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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6Exim version 4.75
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8
4c9ef03a 9NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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10 Bugzilla 1073
11
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12TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
13 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
14 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
15
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16TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
17 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
18
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19PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
20 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
21 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
22
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23PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
24 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
25
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26PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
27 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
28
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29NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
30 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
31
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32NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
33 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
34
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35PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
36 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 37
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38NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
39 Fixes bug 943.
40
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41PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
42 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
43
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44PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
45 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
46
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47PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
48 SQL string expansion failure details.
49 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
50
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51PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
52 Patch from Simon Arlott.
53
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54PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
55 extern declarations in function scope.
56 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
57
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58PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
59 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
60 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
61 a kernel bug).
62
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63PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
64 Patch from Mark Zealey.
65
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66PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
67 Patch from Mark Zealey.
68
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69PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
70 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
71
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72PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
73 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
74
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75NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
76 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
77 Dennis Davis.
78
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79PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
80
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81PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
82
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84Exim version 4.74
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86
87TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
88 consequences so log it to the panic log.
89
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90TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
91 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
92
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93TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
94
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95DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
96 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
97 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
98
99PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
100 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
101 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
102
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103PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
104 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
105 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
106 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
107
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108PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
109 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
110 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
111 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
112
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113PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
114 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
115 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
116 arbitrary files.
117
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118PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
119 (Wolfgang Breyha)
120
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121PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
122 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
123 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
124 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
125 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
126
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130
131PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
132 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
133 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
134
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135PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
136 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
137
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138JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
139
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140PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
141
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142PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
143
ec5a0394 144PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 145
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146PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
147
453a6645 148PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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149 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
150 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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151 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
152
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153PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
154 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
155 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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156 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
157 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 158
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159PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
160
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161PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
162
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163PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
164
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165PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
166
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167PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
168
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169PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
170
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171PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
172
6a8de854 173PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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174 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
175 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 176
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177JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
178
179JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
180 "exim" to be used
55c75993 181
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182PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
183 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
184
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185PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
186 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
187 Notification from John Horne.
188
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189PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
190 compatible.
191
192PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
193 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
194 it normally works.
195
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196DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
197 access.
198
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199DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
200 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
201 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
202
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203DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
204 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
205 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
206 configuration file.
207
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208DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
209 option (effectively making it always true).
210
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211DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
212 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
213
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214DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
215 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
216
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217PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
218 run-time user, instead of root.
219
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220PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overriden by the
221 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
222
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223DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
224 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
225 arguments.
3346ab01 226
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227DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
228 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
229 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
230
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231DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
232
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233NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
234
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236Exim version 4.72
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238
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239JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
240 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
241 typos
465e92cf 242
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243JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
244 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
245 (Finput)
edae0343 246
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247NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
248 Patch from Alain Williams
249
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250NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
251
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252NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
253 Patch from Andreas Metzler
254
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255NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
256 Patch from Kirill Miazine
257
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258NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
259
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260JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
261
a466095c 262NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 263 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 264
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265TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
266
267TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
268
269MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
270 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
271 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
272
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273NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
274 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 275
b26eacf1 276NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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277 Patch by Simon Arlott
278
179c5980 279PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 280 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 281
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283Exim version 4.71
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285
7d9f747b 286TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 287
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288NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
289
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290NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
291
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292NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
293
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294NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
295
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297Exim version 4.70
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299
cdd3bb85 300TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 301 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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302
303TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
304 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 305 Hirsch).
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306
307TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
308 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 309 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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310
311TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
312 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
313
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314NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
315 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
316 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
317 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
318
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319NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
320 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 321 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 322
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323TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
324
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325TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
326
dae9d94e 327NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 328 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 329
7d9f747b 330NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 331
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332TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
333 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
334 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
335 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
336
65a7d8c3 337NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 338 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 339
23510047 340TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 341
7d9f747b 342NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 343
7d8eec3a 344NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 345 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 346
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347TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
348 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 349
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350TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
351 that they are available at delivery time.
352
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353TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
354
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355TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
356 incoming_port log selectors.
357
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358TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
359 setting expands to an empty string.
360
ce552449 361NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 362 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 363
e765a0f1 364NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 365 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 366
4f054c63 367NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 368 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 369
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370NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
371 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 372
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373NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
374 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 375
b52bc06e 376NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 377 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 378
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379NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
380
4c69d561 381NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 382 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 383
d5c39246 384NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 385 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 386
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387TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
388
8f3414a1 389NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 390 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 391
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392NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
393
394NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 395
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396NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
397 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 398
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399NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
400 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 401
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402NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
403 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 404
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405NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
406 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 407
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408NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
409 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 410
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411NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
412 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 413
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414NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
415 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 416
7d9f747b 417NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 418 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 419
7d9f747b 420NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 421
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422NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
423 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 424
7d9f747b 425NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 426
7d9f747b 427NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 428
7d9f747b 429NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 430
7d9f747b 431NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 432
17792b53 433NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 434 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 435
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436NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
437 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 438
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439NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
440 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 441
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442NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
443 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 444
7d9f747b 445NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 446
7d9f747b 447NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 448
7d9f747b 449NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 450
7d9f747b 451NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 452
deafd5b3 453
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454Exim version 4.69
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456
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457TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
458 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
459 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
460
461 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
462 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
463 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
464 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
465 build errors in sieve.c.
466
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467NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
468 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
469 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
470
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471SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
472
7d9f747b 473NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 474
7d9f747b 475NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 476
7d9f747b 477NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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482
483PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
484
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485PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
486 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
487 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
488 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
489 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
490 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
491 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
492 for iplsearch lookups.
493
494 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
495 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
496 previously such lookups could never work.
497
498 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
499 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
500 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
501
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502TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
503 version.
504
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505MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
506 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
507 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
508 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
509 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
510 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
511
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512TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
513 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
514
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515MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
516 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
517 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
518 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
519 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
520 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
521
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522PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
523 local_scan API.
524
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525PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
526
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527PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
528 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
529 encrypted.
530
531PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
532 by clients under certain conditions.
533
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534PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
535 "_responses" off the end of the name.
536
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537PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
538
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539PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
540 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
541
542PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
543
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544PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
545
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546PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
547
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548PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
549 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
550
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551PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
552
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553PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
554 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
555
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556PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
557
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558PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
559
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560PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
561 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
562 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
563 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
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ddea74fa 565PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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566 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
567 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
568
ddea74fa 569PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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570 and InterBase are left for another time.)
