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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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25PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
26 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
27
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28PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
29 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
30
f1e05cc7 31PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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32 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
33 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
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35PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
36
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37PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
38 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
39
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40PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
41
c45dd180 42PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
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44PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
45 non-compliant senders.
46 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
47
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48NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage no indicated
49 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
50 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
51
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52PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
53 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
54 in spool file corruption.
55
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56PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
57 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
58 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
59 "Got SSL error 2".
60
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61TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
62 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
63 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
64
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65JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
66 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
67
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68PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
69 diagnostics.
70 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
71
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72PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
73 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
74 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
75
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76PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
77 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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78 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
79 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
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81PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
82 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
83
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84PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
85 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
86 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
87 resolver implementation change.
88
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89PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
90 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
91
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92PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
93
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94PP/22 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
95
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97Exim version 4.77
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99
100PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
101 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
102
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103TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
104
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105TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
106 whitespace trailer
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108TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
109 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
110
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111TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
112 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
113 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
114
115 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
116 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
117 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
118 not safe for signals.
119
120 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
121 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
122 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
123 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
124 exiwhat.
125
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126TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
127
128 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
129 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
130 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
131 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
132 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
133
134 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
135 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
136 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
137 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
138 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
139 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
140
141 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
142 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
143 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
144 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
145
146 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
147 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
148 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
149 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
150
151 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
152 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
153 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
154 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
155 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
156 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
157 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
158 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
159 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
160
161 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
162 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
163 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
164 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
165
166 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
167 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
168 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
169 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
170 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
171 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
172 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
173 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
174 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
175 details in the main documentation.
176
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177TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
178
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179TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
180
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181TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
182 repository when doing development or release builds.
183
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184PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
185 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 186
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187PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
188 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
189 Bugzilla 97.
190
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191PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
192
9e949f00 193PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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194 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
195
196PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
197 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 198
555ae6af 199PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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200 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
201
202PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
203 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 204
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205PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
206 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
207
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208PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
209 Bugzilla 1156.
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210 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
211 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 212
d6cc7c78 213PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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214 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
215 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
216
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217PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
218
3399bb60 219PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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220
221PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
222 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
223
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225Exim version 4.76
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227
228PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
229
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230PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
231 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
232
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233PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
234
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235PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
236
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237PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
238 Bugzilla 1098.
239
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240PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
241 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 242
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243TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
244 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
245
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246PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
247 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
248
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249PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
250 Bugzilla 1104.
251
c8d52a00 252TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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253 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
254
255TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
256 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
257 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
258 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
259
260PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
261 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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264Exim version 4.75
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266
4c9ef03a 267NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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268 Bugzilla 1073
269
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270TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
271 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
272 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
273
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274TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
275 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
276
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277PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
278 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
279 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
280
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281PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
282 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
283
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284PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
285 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
286
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287NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
288 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
289
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290NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
291 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
292
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293PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
294 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 295
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296NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
297 Fixes bug 943.
298
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299PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
300 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
301
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302PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
303 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
304
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305PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
306 SQL string expansion failure details.
307 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
308
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309PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
310 Patch from Simon Arlott.
311
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312PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
313 extern declarations in function scope.
314 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
315
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316PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
317 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
318 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
319 a kernel bug).
320
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321PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
322 Patch from Mark Zealey.
323
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324PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
325 Patch from Mark Zealey.
326
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327PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
328 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
329
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330PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
331 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
332
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333NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
334 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
335 Dennis Davis.
336
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337PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
338
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339PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
340
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341NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
342 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 343
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344TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
345 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
346
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348Exim version 4.74
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350
351TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
352 consequences so log it to the panic log.
353
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354TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
355 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
356
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357TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
358
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359DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
360 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
361 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
362
363PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
364 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
365 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
366
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367PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
368 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
369 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
370 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
371
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372PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
373 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
374 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
375 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
376
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377PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
378 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
379 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
380 arbitrary files.
381
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382PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
383 (Wolfgang Breyha)
384
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385PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
386 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
387 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
388 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
389 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
390
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394
395PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
396 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
397 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
398
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399PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
400 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
401
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402JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
403
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404PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
405
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406PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
407
ec5a0394 408PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
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410PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
411
453a6645 412PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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413 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
414 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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415 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
416
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417PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
418 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
419 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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420 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
421 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 422
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423PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
424
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425PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
426
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427PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
428
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429PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
430
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431PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
432
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433PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
434
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435PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
436
6a8de854 437PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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438 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
439 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 440
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441JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
442
443JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
444 "exim" to be used
55c75993 445
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446PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
447 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
448
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449PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
450 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
451 Notification from John Horne.
452
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453PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
454 compatible.
455
456PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
457 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
458 it normally works.
459
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460DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
461 access.
462
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463DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
464 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
465 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
466
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467DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
468 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
469 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
470 configuration file.
471
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472DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
473 option (effectively making it always true).
474
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475DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
476 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
477
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478DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
479 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
480
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481PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
482 run-time user, instead of root.
483
43236f35 484PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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485 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
486
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487DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
488 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
489 arguments.
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491DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
492 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
493 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
494
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495DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
496
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497NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
498
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500Exim version 4.72
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502
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503JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
504 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
505 typos
465e92cf 506
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507JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
508 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
509 (Finput)
edae0343 510
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511NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
512 Patch from Alain Williams
513
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514NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
515
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516NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
517 Patch from Andreas Metzler
518
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519NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
520 Patch from Kirill Miazine
521
7fc497ee
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522NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
523
1a41defa
JJ
524JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
525
a466095c 526NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 527 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 528
94a6bd0b
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529TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
530
531TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
532
533MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
534 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
535 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
536
c1b141a8
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537NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
538 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 539
b26eacf1 540NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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541 Patch by Simon Arlott
542
179c5980 543PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 544 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 545
9bd3e22c 546
7c6d71af
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547Exim version 4.71
548-----------------
549
7d9f747b 550TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 551
f013fb92
NM
552NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
553
0eb8eedd
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554NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
555
663ee6d9
NM
556NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
557
177ebd9b
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558NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
559
7c6d71af 560
210f147e
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561Exim version 4.70
562-----------------
563
cdd3bb85 564TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 565 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
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566
567TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
568 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 569 Hirsch).
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570
571TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
572 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 573 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
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574
575TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
576 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
577
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578NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
579 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
580 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
581 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
582
deafd5b3
NM
583NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
584 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 585 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 586
089793a4
TF
587TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
588
5f16ca82
TF
589TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
590
dae9d94e 591NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 592 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 593
7d9f747b 594NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 595
06864c44
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596TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
597 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
598 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
599 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
600
65a7d8c3 601NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 602 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 603
23510047 604TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 605
7d9f747b 606NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 607
7d8eec3a 608NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 609 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 610
89dec7b6
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611TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
612 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 613
a99de90c
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614TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
615 that they are available at delivery time.
616
e2803e40
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617TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
618
7199e1ee
TF
619TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
620 incoming_port log selectors.
621
e276e04b
TF
622TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
623 setting expands to an empty string.
624
ce552449 625NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 626 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 627
e765a0f1 628NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 629 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 630
4f054c63 631NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 632 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 633
7d9f747b
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634NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
635 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 636
7d9f747b
PP
637NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
638 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 639
b52bc06e 640NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 641 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 642
447de4b0
NM
643NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
644
4c69d561 645NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 646 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 647
d5c39246 648NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 649 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 650
0b23848a
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651TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
652
8f3414a1 653NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 654 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 655
fb6f955d
NM
656NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
657
658NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 659
7d9f747b
PP
660NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
661 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 662
7d9f747b
PP
663NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
664 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 665
7d9f747b
PP
666NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
667 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 668
7d9f747b
PP
669NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
670 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 671
7d9f747b
PP
672NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
673 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 674
7d9f747b
PP
675NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
676 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 677
7d9f747b
PP
678NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
679 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 680
7d9f747b 681NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 682 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 683
7d9f747b 684NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 685
7d9f747b
PP
686NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
687 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 688
7d9f747b 689NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 690
7d9f747b 691NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 692
7d9f747b 693NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 694
7d9f747b 695NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 696
17792b53 697NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 698 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 699
7d9f747b
PP
700NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
701 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 702
7d9f747b
PP
703NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
704 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 705
7d9f747b
PP
706NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
707 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 708
7d9f747b 709NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 710
7d9f747b 711NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 712
7d9f747b 713NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 714
7d9f747b 715NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 716
deafd5b3 717
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718Exim version 4.69
719-----------------
720
4b3504d0
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721TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
722 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
723 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
724
725 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
726 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
727 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
728 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
729 build errors in sieve.c.
730
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731NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
732 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
733 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
734
f13cddcb
SC
735SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
736
7d9f747b 737NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 738
7d9f747b 739NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 740
7d9f747b 741NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
742
743
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744Exim version 4.68
745-----------------
746
747PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
748
6a3bceb1
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749PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
750 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
751 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
752 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
753 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
754 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
755 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
756 for iplsearch lookups.
757
758 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
759 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
760 previously such lookups could never work.
761
762 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
763 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
764 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
765
2e30fa9d
TK
766TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
767 version.
