Typo re-fix in ratelimit.pl doc
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 26
a3fb9793 27PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 32 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 33
d27f98fe 34TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 35
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36TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
37
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38TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
40
ae0e32ee 41TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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45TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 46
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47TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
48
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49TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
50 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
51
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52JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
53
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54JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
55
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56PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
57
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58NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
59 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 60
585121e2 61JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 62
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63PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
64
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65PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
66 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
67
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68JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
69 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
70 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 71
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72JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
73
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74JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
75
ea722490 76JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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77 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
78
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79JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
80 Bugzilla 884.
81
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82JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
83 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
84
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85JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
86 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
87
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88PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
89 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 90 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 91
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92JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
93 authenticators.
94
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95JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
96 for control.
97
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98PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
99
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100PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
101 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
102 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
103 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
104
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105TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
106
107 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
108 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
109 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
110 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
111 the retry rules.
112
113 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
114 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
115 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
116
117 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
118 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
119 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
120 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
121
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122 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
123 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
124 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
125 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
126 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
127 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
128 delivery, as in LMTP.
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129
130 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
131 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
132
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133TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
134
135 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
136
137 Resent-From: f
138
139 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
140 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
141 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
142 username as equal to the username.
143
144 This change corrects that bug.
145
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146GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
147 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
148 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
149
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150TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
151
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152PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
153 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
154 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
155 NULL dereference and crash.
156
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157JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
158
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159PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
160 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
161 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
162
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163SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
164
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165JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
166 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
167 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
168 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
169 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
170 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
171 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
172 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
173 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
174 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
175 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
176
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177PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
178 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
179
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180PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
181 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
182 Bugzilla 880.
183
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184PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
185 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
186 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
187 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
188 an empty string is now equivalent.
189
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190PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
191 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
192 not performing validation itself.
193
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194PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
195 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
196
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197JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
198 Bugzilla 321, 823.
199
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200TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
201
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202PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
203 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
204 other false fix of the same issue.
205 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
206 Bugzilla 1363.
207
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208PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
209 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
210
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211PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
212 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
213 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
214
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215PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
216 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
217 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
218
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219TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
220
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221JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
222
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223TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
224 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
225
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226TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
227 Alexander Miroch.
228
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229TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
230 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
231 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
232 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
233 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 234
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238
239PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
240 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 241 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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b1770b6e 244Exim version 4.80
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246
247PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
248 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
249 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
250
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251NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
252
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253NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
254 improved.
255
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256NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
257
c1e794ba 258PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 259
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260PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
261
262PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
263 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
264
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265PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
266 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
267
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268PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
269 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
270
f1e05cc7 271PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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272 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
273 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 274
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275PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
276
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277PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
278 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
279
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280PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
281
c45dd180 282PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 283
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284PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
285 non-compliant senders.
286 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
287
eae0036b 288NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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289 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
290 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
291
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292PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
293 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
294 in spool file corruption.
295
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296PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
297 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
298 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
299 "Got SSL error 2".
300
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301TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
302 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
303 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
304
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305JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
306 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
307
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308JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
309
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310PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
311 diagnostics.
312 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
313
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314PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
315 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
316 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
317
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318PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
319 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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320 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
321 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 322
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323PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
324 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
325
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326PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
327 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
328 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
329 resolver implementation change.
330
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331PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
332 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
333
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334PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
335
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336PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
337
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338PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
339 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
340
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341PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
342 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
343
9e45c72b 344JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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345 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
346
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347PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
348 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
349 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
350 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 351 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 352
53947857 353PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 354
eae0036b 355PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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356 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
357 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 358
9e45c72b 359JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 360
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361PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
362 read-only, out of scope).
363 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
364
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365PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
366 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
367 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
368 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
369
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370PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
371
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372PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
373 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
374 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
375 real issues in debug logging.
376
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377PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
378 assignment on my part. Fixed.
379
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380PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
381 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
382 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
383
384PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
385 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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386 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
387 problems.
3375e053 388
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389PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
390 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
391
57eb9e91 392PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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393 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
394 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
395 needs to override this, it can.
396
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397PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
398 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
399 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
400
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401PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
402 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
403 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
404 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
405
3ecab157 406PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
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411
412PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
413 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
414
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415TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
416
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417TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
418 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 419
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420TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
421 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
422
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423TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
424 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
425 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
426
427 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
428 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
429 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
430 not safe for signals.
431
432 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
433 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
434 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
435 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
436 exiwhat.
437
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438TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
439
440 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
441 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
442 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
443 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
444 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
445
446 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
447 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
448 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
449 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
450 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
451 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
452
453 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
454 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
455 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
456 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
457
458 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
459 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
460 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
461 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
462
463 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
464 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
465 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
466 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
467 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
468 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
469 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
470 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
471 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
472
473 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
474 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
475 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
476 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
477
478 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
479 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
480 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
481 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
482 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
483 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
484 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
485 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
486 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
487 details in the main documentation.
488
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489TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
490
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491TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
492
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493TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
494 repository when doing development or release builds.
495
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496PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
497 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 498
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499PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
500 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
501 Bugzilla 97.
502
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503PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
504
9e949f00 505PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
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506 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
507
508PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
509 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 510
555ae6af 511PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
512 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
513
514PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
515 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 516
6f7fe114
PP
517PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
518 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
519
c566dd90
PP
520PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
521 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
522 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
523 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 524
d6cc7c78 525PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
526 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
527 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
528
0d0e4455
PP
529PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
530
3399bb60 531PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
532
533PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
534 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
535
0ca0cf52 536
10906672
PP
537Exim version 4.76
538-----------------
539
540PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
541
754a0503
PP
542PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
543 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
544
c0c7b2da
PP
545PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
546
e97d1f08
PP
547PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
548
084c1d8c
PP
549PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
550 Bugzilla 1098.
551
4e7ee012
PP
552PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
553 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 554
c8d52a00
PP
555TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
556 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
557
54e7ce4a
PP
558PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
559 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
560
5ee6f336
PP
561PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
562 Bugzilla 1104.
563
c8d52a00 564TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
565 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
566
567TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
568 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
569 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
570 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
571
572PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
573 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 574
10906672 575
aa097c4c
NM
576Exim version 4.75
577-----------------
578
4c9ef03a 579NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
580 Bugzilla 1073
581
7f3d9eff
TF
582TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
583 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
584 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
585
159f52d2
TF
586TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
587 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
588
0cc9542a
PP
589PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
590 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
591 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
592
f7274286
PP
593PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
594 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
595
7b797365
PP
596PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
597 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
598
caacae52
NM
599NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
600 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
601
09dcaba9
NM
602NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
603 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
604
bc19a55b
PP
605PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
606 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 607
bd4c9759
NM
608NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
609 Fixes bug 943.
610
b72aab72
PP
611PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
612 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
613
2fe76745
PP
614PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
615 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
616
76aa570c
PP
617PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
618 SQL string expansion failure details.
619 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
620
f1e5fef5
PP
621PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
622 Patch from Simon Arlott.
623
4d805ee9
PP
624PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
625 extern declarations in function scope.
626 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
627
cd59ab18
PP
628PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
629 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
630 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
631 a kernel bug).
632
332f5cf3
PP
633PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
634 Patch from Mark Zealey.
635
29cfeb94
PP
636PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
637 Patch from Mark Zealey.
638
660242ad
PP
639PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
640 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
641
bc4bc4c5
PP
642PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
643 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
644
2e64baa9
NM
645NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
646 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
647 Dennis Davis.
648
bddd7526
PP
649PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
650
6bac1a9a
PP
651PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
652
552193f0
NM
653NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
654 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 655
1b587e48
TF
656TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
657 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
658
aa097c4c 659
8c07b69f
TF
660Exim version 4.74
661-----------------
662
663TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
664 consequences so log it to the panic log.
665
c0ea85ab
TF
666TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
667 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
668
0761d44e
TF
669TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
670
0a349494
PP
671DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
672 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
673 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
674
675PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
676 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
677 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
678
fea24b2e
PP
679PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
680 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
681 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
682 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
683
6545de78
PP
684PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
685 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
686 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
687 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
688
1670ef10
PP
689PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
690 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
691 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
692 arbitrary files.
693
c0886197
PP
694PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
695 (Wolfgang Breyha)
696
b7487bce
PP
697PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
698 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
699 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
700 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
701 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
702
8c07b69f 703
97fd1e48 704Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 705-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
706
707PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
708 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
709 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
710
6901c596
PP
711PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
712 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
713
a8c8d6b5
JJ
714JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
715
77bb000f
PP
716PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
717
a29e5231
PP
718PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
719
ec5a0394 720PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 721
55c75993
PP
722PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
723
453a6645 724PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
725 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
726 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
727 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
728
8544e77a
PP
729PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
730 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
731 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
732 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
733 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 734
83e029d5
PP
735PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
736
ed7f7860
PP
737PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
738
7d9f747b
PP
739PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
740
4b2241d2
PP
741PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
742
10385c15
PP
743PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
744
dbc4b90d
PP
745PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
746
532be449
PP
747PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
748
6a8de854 749PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
750 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
751 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 752
5dc43717
JJ
753JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
754
755JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
756 "exim" to be used
55c75993 757
3346ab01
PP
758PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
759 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
760
491fab4c
PP
761PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
762 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
763 Notification from John Horne.
764
13eb9497
PP
765PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
766 compatible.
767
768PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
769 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
770 it normally works.
771
7f36d675
DW
772DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
773 access.
774
c1d94452
DW
775DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
776 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
777 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
778
e2f5dc15
DW
779DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
780 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
781 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
782 configuration file.
783
cd25e41d
DW
784DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
785 option (effectively making it always true).
786
261dc43e
DW
787DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
788 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
789
fa32850b
DW
790DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
791 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
792
79d4bc3d
PP
793PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
794 run-time user, instead of root.