571
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572PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
573
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574PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
575
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576PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
577
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578PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
579 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
580 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
581
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585
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586MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
587 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
588 Jan Srzednicki.
589
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590PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
591 issue a MAIL command.
592
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593PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
594
595 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
596
597 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
598 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
599 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
600 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
601 item. This has been fixed.
602
603PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
604 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
605
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606PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
607 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
608
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609PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
610 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
611 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
612
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613SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
614
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615PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
616 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
617 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
618 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
619 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
620
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621MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
622 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
623 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
624
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625PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
626 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
627 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
628 the server_setid option was incorrect.
629
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630PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
631
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632PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
633
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634PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
635 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
636 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
637 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
638 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
639
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640PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
641
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642PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
643 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
644 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
645 values).
646
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647PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
648
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649PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
650
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651PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
652
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653PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
654
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655PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
656
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657PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
658 no_callout_flush is set.
659
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660PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
661 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
662 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
663 fixed.
664
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665PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
666
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667PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
668 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
669 other ACL rejections are.
670
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671PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
672 with slight modification.
673
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674PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
675 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
676
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677PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
678 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
679 connection.
680
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681PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
682 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
683
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684SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
685
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686PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
687 expansion side effects.
688
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689PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
690 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
691 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
692 be the same.
693
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694MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
695 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
696 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
697
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698PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
699 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
700 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
701 were accidentally chopped off.
702
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703PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
704 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
705 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
706 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
707 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
708 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
709 pipelining has not been advertised.
710
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711PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
712
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713PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
714 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
715 This has been fixed.
716
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717PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
718 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
719 reported on Solaris.
720
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721PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
722 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
723 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
724 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
725 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
726 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
727 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
728
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729PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
730 cpus.
731
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732PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
733
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734PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
735
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736PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
737 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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738 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
739 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
740 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
741 criteria to be more general.
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743PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
744 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
745 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
746 host_all_ignored option.
747
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748PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
749 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
750 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
751 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
752 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
753 is what is supposed to happen).
754
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755PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
756 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
757 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
758 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
759 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
760 uses the Exim user.
761
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762PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
763 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
764 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
765 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
766 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
767 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
768 users.
769
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770PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
771
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772SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
773 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
774 (Jez Hancock).
775 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
776 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
777
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778SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
779
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780PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
781
58eb016e 782PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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783 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
784 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
785 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
786 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
787 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
788 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
789 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 790 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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791 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
792 least in a lot of common cases.
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794PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
795 advertised in response to EHLO.
796
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801PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
802 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
803
804 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
805 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
806
807 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
808 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
809 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
810
811 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
812 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
813 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
814 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
815 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
816
817
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820
821TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
822 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
823 versions. (#438)
824
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825MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
826 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
827 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
828
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829PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
830 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
831 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
832 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
833 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
834 rather than extend the field.
835
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840TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
841 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
842 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
843 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
844 these files.
845
846TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
847 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
848 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
849
850TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
851 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
852 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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853
854TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
855 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
856 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
857 in the field name.
858
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859PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
860 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
861 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
862 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
863 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
864 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
865 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
866 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
867 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
868 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
869 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
870
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871PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
872 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
873
874PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
875 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
876 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
877 ignores EPIPE as well.
878
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879PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
880 (quoted-printable decoding).
881
cc2ed8f7 882PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 883 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
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885PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
886
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887PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
888
889PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
890
38a0a95f 891PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 892 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
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894JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
895 in 4.64-PH/09.
896
897JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
898 miscellaneous code fixes
899
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900PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
901 rejections.
902
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903PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
904 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
905 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
906 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
907 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
908 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
909 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
910 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
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14aa5a05 912PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 913 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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914 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
915 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
916 function.
917 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
918 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
919 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
920 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
921 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
922 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
923 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
924 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
925 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
926
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927PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
928 decoding.
929
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930PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
931 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
932 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
933 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
934 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
935 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
936 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
937 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
938
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939PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
940 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
941 list.
942
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943PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
944 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
945 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
946 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
947 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
948 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
949 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
950 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
951 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
952 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
953 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
954 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
955 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
956
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957PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
958 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
959 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
960 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
961 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
962 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
963 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
964
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965PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
966 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
967 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
968 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
969 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
970 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
971 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
972 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
973 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
974 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
975
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976PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
977 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
978 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
979 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
980 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
981
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982PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
983 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
984 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
985 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
986 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
987 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
988 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
989
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990PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
991 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
992 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
993 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
994 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
995 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
996 been verified.
997
48da4259 998PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
999 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1000 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1001 and authorization.)
1002
48da4259
PH
1003PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1004 if any retry times were supplied.
1005
d1d5595c
PH
1006PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1007 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1008 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1009
0ef732d9
PH
1010PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1011
328895cc
PH
1012PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1013
fd700877
PH
1014PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1015 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1016 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1017 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1018 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1019 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1020
8dce1a6f
PH
1021PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1022 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1023
17af4a17
PH
1024PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1025 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1026 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1027
1028PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1029 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1030 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1031 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1032 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1033 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1034 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1035 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1036 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1037
1038 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1039 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1040 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1041 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1042 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1043 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1044 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1045 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1046 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1047
1048 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1049 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1050 hammering the server.
1051
c1114884
PH
1052PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1053 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1054
7a0743eb
PH
1055PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1056
0d85fa3f
PH
1057PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1058 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1059 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1060
1bf43b78
PH
1061PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1062 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1063 one case where this was not true.
1064
520de300
PH
1065PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1066 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1067 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1068 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1069 fails.
1070
48c7f9e2
PH
1071PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1072 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1073 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1074 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1075 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1076 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1077 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1078 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1079 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1080 smtp transport.
1081
99ea1c86
PH
1082PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1083 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1084 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1085 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1086
a2042e78
PH
1087PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1088 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1089
4fbcfc2e
PH
1090PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1091 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1092 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1093
aa41d2de
PH
1094PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1095
af561417
PH
1096PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1097
3cc66b45
PH
1098PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1099
194cc0e4
PH
1100PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1101 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1102 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1103 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1104
a401ddaa
PH
1105PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1106 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1107
4e88a19f
PH
1108PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1109 be meaningful with "accept".
1110
d7d7b289
SC
1111SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1112 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1113
1114SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1115 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1116 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1117
1118SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1119 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1120 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1121 there is data to show.
1122 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1123
1124SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1125 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1126 as well as the number of messages.
1127
1128SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1129 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1130 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1131
1132SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1133 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1134 have a flag are now skipped.