768
0806a9c5
MH
769MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
770 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
771 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
772 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
773 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
774 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
775
ae276964
TK
776TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
777 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
778
0f2cbd1b
MH
779MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
780 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
781 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
782 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
783 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
784 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
785
2b85bce7
PH
786PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
787 local_scan API.
788
93655c46
PH
789PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
790
6c512171
PH
791PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
792 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
793 encrypted.
794
795PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
796 by clients under certain conditions.
797
aa6dc513
PH
798PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
799 "_responses" off the end of the name.
800
a96603a0
PH
801PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
802
8f240103
PH
803PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
804 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
805
806PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
807
d677b2f2
PH
808PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
809
d52120f2
PH
810PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
811
64f2600a
PH
812PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
813 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
814
8669f003
PH
815PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
816
a4dc33a8
PH
817PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
818 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
819
d6a60c0f
PH
820PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
821
8f128379
PH
822PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
823
8932dffe
PH
824PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
825 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
826 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
827 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 828
ddea74fa 829PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
830 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
831 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
832
ddea74fa 833PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
834 and InterBase are left for another time.)
835
ddea74fa
PH
836PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
837
ce9f225c
PH
838PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
839
19897d52
PH
840PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
841
bc64a74d
PH
842PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
843 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
844 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
845
eb4c0de6 846
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PH
847Exim version 4.67
848-----------------
849
22ad45c9
MH
850MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
851 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
852 Jan Srzednicki.
853
b4ed4da0
PH
854PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
855 issue a MAIL command.
856
431b7361
PH
857PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
858
859 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
860
861 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
862 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
863 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
864 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
865 item. This has been fixed.
866
867PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
868 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
869
83da1223
PH
870PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
871 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
872
54fc8428
PH
873PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
874 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
875 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
876
34c5e8dd
SC
877SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
878
bbe15da8
PH
879PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
880 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
881 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
882 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
883 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
884
0e8a9471
MH
885MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
886 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
887 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
888
f0872424
PH
889PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
890 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
891 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
892 the server_setid option was incorrect.
893
b01dd148
PH
894PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
895
6bf342e1
PH
896PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
897
273f34d0
PH
898PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
899 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
900 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
901 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
902 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
903
cf8b11a5
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904PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
905
41c7c167
PH
906PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
907 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
908 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
909 values).
910
9c57cbc0
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911PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
912
f3f065bb
PH
913PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
914
047bdd8c
PH
915PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
916
0ce9abe6
PH
917PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
918
0e22dfd1
PH
919PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
920
4c590bd1
PH
921PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
922 no_callout_flush is set.
923
09945f1e
PH
924PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
925 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
926 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
927 fixed.
928
c51b8e75
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929PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
930
e28326d8
PH
931PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
932 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
933 other ACL rejections are.
934
75b1493f
PH
935PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
936 with slight modification.
937
7c5214ec
PH
938PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
939 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
940
4311097e
PH
941PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
942 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
943 connection.
944
29f89cad
PH
945PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
946 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
947
5e687460
SC
948SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
949
c3611384
PH
950PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
951 expansion side effects.
952
5a11a7b4
PH
953PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
954 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
955 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
956 be the same.
957
0e20aff9
MH
958MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
959 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
960 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
961
ca86f471
PH
962PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
963 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
964 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
965 were accidentally chopped off.
966
a14e5636
PH
967PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
968 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
969 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
970 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
971 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
972 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
973 pipelining has not been advertised.
974
ec95d1a6
PH
975PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
976
42855d71
PH
977PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
978 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
979 This has been fixed.
980
57c2c631
PH
981PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
982 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
983 reported on Solaris.
984
58c01c94
PH
985PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
986 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
987 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
988 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
989 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
990 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
991 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
992
dee5a20a
PH
993PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
994 cpus.
995
d2ee6114
PH
996PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
997
b2d5182b
PH
998PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
999
79749a79
PH
1000PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1001 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1002 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1003 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1004 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1005 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1006
c456d9bb
PH
1007PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1008 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1009 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1010 host_all_ignored option.
1011
cd9868ec
PH
1012PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1013 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1014 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1015 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1016 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1017 is what is supposed to happen).
1018
ebeaf996
PH
1019PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1020 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1021 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1022 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1023 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1024 uses the Exim user.
1025
2679d413
PH
1026PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1027 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1028 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1029 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1030 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1031 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1032 users.
1033
84024b72
PH
1034PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1035
8005d38e
SC
1036SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1037 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1038 (Jez Hancock).
1039 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1040 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1041
3298c6c6
SC
1042SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1043
a43a27c5
PH
1044PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1045
58eb016e 1046PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1047 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1048 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1049 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1050 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1051 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1052 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1053 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1054 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1055 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1056 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1057
b43a74ea
PH
1058PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1059 advertised in response to EHLO.
1060
b4ed4da0 1061
5dd1517f
PH
1062Exim version 4.66
1063-----------------
1064
1065PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1066 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1067
1068 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1069 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1070
1071 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1072 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1073 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1074
1075 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1076 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1077 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1078 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1079 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1080
1081
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TK
1082Exim version 4.65
1083-----------------
1084
1085TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1086 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1087 versions. (#438)
1088
d6066548
MH
1089MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1090 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1091 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1092
4362ff0d
PH
1093PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1094 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1095 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1096 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1097 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1098 rather than extend the field.
1099
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1101Exim version 4.64
1102-----------------
aa41d2de 1103
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TK
1104TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1105 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1106 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1107 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1108 these files.
1109
1110TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1111 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1112 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1113
1114TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1115 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1116 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1117
1118TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1119 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1120 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1121 in the field name.
1122
2b1c6e3a
PH
1123PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1124 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1125 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1126 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1127 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1128 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1129 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1130 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1131 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1132 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1133 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1134
1f872c80
PH
1135PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1136 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1137
1138PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1139 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1140 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1141 ignores EPIPE as well.
1142
d203e649
PH
1143PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1144 (quoted-printable decoding).
1145
cc2ed8f7 1146PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1147 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1148
ddfcd446
PH
1149PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1150
d45b1de8
PH
1151PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1152
1153PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1154
38a0a95f 1155PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1156 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1157
a2405d83
JJ
1158JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1159 in 4.64-PH/09.
1160
1161JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1162 miscellaneous code fixes
1163
6ea85e9a
PH
1164PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1165 rejections.
1166
26da7e20
PH
1167PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1168 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1169 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1170 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1171 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1172 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1173 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1174 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1175
14aa5a05 1176PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1177 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1178 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1179 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1180 function.
1181 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1182 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1183 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1184 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1185 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1186 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1187 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1188 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1189 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1190
ff75a1f7
PH
1191PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1192 decoding.
1193
e6f6568e
PH
1194PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1195 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1196 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1197 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1198 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1199 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1200 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1201 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1202
d6f6e0dc
PH
1203PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1204 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1205 list.
1206
322050c2
PH
1207PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1208 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1209 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1210 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1211 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1212 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1213 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1214 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1215 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1216 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1217 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1218 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1219 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1220
08955dd3
PH
1221PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1222 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1223 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1224 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1225 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1226 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1227 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1228
1eccaa59
PH
1229PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1230 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1231 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1232 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1233 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1234 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1235 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1236 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1237 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1238 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1239
602e59e5
PH
1240PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1241 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1242 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1243 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1244 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1245
411ef850
PH
1246PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1247 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1248 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1249 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1250 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1251 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1252 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1253
7befa435
PH
1254PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1255 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1256 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1257 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1258 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1259 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1260 been verified.
1261
48da4259 1262PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1263 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1264 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1265 and authorization.)
1266
48da4259
PH
1267PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1268 if any retry times were supplied.
1269
d1d5595c
PH
1270PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1271 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1272 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1273
0ef732d9
PH
1274PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1275
328895cc
PH
1276PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1277
fd700877
PH
1278PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1279 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1280 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1281 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1282 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1283 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1284
8dce1a6f
PH
1285PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1286 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1287
17af4a17
PH
1288PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1289 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1290 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1291
1292PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1293 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1294 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1295 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1296 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1297 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1298 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1299 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1300 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1301
1302 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1303 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1304 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1305 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1306 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1307 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1308 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1309 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1310 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1311
1312 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1313 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1314 hammering the server.
1315
c1114884
PH
1316PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1317 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1318
7a0743eb
PH
1319PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1320
0d85fa3f
PH
1321PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1322 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1323 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1324
1bf43b78
PH
1325PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1326 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1327 one case where this was not true.
1328
520de300
PH
1329PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1330 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1331 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1332 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1333 fails.
1334
48c7f9e2
PH
1335PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1336 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1337 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1338 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1339 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1340 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1341 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1342 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1343 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1344 smtp transport.
1345
99ea1c86
PH
1346PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1347 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1348 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1349 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1350
a2042e78
PH
1351PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1352 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1353
4fbcfc2e
PH
1354PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1355 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1356 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1357
aa41d2de
PH
1358PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1359
af561417
PH
1360PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1361
3cc66b45
PH
1362PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1363
194cc0e4
PH
1364PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1365 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1366 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1367 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1368
a401ddaa
PH
1369PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1370 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1371
4e88a19f
PH
1372PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1373 be meaningful with "accept".