795
43236f35 796PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
797 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
798
fb08281f
DW
799DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
800 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
801 arguments.
3346ab01 802
74935b98
DW
803DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
804 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
805 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
806
90b6341f
DW
807DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
808
57730b52
ML
809NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
810
66581d1e 811
465e92cf
JJ
812Exim version 4.72
813-----------------
814
453a6645
PP
815JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
816 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
817 typos
465e92cf 818
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PP
819JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
820 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
821 (Finput)
edae0343 822
9bd3e22c
NM
823NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
824 Patch from Alain Williams
825
bb576ff7
NM
826NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
827
5a1a5845
NM
828NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
829 Patch from Andreas Metzler
830
981a9fad
NM
831NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
832 Patch from Kirill Miazine
833
7fc497ee
NM
834NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
835
1a41defa
JJ
836JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
837
a466095c 838NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 839 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 840
94a6bd0b
NM
841TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
842
843TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
844
845MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
846 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
847 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
848
c1b141a8
NM
849NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
850 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 851
b26eacf1 852NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
853 Patch by Simon Arlott
854
179c5980 855PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 856 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 857
9bd3e22c 858
7c6d71af
NM
859Exim version 4.71
860-----------------
861
7d9f747b 862TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 863
f013fb92
NM
864NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
865
0eb8eedd
NM
866NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
867
663ee6d9
NM
868NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
869
177ebd9b
NM
870NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
871
7c6d71af 872
210f147e
NM
873Exim version 4.70
874-----------------
875
cdd3bb85 876TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 877 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
878
879TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
880 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 881 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
882
883TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
884 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 885 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
886
887TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
888 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
889
210f147e
NM
890NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
891 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
892 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
893 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
894
deafd5b3
NM
895NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
896 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 897 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 898
089793a4
TF
899TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
900
5f16ca82
TF
901TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
902
dae9d94e 903NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 904 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 905
7d9f747b 906NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 907
06864c44
TF
908TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
909 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
910 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
911 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
912
65a7d8c3 913NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 914 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 915
23510047 916TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 917
7d9f747b 918NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 919
7d8eec3a 920NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 921 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 922
89dec7b6
TF
923TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
924 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 925
a99de90c
TF
926TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
927 that they are available at delivery time.
928
e2803e40
TF
929TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
930
7199e1ee
TF
931TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
932 incoming_port log selectors.
933
e276e04b
TF
934TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
935 setting expands to an empty string.
936
ce552449 937NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 938 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 939
e765a0f1 940NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 941 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 942
4f054c63 943NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 944 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 945
7d9f747b
PP
946NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
947 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 948
7d9f747b
PP
949NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
950 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 951
b52bc06e 952NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 953 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 954
447de4b0
NM
955NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
956
4c69d561 957NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 958 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 959
d5c39246 960NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 961 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 962
0b23848a
TK
963TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
964
8f3414a1 965NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 966 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 967
fb6f955d
NM
968NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
969
970NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 971
7d9f747b
PP
972NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
973 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 974
7d9f747b
PP
975NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
976 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 977
7d9f747b
PP
978NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
979 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 980
7d9f747b
PP
981NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
982 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 983
7d9f747b
PP
984NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
985 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 986
7d9f747b
PP
987NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
988 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 989
7d9f747b
PP
990NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
991 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 992
7d9f747b 993NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 994 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 995
7d9f747b 996NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 997
7d9f747b
PP
998NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
999 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1000
7d9f747b 1001NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1002
7d9f747b 1003NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1004
7d9f747b 1005NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1006
7d9f747b 1007NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1008
17792b53 1009NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1010 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1011
7d9f747b
PP
1012NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1013 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1014
91576cec 1015NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1016 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1017
7d9f747b
PP
1018NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1019 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1020
7d9f747b 1021NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1022
7d9f747b 1023NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1024
7d9f747b 1025NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1026
7d9f747b 1027NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1028
deafd5b3 1029
47db1125
NM
1030Exim version 4.69
1031-----------------
1032
4b3504d0
TK
1033TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1034 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1035 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1036
1037 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1038 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1039 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1040 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1041 build errors in sieve.c.
1042
81ea09ca
NM
1043NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1044 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1045 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1046
f13cddcb
SC
1047SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1048
7d9f747b 1049NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1050
7d9f747b 1051NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1052
7d9f747b 1053NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1054
1055
eb4c0de6
PH
1056Exim version 4.68
1057-----------------
1058
1059PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1060
6a3bceb1
PH
1061PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1062 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1063 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1064 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1065 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1066 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1067 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1068 for iplsearch lookups.
1069
1070 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1071 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1072 previously such lookups could never work.
1073
1074 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1075 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1076 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1077
2e30fa9d
TK
1078TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1079 version.
1080
0806a9c5
MH
1081MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1082 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1083 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1084 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1085 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1086 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1087
ae276964
TK
1088TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1089 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1090
0f2cbd1b
MH
1091MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1092 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1093 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1094 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1095 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1096 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1097
2b85bce7
PH
1098PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1099 local_scan API.
1100
93655c46
PH
1101PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1102
6c512171
PH
1103PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1104 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1105 encrypted.
1106
1107PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1108 by clients under certain conditions.
1109
aa6dc513
PH
1110PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1111 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1112
a96603a0
PH
1113PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1114
8f240103
PH
1115PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1116 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1117
1118PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1119
d677b2f2
PH
1120PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1121
d52120f2
PH
1122PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1123
64f2600a
PH
1124PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1125 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1126
8669f003
PH
1127PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1128
a4dc33a8
PH
1129PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1130 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1131
d6a60c0f
PH
1132PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1133
8f128379
PH
1134PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1135
8932dffe
PH
1136PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1137 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1138 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1139 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1140
ddea74fa 1141PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1142 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1143 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1144
ddea74fa 1145PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1146 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1147
ddea74fa
PH
1148PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1149
ce9f225c
PH
1150PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1151
19897d52
PH
1152PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1153
bc64a74d
PH
1154PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1155 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1156 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1157
eb4c0de6 1158
b4ed4da0
PH
1159Exim version 4.67
1160-----------------
1161
22ad45c9
MH
1162MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1163 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1164 Jan Srzednicki.
1165
b4ed4da0
PH
1166PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1167 issue a MAIL command.
1168
431b7361
PH
1169PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1170
1171 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1172
1173 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1174 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1175 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1176 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1177 item. This has been fixed.
1178
1179PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1180 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1181
83da1223
PH
1182PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1183 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1184
54fc8428
PH
1185PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1186 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1187 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1188
34c5e8dd
SC
1189SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1190
bbe15da8
PH
1191PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1192 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1193 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1194 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1195 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1196
0e8a9471
MH
1197MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1198 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1199 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1200
f0872424
PH
1201PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1202 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1203 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1204 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1205
b01dd148
PH
1206PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1207
6bf342e1
PH
1208PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1209
273f34d0
PH
1210PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1211 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1212 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1213 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1214 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1215
cf8b11a5
PH
1216PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1217
41c7c167
PH
1218PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1219 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1220 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1221 values).
1222
9c57cbc0
PH
1223PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1224
f3f065bb
PH
1225PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1226
047bdd8c
PH
1227PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1228
0ce9abe6
PH
1229PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1230
0e22dfd1
PH
1231PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1232
4c590bd1
PH
1233PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1234 no_callout_flush is set.
1235
09945f1e
PH
1236PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1237 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1238 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1239 fixed.
1240
c51b8e75
PH
1241PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1242
e28326d8
PH
1243PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1244 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1245 other ACL rejections are.
1246
75b1493f
PH
1247PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1248 with slight modification.
1249
7c5214ec
PH
1250PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1251 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1252
4311097e
PH
1253PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1254 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1255 connection.
1256
29f89cad
PH
1257PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1258 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1259
5e687460
SC
1260SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1261
c3611384
PH
1262PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1263 expansion side effects.
1264
5a11a7b4
PH
1265PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1266 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1267 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1268 be the same.
1269
0e20aff9
MH
1270MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1271 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1272 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1273
ca86f471
PH
1274PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1275 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1276 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1277 were accidentally chopped off.
1278
a14e5636
PH
1279PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1280 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1281 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1282 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1283 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1284 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1285 pipelining has not been advertised.
1286
ec95d1a6
PH
1287PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1288
42855d71
PH
1289PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1290 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1291 This has been fixed.
1292
57c2c631
PH
1293PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1294 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1295 reported on Solaris.
1296
58c01c94
PH
1297PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1298 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1299 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1300 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1301 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1302 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1303 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1304
dee5a20a
PH
1305PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1306 cpus.
1307
d2ee6114
PH
1308PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1309
b2d5182b
PH
1310PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1311
79749a79
PH
1312PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1313 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1314 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1315 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1316 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1317 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1318
c456d9bb
PH
1319PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1320 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1321 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1322 host_all_ignored option.
1323
cd9868ec
PH
1324PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1325 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1326 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1327 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1328 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1329 is what is supposed to happen).
1330
ebeaf996
PH
1331PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1332 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1333 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1334 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1335 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1336 uses the Exim user.
1337
2679d413
PH
1338PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1339 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1340 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1341 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1342 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1343 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1344 users.
1345
84024b72
PH
1346PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1347
8005d38e
SC
1348SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1349 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1350 (Jez Hancock).
1351 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1352 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1353
3298c6c6
SC
1354SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1355
a43a27c5
PH
1356PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1357
58eb016e 1358PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1359 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1360 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1361 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1362 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1363 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1364 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1365 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1366 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1367 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1368 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1369
b43a74ea
PH
1370PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1371 advertised in response to EHLO.