1135
1136SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1137 Added the -emptyok flag.
1138
1139SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1140 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1141
0ea2a468
JJ
1142JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1143 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1144 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1145
1146JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1147 match 4.64-PH/13
1148
1149JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1150 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1151
1152JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1153
1154JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1155 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1156
8a10f5a4
PH
1157PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1158
30e18802
PH
1159PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1160 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1161 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1162 contravention of the specifications.
1163
55728a4f
PH
1164PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1165 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1166 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1167
d7837193
PH
1168PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1169 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1170 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1171
87054a31
PH
1172PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1173
ea2c01d2
MH
1174MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1175 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1176 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1177 some point in the past.
1178
e4fa6968
PH
1179PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1180 transport during callout processing was broken.
1181
56f5d9bd
PH
1182PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1183 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1184
922e1c28
PH
1185PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1186 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1187
21eb6e72
PH
1188PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1189 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1190
a0540757
PH
1191PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1192
944e9e9c 1193
478be7b0
SC
1194Exim version 4.63
1195-----------------
1196
1197SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1198 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1199
1200SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1201 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1202 there is data to show.
1203 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1204
1205SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1206 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1207
2b965a65
TF
1208TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1209 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1210
45b91596
PH
1211TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1212 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1213
c59f5781
TF
1214TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1215 submissions from trusted users.
1216
90fc3069
TF
1217TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1218 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1219
6083aca0
TF
1220TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1221 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1222 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1223 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1224 there is now a framework to start from.
1225
765b530f
PH
1226PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1227 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1228 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1229
4e167a8c
PH
1230PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1231
4608d683
PH
1232PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1233
b8dc3e4a
PH
1234PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1235
5418e93b
PH
1236PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1237 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1238 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1239
b4a9bda2
PH
1240PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1241 libradius.
1242
45b91596
PH
1243PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1244 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1245 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1246
5547e2c5
PH
1247PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1248 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1249 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1250 its arguments.
1251
dbcef0ea
PH
1252PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1253 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1254 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1255 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1256 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1257
25257489
PH
1258PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1259 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1260
c816d124
PH
1261PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1262
a9ccd69a
PH
1263PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1264 operations in malware.c.
1265
75fa1910
PH
1266PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1267 signatures.
1268
a7d7aa58
PH
1269PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1270 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1271 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1272 all.
1273
42119b09
PH
1274PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1275 statements to "add_header".
1276
41609df5
PH
1277PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1278 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1279
a5bd321b
PH
1280PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1281 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1282 latter.
1283
e85a7ad5 1284PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1285 so that it is now:
1286
e85a7ad5
PH
1287 ${if or { \
1288 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1289 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1290 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1291 }{no}{yes}}
1292
e85a7ad5
PH
1293 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1294 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1295
d8fe1c03
PH
1296PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1297 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1298
16282d2b
PH
1299PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1300 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1301 any possible encoding problems.
1302
35d40a98
PH
1303PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1304 but not after initializing Perl.
1305
034d99ab
PH
1306PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1307 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1308 apparently, which is not desirable.
1309
6ec97b1b
PH
1310PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1311 queries.
1312
e22ca4ac
JJ
1313JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1314 --not options
1315
1316JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1317
33d73e3b
PH
1318PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1319 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1320 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1321 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1322
9ecb03f3
PH
1323PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1324 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1325 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1326
084efe8d
PH
1327PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1328 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1329 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1330 0.12.
1331
366fc9f0
PH
1332PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1333 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1334 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1335 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1336 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1337
c59f5781 1338
c887c79e
TF
1339Exim version 4.62
1340-----------------
1341
1342TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1343 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1344
1cce3af8
PH
1345PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1346 patch).
1347
afb3eaaf
PH
1348PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1349 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1350 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1351 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1352 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1353 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1354 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1355 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1356 451 error is used.
1357
e173618b
PH
1358PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1359
dd16e114
PH
1360PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1361 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1362 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1363
f7fd3850
PH
1364PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1365 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1366 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1367 odd errors.
1368
d87df92c
PH
1369PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1370 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1371
7e9f683d
PH
1372PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1373 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1374 option (which defaults to 0600).
1375
bfad5236
PH
1376PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1377
01c490df
PH
1378PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1379 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1380 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1381 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1382 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1383 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1384 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1385
d6629cdc
PH
1386PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1387
1cce3af8 1388
214e2000
PH
1389Exim version 4.61
1390-----------------
1391
1392PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1393 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1394 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1395 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1396 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1397 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1398 addresses as local.
1399
f9daeae0
PH
1400PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1401 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1402
7e66e54d
PH
1403PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1404
c8ea1597
PH
1405PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1406 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1407 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1408 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1409 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1410 grumble.
1411
911f6fde
PH
1412PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1413 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1414
47ca6d6c
PH
1415PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1416 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1417 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1418 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1419 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1420
ed0e9820
PH
1421PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1422 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1423 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1424 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1425
eff37e47
PH
1426PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1427 be the same on different OS.
1428
1921d2ea
PH
1429PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1430 testing.
1431
b3f69ca8
JJ
1432JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1433 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1434
1435JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1436 in 4.61-PH/06
1437
424a1c63
PH
1438PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1439 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1440 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1441 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1442 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1443 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1444 bounce message.
1445
7a100415
PH
1446PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1447 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1448 when Exim was called.
1449
19b9dc85
PH
1450PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1451 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1452
309bd837
PH
1453PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1454 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1455 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1456 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1457
59e82a2a
PH
1458PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1459 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1460 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1461 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1462 changes:
1463
1464 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1465 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1466 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1467
1468 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1469 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1470 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1471
9edc04ce
PH
1472PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1473 feature).
1474
1349e1e5
PH
1475PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1476 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1477 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1478 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1479 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1480 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1481 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1482 values from the SRV records were lost.
1483
ea49d0e1
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1484PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1485 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1486 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1487
064a94c9
PH
1488PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1489 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1490 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1491
727071f8
PH
1492PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1493 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1494 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1495 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1496 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1497 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1498 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1499 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1500 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1501 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1502
f78eb7c6
PH
1503PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1504 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1505 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1506
21c28500
PH
1507PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1508 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1509
1510PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1511 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1512 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1513 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1514 is given.
1515
1688f43b
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1516PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1517 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1518 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1519
1520PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1521 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1522 PH/23 above applies.
1523
9675b384
PH
1524PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1525 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1526 (for which there is an explicit test).