1374
d7d7b289
SC
1375SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1376 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1377
1378SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1379 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1380 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1381
1382SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1383 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1384 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1385 there is data to show.
1386 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1387
1388SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1389 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1390 as well as the number of messages.
1391
1392SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1393 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1394 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1395
1396SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1397 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1398 have a flag are now skipped.
1399
1400SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1401 Added the -emptyok flag.
1402
1403SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1404 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1405
0ea2a468
JJ
1406JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1407 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1408 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1409
1410JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1411 match 4.64-PH/13
1412
1413JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1414 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1415
1416JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1417
1418JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1419 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1420
8a10f5a4
PH
1421PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1422
30e18802
PH
1423PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1424 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1425 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1426 contravention of the specifications.
1427
55728a4f
PH
1428PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1429 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1430 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1431
d7837193
PH
1432PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1433 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1434 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1435
87054a31
PH
1436PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1437
ea2c01d2
MH
1438MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1439 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1440 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1441 some point in the past.
1442
e4fa6968
PH
1443PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1444 transport during callout processing was broken.
1445
56f5d9bd
PH
1446PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1447 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1448
922e1c28
PH
1449PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1450 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1451
21eb6e72
PH
1452PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1453 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1454
a0540757
PH
1455PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1456
944e9e9c 1457
478be7b0
SC
1458Exim version 4.63
1459-----------------
1460
1461SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1462 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1463
1464SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1465 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1466 there is data to show.
1467 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1468
1469SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1470 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1471
2b965a65
TF
1472TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1473 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1474
45b91596
PH
1475TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1476 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1477
c59f5781
TF
1478TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1479 submissions from trusted users.
1480
90fc3069
TF
1481TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1482 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1483
6083aca0
TF
1484TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1485 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1486 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1487 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1488 there is now a framework to start from.
1489
765b530f
PH
1490PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1491 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1492 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1493
4e167a8c
PH
1494PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1495
4608d683
PH
1496PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1497
b8dc3e4a
PH
1498PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1499
5418e93b
PH
1500PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1501 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1502 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1503
b4a9bda2
PH
1504PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1505 libradius.
1506
45b91596
PH
1507PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1508 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1509 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1510
5547e2c5
PH
1511PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1512 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1513 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1514 its arguments.
1515
dbcef0ea
PH
1516PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1517 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1518 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1519 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1520 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1521
25257489
PH
1522PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1523 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1524
c816d124
PH
1525PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1526
a9ccd69a
PH
1527PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1528 operations in malware.c.
1529
75fa1910
PH
1530PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1531 signatures.
1532
a7d7aa58
PH
1533PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1534 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1535 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1536 all.
1537
42119b09
PH
1538PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1539 statements to "add_header".
1540
41609df5
PH
1541PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1542 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1543
a5bd321b
PH
1544PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1545 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1546 latter.
1547
e85a7ad5 1548PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1549 so that it is now:
1550
e85a7ad5
PH
1551 ${if or { \
1552 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1553 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1554 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1555 }{no}{yes}}
1556
e85a7ad5
PH
1557 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1558 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1559
d8fe1c03
PH
1560PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1561 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1562
16282d2b
PH
1563PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1564 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1565 any possible encoding problems.
1566
35d40a98
PH
1567PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1568 but not after initializing Perl.
1569
034d99ab
PH
1570PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1571 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1572 apparently, which is not desirable.
1573
6ec97b1b
PH
1574PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1575 queries.
1576
e22ca4ac
JJ
1577JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1578 --not options
1579
1580JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1581
33d73e3b
PH
1582PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1583 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1584 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1585 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1586
9ecb03f3
PH
1587PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1588 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1589 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1590
084efe8d
PH
1591PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1592 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1593 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1594 0.12.
1595
366fc9f0
PH
1596PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1597 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1598 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1599 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1600 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1601
c59f5781 1602
c887c79e
TF
1603Exim version 4.62
1604-----------------
1605
1606TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1607 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1608
1cce3af8
PH
1609PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1610 patch).
1611
afb3eaaf
PH
1612PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1613 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1614 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1615 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1616 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1617 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1618 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1619 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1620 451 error is used.
1621
e173618b
PH
1622PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1623
dd16e114
PH
1624PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1625 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1626 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1627
f7fd3850
PH
1628PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1629 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1630 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1631 odd errors.
1632
d87df92c
PH
1633PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1634 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1635
7e9f683d
PH
1636PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1637 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1638 option (which defaults to 0600).
1639
bfad5236
PH
1640PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1641
01c490df
PH
1642PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1643 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1644 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1645 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1646 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1647 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1648 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1649
d6629cdc
PH
1650PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1651
1cce3af8 1652
214e2000
PH
1653Exim version 4.61
1654-----------------
1655
1656PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1657 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1658 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1659 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1660 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1661 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1662 addresses as local.
1663
f9daeae0
PH
1664PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1665 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1666
7e66e54d
PH
1667PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1668
c8ea1597
PH
1669PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1670 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1671 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1672 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1673 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1674 grumble.
1675
911f6fde
PH
1676PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1677 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1678
47ca6d6c
PH
1679PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1680 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1681 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1682 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1683 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1684
ed0e9820
PH
1685PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1686 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1687 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1688 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1689
eff37e47
PH
1690PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1691 be the same on different OS.
1692
1921d2ea
PH
1693PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1694 testing.
1695
b3f69ca8
JJ
1696JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1697 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1698
1699JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1700 in 4.61-PH/06
1701
424a1c63
PH
1702PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1703 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1704 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1705 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1706 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1707 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1708 bounce message.
1709
7a100415
PH
1710PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1711 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1712 when Exim was called.
1713
19b9dc85
PH
1714PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1715 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1716
309bd837
PH
1717PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1718 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1719 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1720 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1721
59e82a2a
PH
1722PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1723 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1724 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1725 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1726 changes:
1727
1728 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1729 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1730 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1731
1732 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1733 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1734 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1735
9edc04ce
PH
1736PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1737 feature).
1738
1349e1e5
PH
1739PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1740 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1741 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1742 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1743 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1744 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1745 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1746 values from the SRV records were lost.
1747
ea49d0e1
PH
1748PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1749 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1750 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1751
064a94c9
PH
1752PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1753 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1754 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1755
727071f8
PH
1756PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1757 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1758 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1759 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1760 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1761 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1762 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1763 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1764 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1765 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1766
f78eb7c6
PH
1767PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1768 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1769 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1770
21c28500
PH
1771PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1772 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1773
1774PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1775 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1776 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1777 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1778 is given.
1779
1688f43b
PH
1780PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1781 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1782 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1783
1784PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1785 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1786 PH/23 above applies.
1787
9675b384
PH
1788PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1789 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1790 (for which there is an explicit test).
1791
6a3f1455
PH
1792PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1793
dac79d3e
PH
1794PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1795 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1796 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1797 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1798 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1799
5977a0b3
PH
1800PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1801 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1802 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1803 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1804
c91535f3
PH
1805PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1806 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1807 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1808
0d46a8c8
PH
1809PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1810
278c6e6c
PH
1811PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1812
2cbb4081
PH
1813PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1814 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1815 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1816
3eef829e
PH
1817PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1818 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1819 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1820 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1821 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1822
1ab95fa6
PH
1823PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1824 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1825 the message gets confusing).
1826
230205fc
PH
1827PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1828 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1829 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1830 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1831
75e0e026
PH
1832PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1833 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1834 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1835 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1836 same order.
1837
1838PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1839 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1840 the different processes.
1841
145396a6
PH
1842PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1843
3cd34f13
PH
1844PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1845
11121d3d
JJ
1846JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1847 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1848
1849JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1850 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1851
1852JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1853 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1854 messages matching specified criteria.
1855
8def5aaf
PH
1856PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1857
929ba01c
PH
1858PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1859 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1860
2632889e
PH
1861PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1862 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1863 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1864 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1865 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1866 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1867 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1868 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1869 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1870 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1871
944a9c55
PH
1872PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1873 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1874 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1875
4a23603b
PH
1876PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1877
4730f942
PH
1878PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1879 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1880 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1881 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1882 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1883 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1884 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1885 the variable.
1886
30dba1e6
PH
1887PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1888 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1889
382afc6b
PH
1890PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1891
a86229cf
PH
1892PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1893
50c99ba6
PH
1894PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1895
d35e429d
PH
1896PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1897 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1898 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1899 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1900 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1901 size of the count of files.
1902
f90d018c
PH
1903PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1904
75def545
PH
1905PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1906 used in LMTP mode:
1907
1908 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1909 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1910 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1911 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1912
1913 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1914 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1915 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1916
1917PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1918 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1919 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1920 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1921 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1922
c46782ef
PH
1923PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1924 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1925
71fafd95
PH
1926PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1927 will now be deprecated.
1928
2c5db4fd
PH
1929PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1930
9cf6b11a
JJ
1931JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1932 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1933 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1934
1935JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1936 with very large, slow to parse queues
1937
1938JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1939
1940JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1941
898d150f
PH
1942PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1943 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1944 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1945 SMTP output lines.
