999bbd7
PH
2666PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2667 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2668 to what was transported.)
2669
7dbf77c9
PH
2670TF/01 Added $received_time.
2671
74e0617f
PH
2672PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2673 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2674 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2675 spamd_address settings.
2676
2f079f46
PH
2677PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2678 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2679 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2680 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2681 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2682
8c841523
PH
2683PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2684
7766a4f0
PH
2685PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2686 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2687 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2688 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2689 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2690
8b417f2c
PH
2691PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2692 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2693
901f42cb
PH
2694PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2695 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2696 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2697 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2698 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2699 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2700 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2701 for failure.
2702
f9b9210e
PH
2703PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2704 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2705 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2706 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2707 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2708 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2709 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2710 "input=".
2711
54cdb463
PH
2712PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2713
cf00dad6
PH
2714PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2715 driver and ACL definitions.
2716
acb1b346
PH
2717PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2718 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2719
c5ddb310
PH
2720PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2721 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2722 understands it better than I do:
2723
2724 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2725 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2726
2727 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2728 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2729 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2730 => three warnings about OTP not working
2731 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2732
2733 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2734 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2735 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2736 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2737 for each call.)
2738 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2739 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2740
2741 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2742 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2743 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2744
31619da6
PH
2745PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2746 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2747 specified.
2748
bebaf0fc
PH
2749PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2750 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2751 "Linux".
2752
475fe28a
PH
2753PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2754 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2755 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2756
2757 warn !verify = sender
2758 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2759
2760 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2761 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2762
7e8bec7a
PH
2763PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2764
2765 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2766 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2767
2768 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2769 nomenclature these days.)
2770
e4a89c47
PH
2771PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2772 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2773
5ca2a9a1
PH
2774PH/30 In these circumstances:
2775 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2776 . First host does not offer TLS;
2777 . First host accepts first address;
2778 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2779 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2780 . Second host accepts second address.
2781 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2782 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2783 address.
7e8bec7a 2784
c688b954
PH
2785PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2786 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2787 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2788 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2789 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2790
fed77020
PH
2791PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2792 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2793
7fe1560f
PH
2794PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2795 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2796
ebb6e6d5
PH
2797PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2798 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2799 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2800
9c4e8f60
PH
2801PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2802 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2803 overlooked.
2804
2805PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2806
d7174846
PH
2807PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2808 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2809 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2810 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2811 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2812 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2813 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2814
2815 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2816 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2817 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2818 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2819 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2820
2821 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2822 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2823 routed further.
2824
cfe75fc3
PH
2825PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2826 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2827 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2828 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2829 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2830 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2831
be22d70e
PH
2832PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2833
0612b098
PH
2834PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2835 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2836 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2837 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2838 printable escape sequences.
2839
2e0c1448
PH
2840PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2841 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2842 body only.
2843
447d236c
PH
2844PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2845 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2846 are as follows:
2847
2848 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2849 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2850 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2851 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2852 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2853
2854 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2855 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2856 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2857
d20976dc
PH
2858PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2859
f656d135
PH
2860PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2861 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2862 play with."
2863
2e2a30b4
PH
2864PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2865 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2866 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2867 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2868 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2869 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2870 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2871 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2872 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2873 the log output.
2874
9176e9f0
PH
2875PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2876 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2877 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2878 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2879 "make".
2880
7982096b 2881
bbe902f0
PH
2882A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2883----------------------------------------
2884
2885Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2886changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2887needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2888in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2889that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2890release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2891from 4.43.
2892
2893I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
28944.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2895those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2896historical information.
2897
2898
f7b63901 2899Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2900-----------------
2901
5fe762f6
PH
2902 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2903
139059f6 2904 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2905 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2906
7086e875
PH
2907 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2908 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2909 place.
2910
35af9f61
PH
2911 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2912 filter fails to execute.
2913
b668c215
PH
2914 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2915 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2916 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2917 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2918 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2919
a494b1e1
PH
2920 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2921
2922 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2923 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2924 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2925 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2926
c5fcb476
PH
2927 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2928 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2929 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2930 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2931 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2932
69358f02
PH
2933 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2934
5be20824
PH
293510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2936
eb2c0248
PH
293711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2938 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2939 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2940 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2941
2a3eea10
PH
294212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2943 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2944 sender verification.