1527
6a3f1455
PH
1528PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1529
dac79d3e
PH
1530PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1531 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1532 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1533 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1534 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1535
5977a0b3
PH
1536PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1537 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1538 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1539 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1540
c91535f3
PH
1541PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1542 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1543 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1544
0d46a8c8
PH
1545PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1546
278c6e6c
PH
1547PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1548
2cbb4081
PH
1549PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1550 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1551 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1552
3eef829e
PH
1553PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1554 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1555 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1556 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1557 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1558
1ab95fa6
PH
1559PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1560 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1561 the message gets confusing).
1562
230205fc
PH
1563PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1564 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1565 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1566 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1567
75e0e026
PH
1568PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1569 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1570 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1571 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1572 same order.
1573
1574PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1575 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1576 the different processes.
1577
145396a6
PH
1578PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1579
3cd34f13
PH
1580PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1581
11121d3d
JJ
1582JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1583 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1584
1585JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1586 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1587
1588JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1589 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1590 messages matching specified criteria.
1591
8def5aaf
PH
1592PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1593
929ba01c
PH
1594PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1595 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1596
2632889e
PH
1597PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1598 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1599 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1600 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1601 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1602 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1603 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1604 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1605 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1606 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1607
944a9c55
PH
1608PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1609 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1610 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1611
4a23603b
PH
1612PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1613
4730f942
PH
1614PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1615 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1616 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1617 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1618 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1619 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1620 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1621 the variable.
1622
30dba1e6
PH
1623PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1624 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1625
382afc6b
PH
1626PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1627
a86229cf
PH
1628PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1629
50c99ba6
PH
1630PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1631
d35e429d
PH
1632PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1633 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1634 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1635 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1636 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1637 size of the count of files.
1638
f90d018c
PH
1639PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1640
75def545
PH
1641PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1642 used in LMTP mode:
1643
1644 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1645 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1646 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1647 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1648
1649 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1650 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1651 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1652
1653PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1654 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1655 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1656 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1657 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1658
c46782ef
PH
1659PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1660 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1661
71fafd95
PH
1662PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1663 will now be deprecated.
1664
2c5db4fd
PH
1665PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1666
9cf6b11a
JJ
1667JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1668 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1669 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1670
1671JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1672 with very large, slow to parse queues
1673
1674JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1675
1676JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1677
898d150f
PH
1678PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1679 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1680 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1681 SMTP output lines.
1682
46218253
PH
1683PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1684 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1685 Sieve code now uses this.
1686
e97957bc
PH
1687PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1688 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1689
81e509d7
PH
1690PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1691 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1692
3d240ff7
PH
1693PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1694
b37c4101
PH
1695PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1696 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1697 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1698 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1699 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1700
79378e0f
PH
1701PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1702 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1703 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1704 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1705
e49c7bb4
PH
1706PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1707
d114ec46
PH
1708PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1709
f3d7df6c
PH
1710PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1711 is preferred over IPv4.
1712
715ab376
PH
1713PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1714 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1715 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1716 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1717 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1718 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1719 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1720
6b31b150
PH
1721PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1722 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1723 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1724
1725PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1726
d515a917
PH
1727PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1728 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1729 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1730 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1731 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1732 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1733 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1734 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1735 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1736 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1737 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1738
9b8fadde
PH
1739PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1740 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1741 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1742
214e2000 1743
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PH
1744Exim version 4.60
1745-----------------
1746
cc38ddbf
PH
1747PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1748
1749 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1750 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1751
1752 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1753 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1754 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1755
72fdd6ae
PH
1756PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1757
1758 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1759 not a single digit.
1760
1761 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1762 string.
1763
1764 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1765 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1766 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1767 silly things.
1768
1769 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1770 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1771
1772 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1773 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1774
cb741023
PH
1775PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1776 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1777 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1778
f174f16e
PH
1779PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1780 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1781
c25242d7
PH
1782PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1783 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1784
1785 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1786
1787 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1788 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1789 this:
1790
1791 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1792
82c19f95
PH
1793PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1794 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1795 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1796 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1797 identical. For example:
1798
1799 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1800
1801 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1802 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1803 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1804
d7ffbc12
PH
1805PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1806 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1807 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1808 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1809
9f526266
PH
1810PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1811 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1812 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1813 message.
1814
87fcc8b9
PH
1815PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1816
1817 o fixes some comments
1818 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1819 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1820 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1821 and documents the missing references header update
1822
1823 and most important:
1824
1825 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1826 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1827 result)
1828
456682f5
PH
1829PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1830 Electronic Mail") by including:
1831
1832 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1833
1834 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1835 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1836 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1837 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1838 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1839
1840 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1841
1842 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1843
1844 The auto-replied keyword:
1845
1846 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1847 message by an automatic process,
1848
1849 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1850
1851 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1852 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1853
1854 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1855 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1856 other messages.
1857
3e46c1aa
PH
1858PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1859 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1860
49826d12
PH
1861PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1862
eba0c039
PH
1863PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1864 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1865 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1866
a0d6ba8a
PH
1867PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1868 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1869 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1870
f0917727
PH
1871PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1872 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1873 and treats the condition as false.
1874
096fee00
PH
1875PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1876
024bd3c2
PH
1877PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1878 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1879 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1880 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1881 not changing the active code.
1882
1883 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1884 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1885
1886 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1887 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1888
df199fec
PH
1889PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1890 (Bugzilla #53).
1891
d27f1df3
PH
1892PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1893 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1894 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1895 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1896 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1897 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1898 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1899 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1900 the text comparison.
1901
96776534
PH
1902PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1903 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1904 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1905 The same fix has been applied.
1906
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1908Exim version 4.54
1909-----------------
1910
1911PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1912 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1913 It now does.
1914
99a4b039
PH
1915PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1916 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1917
1918PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1919
4b233853
PH
1920PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1921 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1922 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1923 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1924 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1925
8857ccfd
PH
1926TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1927 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1928 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1929 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1930 or /domain=).
1931
433a2980
PH
1932PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1933 testing suite.
1934
3e46c1aa 1935
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1937Exim version 4.53
1938-----------------
1939
1940TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1941 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1942
13b685f9
PH
1943PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1944
395ff96d
PH
1945PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1946
5b68f6e4
PH
1947PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1948 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1949 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1950
1ab52c69
PH
1951PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1952 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1953 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1954
b07e6aa3
PH
1955PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1956 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1957 operating systems.
1958
254e032f
PH
1959PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1960 ${stat: expansion item.
1961
3af76a81
PH
1962PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1963 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1964
2548ba04
PH
1965PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1966 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1967 file for comments.