1946
46218253
PH
1947PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1948 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1949 Sieve code now uses this.
1950
e97957bc
PH
1951PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1952 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1953
81e509d7
PH
1954PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1955 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1956
3d240ff7
PH
1957PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1958
b37c4101
PH
1959PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1960 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1961 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1962 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1963 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1964
79378e0f
PH
1965PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1966 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1967 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1968 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1969
e49c7bb4
PH
1970PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1971
d114ec46
PH
1972PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1973
f3d7df6c
PH
1974PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1975 is preferred over IPv4.
1976
715ab376
PH
1977PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1978 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1979 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1980 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1981 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1982 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1983 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1984
6b31b150
PH
1985PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1986 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1987 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1988
1989PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1990
d515a917
PH
1991PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1992 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1993 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1994 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1995 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1996 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1997 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1998 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1999 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2000 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2001 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2002
9b8fadde
PH
2003PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2004 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2005 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2006
214e2000 2007
5de37277
PH
2008Exim version 4.60
2009-----------------
2010
cc38ddbf
PH
2011PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2012
2013 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2014 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2015
2016 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2017 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2018 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2019
72fdd6ae
PH
2020PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2021
2022 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2023 not a single digit.
2024
2025 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2026 string.
2027
2028 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2029 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2030 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2031 silly things.
2032
2033 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2034 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2035
2036 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2037 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2038
cb741023
PH
2039PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2040 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2041 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2042
f174f16e
PH
2043PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2044 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2045
c25242d7
PH
2046PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2047 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2048
2049 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2050
2051 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2052 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2053 this:
2054
2055 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2056
82c19f95
PH
2057PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2058 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2059 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2060 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2061 identical. For example:
2062
2063 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2064
2065 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2066 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2067 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2068
d7ffbc12
PH
2069PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2070 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2071 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2072 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2073
9f526266
PH
2074PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2075 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2076 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2077 message.
2078
87fcc8b9
PH
2079PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2080
2081 o fixes some comments
2082 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2083 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2084 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2085 and documents the missing references header update
2086
2087 and most important:
2088
2089 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2090 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2091 result)
2092
456682f5
PH
2093PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2094 Electronic Mail") by including:
2095
2096 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2097
2098 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2099 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2100 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2101 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2102 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2103
2104 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2105
2106 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2107
2108 The auto-replied keyword:
2109
2110 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2111 message by an automatic process,
2112
2113 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2114
2115 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2116 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2117
2118 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2119 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2120 other messages.
2121
3e46c1aa
PH
2122PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2123 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2124
49826d12
PH
2125PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2126
eba0c039
PH
2127PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2128 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2129 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2130
a0d6ba8a
PH
2131PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2132 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2133 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2134
f0917727
PH
2135PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2136 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2137 and treats the condition as false.
2138
096fee00
PH
2139PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2140
024bd3c2
PH
2141PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2142 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2143 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2144 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2145 not changing the active code.
2146
2147 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2148 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2149
2150 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2151 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2152
df199fec
PH
2153PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2154 (Bugzilla #53).
2155
d27f1df3
PH
2156PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2157 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2158 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2159 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2160 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2161 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2162 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2163 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2164 the text comparison.
2165
96776534
PH
2166PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2167 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2168 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2169 The same fix has been applied.
2170
5de37277 2171
9a799bc0
PH
2172Exim version 4.54
2173-----------------
2174
2175PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2176 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2177 It now does.
2178
99a4b039
PH
2179PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2180 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2181
2182PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2183
4b233853
PH
2184PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2185 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2186 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2187 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2188 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2189
8857ccfd
PH
2190TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2191 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2192 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2193 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2194 or /domain=).
2195
433a2980
PH
2196PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2197 testing suite.
2198
3e46c1aa 2199
9a799bc0 2200
e3a311ba
TK
2201Exim version 4.53
2202-----------------
2203
2204TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2205 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2206
13b685f9
PH
2207PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2208
395ff96d
PH
2209PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2210
5b68f6e4
PH
2211PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2212 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2213 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2214
1ab52c69
PH
2215PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2216 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2217 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2218
b07e6aa3
PH
2219PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2220 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2221 operating systems.
2222
254e032f
PH
2223PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2224 ${stat: expansion item.
2225
3af76a81
PH
2226PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2227 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2228
2548ba04
PH
2229PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2230 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2231 file for comments.
2232
b6c6011d
PH
2233PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2234
cf39cf57
PH
2235PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2236 setting.
2237
f1513293
PH
2238PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2239 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2240
727549a4
PH
2241TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2242
af46795e
PH
2243PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2244 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2245 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2246 the end of the subprocess.
2247
d7b47fd0
PH
2248PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2249 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2250 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2251 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2252 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2253
ee744174
JJ
2254JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2255
b582ab87
PH
2256TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2257
41a13e0a
PH
2258PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2259 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2260
f625cc5a
PH
2261PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2262
2263PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2264
21f7af35
PH
2265PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2266 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2267 HP-UX compiler.
2268
31480e42
PH
2269PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2270
2d280592
PH
2271PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2272 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2273 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2274
7cd1141b
PH
2275PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2276 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2277
2278PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2279 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2280
750af86e
PH
2281PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2282 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2283
2284 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2285 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2286
2287 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2288 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2289 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2290 contributed by a Radius user.
2291
2292PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2293 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2294
4304270b
TK
2295TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2296 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2297
750af86e
PH
2298PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2299 available.
2300
64ffc24f
PH
2301PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2302 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2303 received.
2304
5dd9625b
PH
2305PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2306 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2307 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2308 header lines when this was not necessary.
2309
5591031b
PH
2310PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2311
ba18e66a
PH
2312PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2313 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2314 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2315 exists".
2316
9cec981f
PH
2317PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2318 -bV or -d is used.
2319
aa2b5c79
PH
2320PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2321 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2322 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2323 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2324
48a53b7f
PH
2325PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2326
1c59d63b
PH
2327PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2328
671012da
TK
2329TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2330
1509d3a8
PH
2331PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2332
2333PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2334 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2335 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2336 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2337 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2338 settings.
2339
2340PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2341
2fe1a124
PH
2342PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2343 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2344 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2345 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2346 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2347 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2348 which is clearly wrong.
2349
8800895a
PH
2350PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2351
ccfdb010
PH
2352PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2353 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2354 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2355 subsequently added.
2356
1130bfb0
PH
2357PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2358 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2359
ebcb507f
PH
2360PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2361
c35e155c
PH
2362PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2363 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2364
95d1f782
PH
2365PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2366 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2367
fd6de02e
PH
2368PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2369 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2370
58de37c5
PH
2371PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2372 recipients, not senders.
2373
261cf466
TF
2374TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2375 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2376
3ee512ff
PH
2377PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2378
e08c430f
PH
2379PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2380
bef5a11f
PH
2381PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2382 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2383 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2384 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2385
7546de58
TF
2386TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2387
e5d5a95f
TF
2388TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2389 clock is set back in time.
2390
2e88a017
TF
2391TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2392 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2393
a5f65aa4
TF
2394TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2395 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2396
e7726cbf
PH
2397PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2398 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2399 (see PH/47 above).
2400
a7fdad5b
TF
2401TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2402 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2403 header rewrites.
2404
6af56900
PH
2405PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2406 type ("H").
2407
0925ede6
PH
2408PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2409
66afa403
TF
2410TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2411 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2412 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2413
0154e85a
TF
2414TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2415 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2416 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2417 helo verification defer as a failure.
2418
16f12c76
PH
2419PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2420 actual error message.
2421
bbe902f0 2422
e5a9dba6
PH
2423Exim version 4.52
2424-----------------
2425
2426TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2427
22c3b60b
PH
2428PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2429 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2430 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2431 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2432
06a9b4b5
PH
2433TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2434
c1ac6996
PH
2435PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2436 can still be requested.
2437
9c7a242c
PH
2438PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2439 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2440 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2441 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2442
87ba3f5f
PH
2443TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2444 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2445 circumstances, but probably never did.
2446
2447PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2448 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2449 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2450 in the header line.
2451
29aba418
TF
2452TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2453
fe0dab11
TF
2454TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2455 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2456
11d337a4
TK
2457TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2458
2459TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2460
415c8f3b
PH
2461PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2462 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2463 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2464 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2465 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2466 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2467
958541e9
PH
2468PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2469 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2470 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2471 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2472 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2473 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2474
c206415f
TK
2475TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2476 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2477
2a4be8f9
PH
2478PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2479 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2480
1cba11c5
SC
2481SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2482 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2483
2484SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2485
2486SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2487
2488SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2489
2490SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2491
2492SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2493
2494SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2495
1005d00e
TK
2496TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2497
2498TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2499 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2500 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2501
2502TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2503 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2504 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2505 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2506
9b4768fa
PH
2507PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2508 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2509 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2510
2511PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2512 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2513 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2514 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2515
0d7eb84a
PH
2516PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2517 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2518 to be made).
2519
2520PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2521 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2522 should work with maildirs and everything.
2523
40727bee
TK
2524TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2525 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2526
554d2369
TF
2527TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2528 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2529
1f922db1
PH
2530PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2531 function for BDB 4.3.