2945
294613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2947 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2948
23c7ff99
PH
294914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2950
4deaf07d
PH
295115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2952 connection timeout.
2953
926e1192
PH
295416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2955 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2956
650edc6f
PH
295717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2958 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2959
2c7db3f5
PH
296018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2961 information about exactly what failed.
2962
3d235903
PH
296319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2964
7c7ad977
PH
296520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2966 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2967 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2968
981756db
PH
296921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2970 It is now set to "smtps".
2971
d4eb88df
PH
297222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2973 ignore_target_hosts.
2974
297523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2976 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2977 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2978 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2979 "[x.x.x.x]".
2980
7d468ab8
PH
298124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2982 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2983 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2984
298525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2986 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2987 wake it up if nothing else does.
2988
62c0818f
PH
298926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2990 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2991 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2992 end up negative.
2993
26034054
PH
299427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2995 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2996
af66f652
PH
299728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2998
90af77f4
PH
299929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3000 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3001 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3002 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3003 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3004 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3005 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3006 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3007
d8ef3577
PH
300830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3009 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3010 than one IP address.
3011
5cb8cbc6
PH
301231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3013 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3014 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3015 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3016
14702f5b
PH
301732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3018 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3019 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3020 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3021 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3022 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3023
063b1e99
PH
302433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3025 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3026 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3027 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3028
652e1b65
PH
302934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3030 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3031 respected.
3032
6f0c9a4f
PH
303335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3034 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3035 $sender_host_address.
3036
33397d19
PH
303736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3038 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3039 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3040 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3041 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3042 very small.
3043
7bb56e1f
PH
304437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3045
3046 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3047 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3048
ea3bc19b
PH
3049 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3050 just the host names, not the priorities.
3051
3052 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3053 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3054 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3055
ea3bc19b 3056 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3057 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3058
0bcb2a0e
PH
305938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3060 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3061 domain.
3062
2ac0e484
PH
306339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3064
4e1fde53
PH
306540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3066 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3067
de365ded
PH
306841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3069 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3070 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3071
f05da2e8
PH
307242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3073
d6453af2
PH
307443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3075
f7b63901
PH
307644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3077
307845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3079 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3080 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3081 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3082 because the tests only now provoked it.
3083
a444213a
PH
308446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3085 (this can affect the format of dates).
3086
0ec020ea
PH
308747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3088 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3089 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3090 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3091
b1206957
PH
309248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3093
309449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3095 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3096 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3097 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3098
26dd5a95
PH
309950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3100 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3101 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3102
343b2385
PH
310351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3104 autoreply.
3105
1c5466b9
PH
310652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3107 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3108 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3109 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3110 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3111 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3112 is going on).
3113
55ee9ee3
PH
311453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3115 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3116 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3117 the line.
3118
d38f8232
PH
311954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3120 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3121 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3122
3123 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3124 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3125 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3126 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3127 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3128 so I produce this patch..."
3129
3295e65b
PH
3130 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3131 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3132 is not defined.
3133
7102e136
PH
313455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3135 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3136 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3137 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3138 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3139
3ca0ba97
PH
314056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3141
c2bcbe20
PH
314257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3143 long debug lines gets shown.
3144
18ce445d
PH
314558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3146 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3147
1f5b4c3d
PH
314859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3149
3150 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3151 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3152 of $primary_hostname.
3153
b975ba52
PH
315460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3155 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3156 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3157 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3158 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3159 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3160 by change 4.50/55 above.
3161
3162 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3163 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3164 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3165 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3166 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3167 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3168 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3169
317061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3171 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3172 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3173 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3174
17ffcae7
PH
317562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3176 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3177
d95f9fdb
PH
317863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3179 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3180 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3181 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3182 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3183
86b8287f
PH
318464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3185 This has been fixed.
3186
60dc5e56
PH
318765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3188 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3189 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3190 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3191 the caching.)
3192
533244af
PH
319366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3194
a5a28604
PH
319567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3196 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3197 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3198 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3199
7e634d24
PH
320068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3201 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3202
3e11c26b
PH
320369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3204 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3205 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3206
6729cf78
PH
320770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3208 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3209 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3210 message there.
3211
00f00ca5
PH
321271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3213 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3214 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3215
c9bdd01c
PH
321672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3217 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3218 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3219 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3220
d43194df
PH
322173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3222 during host lookups.