1968
b6c6011d
PH
1969PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1970
cf39cf57
PH
1971PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1972 setting.
1973
f1513293
PH
1974PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1975 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1976
727549a4
PH
1977TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1978
af46795e
PH
1979PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1980 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1981 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1982 the end of the subprocess.
1983
d7b47fd0
PH
1984PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1985 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1986 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1987 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1988 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1989
ee744174
JJ
1990JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1991
b582ab87
PH
1992TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1993
41a13e0a
PH
1994PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1995 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1996
f625cc5a
PH
1997PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1998
1999PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2000
21f7af35
PH
2001PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2002 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2003 HP-UX compiler.
2004
31480e42
PH
2005PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2006
2d280592
PH
2007PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2008 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2009 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2010
7cd1141b
PH
2011PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2012 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2013
2014PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2015 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2016
750af86e
PH
2017PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2018 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2019
2020 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2021 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2022
2023 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2024 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2025 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2026 contributed by a Radius user.
2027
2028PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2029 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2030
4304270b
TK
2031TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2032 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2033
750af86e
PH
2034PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2035 available.
2036
64ffc24f
PH
2037PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2038 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2039 received.
2040
5dd9625b
PH
2041PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2042 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2043 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2044 header lines when this was not necessary.
2045
5591031b
PH
2046PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2047
ba18e66a
PH
2048PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2049 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2050 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2051 exists".
2052
9cec981f
PH
2053PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2054 -bV or -d is used.
2055
aa2b5c79
PH
2056PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2057 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2058 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2059 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2060
48a53b7f
PH
2061PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2062
1c59d63b
PH
2063PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2064
671012da
TK
2065TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2066
1509d3a8
PH
2067PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2068
2069PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2070 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2071 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2072 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2073 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2074 settings.
2075
2076PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2077
2fe1a124
PH
2078PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2079 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2080 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2081 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2082 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2083 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2084 which is clearly wrong.
2085
8800895a
PH
2086PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2087
ccfdb010
PH
2088PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2089 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2090 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2091 subsequently added.
2092
1130bfb0
PH
2093PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2094 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2095
ebcb507f
PH
2096PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2097
c35e155c
PH
2098PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2099 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2100
95d1f782
PH
2101PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2102 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2103
fd6de02e
PH
2104PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2105 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2106
58de37c5
PH
2107PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2108 recipients, not senders.
2109
261cf466
TF
2110TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2111 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2112
3ee512ff
PH
2113PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2114
e08c430f
PH
2115PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2116
bef5a11f
PH
2117PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2118 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2119 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2120 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2121
7546de58
TF
2122TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2123
e5d5a95f
TF
2124TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2125 clock is set back in time.
2126
2e88a017
TF
2127TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2128 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2129
a5f65aa4
TF
2130TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2131 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2132
e7726cbf
PH
2133PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2134 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2135 (see PH/47 above).
2136
a7fdad5b
TF
2137TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2138 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2139 header rewrites.
2140
6af56900
PH
2141PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2142 type ("H").
2143
0925ede6
PH
2144PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2145
66afa403
TF
2146TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2147 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2148 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2149
0154e85a
TF
2150TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2151 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2152 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2153 helo verification defer as a failure.
2154
16f12c76
PH
2155PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2156 actual error message.
2157
bbe902f0 2158
e5a9dba6
PH
2159Exim version 4.52
2160-----------------
2161
2162TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2163
22c3b60b
PH
2164PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2165 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2166 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2167 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2168
06a9b4b5
PH
2169TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2170
c1ac6996
PH
2171PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2172 can still be requested.
2173
9c7a242c
PH
2174PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2175 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2176 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2177 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2178
87ba3f5f
PH
2179TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2180 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2181 circumstances, but probably never did.
2182
2183PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2184 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2185 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2186 in the header line.
2187
29aba418
TF
2188TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2189
fe0dab11
TF
2190TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2191 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2192
11d337a4
TK
2193TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2194
2195TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2196
415c8f3b
PH
2197PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2198 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2199 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2200 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2201 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2202 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2203
958541e9
PH
2204PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2205 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2206 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2207 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2208 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2209 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2210
c206415f
TK
2211TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2212 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2213
2a4be8f9
PH
2214PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2215 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2216
1cba11c5
SC
2217SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2218 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2219
2220SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2221
2222SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2223
2224SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2225
2226SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2227
2228SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2229
2230SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2231
1005d00e
TK
2232TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2233
2234TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2235 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2236 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2237
2238TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2239 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2240 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2241 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2242
9b4768fa
PH
2243PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2244 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2245 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2246
2247PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2248 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2249 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2250 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2251
0d7eb84a
PH
2252PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2253 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2254 to be made).
2255
2256PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2257 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2258 should work with maildirs and everything.
2259
40727bee
TK
2260TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2261 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2262
554d2369
TF
2263TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2264 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2265
1f922db1
PH
2266PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2267 function for BDB 4.3.
2268
ef213c3b
PH
2269PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2270
8ac170f3
PH
2271PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2272 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2273 involved.
2274
b1c749bb
PH
2275PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2276 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2277 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2278 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2279 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2280 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2281
4aac9b49
PH
2282PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2283 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2284 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2285 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2286 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2287 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2288 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2289 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2290
294520c8
TK
2291TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2292 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2293 details.
2294
5bd022fe
PH
2295PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2296 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2297
90e9ce59
PH
2298PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2299 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2300 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2301 test. It is now used for both.
2302
5ea81592
PH
2303PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2304 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2305 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2306 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2307 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2308 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2309
c6c2dc1d
PH
2310PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2311 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2312 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2313 string_vformat().
2314
fffffe4c
PH
2315PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2316 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2317 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2318
9a26b6b2
PH
2319PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2320 experimental DomainKeys support:
2321
2322 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2323 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2324 the control was given.
2325
2326 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2327
4aee0225
PH
2328PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2329
32d668a5
PH
2330PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2331
8187c3f3
PH
2332PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2333 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2334 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2335 db.h files).
2336
ff790e47 2337PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2338 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2339 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2340 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2341 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2342 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2343 course.
ff790e47 2344
5417f6d1
PH
2345PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2346 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2347 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2348 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2349 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2350 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2351
59cf8544
PH
2352PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2353 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2354 do -d+all out of habit.
2355
e7ad8a65
PH
2356PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2357 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2358 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2359
ade42478
PH
2360PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2361 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2362 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2363 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2364 record types that Exim uses.