1372
b4ed4da0 1373
5dd1517f
PH
1374Exim version 4.66
1375-----------------
1376
1377PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1378 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1379
1380 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1381 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1382
1383 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1384 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1385 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1386
1387 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1388 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1389 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1390 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1391 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1392
1393
93cfa765
TK
1394Exim version 4.65
1395-----------------
1396
1397TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1398 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1399 versions. (#438)
1400
d6066548
MH
1401MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1402 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1403 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1404
4362ff0d
PH
1405PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1406 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1407 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1408 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1409 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1410 rather than extend the field.
1411
93cfa765 1412
944e9e9c
TF
1413Exim version 4.64
1414-----------------
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21d74bd9
TK
1416TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1417 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1418 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1419 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1420 these files.
1421
1422TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1423 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1424 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1425
1426TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1427 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1428 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1429
1430TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1431 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1432 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1433 in the field name.
1434
2b1c6e3a
PH
1435PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1436 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1437 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1438 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1439 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1440 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1441 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1442 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1443 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1444 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1445 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1446
1f872c80
PH
1447PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1448 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1449
1450PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1451 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1452 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1453 ignores EPIPE as well.
1454
d203e649
PH
1455PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1456 (quoted-printable decoding).
1457
cc2ed8f7 1458PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1459 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1460
ddfcd446
PH
1461PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1462
d45b1de8
PH
1463PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1464
1465PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1466
38a0a95f 1467PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1468 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1469
a2405d83
JJ
1470JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1471 in 4.64-PH/09.
1472
1473JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1474 miscellaneous code fixes
1475
6ea85e9a
PH
1476PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1477 rejections.
1478
26da7e20
PH
1479PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1480 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1481 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1482 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1483 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1484 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1485 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1486 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1487
14aa5a05 1488PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1489 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1490 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1491 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1492 function.
1493 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1494 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1495 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1496 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1497 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1498 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1499 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1500 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1501 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1502
ff75a1f7
PH
1503PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1504 decoding.
1505
e6f6568e
PH
1506PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1507 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1508 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1509 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1510 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1511 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1512 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1513 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1514
d6f6e0dc
PH
1515PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1516 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1517 list.
1518
322050c2
PH
1519PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1520 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1521 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1522 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1523 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1524 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1525 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1526 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1527 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1528 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1529 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1530 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1531 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1532
08955dd3
PH
1533PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1534 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1535 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1536 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1537 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1538 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1539 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1540
1eccaa59
PH
1541PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1542 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1543 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1544 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1545 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1546 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1547 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1548 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1549 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1550 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1551
602e59e5
PH
1552PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1553 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1554 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1555 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1556 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1557
411ef850
PH
1558PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1559 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1560 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1561 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1562 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1563 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1564 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1565
7befa435
PH
1566PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1567 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1568 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1569 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1570 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1571 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1572 been verified.
1573
48da4259 1574PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1575 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1576 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1577 and authorization.)
1578
48da4259
PH
1579PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1580 if any retry times were supplied.
1581
d1d5595c
PH
1582PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1583 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1584 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1585
0ef732d9
PH
1586PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1587
328895cc
PH
1588PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1589
fd700877
PH
1590PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1591 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1592 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1593 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1594 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1595 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1596
8dce1a6f
PH
1597PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1598 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1599
17af4a17
PH
1600PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1601 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1602 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1603
1604PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1605 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1606 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1607 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1608 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1609 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1610 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1611 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1612 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1613
1614 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1615 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1616 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1617 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1618 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1619 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1620 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1621 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1622 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1623
1624 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1625 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1626 hammering the server.
1627
c1114884
PH
1628PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1629 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1630
7a0743eb
PH
1631PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1632
0d85fa3f
PH
1633PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1634 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1635 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1636
1bf43b78
PH
1637PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1638 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1639 one case where this was not true.
1640
520de300
PH
1641PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1642 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1643 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1644 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1645 fails.
1646
48c7f9e2
PH
1647PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1648 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1649 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1650 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1651 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1652 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1653 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1654 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1655 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1656 smtp transport.
1657
99ea1c86
PH
1658PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1659 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1660 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1661 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1662
a2042e78
PH
1663PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1664 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1665
4fbcfc2e
PH
1666PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1667 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1668 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1669
aa41d2de
PH
1670PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1671
af561417
PH
1672PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1673
3cc66b45
PH
1674PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1675
194cc0e4
PH
1676PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1677 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1678 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1679 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1680
a401ddaa
PH
1681PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1682 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1683
4e88a19f
PH
1684PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1685 be meaningful with "accept".
1686
d7d7b289
SC
1687SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1688 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1689
1690SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1691 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1692 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1693
1694SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1695 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1696 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1697 there is data to show.
1698 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1699
1700SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1701 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1702 as well as the number of messages.
1703
1704SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1705 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1706 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1707
1708SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1709 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1710 have a flag are now skipped.
1711
1712SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1713 Added the -emptyok flag.
1714
1715SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1716 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1717
0ea2a468
JJ
1718JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1719 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1720 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1721
1722JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1723 match 4.64-PH/13
1724
1725JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1726 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1727
1728JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1729
1730JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1731 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1732
8a10f5a4
PH
1733PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1734
30e18802
PH
1735PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1736 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1737 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1738 contravention of the specifications.
1739
55728a4f
PH
1740PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1741 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1742 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1743
d7837193
PH
1744PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1745 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1746 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1747
87054a31
PH
1748PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1749
ea2c01d2
MH
1750MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1751 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1752 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1753 some point in the past.
1754
e4fa6968
PH
1755PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1756 transport during callout processing was broken.
1757
56f5d9bd
PH
1758PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1759 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1760
922e1c28
PH
1761PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1762 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1763
21eb6e72
PH
1764PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1765 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1766
a0540757
PH
1767PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1768
944e9e9c 1769
478be7b0
SC
1770Exim version 4.63
1771-----------------
1772
1773SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1774 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1775
1776SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1777 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1778 there is data to show.
1779 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1780
1781SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1782 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1783
2b965a65
TF
1784TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1785 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1786
45b91596
PH
1787TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1788 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1789
c59f5781
TF
1790TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1791 submissions from trusted users.
1792
90fc3069
TF
1793TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1794 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1795
6083aca0
TF
1796TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1797 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1798 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1799 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1800 there is now a framework to start from.
1801
765b530f
PH
1802PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1803 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1804 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1805
4e167a8c
PH
1806PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1807
4608d683
PH
1808PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1809
b8dc3e4a
PH
1810PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1811
5418e93b
PH
1812PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1813 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1814 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1815
b4a9bda2
PH
1816PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1817 libradius.
1818
45b91596
PH
1819PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1820 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1821 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1822
5547e2c5
PH
1823PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1824 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1825 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1826 its arguments.
1827
dbcef0ea
PH
1828PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1829 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1830 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1831 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1832 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1833
25257489
PH
1834PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1835 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1836
c816d124
PH
1837PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1838
a9ccd69a
PH
1839PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1840 operations in malware.c.
1841
75fa1910
PH
1842PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1843 signatures.
1844
a7d7aa58
PH
1845PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1846 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1847 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1848 all.
1849
42119b09
PH
1850PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1851 statements to "add_header".
1852
41609df5
PH
1853PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1854 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1855
a5bd321b
PH
1856PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1857 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1858 latter.
1859
e85a7ad5 1860PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1861 so that it is now:
1862
e85a7ad5
PH
1863 ${if or { \
1864 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1865 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1866 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1867 }{no}{yes}}
1868
e85a7ad5
PH
1869 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1870 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1871
d8fe1c03
PH
1872PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1873 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1874
16282d2b
PH
1875PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1876 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1877 any possible encoding problems.
1878
35d40a98
PH
1879PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1880 but not after initializing Perl.
1881
034d99ab
PH
1882PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1883 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1884 apparently, which is not desirable.
1885
6ec97b1b
PH
1886PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1887 queries.
1888
e22ca4ac
JJ
1889JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1890 --not options
1891
1892JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1893
33d73e3b
PH
1894PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1895 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1896 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1897 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1898
9ecb03f3
PH
1899PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1900 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1901 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1902
084efe8d
PH
1903PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1904 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1905 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1906 0.12.
1907
366fc9f0
PH
1908PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1909 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1910 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1911 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1912 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1913
c59f5781 1914
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TF
1915Exim version 4.62
1916-----------------
1917
1918TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1919 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1920
1cce3af8
PH
1921PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1922 patch).
1923
afb3eaaf
PH
1924PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1925 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1926 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1927 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1928 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1929 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1930 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1931 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1932 451 error is used.
1933
e173618b
PH
1934PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1935
dd16e114
PH
1936PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1937 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1938 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1939
f7fd3850
PH
1940PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1941 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1942 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1943 odd errors.
1944
d87df92c
PH
1945PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1946 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1947
7e9f683d
PH
1948PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1949 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1950 option (which defaults to 0600).
1951
bfad5236
PH
1952PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1953
01c490df
PH
1954PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1955 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1956 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1957 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1958 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1959 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1960 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1961
d6629cdc
PH
1962PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1963
1cce3af8 1964
214e2000
PH
1965Exim version 4.61
1966-----------------
1967
1968PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1969 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1970 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1971 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1972 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1973 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1974 addresses as local.
1975
f9daeae0
PH
1976PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1977 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1978
7e66e54d
PH
1979PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1980
c8ea1597
PH
1981PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1982 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1983 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1984 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1985 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1986 grumble.
1987
911f6fde
PH
1988PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1989 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1990
47ca6d6c
PH
1991PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1992 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1993 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1994 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1995 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1996
ed0e9820
PH
1997PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1998 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1999 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2000 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2001
eff37e47
PH
2002PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2003 be the same on different OS.
2004
1921d2ea
PH
2005PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2006 testing.
2007
b3f69ca8
JJ
2008JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2009 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2010
2011JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2012 in 4.61-PH/06
2013
424a1c63
PH
2014PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2015 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2016 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2017 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2018 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2019 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2020 bounce message.