3223
fe5b5d0b
PH
322474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3225 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3226
3227 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3228
76a2d7ba
PH
322975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3230 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3231 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3232 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3233 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3234 background.
3235
323676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3237 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3238
04f7d5b9
PH
323977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3240 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3241 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3242
bc60667e
PH
324378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3244
bb6e88ff
PH
324579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3246 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3247 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3248 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3249 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3250 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3251 process earlier.
3252
1e70f85b
PH
325380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3254 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3255 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3256 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3257 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3258
325981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3260 tables).
3261
4e01f9d6
PH
326282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3263
1ee1cef2
PH
326483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3265 "vacation" handling.
3266
6e2b4ccc
PH
326784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3268 OS variants using glibc.
3269
8e669ac1
PH
327085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3271
495ae4b0 3272
bbe902f0
PH
3273----------------------------------------------------
3274See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3275----------------------------------------------------
3276
3277
3278Exim version 4.44
3279-----------------
3280
3281 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3282 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3283 transport
3284
3285 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3286 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3287 place.
3288
3289 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3290 filter fails to execute.
3291
3292 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3293 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3294 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3295 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3296 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3297
3298 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3299 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3300 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3301 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3302
3303 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3304 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3305 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3306 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3307 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3308
3309 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3310
3311 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3312 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3313 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3314 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3315
3316 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3317 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3318 sender verification.
3319
332010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3321 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3322
332311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3324 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3325
332612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3327 ignore_target_hosts.
3328
332913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3330 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3331 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3332 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3333 "[x.x.x.x]".
3334
333514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3336 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3337 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3338
333915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3340 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3341 wake it up if nothing else does.
3342
334316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3344 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3345 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3346 end up negative.
3347
334817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3349 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3350
ea3a6f44 335118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3352
335319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3354 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3355 empty pattern.
3356
335720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3358 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3359 one IP address.
3360
ea3a6f44
NM
336121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3362 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3363 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3364 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3365 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3366 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3367
ea3a6f44
NM
336822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3369 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3370 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3371
337223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3373 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3374 $sender_host_address.
3375
337624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3377
ea3a6f44
NM
337825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3379 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3380 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3381
338226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3383 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3384
ea3a6f44
NM
338527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3386 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3387
ea3a6f44
NM
338828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3389 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3390 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3391 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3392
339329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3394 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3395 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3396
ea3a6f44
NM
339730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3398 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3399 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3400 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3401
ea3a6f44
NM
340231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3403 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3404 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3405
ea3a6f44
NM
340631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3407 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3408
ea3a6f44
NM
340932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3410 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3411 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3412 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3413 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3414 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3415 is going on).
bbe902f0 3416
ea3a6f44
NM
341733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3418 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3419 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3420 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3421 CAN-2005-0021
3422
ea3a6f44
NM
342334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3424 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3425 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3426 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3427 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3428 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3429 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3430
3431 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3432 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3433 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3434 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3435 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3436 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3437 CAN-2005-0021
3438
ea3a6f44
NM
343935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3440 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3441 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3442 CAN-2005-0022
3443
ea3a6f44
NM
344436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3445 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3446 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3447 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3448 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3449
ea3a6f44
NM
345037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3451 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3452 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3453 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3454 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3455
ea3a6f44
NM
345638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3457 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3458 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3459 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3460 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3461
3462
495ae4b0
PH
3463Exim version 4.43
3464-----------------
3465
3466 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3467 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3468 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3469 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3470 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3471 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3472 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3473
3474 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3475 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3476 the delivery.
3477
3478 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3479
3480 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3481
3482 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3483 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3484 to local_scan().
3485
3486 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3487 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3488 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3489 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3490 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3491
3492 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3493 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3494
3495 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3496
3497 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3498
349910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3500 header_sender only.
3501
350211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3503 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3504
350512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3506 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3507 affecting debugging statements).
3508
350913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3510
351114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3512 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3513 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3514 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3515 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3516 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3517 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3518 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3519 after the received time, and all would be well.
3520
352115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3522 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3523 condition in an expansion string.
3524
352516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3526
352717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3528 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3529 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3530 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3531 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3532 job under whatever limits there are.
3533
353418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3535
353619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3537 space).
3538
353920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3540 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3541 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3542 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3543 return path is set.
3544
354521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3546 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3547 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3548 binary data in such strings.
3549
355022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3551
355223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3553 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3554 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3555 failure, which is pointless.