2365
182ad5cf
PH
2366PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2367 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2368 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2369 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2370 non-existent file that was broken.
2371
b0d9fc80
TK
2372TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2373 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2374
2375TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2376 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2377 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2378
2379TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2380
47c7a64a
PH
2381PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2382 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2383 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2384 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2385 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2386 same time.
2387
a388bce4
SC
2388SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2389 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2390 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2391 at a slight CPU cost.
2392
2393SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2394 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2395
2396SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2397 by Marc Sherman.
2398
0793e4ed
SC
2399SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2400
c58b88df
PH
2401PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2402 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2403
e7ad8a65 2404
7982096b
PH
2405Exim version 4.51
2406-----------------
2407
1a46a8c5
PH
2408TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2409 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2410
2f079f46 2411TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2412
2413TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2414
2415PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2416 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2417
2418PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2419 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2420 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2421 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2422 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2423 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2424 file.
2425
2426PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2427 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2428 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2429 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2430 these two options.
2431
2432PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2433 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2434 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2435 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2436 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2437 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2438 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2439 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2440
2441PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2442 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2443
2444PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2445 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2446 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2447 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2448 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2449 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2450
2451PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2452 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2453 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2454 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2455
2456PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2457 Finch).
2458
2459PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2460 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2461
49c2d5ea
PH
2462PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2463 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2464 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2465 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2466 message.
49c2d5ea 2467
bf759a8b
PH
2468PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2469
83364d30
PH
2470PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2471 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2472
7999bbd7
PH
2473PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2474 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2475 to what was transported.)
2476
7dbf77c9
PH
2477TF/01 Added $received_time.
2478
74e0617f
PH
2479PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2480 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2481 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2482 spamd_address settings.
2483
2f079f46
PH
2484PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2485 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2486 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2487 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2488 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2489
8c841523
PH
2490PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2491
7766a4f0
PH
2492PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2493 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2494 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2495 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2496 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2497
8b417f2c
PH
2498PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2499 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2500
901f42cb
PH
2501PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2502 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2503 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2504 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2505 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2506 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2507 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2508 for failure.
2509
f9b9210e
PH
2510PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2511 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2512 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2513 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2514 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2515 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2516 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2517 "input=".
2518
54cdb463
PH
2519PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2520
cf00dad6
PH
2521PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2522 driver and ACL definitions.
2523
acb1b346
PH
2524PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2525 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2526
c5ddb310
PH
2527PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2528 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2529 understands it better than I do:
2530
2531 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2532 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2533
2534 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2535 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2536 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2537 => three warnings about OTP not working
2538 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2539
2540 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2541 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2542 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2543 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2544 for each call.)
2545 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2546 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2547
2548 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2549 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2550 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2551
31619da6
PH
2552PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2553 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2554 specified.
2555
bebaf0fc
PH
2556PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2557 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2558 "Linux".
2559
475fe28a
PH
2560PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2561 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2562 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2563
2564 warn !verify = sender
2565 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2566
2567 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2568 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2569
7e8bec7a
PH
2570PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2571
2572 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2573 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2574
2575 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2576 nomenclature these days.)
2577
e4a89c47
PH
2578PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2579 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2580
5ca2a9a1
PH
2581PH/30 In these circumstances:
2582 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2583 . First host does not offer TLS;
2584 . First host accepts first address;
2585 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2586 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2587 . Second host accepts second address.
2588 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2589 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2590 address.
7e8bec7a 2591
c688b954
PH
2592PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2593 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2594 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2595 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2596 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2597
fed77020
PH
2598PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2599 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2600
7fe1560f
PH
2601PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2602 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2603
ebb6e6d5
PH
2604PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2605 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2606 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2607
9c4e8f60
PH
2608PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2609 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2610 overlooked.
2611
2612PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2613
d7174846
PH
2614PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2615 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2616 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2617 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2618 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2619 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2620 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2621
2622 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2623 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2624 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2625 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2626 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2627
2628 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2629 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2630 routed further.
2631
cfe75fc3
PH
2632PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2633 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2634 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2635 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2636 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2637 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2638
be22d70e
PH
2639PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2640
0612b098
PH
2641PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2642 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2643 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2644 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2645 printable escape sequences.
2646
2e0c1448
PH
2647PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2648 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2649 body only.
2650
447d236c
PH
2651PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2652 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2653 are as follows:
2654
2655 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2656 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2657 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2658 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2659 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2660
2661 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2662 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2663 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2664
d20976dc
PH
2665PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2666
f656d135
PH
2667PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2668 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2669 play with."
2670
2e2a30b4
PH
2671PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2672 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2673 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2674 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2675 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2676 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2677 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2678 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2679 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2680 the log output.
2681
9176e9f0
PH
2682PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2683 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2684 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2685 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2686 "make".
2687
7982096b 2688
bbe902f0
PH
2689A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2690----------------------------------------
2691
2692Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2693changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2694needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2695in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2696that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2697release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2698from 4.43.
2699
2700I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
27014.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2702those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2703historical information.
2704
2705
f7b63901 2706Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2707-----------------
2708
5fe762f6
PH
2709 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2710
139059f6 2711 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2712 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2713
7086e875
PH
2714 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2715 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2716 place.
2717
35af9f61
PH
2718 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2719 filter fails to execute.
2720
b668c215
PH
2721 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2722 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2723 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2724 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2725 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2726
a494b1e1
PH
2727 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2728
2729 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2730 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2731 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2732 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2733
c5fcb476
PH
2734 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2735 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2736 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2737 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2738 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2739
69358f02
PH
2740 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2741
5be20824
PH
274210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2743
eb2c0248
PH
274411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2745 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2746 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2747 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2748
2a3eea10
PH
274912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2750 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2751 sender verification.
2752
275313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2754 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2755
23c7ff99
PH
275614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2757
4deaf07d
PH
275815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2759 connection timeout.
2760
926e1192
PH
276116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2762 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2763
650edc6f
PH
276417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2765 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2766
2c7db3f5
PH
276718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2768 information about exactly what failed.
2769
3d235903
PH
277019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2771
7c7ad977
PH
277220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2773 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2774 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2775
981756db
PH
277621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2777 It is now set to "smtps".
2778
d4eb88df
PH
277922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2780 ignore_target_hosts.
2781
278223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2783 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2784 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2785 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2786 "[x.x.x.x]".
2787
7d468ab8
PH
278824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2789 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2790 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2791
279225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2793 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2794 wake it up if nothing else does.