2532
ef213c3b
PH
2533PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2534
8ac170f3
PH
2535PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2536 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2537 involved.
2538
b1c749bb
PH
2539PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2540 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2541 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2542 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2543 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2544 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2545
4aac9b49
PH
2546PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2547 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2548 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2549 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2550 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2551 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2552 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2553 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2554
294520c8
TK
2555TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2556 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2557 details.
2558
5bd022fe
PH
2559PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2560 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2561
90e9ce59
PH
2562PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2563 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2564 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2565 test. It is now used for both.
2566
5ea81592
PH
2567PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2568 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2569 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2570 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2571 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2572 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2573
c6c2dc1d
PH
2574PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2575 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2576 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2577 string_vformat().
2578
fffffe4c
PH
2579PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2580 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2581 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2582
9a26b6b2
PH
2583PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2584 experimental DomainKeys support:
2585
2586 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2587 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2588 the control was given.
2589
2590 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2591
4aee0225
PH
2592PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2593
32d668a5
PH
2594PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2595
8187c3f3
PH
2596PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2597 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2598 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2599 db.h files).
2600
ff790e47 2601PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2602 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2603 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2604 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2605 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2606 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2607 course.
ff790e47 2608
5417f6d1
PH
2609PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2610 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2611 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2612 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2613 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2614 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2615
59cf8544
PH
2616PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2617 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2618 do -d+all out of habit.
2619
e7ad8a65
PH
2620PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2621 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2622 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2623
ade42478
PH
2624PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2625 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2626 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2627 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2628 record types that Exim uses.
2629
182ad5cf
PH
2630PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2631 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2632 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2633 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2634 non-existent file that was broken.
2635
b0d9fc80
TK
2636TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2637 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2638
2639TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2640 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2641 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2642
2643TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2644
47c7a64a
PH
2645PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2646 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2647 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2648 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2649 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2650 same time.
2651
a388bce4
SC
2652SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2653 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2654 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2655 at a slight CPU cost.
2656
2657SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2658 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2659
2660SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2661 by Marc Sherman.
2662
0793e4ed
SC
2663SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2664
c58b88df
PH
2665PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2666 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2667
e7ad8a65 2668
7982096b
PH
2669Exim version 4.51
2670-----------------
2671
1a46a8c5
PH
2672TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2673 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2674
2f079f46 2675TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2676
2677TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2678
2679PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2680 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2681
2682PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2683 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2684 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2685 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2686 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2687 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2688 file.
2689
2690PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2691 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2692 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2693 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2694 these two options.
2695
2696PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2697 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2698 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2699 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2700 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2701 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2702 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2703 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2704
2705PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2706 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2707
2708PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2709 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2710 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2711 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2712 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2713 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2714
2715PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2716 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2717 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2718 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2719
2720PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2721 Finch).
2722
2723PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2724 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2725
49c2d5ea
PH
2726PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2727 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2728 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2729 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2730 message.
49c2d5ea 2731
bf759a8b
PH
2732PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2733
83364d30
PH
2734PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2735 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2736
7999bbd7
PH
2737PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2738 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2739 to what was transported.)
2740
7dbf77c9
PH
2741TF/01 Added $received_time.
2742
74e0617f
PH
2743PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2744 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2745 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2746 spamd_address settings.
2747
2f079f46
PH
2748PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2749 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2750 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2751 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2752 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2753
8c841523
PH
2754PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2755
7766a4f0
PH
2756PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2757 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2758 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2759 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2760 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2761
8b417f2c
PH
2762PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2763 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2764
901f42cb
PH
2765PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2766 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2767 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2768 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2769 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2770 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2771 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2772 for failure.
2773
f9b9210e
PH
2774PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2775 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2776 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2777 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2778 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2779 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2780 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2781 "input=".
2782
54cdb463
PH
2783PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2784
cf00dad6
PH
2785PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2786 driver and ACL definitions.
2787
acb1b346
PH
2788PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2789 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2790
c5ddb310
PH
2791PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2792 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2793 understands it better than I do:
2794
2795 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2796 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2797
2798 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2799 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2800 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2801 => three warnings about OTP not working
2802 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2803
2804 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2805 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2806 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2807 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2808 for each call.)
2809 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2810 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2811
2812 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2813 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2814 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2815
31619da6
PH
2816PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2817 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2818 specified.
2819
bebaf0fc
PH
2820PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2821 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2822 "Linux".
2823
475fe28a
PH
2824PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2825 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2826 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2827
2828 warn !verify = sender
2829 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2830
2831 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2832 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2833
7e8bec7a
PH
2834PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2835
2836 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2837 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2838
2839 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2840 nomenclature these days.)
2841
e4a89c47
PH
2842PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2843 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2844
5ca2a9a1
PH
2845PH/30 In these circumstances:
2846 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2847 . First host does not offer TLS;
2848 . First host accepts first address;
2849 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2850 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2851 . Second host accepts second address.
2852 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2853 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2854 address.
7e8bec7a 2855
c688b954
PH
2856PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2857 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2858 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2859 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2860 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2861
fed77020
PH
2862PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2863 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2864
7fe1560f
PH
2865PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2866 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2867
ebb6e6d5
PH
2868PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2869 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2870 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2871
9c4e8f60
PH
2872PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2873 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2874 overlooked.
2875
2876PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2877
d7174846
PH
2878PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2879 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2880 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2881 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2882 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2883 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2884 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2885
2886 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2887 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2888 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2889 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2890 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2891
2892 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2893 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2894 routed further.
2895
cfe75fc3
PH
2896PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2897 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2898 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2899 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2900 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2901 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2902
be22d70e
PH
2903PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2904
0612b098
PH
2905PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2906 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2907 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2908 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2909 printable escape sequences.
2910
2e0c1448
PH
2911PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2912 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2913 body only.
2914
447d236c
PH
2915PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2916 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2917 are as follows:
2918
2919 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2920 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2921 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2922 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2923 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2924
2925 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2926 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2927 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2928
d20976dc
PH
2929PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2930
f656d135
PH
2931PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2932 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2933 play with."
2934
2e2a30b4
PH
2935PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2936 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2937 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2938 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2939 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2940 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2941 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2942 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2943 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2944 the log output.
2945
9176e9f0
PH
2946PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2947 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2948 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2949 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2950 "make".
2951
7982096b 2952
bbe902f0
PH
2953A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2954----------------------------------------
2955
2956Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2957changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2958needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2959in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2960that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2961release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2962from 4.43.
2963
2964I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
29654.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2966those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2967historical information.
2968
2969
f7b63901 2970Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2971-----------------
2972
5fe762f6
PH
2973 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2974
139059f6 2975 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2976 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2977
7086e875
PH
2978 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2979 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2980 place.
2981
35af9f61
PH
2982 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2983 filter fails to execute.
2984
b668c215
PH
2985 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2986 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2987 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2988 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2989 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2990
a494b1e1
PH
2991 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2992
2993 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2994 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2995 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2996 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2997
c5fcb476
PH
2998 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2999 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3000 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3001 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3002 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3003
69358f02
PH
3004 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3005
5be20824
PH
300610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3007
eb2c0248
PH
300811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3009 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3010 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3011 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3012
2a3eea10
PH
301312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3014 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3015 sender verification.
3016
301713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3018 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3019
23c7ff99
PH
302014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3021
4deaf07d
PH
302215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3023 connection timeout.
3024
926e1192
PH
302516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3026 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3027
650edc6f
PH
302817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3029 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3030
2c7db3f5
PH
303118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3032 information about exactly what failed.
3033
3d235903
PH
303419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3035
7c7ad977
PH
303620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3037 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3038 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3039
981756db
PH
304021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3041 It is now set to "smtps".
3042
d4eb88df
PH
304322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3044 ignore_target_hosts.
3045
304623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3047 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3048 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3049 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3050 "[x.x.x.x]".
3051
7d468ab8
PH
305224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3053 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3054 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3055
305625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3057 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3058 wake it up if nothing else does.
3059
62c0818f
PH
306026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3061 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3062 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3063 end up negative.
3064
26034054
PH
306527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3066 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3067
af66f652
PH
306828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3069
90af77f4
PH
307029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3071 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3072 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3073 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3074 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3075 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3076 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3077 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3078
d8ef3577
PH
307930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3080 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3081 than one IP address.
3082
5cb8cbc6
PH
308331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3084 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3085 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3086 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3087
14702f5b
PH
308832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3089 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3090 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3091 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3092 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3093 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3094
063b1e99
PH
309533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3096 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3097 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3098 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3099
652e1b65
PH
310034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3101 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3102 respected.
3103
6f0c9a4f
PH
310435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3105 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3106 $sender_host_address.
3107
33397d19
PH
310836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3109 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3110 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3111 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3112 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3113 very small.
3114
7bb56e1f
PH
311537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3116
3117 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3118 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3119
ea3bc19b
PH
3120 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3121 just the host names, not the priorities.
3122
3123 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3124 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3125 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3126
ea3bc19b 3127 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3128 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3129
0bcb2a0e
PH
313038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3131 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3132 domain.