3556
355724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3558
355925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3560
356126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3562 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3563 Sender: header lines.
3564
356527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3566 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3567 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3568
356928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3570 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3571 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3572 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3573 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3574 happens.
3575
357629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3577 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3578 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3579 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3580 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3581
358230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3583 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3584 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3585 1024.
3586
358731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3588 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3589
359032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3591 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3592
359333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3594
359532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3596
359733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3598
359934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3600 syntax error.
3601
360235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3603
360436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3605
360637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3607 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3608 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3609 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3610
361138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3612 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3613
3614
3615Exim version 4.42
3616-----------------
3617
3618 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3619 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3620 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3621 it was not quoted.
3622 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3623 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3624 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3625 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3626 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3627 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3628
3629 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3630 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3631 verification failure".
3632
3633 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3634 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3635 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3636 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3637
3638 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3639 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3640 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3641 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3642 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3643 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3644 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3645 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3646 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3647 treated as a timeout.
3648
3649 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3650 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3651 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3652 not set for Exim filters).
3653
3654 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3655 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3656 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3657
3658 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3659
3660 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3661 try to make them clearer.
3662
3663 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3664 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3665
3666 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3667
3668 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3669
367010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3671 only the Cygwin environment.
3672
367311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3674 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3675 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3676 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3677 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3678
367912. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3680 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3681 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3682 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3683 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3684 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3685 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3686
368713. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3688 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3689
369014. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3691
3692 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3693 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3694 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3695
3696 To: susanne@some.where
3697
3698 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3699 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3700 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3701 of addresses in From: header lines).
3702
3703 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3704 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3705 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3706
3707 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3708 treated as non-personal.
3709
3710 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3711 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3712
371315. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3714
371516. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3716
371717. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3718 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3719 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3720
372118. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3722 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3723
372419. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3725 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3726 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3727 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3728 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3729 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3730
373120. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3732 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3733 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3734 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3735 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3736 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3737 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3738 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3739
3740 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3741
374221. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3743 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3744
374522. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3746 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3747 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3748
374923. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3750 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3751
375224. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3753 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3754 rather than long int.
3755
375625. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3757
375826. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3759
3760
3761Exim version 4.41
3762-----------------
3763
3764 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3765 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3766 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3767 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3768 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3769 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3770
3771
3772Exim version 4.40
3773-----------------
3774
3775 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3776 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3777
3778 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3779 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3780 socklen_t is defined.
3781
3782 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3783 always exist.
3784
3785 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3786 configured.
3787
3788 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3789 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3790 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3791 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3792 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3793
3794 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3795 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3796 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3797 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3798
3799 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3800 of flapping under certain conditions.
3801
3802 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3803 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3804 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3805
3806 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3807
380810. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3809
381011. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3811 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3812 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3813 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3814
381512. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3816 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3817 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3818 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3819 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3820 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3821 preserved with the message after it was received.
3822
382313. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3824 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3825 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3826 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3827 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3828 test suite worked just fine.
3829
383014. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3831 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3832 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3833
383415. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3835 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3836 string.
3837
383816. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3839 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3840 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3841 does not fully solve it.
3842
384317. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3844 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3845 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3846 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3847 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3848
384918. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3850 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3851 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3852
385319. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3854 string, for example:
3855
3856 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3857
3858 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3859 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3860 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3861 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3862 the routers could not see them.
3863
386420. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3865 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3866
386721. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3868 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3869 output).
3870
387122. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3872 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3873 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3874 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3875 that needed quoting.
3876
387723. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3878 was not being matched caselessly.
3879
388024. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3881 backslashes.
3882
388325. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3884 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3885 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3886 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3887 when use_sender is false.
3888
388926. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3890
389127. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3892
389328. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3894
389529. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3896 the configuration file.
3897
389830. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3899 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3900
390131. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3902
390332. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3904 bytes in the message body.
3905
390633. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3907 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3908 delivery.
3909
391034. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3911
391235. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3913
391436. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3915 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3916 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3917 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3918 another IP address.
3919
3920
3921Exim version 4.34
3922-----------------
3923
3924 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3925 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3926
3927 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3928 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3929 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3930 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3931 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3932
3933 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3934 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3935
3936 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3937 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3938 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3939
3940 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3941 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3942 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3943
3944 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3945 for routers.