2795
62c0818f
PH
279626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2797 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2798 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2799 end up negative.
2800
26034054
PH
280127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2802 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2803
af66f652
PH
280428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2805
90af77f4
PH
280629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2807 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2808 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2809 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2810 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2811 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2812 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2813 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2814
d8ef3577
PH
281530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2816 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2817 than one IP address.
2818
5cb8cbc6
PH
281931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2820 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2821 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2822 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2823
14702f5b
PH
282432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2825 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2826 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2827 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2828 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2829 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2830
063b1e99
PH
283133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2832 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2833 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2834 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2835
652e1b65
PH
283634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2837 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2838 respected.
2839
6f0c9a4f
PH
284035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2841 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2842 $sender_host_address.
2843
33397d19
PH
284436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2845 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2846 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2847 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2848 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2849 very small.
2850
7bb56e1f
PH
285137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2852
2853 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2854 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2855
ea3bc19b
PH
2856 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2857 just the host names, not the priorities.
2858
2859 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2860 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2861 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2862
ea3bc19b 2863 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2864 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2865
0bcb2a0e
PH
286638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2867 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2868 domain.
2869
2ac0e484
PH
287039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2871
4e1fde53
PH
287240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2873 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2874
de365ded
PH
287541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2876 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2877 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2878
f05da2e8
PH
287942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2880
d6453af2
PH
288143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2882
f7b63901
PH
288344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2884
288545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2886 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2887 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2888 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2889 because the tests only now provoked it.
2890
a444213a
PH
289146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2892 (this can affect the format of dates).
2893
0ec020ea
PH
289447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2895 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2896 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2897 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2898
b1206957
PH
289948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2900
290149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2902 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2903 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2904 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2905
26dd5a95
PH
290650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2907 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2908 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2909
343b2385
PH
291051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2911 autoreply.
2912
1c5466b9
PH
291352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2914 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2915 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2916 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2917 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2918 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2919 is going on).
2920
55ee9ee3
PH
292153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2922 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2923 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2924 the line.
2925
d38f8232
PH
292654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2927 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2928 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2929
2930 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2931 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2932 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2933 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2934 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2935 so I produce this patch..."
2936
3295e65b
PH
2937 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2938 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2939 is not defined.
2940
7102e136
PH
294155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2942 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2943 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2944 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2945 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2946
3ca0ba97
PH
294756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2948
c2bcbe20
PH
294957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2950 long debug lines gets shown.
2951
18ce445d
PH
295258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2953 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2954
1f5b4c3d
PH
295559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2956
2957 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2958 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2959 of $primary_hostname.
2960
b975ba52
PH
296160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2962 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2963 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2964 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
2965 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2966 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2967 by change 4.50/55 above.
2968
2969 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2970 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2971 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2972 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2973 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2974 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2975 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
2976
297761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2978 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2979 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2980 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2981
17ffcae7
PH
298262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2983 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2984
d95f9fdb
PH
298563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2986 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2987 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2988 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2989 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2990
86b8287f
PH
299164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2992 This has been fixed.
2993
60dc5e56
PH
299465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2995 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2996 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2997 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2998 the caching.)
2999
533244af
PH
300066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3001
a5a28604
PH
300267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3003 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3004 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3005 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3006
7e634d24
PH
300768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3008 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3009
3e11c26b
PH
301069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3011 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3012 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3013
6729cf78
PH
301470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3015 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3016 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3017 message there.
3018
00f00ca5
PH
301971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3020 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3021 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3022
c9bdd01c
PH
302372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3024 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3025 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3026 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3027
d43194df
PH
302873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3029 during host lookups.
3030
fe5b5d0b
PH
303174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3032 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3033
3034 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3035
76a2d7ba
PH
303675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3037 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3038 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3039 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3040 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3041 background.
3042
304376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3044 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3045
04f7d5b9
PH
304677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3047 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3048 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3049
bc60667e
PH
305078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3051
bb6e88ff
PH
305279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3053 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3054 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3055 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3056 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3057 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3058 process earlier.
3059
1e70f85b
PH
306080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3061 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3062 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3063 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3064 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3065
306681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3067 tables).
3068
4e01f9d6
PH
306982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3070
1ee1cef2
PH
307183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3072 "vacation" handling.
3073
6e2b4ccc
PH
307484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3075 OS variants using glibc.
3076
8e669ac1
PH
307785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3078
495ae4b0 3079
bbe902f0
PH
3080----------------------------------------------------
3081See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3082----------------------------------------------------
3083
3084
3085Exim version 4.44
3086-----------------
3087
3088 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3089 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3090 transport
3091
3092 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3093 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3094 place.
3095
3096 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3097 filter fails to execute.
3098
3099 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3100 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3101 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3102 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3103 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3104
3105 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3106 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3107 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3108 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3109
3110 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3111 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3112 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3113 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3114 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3115
3116 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3117
3118 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3119 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3120 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3121 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3122
3123 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3124 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3125 sender verification.
3126
312710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3128 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3129
313011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3131 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3132
313312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3134 ignore_target_hosts.
3135
313613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3137 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3138 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3139 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3140 "[x.x.x.x]".
3141
314214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3143 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3144 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3145
314615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3147 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3148 wake it up if nothing else does.
3149
315016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3151 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3152 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3153 end up negative.
3154
315517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3156 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3157
ea3a6f44 315818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3159
316019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3161 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3162 empty pattern.
3163
316420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3165 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3166 one IP address.
3167
ea3a6f44
NM
316821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3169 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3170 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3171 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3172 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3173 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3174
ea3a6f44
NM
317522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3176 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3177 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3178
317923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3180 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3181 $sender_host_address.
3182
318324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3184
ea3a6f44
NM
318525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3186 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3187 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3188
318926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3190 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3191
ea3a6f44
NM
319227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3193 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3194
ea3a6f44
NM
319528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3196 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3197 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3198 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3199
320029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3201 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3202 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3203
ea3a6f44
NM
320430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3205 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3206 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3207 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3208
ea3a6f44
NM
320931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3210 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3211 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3212
ea3a6f44
NM
321331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3214 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3215
ea3a6f44
NM
321632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3217 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3218 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3219 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3220 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3221 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3222 is going on).
bbe902f0 3223
ea3a6f44
NM
322433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3225 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3226 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3227 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3228 CAN-2005-0021
3229
ea3a6f44
NM
323034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3231 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3232 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3233 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3234 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3235 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3236 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3237
3238 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3239 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3240 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3241 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3242 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3243 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3244 CAN-2005-0021
3245
ea3a6f44
NM
324635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3247 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3248 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3249 CAN-2005-0022
3250
ea3a6f44
NM
325136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3252 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3253 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3254 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3255 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3256
ea3a6f44
NM
325737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3258 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3259 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3260 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3261 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3262
ea3a6f44
NM
326338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3264 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3265 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3266 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3267 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3268
3269
495ae4b0
PH
3270Exim version 4.43
3271-----------------
3272
3273 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3274 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3275 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3276 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3277 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3278 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3279 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3280
3281 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3282 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3283 the delivery.