3133
2ac0e484
PH
313439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3135
4e1fde53
PH
313640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3137 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3138
de365ded
PH
313941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3140 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3141 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3142
f05da2e8
PH
314342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3144
d6453af2
PH
314543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3146
f7b63901
PH
314744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3148
314945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3150 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3151 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3152 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3153 because the tests only now provoked it.
3154
a444213a
PH
315546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3156 (this can affect the format of dates).
3157
0ec020ea
PH
315847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3159 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3160 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3161 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3162
b1206957
PH
316348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3164
316549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3166 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3167 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3168 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3169
26dd5a95
PH
317050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3171 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3172 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3173
343b2385
PH
317451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3175 autoreply.
3176
1c5466b9
PH
317752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3178 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3179 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3180 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3181 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3182 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3183 is going on).
3184
55ee9ee3
PH
318553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3186 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3187 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3188 the line.
3189
d38f8232
PH
319054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3191 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3192 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3193
3194 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3195 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3196 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3197 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3198 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3199 so I produce this patch..."
3200
3295e65b
PH
3201 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3202 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3203 is not defined.
3204
7102e136
PH
320555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3206 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3207 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3208 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3209 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3210
3ca0ba97
PH
321156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3212
c2bcbe20
PH
321357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3214 long debug lines gets shown.
3215
18ce445d
PH
321658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3217 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3218
1f5b4c3d
PH
321959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3220
3221 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3222 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3223 of $primary_hostname.
3224
b975ba52
PH
322560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3226 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3227 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3228 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3229 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3230 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3231 by change 4.50/55 above.
3232
3233 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3234 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3235 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3236 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3237 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3238 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3239 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3240
324161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3242 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3243 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3244 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3245
17ffcae7
PH
324662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3247 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3248
d95f9fdb
PH
324963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3250 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3251 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3252 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3253 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3254
86b8287f
PH
325564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3256 This has been fixed.
3257
60dc5e56
PH
325865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3259 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3260 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3261 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3262 the caching.)
3263
533244af
PH
326466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3265
a5a28604
PH
326667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3267 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3268 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3269 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3270
7e634d24
PH
327168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3272 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3273
3e11c26b
PH
327469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3275 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3276 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3277
6729cf78
PH
327870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3279 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3280 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3281 message there.
3282
00f00ca5
PH
328371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3284 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3285 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3286
c9bdd01c
PH
328772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3288 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3289 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3290 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3291
d43194df
PH
329273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3293 during host lookups.
3294
fe5b5d0b
PH
329574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3296 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3297
3298 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3299
76a2d7ba
PH
330075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3301 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3302 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3303 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3304 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3305 background.
3306
330776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3308 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3309
04f7d5b9
PH
331077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3311 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3312 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3313
bc60667e
PH
331478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3315
bb6e88ff
PH
331679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3317 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3318 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3319 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3320 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3321 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3322 process earlier.
3323
1e70f85b
PH
332480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3325 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3326 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3327 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3328 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3329
333081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3331 tables).
3332
4e01f9d6
PH
333382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3334
1ee1cef2
PH
333583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3336 "vacation" handling.
3337
6e2b4ccc
PH
333884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3339 OS variants using glibc.
3340
8e669ac1
PH
334185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3342
495ae4b0 3343
bbe902f0
PH
3344----------------------------------------------------
3345See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3346----------------------------------------------------
3347
3348
3349Exim version 4.44
3350-----------------
3351
3352 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3353 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3354 transport
3355
3356 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3357 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3358 place.
3359
3360 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3361 filter fails to execute.
3362
3363 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3364 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3365 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3366 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3367 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3368
3369 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3370 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3371 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3372 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3373
3374 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3375 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3376 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3377 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3378 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3379
3380 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3381
3382 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3383 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3384 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3385 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3386
3387 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3388 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3389 sender verification.
3390
339110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3392 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3393
339411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3395 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3396
339712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3398 ignore_target_hosts.
3399
340013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3401 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3402 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3403 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3404 "[x.x.x.x]".
3405
340614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3407 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3408 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3409
341015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3411 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3412 wake it up if nothing else does.
3413
341416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3415 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3416 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3417 end up negative.
3418
341917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3420 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3421
ea3a6f44 342218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3423
342419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3425 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3426 empty pattern.
3427
342820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3429 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3430 one IP address.
3431
ea3a6f44
NM
343221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3433 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3434 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3435 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3436 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3437 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3438
ea3a6f44
NM
343922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3440 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3441 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3442
344323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3444 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3445 $sender_host_address.
3446
344724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3448
ea3a6f44
NM
344925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3450 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3451 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3452
345326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3454 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3455
ea3a6f44
NM
345627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3457 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3458
ea3a6f44
NM
345928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3460 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3461 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3462 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3463
346429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3465 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3466 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3467
ea3a6f44
NM
346830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3469 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3470 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3471 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3472
ea3a6f44
NM
347331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3474 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3475 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3476
ea3a6f44
NM
347731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3478 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3479
ea3a6f44
NM
348032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3481 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3482 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3483 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3484 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3485 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3486 is going on).
bbe902f0 3487
ea3a6f44
NM
348833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3489 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3490 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3491 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3492 CAN-2005-0021
3493
ea3a6f44
NM
349434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3495 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3496 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3497 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3498 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3499 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3500 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3501
3502 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3503 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3504 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3505 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3506 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3507 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3508 CAN-2005-0021
3509
ea3a6f44
NM
351035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3511 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3512 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3513 CAN-2005-0022
3514
ea3a6f44
NM
351536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3516 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3517 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3518 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3519 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3520
ea3a6f44
NM
352137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3522 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3523 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3524 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3525 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3526
ea3a6f44
NM
352738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3528 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3529 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3530 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3531 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3532
3533
495ae4b0
PH
3534Exim version 4.43
3535-----------------
3536
3537 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3538 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3539 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3540 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3541 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3542 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3543 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3544
3545 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3546 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3547 the delivery.
3548
3549 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3550
3551 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3552
3553 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3554 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3555 to local_scan().
3556
3557 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3558 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3559 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3560 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3561 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3562
3563 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3564 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3565
3566 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3567
3568 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3569
357010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3571 header_sender only.
3572
357311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3574 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3575
357612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3577 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3578 affecting debugging statements).
3579
358013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3581
358214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3583 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3584 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3585 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3586 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3587 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3588 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3589 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3590 after the received time, and all would be well.
3591
359215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3593 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3594 condition in an expansion string.
3595
359616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3597
359817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3599 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3600 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3601 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3602 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3603 job under whatever limits there are.
3604
360518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3606
360719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3608 space).
3609
361020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3611 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3612 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3613 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3614 return path is set.
3615
361621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3617 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3618 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3619 binary data in such strings.
3620
362122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3622
362323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3624 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3625 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3626 failure, which is pointless.
3627
362824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3629
363025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3631
363226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3633 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3634 Sender: header lines.
3635
363627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3637 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3638 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3639
364028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3641 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3642 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3643 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3644 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3645 happens.
3646
364729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3648 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3649 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3650 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3651 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3652
365330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3654 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3655 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3656 1024.
3657
365831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3659 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3660
366132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3662 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3663
366433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3665
366632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3667
366833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3669
367034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3671 syntax error.
3672
367335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3674
367536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3676
367737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3678 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3679 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3680 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3681
368238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3683 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3684
3685
3686Exim version 4.42
3687-----------------
3688
3689 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3690 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3691 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3692 it was not quoted.
3693 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3694 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3695 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3696 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3697 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3698 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3699
3700 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3701 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3702 verification failure".
3703
3704 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3705 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3706 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3707 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3708
3709 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3710 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3711 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3712 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3713 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3714 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3715 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3716 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3717 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3718 treated as a timeout.
3719
3720 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3721 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3722 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3723 not set for Exim filters).
3724
3725 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3726 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3727 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3728
3729 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3730
3731 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3732 try to make them clearer.
3733
3734 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3735 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3736
3737 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3738
3739 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3740
374110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3742 only the Cygwin environment.
3743
374411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3745 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3746 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3747 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3748 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3749
375012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3751 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3752 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3753 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3754 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3755 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3756 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3757
375813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3759 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3760
376114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3762
3763 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3764 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3765 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3766
3767 To: susanne@some.where
3768
3769 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3770 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3771 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3772 of addresses in From: header lines).
3773
3774 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3775 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3776 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3777
3778 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3779 treated as non-personal.
3780
3781 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3782 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3783
378415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3785
378616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3787
378817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3789 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3790 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3791
379218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3793 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3794
379519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3796 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3797 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3798 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3799 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3800 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3801
380220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3803 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3804 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3805 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3806 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3807 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3808 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3809 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3810
3811 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3812
381321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3814 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3815
381622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3817 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3818 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3819
382023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3821 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3822
382324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3824 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3825 rather than long int.
3826
382725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3828
382926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3830
3831
3832Exim version 4.41
3833-----------------
3834
3835 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3836 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3837 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3838 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3839 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3840 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3841
3842
3843Exim version 4.40
3844-----------------
3845
3846 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3847 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3848
3849 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3850 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3851 socklen_t is defined.
3852
3853 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3854 always exist.