3946
3947 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3948 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3949 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3950 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3951 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3952 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3953 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3954
3955
3956Exim version 4.33
3957-----------------
3958
3959 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3960 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3961 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3962 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3963 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3964 default (and expected) setting.
3965
3966 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3967 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3968 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3969 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3970
3971 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3972 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3973
3974 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3975 in domain lists.
3976
3977 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3978 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3979 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3980 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3981 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3982 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3983
3984 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3985 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3986 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3987
3988 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3989 part (NOT match_host).
3990
3991 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3992
3993 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3994 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3995 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3996 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3997 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3998 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3999 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4000 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4001 the same named file.
4002
400310. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4004 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4005 when Exim is built.
4006
400711. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4008 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4009 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4010 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4011 a host name.
4012
401312. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4014 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4015 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4016
401713. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4018
401914. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4020
402115. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4022
402316. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4024 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4025
402617. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4027 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4028 before starting the TLS session.
4029
403018. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4031
403219. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4033 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4034
403520. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4036 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4037 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4038 colon in the middle).
4039
4040
4041Exim version 4.32
4042-----------------
4043
4044 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4045 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4046 multiple configurations are in use.
4047
4048 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4049 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4050 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4051 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4052 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4053 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4054
4055 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4056 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4057
4058 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4059 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4060 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4061
4062 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4063 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4064 occurs.
4065
4066 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4067 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4068
4069 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4070
4071 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4072 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4073
4074 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4075
4076 -prval:sval
4077
4078 is equivalent to
4079
4080 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4081
4082 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4083 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4084 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4085 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4086 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4087
408810. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4089 Exim's behaviour:
4090
4091 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4092 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4093 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4094 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4095 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4096 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4097
4098 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4099 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4100 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4101 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4102 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4103 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4104 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4105 string.
4106
4107 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4108 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4109 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4110 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4111 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4112
411311. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4114
411512. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4116 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4117 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4118
411913. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4120
412114. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4122 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4123 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4124 information.
4125
412615. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4127 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4128
412916. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4130 Three changes have been made:
4131
4132 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4133 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4134 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4135 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4136 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4137
4138 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4139 been restored.
4140
4141 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4142 the modified behaviour.
4143
4144
4145Exim version 4.31
4146-----------------
4147
4148 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4149 Larry Rosenman.
4150
4151 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4152 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4153
4154 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4155 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4156 try to track down a specific problem.
4157
4158 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4159 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4160 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4161
4162 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4163 warning.
4164
4165 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4166 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4167 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4168 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4169 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4170 some earlier ones do not.
4171
4172 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4173
4174 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4175 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4176 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4177 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4178 address literals are enabled, of course).
4179
4180 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4181
418210. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4183 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4184 by a command such as
4185
4186 exim -f "" ...
4187
4188 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4189
419011. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4191
419212. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4193 remained set. It is now erased.
4194
419513. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4196 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4197
419814. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4199 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4200 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4201 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4202 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4203 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4204 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4205 appropriate error code.
4206
420715. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4208 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4209 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4210 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4211 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4212 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4213
421416. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4215 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4216 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4217
421817. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4219 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4220 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4221 terminate the header.
4222
422318. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4224 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4225 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4226
422719. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4228 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4229 (4.30/29). In particular:
4230
4231 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4232 imposed.
4233
4234 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4235 to write a maildirsize file.
4236
4237 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4238 the transport, the new value overrides.
4239
4240 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4241 count.
4242
424320. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4244 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4245 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4246 space or a tab.
4247
424821. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4249 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4250 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4251 the fallback hosts.
4252
425322. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4254 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4255 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4256
425723. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4258 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4259 using a union.
4260
426124. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4262 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4263 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4264
426525. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4266
426726. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4268
426927. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4270
427128. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4272 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4273 become corrupted.
4274
427529. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4276 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4277 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4278 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4279 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4280 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4281 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4282 too great.
4283
428430. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4285 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4286 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4287 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4288 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4289 incorrectly.
4290
429131. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4292 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4293 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4294 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4295 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4296 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4297 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4298 cached value only when the same options are set.
4299
430032. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4301
430233. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4303 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4304 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4305 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4306 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4307
430834: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4309 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4310 it is clearly obsolete.
4311
431235. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4313 transport.
4314
431536. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4316 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4317 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4318 times.