2021
7a100415
PH
2022PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2023 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2024 when Exim was called.
2025
19b9dc85
PH
2026PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2027 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2028
309bd837
PH
2029PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2030 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2031 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2032 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2033
59e82a2a
PH
2034PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2035 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2036 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2037 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2038 changes:
2039
2040 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2041 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2042 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2043
2044 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2045 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2046 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2047
9edc04ce
PH
2048PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2049 feature).
2050
1349e1e5
PH
2051PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2052 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2053 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2054 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2055 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2056 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2057 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2058 values from the SRV records were lost.
2059
ea49d0e1
PH
2060PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2061 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2062 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2063
064a94c9
PH
2064PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2065 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2066 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2067
727071f8
PH
2068PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2069 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2070 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2071 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2072 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2073 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2074 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2075 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2076 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2077 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2078
f78eb7c6
PH
2079PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2080 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2081 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2082
21c28500
PH
2083PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2084 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2085
2086PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2087 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2088 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2089 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2090 is given.
2091
1688f43b
PH
2092PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2093 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2094 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2095
2096PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2097 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2098 PH/23 above applies.
2099
9675b384
PH
2100PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2101 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2102 (for which there is an explicit test).
2103
6a3f1455
PH
2104PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2105
dac79d3e
PH
2106PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2107 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2108 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2109 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2110 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2111
5977a0b3
PH
2112PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2113 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2114 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2115 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2116
c91535f3
PH
2117PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2118 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2119 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2120
0d46a8c8
PH
2121PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2122
278c6e6c
PH
2123PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2124
2cbb4081
PH
2125PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2126 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2127 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2128
3eef829e
PH
2129PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2130 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2131 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2132 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2133 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2134
1ab95fa6
PH
2135PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2136 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2137 the message gets confusing).
2138
230205fc
PH
2139PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2140 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2141 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2142 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2143
75e0e026
PH
2144PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2145 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2146 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2147 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2148 same order.
2149
2150PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2151 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2152 the different processes.
2153
145396a6
PH
2154PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2155
3cd34f13
PH
2156PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2157
11121d3d
JJ
2158JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2159 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2160
2161JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2162 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2163
2164JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2165 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2166 messages matching specified criteria.
2167
8def5aaf
PH
2168PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2169
929ba01c
PH
2170PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2171 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2172
2632889e
PH
2173PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2174 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2175 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2176 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2177 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2178 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2179 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2180 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2181 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2182 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2183
944a9c55
PH
2184PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2185 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2186 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2187
4a23603b
PH
2188PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2189
4730f942
PH
2190PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2191 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2192 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2193 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2194 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2195 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2196 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2197 the variable.
2198
30dba1e6
PH
2199PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2200 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2201
382afc6b
PH
2202PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2203
a86229cf
PH
2204PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2205
50c99ba6
PH
2206PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2207
d35e429d
PH
2208PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2209 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2210 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2211 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2212 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2213 size of the count of files.
2214
f90d018c
PH
2215PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2216
75def545
PH
2217PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2218 used in LMTP mode:
2219
2220 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2221 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2222 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2223 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2224
2225 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2226 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2227 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2228
2229PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2230 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2231 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2232 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2233 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2234
c46782ef
PH
2235PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2236 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2237
71fafd95
PH
2238PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2239 will now be deprecated.
2240
2c5db4fd
PH
2241PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2242
9cf6b11a
JJ
2243JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2244 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2245 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2246
2247JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2248 with very large, slow to parse queues
2249
2250JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2251
2252JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2253
898d150f
PH
2254PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2255 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2256 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2257 SMTP output lines.
2258
46218253
PH
2259PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2260 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2261 Sieve code now uses this.
2262
e97957bc
PH
2263PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2264 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2265
81e509d7
PH
2266PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2267 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2268
3d240ff7
PH
2269PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2270
b37c4101
PH
2271PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2272 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2273 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2274 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2275 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2276
79378e0f
PH
2277PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2278 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2279 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2280 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2281
e49c7bb4
PH
2282PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2283
d114ec46
PH
2284PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2285
f3d7df6c
PH
2286PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2287 is preferred over IPv4.
2288
715ab376
PH
2289PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2290 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2291 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2292 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2293 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2294 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2295 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2296
6b31b150
PH
2297PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2298 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2299 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2300
2301PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2302
d515a917
PH
2303PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2304 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2305 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2306 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2307 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2308 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2309 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2310 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2311 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2312 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2313 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2314
9b8fadde
PH
2315PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2316 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2317 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2318
214e2000 2319
5de37277
PH
2320Exim version 4.60
2321-----------------
2322
cc38ddbf
PH
2323PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2324
2325 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2326 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2327
2328 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2329 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2330 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2331
72fdd6ae
PH
2332PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2333
2334 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2335 not a single digit.
2336
2337 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2338 string.
2339
2340 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2341 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2342 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2343 silly things.
2344
2345 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2346 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2347
2348 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2349 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2350
cb741023
PH
2351PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2352 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2353 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2354
f174f16e
PH
2355PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2356 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2357
c25242d7
PH
2358PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2359 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2360
2361 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2362
2363 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2364 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2365 this:
2366
2367 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2368
82c19f95
PH
2369PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2370 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2371 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2372 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2373 identical. For example:
2374
2375 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2376
2377 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2378 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2379 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2380
d7ffbc12
PH
2381PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2382 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2383 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2384 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2385
9f526266
PH
2386PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2387 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2388 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2389 message.
2390
87fcc8b9
PH
2391PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2392
2393 o fixes some comments
2394 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2395 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2396 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2397 and documents the missing references header update
2398
2399 and most important:
2400
2401 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2402 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2403 result)
2404
456682f5
PH
2405PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2406 Electronic Mail") by including:
2407
2408 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2409
2410 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2411 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2412 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2413 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2414 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2415
2416 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2417
2418 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2419
2420 The auto-replied keyword:
2421
2422 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2423 message by an automatic process,
2424
2425 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2426
2427 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2428 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2429
2430 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2431 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2432 other messages.
2433
3e46c1aa
PH
2434PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2435 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2436
49826d12
PH
2437PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2438
eba0c039
PH
2439PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2440 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2441 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2442
a0d6ba8a
PH
2443PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2444 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2445 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2446
f0917727
PH
2447PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2448 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2449 and treats the condition as false.
2450
096fee00
PH
2451PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2452
024bd3c2
PH
2453PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2454 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2455 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2456 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2457 not changing the active code.
2458
2459 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2460 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2461
2462 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2463 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2464
df199fec
PH
2465PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2466 (Bugzilla #53).
2467
d27f1df3
PH
2468PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2469 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2470 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2471 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2472 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2473 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2474 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2475 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2476 the text comparison.
2477
96776534
PH
2478PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2479 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2480 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2481 The same fix has been applied.
2482
5de37277 2483
9a799bc0
PH
2484Exim version 4.54
2485-----------------
2486
2487PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2488 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2489 It now does.
2490
99a4b039
PH
2491PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2492 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2493
2494PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2495
4b233853
PH
2496PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2497 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2498 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2499 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2500 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2501
8857ccfd
PH
2502TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2503 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2504 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2505 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2506 or /domain=).
2507
433a2980
PH
2508PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2509 testing suite.
2510
3e46c1aa 2511
9a799bc0 2512
e3a311ba
TK
2513Exim version 4.53
2514-----------------
2515
2516TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2517 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2518
13b685f9
PH
2519PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2520
395ff96d
PH
2521PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2522
5b68f6e4
PH
2523PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2524 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2525 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2526
1ab52c69
PH
2527PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2528 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2529 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2530
b07e6aa3
PH
2531PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2532 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2533 operating systems.
2534
254e032f
PH
2535PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2536 ${stat: expansion item.
2537
3af76a81
PH
2538PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2539 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2540
2548ba04
PH
2541PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2542 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2543 file for comments.
2544
b6c6011d
PH
2545PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2546
cf39cf57
PH
2547PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2548 setting.
2549
f1513293
PH
2550PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2551 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2552
727549a4
PH
2553TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2554
af46795e
PH
2555PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2556 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2557 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2558 the end of the subprocess.
2559
d7b47fd0
PH
2560PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2561 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2562 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2563 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2564 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2565
ee744174
JJ
2566JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2567
b582ab87
PH
2568TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2569
41a13e0a
PH
2570PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2571 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2572
f625cc5a
PH
2573PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2574
2575PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2576
21f7af35
PH
2577PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2578 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2579 HP-UX compiler.
2580
31480e42
PH
2581PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2582
2d280592
PH
2583PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2584 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2585 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2586
7cd1141b
PH
2587PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2588 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2589
2590PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2591 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2592
750af86e
PH
2593PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2594 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2595
2596 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2597 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2598
2599 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2600 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2601 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2602 contributed by a Radius user.
2603
2604PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2605 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2606
4304270b
TK
2607TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2608 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2609
750af86e
PH
2610PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2611 available.
2612
64ffc24f
PH
2613PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2614 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2615 received.
2616
5dd9625b
PH
2617PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2618 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2619 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2620 header lines when this was not necessary.
2621
5591031b
PH
2622PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2623
ba18e66a
PH
2624PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2625 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2626 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2627 exists".
2628
9cec981f
PH
2629PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2630 -bV or -d is used.
2631
aa2b5c79
PH
2632PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2633 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2634 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2635 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2636
48a53b7f
PH
2637PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2638
1c59d63b
PH
2639PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2640
671012da
TK
2641TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2642
1509d3a8
PH
2643PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2644
2645PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2646 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2647 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2648 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2649 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2650 settings.
2651
2652PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2653
2fe1a124
PH
2654PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2655 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2656 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2657 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2658 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2659 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2660 which is clearly wrong.
2661
8800895a
PH
2662PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2663
ccfdb010
PH
2664PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2665 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2666 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2667 subsequently added.