3855
3856 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3857 configured.
3858
3859 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3860 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3861 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3862 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3863 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3864
3865 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3866 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3867 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3868 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3869
3870 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3871 of flapping under certain conditions.
3872
3873 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3874 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3875 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3876
3877 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3878
387910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3880
388111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3882 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3883 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3884 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3885
388612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3887 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3888 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3889 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3890 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3891 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3892 preserved with the message after it was received.
3893
389413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3895 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3896 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3897 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3898 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3899 test suite worked just fine.
3900
390114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3902 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3903 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3904
390515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3906 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3907 string.
3908
390916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3910 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3911 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3912 does not fully solve it.
3913
391417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3915 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3916 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3917 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3918 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3919
392018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3921 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3922 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3923
392419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3925 string, for example:
3926
3927 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3928
3929 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3930 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3931 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3932 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3933 the routers could not see them.
3934
393520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3936 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3937
393821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3939 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3940 output).
3941
394222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3943 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3944 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3945 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3946 that needed quoting.
3947
394823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3949 was not being matched caselessly.
3950
395124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3952 backslashes.
3953
395425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3955 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3956 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3957 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3958 when use_sender is false.
3959
396026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3961
396227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3963
396428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3965
396629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3967 the configuration file.
3968
396930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3970 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3971
397231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3973
397432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3975 bytes in the message body.
3976
397733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3978 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3979 delivery.
3980
398134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3982
398335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3984
398536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3986 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3987 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3988 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3989 another IP address.
3990
3991
3992Exim version 4.34
3993-----------------
3994
3995 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3996 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3997
3998 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3999 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4000 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4001 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4002 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4003
4004 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4005 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4006
4007 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4008 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4009 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4010
4011 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4012 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4013 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4014
4015 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4016 for routers.
4017
4018 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4019 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4020 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4021 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4022 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4023 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4024 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4025
4026
4027Exim version 4.33
4028-----------------
4029
4030 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4031 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4032 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4033 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4034 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4035 default (and expected) setting.
4036
4037 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4038 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4039 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4040 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4041
4042 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4043 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4044
4045 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4046 in domain lists.
4047
4048 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4049 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4050 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4051 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4052 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4053 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4054
4055 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4056 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4057 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4058
4059 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4060 part (NOT match_host).
4061
4062 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4063
4064 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4065 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4066 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4067 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4068 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4069 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4070 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4071 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4072 the same named file.
4073
407410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4075 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4076 when Exim is built.
4077
407811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4079 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4080 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4081 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4082 a host name.
4083
408412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4085 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4086 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4087
408813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4089
409014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4091
409215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4093
409416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4095 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4096
409717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4098 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4099 before starting the TLS session.
4100
410118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4102
410319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4104 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4105
410620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4107 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4108 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4109 colon in the middle).
4110
4111
4112Exim version 4.32
4113-----------------
4114
4115 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4116 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4117 multiple configurations are in use.
4118
4119 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4120 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4121 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4122 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4123 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4124 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4125
4126 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4127 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4128
4129 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4130 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4131 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4132
4133 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4134 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4135 occurs.
4136
4137 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4138 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4139
4140 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4141
4142 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4143 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4144
4145 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4146
4147 -prval:sval
4148
4149 is equivalent to
4150
4151 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4152
4153 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4154 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4155 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4156 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4157 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4158
415910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4160 Exim's behaviour:
4161
4162 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4163 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4164 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4165 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4166 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4167 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4168
4169 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4170 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4171 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4172 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4173 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4174 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4175 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4176 string.
4177
4178 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4179 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4180 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4181 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4182 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4183
418411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4185
418612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4187 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4188 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4189
419013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4191
419214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4193 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4194 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4195 information.
4196
419715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4198 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4199
420016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4201 Three changes have been made:
4202
4203 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4204 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4205 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4206 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4207 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4208
4209 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4210 been restored.
4211
4212 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4213 the modified behaviour.
4214
4215
4216Exim version 4.31
4217-----------------
4218
4219 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4220 Larry Rosenman.
4221
4222 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4223 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4224
4225 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4226 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4227 try to track down a specific problem.
4228
4229 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4230 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4231 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4232
4233 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4234 warning.
4235
4236 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4237 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4238 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4239 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4240 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4241 some earlier ones do not.
4242
4243 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4244
4245 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4246 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4247 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4248 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4249 address literals are enabled, of course).
4250
4251 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4252
425310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4254 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4255 by a command such as
4256
4257 exim -f "" ...
4258
4259 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4260
426111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4262
426312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4264 remained set. It is now erased.
4265
426613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4267 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4268
426914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4270 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4271 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4272 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4273 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4274 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4275 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4276 appropriate error code.
4277
427815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4279 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4280 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4281 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4282 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4283 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4284
428516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4286 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4287 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4288
428917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4290 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4291 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4292 terminate the header.
4293
429418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4295 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4296 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4297
429819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4299 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4300 (4.30/29). In particular:
4301
4302 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4303 imposed.
4304
4305 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4306 to write a maildirsize file.
4307
4308 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4309 the transport, the new value overrides.
4310
4311 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4312 count.
4313
431420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4315 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4316 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4317 space or a tab.
4318
431921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4320 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4321 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4322 the fallback hosts.
4323
432422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4325 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4326 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4327
432823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4329 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4330 using a union.
4331
433224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4333 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4334 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4335
433625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4337
433826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4339
434027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4341
434228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4343 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4344 become corrupted.
4345
434629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4347 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4348 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4349 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4350 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4351 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4352 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4353 too great.
4354
435530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4356 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4357 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4358 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4359 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4360 incorrectly.
4361
436231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4363 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4364 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4365 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4366 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4367 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4368 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4369 cached value only when the same options are set.
4370
437132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4372
437333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4374 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4375 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4376 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4377 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4378
437934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4380 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4381 it is clearly obsolete.
4382
438335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4384 transport.
4385
438636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4387 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4388 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4389 times.
4390
439137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4392 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4393 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4394 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4395 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4396
439738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4398 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4399 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4400 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4401
440239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4403
4404 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4405
4406 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4407 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4408 2^31.
4409
441040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4411 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4412 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4413 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4414 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4415 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4416 $localpart_data.
4417
441841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4419 with the -f command-line option.
4420
442142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4422 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4423 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4424 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4425 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4426 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4427
442843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4429 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4430 line.
4431
443244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4433 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4434 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4435 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4436 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4437 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4438 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4439 buffer is too small.
4440
444145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4442 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4443
444446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4445 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4446 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4447 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4448 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4449 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4450 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4451 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4452 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4453
445447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4455 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4456 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4457
445848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4459 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4460 ACL").
4461
446249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4463 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4464 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4465 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4466 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4467
446850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4469 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4470 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4471 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4472 is set.
4473
447451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4475
447652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4477
447853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4479 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4480
448154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4482 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4483 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4484
448555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4486 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4487 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4488 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4489 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4490
449156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4492 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4493 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4494 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4495 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4496 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4497 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4498
449957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4500 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4501 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4502 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4503 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4504 the test of how many are available.
4505
450658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4507 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4508 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4509 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4510 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4511 new message is started.
4512
451359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4514 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4515
451660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4517 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4518
451961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4520 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4521 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4522 is no long logged.
4523
452462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4525 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4526 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4527 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4528 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4529 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4530 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4531
453263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4533 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4534 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4535 interpreted as octal.
4536
453764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4538 setting.
4539
454065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4541 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4542 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4543 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4544 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4545 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4546
454766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4548 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4549 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4550 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4551
4552 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4553 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4554 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4555 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4556
4557 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4558 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4559 is a bug fix.
4560
4561 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4562 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4563
456467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4565
456668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4567 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4568 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4569 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4570
457169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4572 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4573 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4574 supplied", which is not helpful.
4575
457670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4577 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4578 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4579
458071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4581 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4582 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4583 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4584 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4585 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4586 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4587 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4588
458972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4590 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4591 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4592 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4593 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4594
459573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4596 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4597 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4598 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4599 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4600 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4601
460274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4603 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4604 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4605
460675. Added write_rejectlog option.
4607
460876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4609 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4610 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4611 variables.
4612
461377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4614
461578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4616 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4617 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4618 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4619 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4620 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4621 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4622 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4623
462479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4625 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4626 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4627 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4628 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4629
463080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4631 Haardt.
4632
463381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4634 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4635 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4636 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4637 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4638 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4639 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4640 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4641 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4642
4643
4644Exim version 4.30
4645-----------------
4646
4647 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4648 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4649 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4650
4651 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4652 fixed.
4653
4654 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4655 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4656 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4657
4658 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4659 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4660 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4661 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4662 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4663 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4664
4665 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4666 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4667 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4668 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4669 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4670 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4671 the Exim test suite.
4672
4673 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4674 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4675 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4676 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4677
4678 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4679 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4680 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4681 specify it in this variable.
4682
4683 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4684 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4685 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4686 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4687
4688 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4689 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4690 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4691 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4692
4693 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4694 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4695 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4696 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4697 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4698
4699 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4700
470110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4702 they are logged.