4319
432037. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4321 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4322 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4323 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4324 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4325
432638. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4327 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4328 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4329 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4330
433139. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4332
4333 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4334
4335 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4336 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4337 2^31.
4338
433940. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4340 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4341 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4342 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4343 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4344 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4345 $localpart_data.
4346
434741. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4348 with the -f command-line option.
4349
435042. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4351 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4352 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4353 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4354 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4355 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4356
435743. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4358 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4359 line.
4360
436144. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4362 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4363 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4364 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4365 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4366 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4367 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4368 buffer is too small.
4369
437045. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4371 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4372
437346. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4374 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4375 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4376 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4377 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4378 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4379 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4380 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4381 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4382
438347. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4384 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4385 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4386
438748. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4388 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4389 ACL").
4390
439149. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4392 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4393 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4394 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4395 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4396
439750. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4398 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4399 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4400 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4401 is set.
4402
440351. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4404
440552. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4406
440753. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4408 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4409
441054. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4411 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4412 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4413
441455. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4415 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4416 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4417 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4418 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4419
442056. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4421 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4422 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4423 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4424 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4425 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4426 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4427
442857. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4429 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4430 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4431 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4432 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4433 the test of how many are available.
4434
443558. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4436 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4437 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4438 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4439 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4440 new message is started.
4441
444259. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4443 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4444
444560. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4446 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4447
444861. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4449 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4450 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4451 is no long logged.
4452
445362. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4454 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4455 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4456 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4457 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4458 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4459 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4460
446163. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4462 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4463 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4464 interpreted as octal.
4465
446664. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4467 setting.
4468
446965. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4470 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4471 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4472 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4473 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4474 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4475
447666. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4477 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4478 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4479 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4480
4481 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4482 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4483 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4484 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4485
4486 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4487 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4488 is a bug fix.
4489
4490 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4491 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4492
449367. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4494
449568. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4496 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4497 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4498 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4499
450069. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4501 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4502 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4503 supplied", which is not helpful.
4504
450570. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4506 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4507 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4508
450971. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4510 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4511 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4512 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4513 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4514 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4515 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4516 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4517
451872. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4519 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4520 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4521 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4522 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4523
452473. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4525 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4526 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4527 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4528 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4529 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4530
453174. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4532 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4533 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4534
453575. Added write_rejectlog option.
4536
453776. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4538 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4539 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4540 variables.
4541
454277. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4543
454478. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4545 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4546 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4547 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4548 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4549 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4550 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4551 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4552
455379. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4554 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4555 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4556 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4557 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4558
455980. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4560 Haardt.
4561
456281. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4563 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4564 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4565 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4566 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4567 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4568 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4569 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4570 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4571
4572
4573Exim version 4.30
4574-----------------
4575
4576 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4577 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4578 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4579
4580 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4581 fixed.
4582
4583 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4584 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4585 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4586
4587 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4588 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4589 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4590 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4591 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4592 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4593
4594 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4595 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4596 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4597 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4598 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4599 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4600 the Exim test suite.
4601
4602 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4603 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4604 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4605 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4606
4607 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4608 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4609 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4610 specify it in this variable.
4611
4612 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4613 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4614 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4615 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4616
4617 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4618 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4619 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4620 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4621
4622 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4623 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4624 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4625 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4626 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4627
4628 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4629
463010. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4631 they are logged.
4632
463311. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4634 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4635 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4636 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4637 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4638
463912. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4640 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4641
464213. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4643 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4644 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4645 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4646 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4647
464814. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4649 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4650
465115. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4652 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4653 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4654
465516. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4656 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4657
465817. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4659 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4660
466118. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4662 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4663 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4664
466519. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4666 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4667
466820. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4669 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4670 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4671 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4672
467321. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4674
467522. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4676 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4677 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4678 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4679
468023. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4681
468224. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4683 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4684
468525. Added .include_if_exists.
4686
468726. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4688 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4689 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4690 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4691 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4692 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4693
469427. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4695
469628. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4697 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4698 this.
4699
470029. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4701
470230. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4703 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4704
4705 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4706 550 Sender verify failed
4707
4708 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4709 the final line of the response.
4710
471131. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4712 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4713 all other user lookups.
4714
471532. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4716 delivery time.
4717
471833. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4719 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4720 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4721 result into an int without checking.
4722
472334. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4724 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4725 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4726
472735. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4728 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4729 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4730 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4731
473236. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4733 correctly.