2668
1130bfb0
PH
2669PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2670 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2671
ebcb507f
PH
2672PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2673
c35e155c
PH
2674PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2675 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2676
95d1f782
PH
2677PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2678 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2679
fd6de02e
PH
2680PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2681 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2682
58de37c5
PH
2683PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2684 recipients, not senders.
2685
261cf466
TF
2686TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2687 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2688
3ee512ff
PH
2689PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2690
e08c430f
PH
2691PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2692
bef5a11f
PH
2693PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2694 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2695 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2696 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2697
7546de58
TF
2698TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2699
e5d5a95f
TF
2700TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2701 clock is set back in time.
2702
2e88a017
TF
2703TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2704 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2705
a5f65aa4
TF
2706TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2707 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2708
e7726cbf
PH
2709PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2710 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2711 (see PH/47 above).
2712
a7fdad5b
TF
2713TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2714 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2715 header rewrites.
2716
6af56900
PH
2717PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2718 type ("H").
2719
0925ede6
PH
2720PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2721
66afa403
TF
2722TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2723 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2724 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2725
0154e85a
TF
2726TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2727 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2728 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2729 helo verification defer as a failure.
2730
16f12c76
PH
2731PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2732 actual error message.
2733
bbe902f0 2734
e5a9dba6
PH
2735Exim version 4.52
2736-----------------
2737
2738TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2739
22c3b60b
PH
2740PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2741 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2742 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2743 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2744
06a9b4b5
PH
2745TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2746
c1ac6996
PH
2747PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2748 can still be requested.
2749
9c7a242c
PH
2750PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2751 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2752 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2753 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2754
87ba3f5f
PH
2755TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2756 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2757 circumstances, but probably never did.
2758
2759PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2760 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2761 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2762 in the header line.
2763
29aba418
TF
2764TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2765
fe0dab11
TF
2766TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2767 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2768
11d337a4
TK
2769TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2770
2771TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2772
415c8f3b
PH
2773PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2774 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2775 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2776 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2777 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2778 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2779
958541e9
PH
2780PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2781 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2782 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2783 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2784 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2785 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2786
c206415f
TK
2787TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2788 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2789
2a4be8f9
PH
2790PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2791 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2792
1cba11c5
SC
2793SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2794 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2795
2796SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2797
2798SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2799
2800SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2801
2802SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2803
2804SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2805
2806SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2807
1005d00e
TK
2808TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2809
2810TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2811 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2812 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2813
2814TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2815 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2816 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2817 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2818
9b4768fa
PH
2819PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2820 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2821 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2822
2823PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2824 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2825 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2826 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2827
0d7eb84a
PH
2828PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2829 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2830 to be made).
2831
2832PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2833 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2834 should work with maildirs and everything.
2835
40727bee
TK
2836TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2837 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2838
554d2369
TF
2839TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2840 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2841
1f922db1
PH
2842PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2843 function for BDB 4.3.
2844
ef213c3b
PH
2845PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2846
8ac170f3
PH
2847PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2848 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2849 involved.
2850
b1c749bb
PH
2851PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2852 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2853 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2854 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2855 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2856 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2857
4aac9b49
PH
2858PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2859 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2860 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2861 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2862 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2863 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2864 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2865 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2866
294520c8
TK
2867TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2868 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2869 details.
2870
5bd022fe
PH
2871PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2872 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2873
90e9ce59
PH
2874PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2875 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2876 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2877 test. It is now used for both.
2878
5ea81592
PH
2879PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2880 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2881 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2882 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2883 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2884 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2885
c6c2dc1d
PH
2886PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2887 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2888 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2889 string_vformat().
2890
fffffe4c
PH
2891PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2892 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2893 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2894
9a26b6b2
PH
2895PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2896 experimental DomainKeys support:
2897
2898 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2899 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2900 the control was given.
2901
2902 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2903
4aee0225
PH
2904PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2905
32d668a5
PH
2906PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2907
8187c3f3
PH
2908PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2909 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2910 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2911 db.h files).
2912
ff790e47 2913PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2914 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2915 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2916 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2917 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2918 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2919 course.
ff790e47 2920
5417f6d1
PH
2921PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2922 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2923 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2924 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2925 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2926 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2927
59cf8544
PH
2928PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2929 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2930 do -d+all out of habit.
2931
e7ad8a65
PH
2932PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2933 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2934 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2935
ade42478
PH
2936PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2937 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2938 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2939 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2940 record types that Exim uses.
2941
182ad5cf
PH
2942PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2943 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2944 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2945 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2946 non-existent file that was broken.
2947
b0d9fc80
TK
2948TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2949 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2950
2951TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2952 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2953 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2954
2955TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2956
47c7a64a
PH
2957PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2958 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2959 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2960 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2961 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2962 same time.
2963
a388bce4
SC
2964SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2965 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2966 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2967 at a slight CPU cost.
2968
2969SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2970 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2971
2972SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2973 by Marc Sherman.
2974
0793e4ed
SC
2975SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2976
c58b88df
PH
2977PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2978 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2979
e7ad8a65 2980
7982096b
PH
2981Exim version 4.51
2982-----------------
2983
1a46a8c5
PH
2984TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2985 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2986
2f079f46 2987TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2988
2989TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2990
2991PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2992 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2993
2994PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2995 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2996 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2997 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2998 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2999 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3000 file.
3001
3002PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3003 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3004 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3005 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3006 these two options.
3007
3008PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3009 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3010 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3011 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3012 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3013 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3014 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3015 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3016
3017PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3018 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3019
3020PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3021 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3022 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3023 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3024 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3025 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3026
3027PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3028 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3029 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3030 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3031
3032PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3033 Finch).
3034
3035PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3036 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3037
49c2d5ea
PH
3038PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3039 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3040 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3041 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3042 message.
49c2d5ea 3043
bf759a8b
PH
3044PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3045
83364d30
PH
3046PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3047 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3048
7999bbd7
PH
3049PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3050 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3051 to what was transported.)
3052
7dbf77c9
PH
3053TF/01 Added $received_time.
3054
74e0617f
PH
3055PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3056 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3057 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3058 spamd_address settings.
3059
2f079f46
PH
3060PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3061 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3062 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3063 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3064 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3065
8c841523
PH
3066PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3067
7766a4f0
PH
3068PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3069 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3070 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3071 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3072 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3073
8b417f2c
PH
3074PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3075 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3076
901f42cb
PH
3077PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3078 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3079 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3080 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3081 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3082 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3083 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3084 for failure.
3085
f9b9210e
PH
3086PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3087 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3088 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3089 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3090 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3091 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3092 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3093 "input=".
3094
54cdb463
PH
3095PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3096
cf00dad6
PH
3097PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3098 driver and ACL definitions.
3099
acb1b346
PH
3100PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3101 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3102
c5ddb310
PH
3103PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3104 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3105 understands it better than I do:
3106
3107 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3108 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3109
3110 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3111 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3112 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3113 => three warnings about OTP not working
3114 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3115
3116 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3117 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3118 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3119 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3120 for each call.)
3121 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3122 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3123
3124 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3125 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3126 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3127
31619da6
PH
3128PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3129 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3130 specified.
3131
bebaf0fc
PH
3132PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3133 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3134 "Linux".
3135
475fe28a
PH
3136PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3137 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3138 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3139
3140 warn !verify = sender
3141 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3142
3143 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3144 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3145
7e8bec7a
PH
3146PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3147
3148 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3149 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3150
3151 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3152 nomenclature these days.)
3153
e4a89c47
PH
3154PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3155 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3156
5ca2a9a1
PH
3157PH/30 In these circumstances:
3158 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3159 . First host does not offer TLS;
3160 . First host accepts first address;
3161 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3162 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3163 . Second host accepts second address.
3164 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3165 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3166 address.
7e8bec7a 3167
c688b954
PH
3168PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3169 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3170 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3171 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3172 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3173
fed77020
PH
3174PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3175 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3176
7fe1560f
PH
3177PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3178 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3179
ebb6e6d5
PH
3180PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3181 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3182 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3183
9c4e8f60
PH
3184PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3185 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3186 overlooked.
3187
3188PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3189
d7174846
PH
3190PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3191 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3192 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3193 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3194 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3195 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3196 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3197
3198 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3199 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3200 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3201 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3202 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3203
3204 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3205 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3206 routed further.
3207
cfe75fc3
PH
3208PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3209 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3210 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3211 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3212 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3213 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3214
be22d70e
PH
3215PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3216
0612b098
PH
3217PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3218 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3219 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3220 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3221 printable escape sequences.
3222
2e0c1448
PH
3223PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3224 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3225 body only.
3226
447d236c
PH
3227PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3228 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3229 are as follows:
3230
3231 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3232 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3233 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3234 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3235 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3236
3237 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3238 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3239 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3240
d20976dc
PH
3241PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3242
f656d135
PH
3243PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3244 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3245 play with."
3246
2e2a30b4
PH
3247PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3248 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3249 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3250 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3251 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3252 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3253 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3254 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3255 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3256 the log output.
3257
9176e9f0
PH
3258PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3259 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3260 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3261 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3262 "make".
3263
7982096b 3264
bbe902f0
PH
3265A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3266----------------------------------------
3267
3268Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3269changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3270needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3271in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3272that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3273release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3274from 4.43.
3275
3276I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
32774.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3278those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3279historical information.
3280
3281
f7b63901 3282Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3283-----------------
3284
5fe762f6
PH
3285 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3286
139059f6 3287 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3288 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3289
7086e875
PH
3290 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3291 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3292 place.
3293
35af9f61
PH
3294 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3295 filter fails to execute.
3296
b668c215
PH
3297 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3298 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3299 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3300 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3301 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3302
a494b1e1
PH
3303 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3304
3305 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3306 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3307 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3308 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3309
c5fcb476
PH
3310 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3311 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3312 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3313 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3314 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3315
69358f02
PH
3316 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3317
5be20824
PH
331810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3319
eb2c0248
PH
332011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3321 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3322 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3323 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3324
2a3eea10
PH
332512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3326 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3327 sender verification.