4703
470411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4705 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4706 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4707 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4708 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4709
471012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4711 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4712
471313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4714 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4715 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4716 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4717 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4718
471914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4720 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4721
472215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4723 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4724 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4725
472616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4727 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4728
472917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4730 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4731
473218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4733 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4734 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4735
473619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4737 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4738
473920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4740 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4741 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4742 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4743
474421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4745
474622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4747 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4748 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4749 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4750
475123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4752
475324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4754 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4755
475625. Added .include_if_exists.
4757
475826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4759 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4760 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4761 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4762 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4763 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4764
476527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4766
476728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4768 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4769 this.
4770
477129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4772
477330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4774 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4775
4776 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4777 550 Sender verify failed
4778
4779 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4780 the final line of the response.
4781
478231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4783 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4784 all other user lookups.
4785
478632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4787 delivery time.
4788
478933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4790 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4791 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4792 result into an int without checking.
4793
479434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4795 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4796 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4797
479835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4799 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4800 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4801 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4802
480336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4804 correctly.
4805
480637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4807 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4808
480938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4810 to the empty sender.
4811
481239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4813 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4814 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4815 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4816 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4817 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4818 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4819 panic log.
4820
482140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4822 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4823 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4824 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4825 used.
4826
482741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4828 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4829
483042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4831 timestamps.
4832
483343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4834 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4835
483644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4837
483845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4839 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4840 logs.
4841
484246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4843 as soon as it is encountered.
4844
484547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4846
484748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4848 rewritten to "<>".
4849
485049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4851 recognizes a tab character.
4852
485350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4854 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4855 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4856 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4857
485851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4859
486052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4861 crash.
4862
486353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4864
486554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4866
486755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4868 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4869 2822.
4870
487156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4872 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4873 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4874 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4875 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4876
487757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4878 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4879
488058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4881 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4882 list (.included file names were always shown).
4883
488459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4885 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4886 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4887 root at that time.
4888
488960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4890 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4891
489261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4893
489462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4895
489663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4897
489864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4899 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4900 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4901 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4902 failures to open the logs.
4903
490465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4905 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4906 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4907 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4908 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4909 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4910 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4911
4912
4913Exim version 4.24
4914-----------------
4915
4916 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4917 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4918 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4919 change 4.23/1.
4920
4921 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4922 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4923 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4924
4925 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4926 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4927 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4928
4929 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4930 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4931 causing some misleading effects.
4932
4933 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4934 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4935 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4936
4937 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4938 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4939 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4940 queue-runner function directly.
4941
4942
4943Exim version 4.23
4944-----------------
4945
4946 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4947 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4948
4949 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4950 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4951 was always written to the default place.
4952
4953 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4954 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4955 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4956
4957 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4958
4959 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4960
4961 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4962 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4963 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4964
4965 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4966 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4967 must start.
4968
4969 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4970 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4971 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4972
4973 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4974 command line option is disabled.
4975
4976 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4977 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4978
4979 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4980
4981 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4982
4983 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4984 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4985
498610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4987
498811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4989 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4990 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4991 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4992 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4993 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4994
499512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4996 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4997 timeout.
4998
499913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5000 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5001
500214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5003 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5004
500515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5006 received was valid base64.
5007
500816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5009 name of the variable that was being set.
5010
501117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5012
501318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5014 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5015 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5016 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5017 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5018 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5019
502019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5021
502220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5023 nor realm was specified.
5024
502521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5026 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5027 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5028 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5029
503022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5031 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5032 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5033
503423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5035 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5036 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5037
503824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5039 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5040 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5041 some systems use these upper case variants.
5042
504325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5044 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5045 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5046 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5047
504826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5049
505027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5051 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5052
505328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5054 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5055 expansion variable.
5056
505729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5058
505930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5060 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5061 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5062 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5063
506431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5065 using it.
5066
506732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5068 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5069 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5070
507133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5072 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5073
507434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5075 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5076 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5077 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5078
507935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5080 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5081 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5082
508336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5084
508537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5086 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5087 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5088 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5089 aborted.
5090
509138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5092 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5093 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5094
509539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5096
509740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5098 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5099
510041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5101 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5102
510342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5104 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5105 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5106 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5107 when emails are that large.
5108
5109
5110
5111Exim version 4.22
5112-----------------
5113
5114 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5115 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5116
5117 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5118 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5119 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5120
5121 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5122 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5123 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5124
5125 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5126 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5127 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5128 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5129 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5130
5131 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5132 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5133 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5134 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5135 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5136 ever.
5137
5138 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5139 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5140 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5141 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5142 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5143 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5144 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5145 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5146 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5147 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5148 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5149 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5150 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5151 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5152
5153 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5154 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5155 parameterised it.
5156
5157 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5158 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5159 error should be diagnosed.
5160
5161 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5162 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5163 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5164 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5165 appeared instead of "NULL".
5166
516710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5168 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5169 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5170 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5171 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5172 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5173 proceeds).
5174
5175 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5176 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5177 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5178
5179
5180Exim version 4.21
5181-----------------
5182
5183 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5184 or receiver verification errors.
5185
5186 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5187 name.
5188
5189 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5190 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5191 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5192 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5193
5194 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5195 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5196 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5197 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5198 shouldn't happen again.
5199
5200 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5201 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5202 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5203
5204 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5205 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5206
5207 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5208
5209 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5210 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5211
5212 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5213 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5214 RFC.
5215
521610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5217 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5218 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5219
522011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5221 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5222 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5223 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5224
522512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5226 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5227 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5228 to define what should happen).
5229
523013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5231 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5232 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5233
523414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5235
523615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5237
523816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5239 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5240
524117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5242 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5243 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5244 structure in all cases.
5245
5246 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5247 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5248 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5249 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5250
525118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5252 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5253 domain name.
5254
525519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5256 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5257
525820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5259 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5260
526121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5262 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5263 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5264
526522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5266 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5267 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5268
526923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5270 the book and for uniformity.
5271
527224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5273
527425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5275 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5276 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5277 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5278 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5279 non-existent command as the problem.
5280
528126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5282 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5283 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5284
528527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5286
528728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5288 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5289 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5290
529129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5292 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5293 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5294 timestamps using strftime().
5295
529630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5297 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5298
529932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5300 transport-time rewrites.
5301
530233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5303 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5304 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5305 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5306
530734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5308 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5309
531035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5311 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5312 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5313 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5314 comma and a space.
5315
531636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5317 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5318 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5319 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5320 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5321 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5322 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5323
532437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5325 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5326 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5327 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5328 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5329
533038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5331 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5332 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5333 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5334 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5335 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5336 remaining text gets split now.
5337
533839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5339 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5340 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5341 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5342
534340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5344 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5345 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5346 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5347 $return_path.
5348
534941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5350 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5351 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5352 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5353 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5354 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5355 passed through if needed.
5356
535742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5358 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5359 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5360 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5361 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5362 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5363
536443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5365 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5366 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5367 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5368 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5369
537044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5371 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5372 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5373 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5374 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5375
537645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5377 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5378 noticed.
5379
538046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5381 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5382 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5383 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5384 mayhem of various kinds.
5385
538647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5387 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5388 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5389 the right test for positive values.
5390
539148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5392 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5393 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5394 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5395 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5396 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5397 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5398 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5399 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5400 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5401 envelope.
5402
540349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5404 module.
5405
540650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5407 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5408 forbidding it.
5409
541051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5411 the existing equality matching.
5412
541352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5414 dealing with inode numbers.
5415
541653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5417 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5418 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5419
542054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5421 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5422 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5423 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5424 local_scan().
5425
542655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5427 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5428 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5429 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5430 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5431 relay addresses has also been removed.
5432
543356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5434
543557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5436 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5437 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5438
543958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5440 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5441 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5442 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5443 processing applies to CR:
5444
5445 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5446 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5447
5448 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5449 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5450 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5451 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5452
545359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5454 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5455 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5456
545760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5458 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5459 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5460 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5461 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5462 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5463 arisen.
5464
546561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5466 program routers.
5467
546862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5469 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5470 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5471 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5472 adds:
5473
5474 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5475
5476 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5477
5478 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5479
548063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5481 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5482 not considered personal.
5483
548464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5485
548665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5487
548866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5489
549067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5491 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5492 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5493 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5494 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5495 header lines, and spool format errors.
5496
549768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5498 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5499 for more flexibility.
5500
550169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5502 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5503 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5504
550570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5506 Sabourenkov.
5507
550871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5509 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5510 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5511 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5512 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5513 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5514 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5515 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5516 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5517
551872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5519 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5520 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5521 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5522 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5523 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5524 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5525
552673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5527 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5528 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5529
553074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5531 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5532 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5533 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5534 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5535 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5536 instead of killing the process with assert().
5537
553875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5539 than Unicode encoding.
5540
554176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5542 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5543 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5544 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5545
554677. Added process_log_path.
5547
554878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5549 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5550
555179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5552 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5553
555480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5555 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5556 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5557
555881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5559 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5560 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5561 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5562 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5563 were applied:
5564
5565 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5566 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5567 as invalid.
5568
556982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5570 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5571 they will be used during message reception.
5572
5573
5574Exim version 4.20
5575-----------------
5576
5577The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5578
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