4734
473537. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4736 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4737
473838. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4739 to the empty sender.
4740
474139. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4742 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4743 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4744 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4745 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4746 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4747 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4748 panic log.
4749
475040. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4751 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4752 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4753 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4754 used.
4755
475641. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4757 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4758
475942. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4760 timestamps.
4761
476243. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4763 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4764
476544. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4766
476745. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4768 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4769 logs.
4770
477146. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4772 as soon as it is encountered.
4773
477447. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4775
477648. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4777 rewritten to "<>".
4778
477949. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4780 recognizes a tab character.
4781
478250. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4783 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4784 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4785 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4786
478751. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4788
478952. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4790 crash.
4791
479253. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4793
479454. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4795
479655. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4797 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4798 2822.
4799
480056. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4801 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4802 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4803 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4804 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4805
480657. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4807 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4808
480958. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4810 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4811 list (.included file names were always shown).
4812
481359. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4814 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4815 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4816 root at that time.
4817
481860. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4819 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4820
482161. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4822
482362. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4824
482563. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4826
482764. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4828 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4829 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4830 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4831 failures to open the logs.
4832
483365. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4834 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4835 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4836 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4837 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4838 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4839 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4840
4841
4842Exim version 4.24
4843-----------------
4844
4845 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4846 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4847 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4848 change 4.23/1.
4849
4850 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4851 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4852 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4853
4854 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4855 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4856 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4857
4858 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4859 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4860 causing some misleading effects.
4861
4862 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4863 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4864 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4865
4866 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4867 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4868 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4869 queue-runner function directly.
4870
4871
4872Exim version 4.23
4873-----------------
4874
4875 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4876 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4877
4878 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4879 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4880 was always written to the default place.
4881
4882 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4883 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4884 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4885
4886 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4887
4888 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4889
4890 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4891 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4892 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4893
4894 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4895 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4896 must start.
4897
4898 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4899 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4900 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4901
4902 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4903 command line option is disabled.
4904
4905 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4906 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4907
4908 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4909
4910 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4911
4912 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4913 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4914
491510. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4916
491711. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4918 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4919 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4920 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4921 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4922 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4923
492412. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4925 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4926 timeout.
4927
492813. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4929 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4930
493114. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4932 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4933
493415. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4935 received was valid base64.
4936
493716. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4938 name of the variable that was being set.
4939
494017. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4941
494218. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4943 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4944 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4945 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4946 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4947 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4948
494919. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4950
495120. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4952 nor realm was specified.
4953
495421. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4955 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4956 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4957 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4958
495922. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4960 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4961 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4962
496323. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4964 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4965 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4966
496724. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4968 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4969 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4970 some systems use these upper case variants.
4971
497225. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4973 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4974 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4975 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4976
497726. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
4978
497927. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
4980 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
4981
498228. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
4983 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
4984 expansion variable.
4985
498629. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
4987
498830. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
4989 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
4990 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
4991 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
4992
499331. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
4994 using it.
4995
499632. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
4997 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
4998 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
4999
500033. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5001 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5002
500334. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5004 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5005 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5006 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5007
500835. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5009 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5010 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5011
501236. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5013
501437. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5015 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5016 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5017 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5018 aborted.
5019
502038. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5021 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5022 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5023
502439. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5025
502640. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5027 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5028
502941. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5030 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5031
503242. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5033 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5034 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5035 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5036 when emails are that large.
5037
5038
5039
5040Exim version 4.22
5041-----------------
5042
5043 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5044 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5045
5046 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5047 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5048 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5049
5050 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5051 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5052 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5053
5054 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5055 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5056 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5057 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5058 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5059
5060 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5061 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5062 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5063 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5064 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5065 ever.
5066
5067 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5068 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5069 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5070 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5071 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5072 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5073 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5074 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5075 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5076 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5077 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5078 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5079 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5080 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5081
5082 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5083 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5084 parameterised it.
5085
5086 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5087 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5088 error should be diagnosed.
5089
5090 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5091 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5092 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5093 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5094 appeared instead of "NULL".
5095
509610. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5097 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5098 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5099 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5100 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5101 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5102 proceeds).
5103
5104 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5105 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5106 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5107
5108
5109Exim version 4.21
5110-----------------
5111
5112 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5113 or receiver verification errors.
5114
5115 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5116 name.