3328
332913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3330 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3331
23c7ff99
PH
333214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3333
4deaf07d
PH
333415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3335 connection timeout.
3336
926e1192
PH
333716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3338 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3339
650edc6f
PH
334017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3341 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3342
2c7db3f5
PH
334318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3344 information about exactly what failed.
3345
3d235903
PH
334619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3347
7c7ad977
PH
334820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3349 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3350 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3351
981756db
PH
335221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3353 It is now set to "smtps".
3354
d4eb88df
PH
335522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3356 ignore_target_hosts.
3357
335823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3359 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3360 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3361 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3362 "[x.x.x.x]".
3363
7d468ab8
PH
336424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3365 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3366 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3367
336825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3369 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3370 wake it up if nothing else does.
3371
62c0818f
PH
337226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3373 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3374 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3375 end up negative.
3376
26034054
PH
337727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3378 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3379
af66f652
PH
338028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3381
90af77f4
PH
338229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3383 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3384 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3385 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3386 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3387 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3388 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3389 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3390
d8ef3577
PH
339130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3392 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3393 than one IP address.
3394
5cb8cbc6
PH
339531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3396 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3397 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3398 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3399
14702f5b
PH
340032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3401 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3402 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3403 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3404 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3405 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3406
063b1e99
PH
340733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3408 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3409 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3410 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3411
652e1b65
PH
341234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3413 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3414 respected.
3415
6f0c9a4f
PH
341635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3417 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3418 $sender_host_address.
3419
33397d19
PH
342036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3421 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3422 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3423 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3424 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3425 very small.
3426
7bb56e1f
PH
342737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3428
3429 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3430 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3431
ea3bc19b
PH
3432 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3433 just the host names, not the priorities.
3434
3435 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3436 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3437 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3438
ea3bc19b 3439 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3440 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3441
0bcb2a0e
PH
344238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3443 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3444 domain.
3445
2ac0e484
PH
344639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3447
4e1fde53
PH
344840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3449 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3450
de365ded
PH
345141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3452 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3453 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3454
f05da2e8
PH
345542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3456
d6453af2
PH
345743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3458
f7b63901
PH
345944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3460
346145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3462 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3463 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3464 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3465 because the tests only now provoked it.
3466
a444213a
PH
346746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3468 (this can affect the format of dates).
3469
0ec020ea
PH
347047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3471 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3472 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3473 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3474
b1206957
PH
347548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3476
347749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3478 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3479 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3480 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3481
26dd5a95
PH
348250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3483 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3484 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3485
343b2385
PH
348651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3487 autoreply.
3488
1c5466b9
PH
348952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3490 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3491 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3492 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3493 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3494 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3495 is going on).
3496
55ee9ee3
PH
349753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3498 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3499 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3500 the line.
3501
d38f8232
PH
350254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3503 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3504 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3505
3506 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3507 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3508 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3509 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3510 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3511 so I produce this patch..."
3512
3295e65b
PH
3513 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3514 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3515 is not defined.
3516
7102e136
PH
351755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3518 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3519 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3520 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3521 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3522
3ca0ba97
PH
352356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3524
c2bcbe20
PH
352557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3526 long debug lines gets shown.
3527
18ce445d
PH
352858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3529 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3530
1f5b4c3d
PH
353159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3532
3533 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3534 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3535 of $primary_hostname.
3536
b975ba52
PH
353760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3538 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3539 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3540 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3541 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3542 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3543 by change 4.50/55 above.
3544
3545 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3546 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3547 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3548 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3549 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3550 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3551 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3552
355361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3554 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3555 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3556 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3557
17ffcae7
PH
355862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3559 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3560
d95f9fdb
PH
356163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3562 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3563 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3564 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3565 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3566
86b8287f
PH
356764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3568 This has been fixed.
3569
60dc5e56
PH
357065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3571 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3572 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3573 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3574 the caching.)
3575
533244af
PH
357666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3577
a5a28604
PH
357867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3579 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3580 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3581 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3582
7e634d24
PH
358368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3584 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3585
3e11c26b
PH
358669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3587 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3588 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3589
6729cf78
PH
359070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3591 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3592 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3593 message there.
3594
00f00ca5
PH
359571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3596 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3597 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3598
c9bdd01c
PH
359972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3600 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3601 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3602 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3603
d43194df
PH
360473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3605 during host lookups.
3606
fe5b5d0b
PH
360774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3608 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3609
3610 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3611
76a2d7ba
PH
361275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3613 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3614 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3615 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3616 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3617 background.
3618
361976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3620 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3621
04f7d5b9
PH
362277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3623 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3624 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3625
bc60667e
PH
362678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3627
bb6e88ff
PH
362879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3629 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3630 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3631 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3632 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3633 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3634 process earlier.
3635
1e70f85b
PH
363680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3637 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3638 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3639 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3640 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3641
364281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3643 tables).
3644
4e01f9d6
PH
364582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3646
1ee1cef2
PH
364783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3648 "vacation" handling.
3649
6e2b4ccc
PH
365084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3651 OS variants using glibc.
3652
8e669ac1
PH
365385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3654
495ae4b0 3655
bbe902f0
PH
3656----------------------------------------------------
3657See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3658----------------------------------------------------
3659
3660
3661Exim version 4.44
3662-----------------
3663
3664 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3665 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3666 transport
3667
3668 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3669 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3670 place.
3671
3672 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3673 filter fails to execute.
3674
3675 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3676 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3677 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3678 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3679 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3680
3681 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3682 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3683 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3684 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3685
3686 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3687 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3688 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3689 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3690 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3691
3692 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3693
3694 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3695 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3696 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3697 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3698
3699 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3700 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3701 sender verification.
3702
370310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3704 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3705
370611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3707 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3708
370912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3710 ignore_target_hosts.
3711
371213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3713 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3714 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3715 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3716 "[x.x.x.x]".
3717
371814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3719 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3720 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3721
372215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3723 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3724 wake it up if nothing else does.
3725
372616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3727 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3728 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3729 end up negative.
3730
373117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3732 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3733
ea3a6f44 373418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3735
373619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3737 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3738 empty pattern.
3739
374020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3741 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3742 one IP address.
3743
ea3a6f44
NM
374421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3745 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3746 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3747 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3748 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3749 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3750
ea3a6f44
NM
375122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3752 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3753 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3754
375523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3756 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3757 $sender_host_address.
3758
375924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3760
ea3a6f44
NM
376125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3762 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3763 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3764
376526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3766 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3767
ea3a6f44
NM
376827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3769 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3770
ea3a6f44
NM
377128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3772 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3773 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3774 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3775
377629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3777 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3778 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3779
ea3a6f44
NM
378030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3781 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3782 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3783 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3784
ea3a6f44
NM
378531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3786 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3787 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3788
ea3a6f44
NM
378931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3790 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3791
ea3a6f44
NM
379232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3793 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3794 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3795 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3796 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3797 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3798 is going on).
bbe902f0 3799
ea3a6f44
NM
380033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3801 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3802 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3803 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3804 CAN-2005-0021
3805
ea3a6f44
NM
380634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3807 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3808 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3809 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3810 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3811 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3812 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3813
3814 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3815 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3816 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3817 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3818 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3819 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3820 CAN-2005-0021
3821
ea3a6f44
NM
382235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3823 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3824 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3825 CAN-2005-0022
3826
ea3a6f44
NM
382736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3828 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3829 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3830 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3831 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3832
ea3a6f44
NM
383337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3834 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3835 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3836 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3837 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3838
ea3a6f44
NM
383938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3840 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3841 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3842 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3843 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3844
3845
495ae4b0
PH
3846Exim version 4.43
3847-----------------
3848
3849 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3850 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3851 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3852 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3853 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3854 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3855 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3856
3857 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3858 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3859 the delivery.
3860
3861 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3862
3863 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3864
3865 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3866 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3867 to local_scan().
3868
3869 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3870 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3871 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3872 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3873 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3874
3875 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3876 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3877
3878 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3879
3880 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3881
388210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3883 header_sender only.
3884
388511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3886 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3887
388812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3889 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3890 affecting debugging statements).
3891
389213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3893
389414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3895 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3896 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3897 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3898 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3899 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3900 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3901 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3902 after the received time, and all would be well.
3903
390415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3905 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3906 condition in an expansion string.
3907
390816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3909
391017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3911 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3912 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3913 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3914 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3915 job under whatever limits there are.
3916
391718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3918
391919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3920 space).
3921
392220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3923 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3924 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3925 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3926 return path is set.
3927
392821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3929 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3930 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3931 binary data in such strings.
3932
393322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3934
393523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3936 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3937 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3938 failure, which is pointless.
3939
394024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3941
394225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3943
394426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3945 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3946 Sender: header lines.
3947
394827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3949 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3950 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3951
395228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3953 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3954 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3955 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3956 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3957 happens.
3958
395929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3960 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3961 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3962 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3963 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3964
396530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3966 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3967 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3968 1024.
3969
397031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3971 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3972
397332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3974 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3975
397633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3977
397832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3979
398033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3981
398234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3983 syntax error.
3984
398535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3986
398736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3988
398937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3990 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3991 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3992 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3993
399438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3995 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3996
3997
3998Exim version 4.42
3999-----------------
4000
4001 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4002 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4003 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4004 it was not quoted.
4005 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4006 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4007 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4008 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4009 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4010 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4011
4012 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4013 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4014 verification failure".
4015
4016 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4017 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4018 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4019 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4020
4021 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4022 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4023 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4024 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4025 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4026 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4027 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4028 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4029 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4030 treated as a timeout.
4031
4032 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4033 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4034 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4035 not set for Exim filters).