5117
5118 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5119 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5120 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5121 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5122
5123 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5124 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5125 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5126 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5127 shouldn't happen again.
5128
5129 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5130 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5131 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5132
5133 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5134 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5135
5136 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5137
5138 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5139 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5140
5141 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5142 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5143 RFC.
5144
514510. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5146 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5147 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5148
514911. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5150 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5151 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5152 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5153
515412. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5155 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5156 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5157 to define what should happen).
5158
515913. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5160 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5161 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5162
516314. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5164
516515. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5166
516716. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5168 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5169
517017. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5171 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5172 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5173 structure in all cases.
5174
5175 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5176 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5177 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5178 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5179
518018. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5181 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5182 domain name.
5183
518419. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5185 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5186
518720. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5188 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5189
519021. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5191 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5192 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5193
519422. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5195 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5196 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5197
519823. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5199 the book and for uniformity.
5200
520124. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5202
520325. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5204 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5205 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5206 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5207 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5208 non-existent command as the problem.
5209
521026. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5211 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5212 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5213
521427. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5215
521628. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5217 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5218 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5219
522029. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5221 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5222 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5223 timestamps using strftime().
5224
522530. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5226 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5227
522832. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5229 transport-time rewrites.
5230
523133. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5232 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5233 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5234 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5235
523634. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5237 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5238
523935. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5240 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5241 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5242 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5243 comma and a space.
5244
524536. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5246 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5247 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5248 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5249 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5250 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5251 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5252
525337. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5254 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5255 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5256 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5257 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5258
525938. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5260 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5261 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5262 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5263 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5264 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5265 remaining text gets split now.
5266
526739. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5268 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5269 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5270 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5271
527240. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5273 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5274 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5275 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5276 $return_path.
5277
527841. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5279 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5280 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5281 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5282 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5283 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5284 passed through if needed.
5285
528642. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5287 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5288 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5289 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5290 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5291 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5292
529343. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5294 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5295 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5296 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5297 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5298
529944. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5300 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5301 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5302 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5303 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5304
530545. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5306 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5307 noticed.
5308
530946. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5310 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5311 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5312 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5313 mayhem of various kinds.
5314
531547. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5316 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5317 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5318 the right test for positive values.
5319
532048. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5321 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5322 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5323 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5324 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5325 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5326 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5327 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5328 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5329 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5330 envelope.
5331
533249. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5333 module.
5334
533550. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5336 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5337 forbidding it.
5338
533951. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5340 the existing equality matching.
5341
534252. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5343 dealing with inode numbers.
5344
534553. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5346 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5347 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5348
534954. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5350 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5351 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5352 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5353 local_scan().
5354
535555. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5356 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5357 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5358 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5359 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5360 relay addresses has also been removed.
5361
536256. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5363
536457. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5365 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5366 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5367
536858. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5369 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5370 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5371 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5372 processing applies to CR:
5373
5374 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5375 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5376
5377 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5378 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5379 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5380 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5381
538259. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5383 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5384 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5385
538660. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5387 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5388 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5389 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5390 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5391 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5392 arisen.
5393
539461. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5395 program routers.
5396
539762. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5398 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5399 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5400 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5401 adds:
5402
5403 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5404
5405 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5406
5407 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5408
540963. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5410 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5411 not considered personal.
5412
541364. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5414
541565. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5416
541766. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5418
541967. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5420 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5421 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5422 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5423 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5424 header lines, and spool format errors.
5425
542668. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5427 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5428 for more flexibility.
5429
543069. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5431 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5432 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5433
543470. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5435 Sabourenkov.
5436
543771. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5438 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5439 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5440 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5441 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5442 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5443 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5444 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5445 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5446
544772. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5448 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5449 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5450 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5451 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5452 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5453 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5454
545573. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5456 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5457 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5458
545974. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5460 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5461 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5462 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5463 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5464 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5465 instead of killing the process with assert().
5466
546775. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5468 than Unicode encoding.
5469
547076. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5471 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5472 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5473 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5474
547577. Added process_log_path.
5476
547778. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5478 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5479
548079. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5481 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5482
548380. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5484 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5485 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5486
548781. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5488 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5489 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5490 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5491 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5492 were applied:
5493
5494 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5495 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5496 as invalid.
5497
549882. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5499 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5500 they will be used during message reception.
5501
5502
5503Exim version 4.20
5504-----------------
5505
5506The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5507
5508****