4036
4037 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4038 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4039 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4040
4041 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4042
4043 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4044 try to make them clearer.
4045
4046 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4047 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4048
4049 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4050
4051 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4052
405310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4054 only the Cygwin environment.
4055
405611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4057 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4058 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4059 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4060 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4061
406212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4063 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4064 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4065 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4066 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4067 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4068 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4069
407013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4071 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4072
407314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4074
4075 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4076 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4077 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4078
4079 To: susanne@some.where
4080
4081 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4082 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4083 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4084 of addresses in From: header lines).
4085
4086 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4087 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4088 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4089
4090 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4091 treated as non-personal.
4092
4093 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4094 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4095
409615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4097
409816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4099
410017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4101 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4102 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4103
410418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4105 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4106
410719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4108 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4109 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4110 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4111 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4112 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4113
411420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4115 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4116 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4117 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4118 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4119 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4120 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4121 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4122
4123 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4124
412521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4126 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4127
412822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4129 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4130 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4131
413223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4133 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4134
413524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4136 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4137 rather than long int.
4138
413925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4140
414126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4142
4143
4144Exim version 4.41
4145-----------------
4146
4147 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4148 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4149 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4150 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4151 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4152 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4153
4154
4155Exim version 4.40
4156-----------------
4157
4158 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4159 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4160
4161 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4162 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4163 socklen_t is defined.
4164
4165 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4166 always exist.
4167
4168 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4169 configured.
4170
4171 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4172 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4173 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4174 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4175 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4176
4177 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4178 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4179 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4180 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4181
4182 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4183 of flapping under certain conditions.
4184
4185 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4186 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4187 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4188
4189 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4190
419110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4192
419311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4194 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4195 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4196 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4197
419812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4199 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4200 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4201 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4202 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4203 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4204 preserved with the message after it was received.
4205
420613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4207 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4208 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4209 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4210 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4211 test suite worked just fine.
4212
421314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4214 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4215 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4216
421715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4218 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4219 string.
4220
422116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4222 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4223 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4224 does not fully solve it.
4225
422617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4227 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4228 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4229 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4230 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4231
423218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4233 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4234 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4235
423619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4237 string, for example:
4238
4239 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4240
4241 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4242 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4243 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4244 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4245 the routers could not see them.
4246
424720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4248 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4249
425021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4251 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4252 output).
4253
425422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4255 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4256 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4257 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4258 that needed quoting.
4259
426023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4261 was not being matched caselessly.
4262
426324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4264 backslashes.
4265
426625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4267 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4268 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4269 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4270 when use_sender is false.
4271
427226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4273
427427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4275
427628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4277
427829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4279 the configuration file.
4280
428130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4282 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4283
428431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4285
428632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4287 bytes in the message body.
4288
428933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4290 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4291 delivery.
4292
429334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4294
429535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4296
429736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4298 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4299 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4300 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4301 another IP address.
4302
4303
4304Exim version 4.34
4305-----------------
4306
4307 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4308 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4309
4310 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4311 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4312 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4313 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4314 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4315
4316 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4317 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4318
4319 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4320 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4321 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4322
4323 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4324 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4325 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4326
4327 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4328 for routers.
4329
4330 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4331 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4332 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4333 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4334 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4335 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4336 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4337
4338
4339Exim version 4.33
4340-----------------
4341
4342 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4343 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4344 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4345 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4346 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4347 default (and expected) setting.
4348
4349 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4350 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4351 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4352 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4353
4354 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4355 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4356
4357 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4358 in domain lists.
4359
4360 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4361 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4362 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4363 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4364 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4365 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4366
4367 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4368 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4369 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4370
4371 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4372 part (NOT match_host).
4373
4374 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4375
4376 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4377 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4378 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4379 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4380 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4381 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4382 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4383 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4384 the same named file.
4385
438610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4387 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4388 when Exim is built.
4389
439011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4391 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4392 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4393 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4394 a host name.
4395
439612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4397 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4398 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4399
440013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4401
440214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4403
440415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4405
440616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4407 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4408
440917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4410 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4411 before starting the TLS session.
4412
441318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4414
441519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4416 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4417
441820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4419 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4420 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4421 colon in the middle).
4422
4423
4424Exim version 4.32
4425-----------------
4426
4427 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4428 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4429 multiple configurations are in use.
4430
4431 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4432 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4433 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4434 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4435 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4436 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4437
4438 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4439 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4440
4441 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4442 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4443 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4444
4445 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4446 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4447 occurs.
4448
4449 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4450 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4451
4452 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4453
4454 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4455 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4456
4457 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4458
4459 -prval:sval
4460
4461 is equivalent to
4462
4463 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4464
4465 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4466 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4467 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4468 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4469 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4470
447110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4472 Exim's behaviour:
4473
4474 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4475 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4476 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4477 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4478 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4479 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4480
4481 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4482 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4483 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4484 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4485 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4486 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4487 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4488 string.
4489
4490 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4491 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4492 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4493 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4494 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4495
449611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4497
449812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4499 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4500 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4501
450213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4503
450414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4505 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4506 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4507 information.
4508
450915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4510 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4511
451216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4513 Three changes have been made:
4514
4515 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4516 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4517 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4518 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4519 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4520
4521 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4522 been restored.
4523
4524 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4525 the modified behaviour.
4526
4527
4528Exim version 4.31
4529-----------------
4530
4531 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4532 Larry Rosenman.
4533
4534 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4535 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4536
4537 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4538 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4539 try to track down a specific problem.
4540
4541 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4542 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4543 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4544
4545 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4546 warning.
4547
4548 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4549 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4550 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4551 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4552 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4553 some earlier ones do not.
4554
4555 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4556
4557 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4558 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4559 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4560 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4561 address literals are enabled, of course).
4562
4563 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4564
456510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4566 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4567 by a command such as
4568
4569 exim -f "" ...
4570
4571 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4572
457311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4574
457512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4576 remained set. It is now erased.
4577
457813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4579 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4580
458114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4582 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4583 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4584 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4585 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4586 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4587 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4588 appropriate error code.
4589
459015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4591 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4592 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4593 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4594 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4595 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4596
459716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4598 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4599 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4600
460117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4602 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4603 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4604 terminate the header.
4605
460618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4607 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4608 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4609
461019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4611 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4612 (4.30/29). In particular:
4613
4614 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4615 imposed.
4616
4617 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4618 to write a maildirsize file.
4619
4620 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4621 the transport, the new value overrides.
4622
4623 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4624 count.
4625
462620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4627 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4628 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4629 space or a tab.
4630
463121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4632 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4633 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4634 the fallback hosts.
4635
463622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4637 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4638 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4639
464023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4641 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4642 using a union.
4643
464424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4645 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4646 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4647
464825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4649
465026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4651
465227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4653
465428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4655 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4656 become corrupted.
4657
465829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4659 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4660 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4661 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4662 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4663 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4664 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4665 too great.
4666
466730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4668 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4669 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4670 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4671 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4672 incorrectly.
4673
467431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4675 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4676 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4677 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4678 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4679 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4680 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4681 cached value only when the same options are set.
4682
468332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4684
468533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4686 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4687 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4688 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4689 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4690
469134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4692 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4693 it is clearly obsolete.
4694
469535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4696 transport.
4697
469836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4699 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4700 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4701 times.
4702
470337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4704 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4705 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4706 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4707 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4708
470938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4710 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4711 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4712 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4713
471439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4715
4716 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4717
4718 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4719 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4720 2^31.
4721
472240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4723 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4724 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4725 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4726 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4727 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4728 $localpart_data.
4729
473041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4731 with the -f command-line option.
4732
473342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4734 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4735 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4736 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4737 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4738 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4739
474043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4741 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4742 line.
4743
474444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4745 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4746 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4747 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4748 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4749 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4750 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4751 buffer is too small.
4752
475345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4754 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4755
475646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4757 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4758 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4759 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4760 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4761 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4762 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4763 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4764 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4765
476647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4767 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4768 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4769
477048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4771 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4772 ACL").
4773
477449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4775 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4776 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4777 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4778 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4779
478050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4781 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4782 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4783 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4784 is set.
4785
478651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4787
478852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4789
479053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4791 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4792
479354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4794 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4795 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4796
479755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4798 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4799 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4800 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4801 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4802
480356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4804 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4805 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4806 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4807 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4808 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4809 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4810
481157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4812 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4813 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4814 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4815 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4816 the test of how many are available.
4817
481858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4819 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4820 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4821 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4822 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4823 new message is started.
4824
482559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4826 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4827
482860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4829 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4830
483161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4832 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4833 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4834 is no long logged.
4835
483662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4837 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4838 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4839 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4840 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4841 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4842 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4843
484463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4845 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4846 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4847 interpreted as octal.
4848
484964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4850 setting.
4851
485265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4853 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4854 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4855 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4856 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4857 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4858
485966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4860 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4861 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4862 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4863
4864 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4865 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4866 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4867 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4868
4869 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4870 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4871 is a bug fix.
4872
4873 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4874 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4875
487667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4877
487868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4879 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4880 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4881 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4882
488369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4884 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4885 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4886 supplied", which is not helpful.
4887
488870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4889 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4890 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4891
489271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4893 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4894 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4895 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4896 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4897 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4898 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4899 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4900
490172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4902 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4903 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4904 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4905 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4906
490773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4908 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4909 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4910 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4911 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4912 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4913
491474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4915 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4916 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4917
491875. Added write_rejectlog option.
4919
492076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4921 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4922 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4923 variables.
4924
492577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4926
492778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4928 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4929 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4930 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4931 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4932 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4933 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4934 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4935
493679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4937 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4938 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4939 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4940 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4941
494280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4943 Haardt.
4944
494581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4946 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4947 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4948 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4949 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4950 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4951 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4952 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4953 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4954
4955
4956Exim version 4.30
4957-----------------
4958
4959 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4960 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4961 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4962
4963 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4964 fixed.
4965
4966 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4967 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4968 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4969
4970 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4971 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4972 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4973 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4974 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4975 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4976
4977 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4978 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4979 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4980 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4981 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4982 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4983 the Exim test suite.
4984
4985 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4986 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4987 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4988 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4989
4990 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4991 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4992 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4993 specify it in this variable.
4994
4995 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4996 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4997 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4998 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4999
5000 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5001 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5002 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5003 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5004
5005 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5006 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5007 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5008 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5009 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5010
5011 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5012
501310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5014 they are logged.
5015
501611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5017 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5018 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5019 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5020 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5021
502212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5023 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5024
502513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5026 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5027 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5028 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5029 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5030
503114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5032 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5033
503415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5035 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5036 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5037
503816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5039 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5040
504117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5042 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5043
504418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5045 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5046 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5047
504819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5049 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5050
505120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5052 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5053 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5054 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5055
505621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5057
505822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5059 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5060 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5061 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5062
506323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5064
506524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5066 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5067
506825. Added .include_if_exists.
5069
507026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5071 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5072 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5073 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5074 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5075 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5076
507727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5078
507928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5080 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5081 this.
5082
508329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5084
508530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5086 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5087
5088 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5089 550 Sender verify failed
5090
5091 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5092 the final line of the response.
5093
509431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5095 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5096 all other user lookups.
5097
509832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5099 delivery time.
5100
510133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5102 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5103 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5104 result into an int without checking.
5105
510634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5107 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5108 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5109
511035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5111 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5112 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5113 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5114
511536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5116 correctly.
5117
511837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5119 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5120
512138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5122 to the empty sender.
5123
512439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5125 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5126 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5127 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5128 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5129 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5130 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5131 panic log.
5132
513340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5134 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5135 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5136 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5137 used.
5138
513941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5140 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5141
514242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5143 timestamps.
5144
514543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5146 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5147
514844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5149
515045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5151 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5152 logs.
5153
515446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5155 as soon as it is encountered.
5156
515747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5158
515948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5160 rewritten to "<>".
5161
516249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5163 recognizes a tab character.
5164
516550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5166 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5167 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5168 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5169
517051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5171
517252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5173 crash.
5174
517553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5176
517754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5178
517955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5180 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5181 2822.
5182
518356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5184 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5185 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5186 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5187 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5188
518957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5190 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5191
519258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5193 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5194 list (.included file names were always shown).
5195
519659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5197 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5198 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5199 root at that time.
5200
520160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5202 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5203
520461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5205
520662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5207
520863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5209
521064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5211 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5212 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5213 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5214 failures to open the logs.
5215
521665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5217 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5218 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5219 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5220 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5221 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5222 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5223
5224
5225Exim version 4.24
5226-----------------
5227
5228 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5229 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5230 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5231 change 4.23/1.
5232
5233 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5234 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5235 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5236
5237 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5238 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5239 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5240
5241 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5242 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5243 causing some misleading effects.
5244
5245 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5246 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5247 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5248
5249 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5250 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5251 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5252 queue-runner function directly.
5253
5254
5255Exim version 4.23
5256-----------------
5257
5258 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5259 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5260
5261 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5262 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5263 was always written to the default place.
5264
5265 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5266 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5267 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5268
5269 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5270
5271 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5272
5273 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5274 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5275 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5276
5277 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5278 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5279 must start.
5280
5281 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5282 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5283 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5284
5285 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5286 command line option is disabled.
5287
5288 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5289 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5290
5291 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5292
5293 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5294
5295 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5296 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5297
529810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5299
530011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5301 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5302 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5303 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5304 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5305 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5306
530712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5308 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5309 timeout.
5310
531113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5312 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5313
531414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5315 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5316
531715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5318 received was valid base64.
5319
532016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5321 name of the variable that was being set.
5322
532317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5324
532518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5326 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5327 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5328 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5329 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5330 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5331
533219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5333
533420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5335 nor realm was specified.
5336
533721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5338 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5339 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5340 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5341
534222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5343 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5344 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5345
534623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5347 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5348 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5349
535024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5351 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5352 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5353 some systems use these upper case variants.
5354
535525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5356 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5357 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5358 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5359
536026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5361
536227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5363 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5364
536528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5366 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5367 expansion variable.
5368
536929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5370
537130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5372 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5373 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5374 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5375
537631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5377 using it.
5378
537932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5380 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5381 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5382
538333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5384 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5385
538634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5387 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5388 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5389 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5390
539135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5392 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5393 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5394
539536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5396
539737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5398 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5399 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5400 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5401 aborted.
5402
540338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5404 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5405 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5406
540739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5408
540940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5410 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5411
541241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5413 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5414
541542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5416 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5417 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5418 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5419 when emails are that large.
5420
5421
5422
5423Exim version 4.22
5424-----------------
5425
5426 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5427 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5428
5429 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5430 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5431 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5432
5433 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5434 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5435 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5436
5437 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5438 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5439 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5440 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5441 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5442
5443 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5444 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5445 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5446 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5447 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5448 ever.
5449
5450 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5451 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5452 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5453 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5454 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5455 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5456 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5457 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5458 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5459 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5460 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5461 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5462 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5463 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5464
5465 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5466 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5467 parameterised it.
5468
5469 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5470 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5471 error should be diagnosed.
5472
5473 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5474 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5475 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5476 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5477 appeared instead of "NULL".
5478
547910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5480 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5481 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5482 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5483 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5484 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5485 proceeds).
5486
5487 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5488 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5489 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5490
5491
5492Exim version 4.21
5493-----------------
5494
5495 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5496 or receiver verification errors.
5497
5498 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5499 name.
5500
5501 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5502 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5503 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5504 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5505
5506 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5507 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5508 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5509 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5510 shouldn't happen again.
5511
5512 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5513 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5514 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5515
5516 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5517 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5518
5519 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5520
5521 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5522 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5523
5524 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5525 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5526 RFC.
5527
552810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5529 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5530 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5531
553211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5533 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5534 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5535 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5536
553712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5538 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5539 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5540 to define what should happen).
5541
554213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5543 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5544 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5545
554614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5547
554815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5549
555016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5551 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5552
555317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5554 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5555 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5556 structure in all cases.
5557
5558 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5559 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5560 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5561 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5562
556318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5564 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5565 domain name.
5566
556719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5568 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5569
557020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5571 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5572
557321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5574 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5575 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5576
557722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5578 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5579 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5580
558123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5582 the book and for uniformity.
5583
558424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5585
558625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5587 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5588 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5589 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5590 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5591 non-existent command as the problem.
5592
559326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5594 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5595 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5596
559727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5598
559928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5600 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5601 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5602
560329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5604 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5605 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5606 timestamps using strftime().
5607
560830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5609 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5610
561132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5612 transport-time rewrites.
5613
561433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5615 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5616 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5617 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5618
561934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5620 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5621
562235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5623 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5624 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5625 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5626 comma and a space.
5627
562836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5629 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5630 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5631 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5632 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5633 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5634 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5635
563637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5637 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5638 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5639 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5640 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5641
564238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5643 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5644 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5645 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5646 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5647 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5648 remaining text gets split now.
5649
565039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5651 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5652 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5653 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5654
565540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5656 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5657 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5658 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5659 $return_path.
5660
566141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5662 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5663 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5664 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5665 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5666 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5667 passed through if needed.
5668
566942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5670 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5671 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5672 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5673 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5674 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5675
567643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5677 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5678 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5679 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5680 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5681
568244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5683 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5684 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5685 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5686 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5687
568845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5689 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5690 noticed.
5691
569246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5693 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5694 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5695 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5696 mayhem of various kinds.
5697
569847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5699 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5700 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5701 the right test for positive values.
5702
570348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5704 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5705 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5706 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5707 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5708 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5709 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5710 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5711 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5712 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5713 envelope.
5714
571549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5716 module.
5717
571850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5719 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5720 forbidding it.
5721
572251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5723 the existing equality matching.
5724
572552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5726 dealing with inode numbers.
5727
572853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5729 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5730 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5731
573254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5733 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5734 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5735 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5736 local_scan().
5737
573855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5739 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5740 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5741 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5742 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5743 relay addresses has also been removed.
5744
574556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5746
574757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5748 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5749 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5750
575158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5752 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5753 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5754 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5755 processing applies to CR:
5756
5757 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5758 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5759
5760 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5761 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5762 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5763 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5764
576559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5766 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5767 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5768
576960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5770 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5771 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5772 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5773 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5774 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5775 arisen.
5776
577761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5778 program routers.
5779
578062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5781 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5782 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5783 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5784 adds:
5785
5786 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5787
5788 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5789
5790 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5791
579263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5793 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5794 not considered personal.
5795
579664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5797
579865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5799
580066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5801
580267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5803 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5804 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5805 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5806 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5807 header lines, and spool format errors.
5808
580968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5810 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5811 for more flexibility.
5812
581369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5814 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5815 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5816
581770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5818 Sabourenkov.
5819
582071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5821 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5822 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5823 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5824 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5825 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5826 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5827 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5828 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5829
583072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5831 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5832 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5833 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5834 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5835 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5836 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5837
583873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5839 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5840 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5841
584274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5843 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5844 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5845 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5846 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5847 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5848 instead of killing the process with assert().
5849
585075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5851 than Unicode encoding.
5852
585376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5854 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5855 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5856 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5857
585877. Added process_log_path.
5859
586078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5861 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5862
586379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5864 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5865
586680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5867 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5868 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5869
587081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5871 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5872 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5873 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5874 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5875 were applied:
5876
5877 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5878 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5879 as invalid.
5880
588182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5882 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5883 they will be used during message reception.
5884
5885
5886Exim version 4.20
5887-----------------
5888
5889The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5890
5891****