3284
3285 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3286
3287 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3288
3289 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3290 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3291 to local_scan().
3292
3293 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3294 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3295 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3296 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3297 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3298
3299 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3300 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3301
3302 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3303
3304 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3305
330610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3307 header_sender only.
3308
330911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3310 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3311
331212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3313 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3314 affecting debugging statements).
3315
331613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3317
331814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3319 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3320 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3321 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3322 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3323 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3324 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3325 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3326 after the received time, and all would be well.
3327
332815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3329 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3330 condition in an expansion string.
3331
333216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3333
333417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3335 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3336 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3337 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3338 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3339 job under whatever limits there are.
3340
334118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3342
334319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3344 space).
3345
334620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3347 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3348 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3349 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3350 return path is set.
3351
335221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3353 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3354 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3355 binary data in such strings.
3356
335722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3358
335923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3360 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3361 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3362 failure, which is pointless.
3363
336424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3365
336625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3367
336826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3369 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3370 Sender: header lines.
3371
337227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3373 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3374 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3375
337628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3377 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3378 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3379 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3380 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3381 happens.
3382
338329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3384 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3385 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3386 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3387 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3388
338930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3390 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3391 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3392 1024.
3393
339431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3395 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3396
339732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3398 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3399
340033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3401
340232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3403
340433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3405
340634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3407 syntax error.
3408
340935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3410
341136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3412
341337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3414 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3415 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3416 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3417
341838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3419 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3420
3421
3422Exim version 4.42
3423-----------------
3424
3425 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3426 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3427 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3428 it was not quoted.
3429 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3430 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3431 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3432 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3433 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3434 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3435
3436 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3437 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3438 verification failure".
3439
3440 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3441 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3442 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3443 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3444
3445 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3446 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3447 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3448 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3449 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3450 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3451 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3452 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3453 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3454 treated as a timeout.
3455
3456 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3457 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3458 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3459 not set for Exim filters).
3460
3461 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3462 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3463 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3464
3465 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3466
3467 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3468 try to make them clearer.
3469
3470 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3471 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3472
3473 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3474
3475 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3476
347710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3478 only the Cygwin environment.
3479
348011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3481 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3482 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3483 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3484 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3485
348612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3487 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3488 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3489 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3490 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3491 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3492 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3493
349413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3495 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3496
349714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3498
3499 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3500 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3501 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3502
3503 To: susanne@some.where
3504
3505 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3506 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3507 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3508 of addresses in From: header lines).
3509
3510 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3511 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3512 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3513
3514 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3515 treated as non-personal.
3516
3517 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3518 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3519
352015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3521
352216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3523
352417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3525 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3526 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3527
352818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3529 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3530
353119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3532 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3533 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3534 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3535 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3536 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3537
353820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3539 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3540 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3541 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3542 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3543 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3544 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3545 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3546
3547 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3548
354921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3550 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3551
355222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3553 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3554 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3555
355623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3557 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3558
355924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3560 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3561 rather than long int.
3562
356325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3564
356526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3566
3567
3568Exim version 4.41
3569-----------------
3570
3571 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3572 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3573 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3574 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3575 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3576 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3577
3578
3579Exim version 4.40
3580-----------------
3581
3582 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3583 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3584
3585 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3586 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3587 socklen_t is defined.
3588
3589 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3590 always exist.
3591
3592 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3593 configured.
3594
3595 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3596 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3597 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3598 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3599 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3600
3601 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3602 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3603 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3604 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3605
3606 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3607 of flapping under certain conditions.
3608
3609 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3610 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3611 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3612
3613 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3614
361510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3616
361711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3618 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3619 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3620 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3621
362212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3623 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3624 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3625 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3626 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3627 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3628 preserved with the message after it was received.
3629
363013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3631 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3632 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3633 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3634 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3635 test suite worked just fine.
3636
363714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3638 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3639 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3640
364115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3642 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3643 string.
3644
364516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3646 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3647 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3648 does not fully solve it.
3649
365017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3651 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3652 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3653 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3654 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3655
365618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3657 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3658 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3659
366019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3661 string, for example:
3662
3663 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3664
3665 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3666 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3667 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3668 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3669 the routers could not see them.
3670
367120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3672 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3673
367421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3675 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3676 output).
3677
367822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3679 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3680 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3681 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3682 that needed quoting.
3683
368423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3685 was not being matched caselessly.
3686
368724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3688 backslashes.
3689
369025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3691 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3692 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3693 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3694 when use_sender is false.
3695
369626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3697
369827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3699
370028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3701
370229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3703 the configuration file.
3704
370530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3706 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3707
370831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3709
371032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3711 bytes in the message body.
3712
371333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3714 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3715 delivery.
3716
371734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3718
371935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3720
372136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3722 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3723 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3724 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3725 another IP address.
3726
3727
3728Exim version 4.34
3729-----------------
3730
3731 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3732 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3733
3734 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3735 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3736 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3737 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3738 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3739
3740 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3741 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3742
3743 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3744 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3745 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3746
3747 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3748 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3749 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3750
3751 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3752 for routers.
3753
3754 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3755 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3756 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3757 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3758 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3759 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3760 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3761
3762
3763Exim version 4.33
3764-----------------
3765
3766 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3767 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3768 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3769 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3770 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3771 default (and expected) setting.
3772
3773 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3774 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3775 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3776 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3777
3778 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3779 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3780
3781 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3782 in domain lists.
3783
3784 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3785 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3786 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3787 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3788 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3789 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3790
3791 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3792 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3793 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3794
3795 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3796 part (NOT match_host).
3797
3798 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3799
3800 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3801 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3802 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3803 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3804 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3805 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3806 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
3807 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
3808 the same named file.
3809
381010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
3811 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
3812 when Exim is built.
3813
381411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
3815 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
3816 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
3817 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
3818 a host name.
3819
382012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
3821 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
3822 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
3823
382413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
3825
382614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
3827
382815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
3829
383016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
3831 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
3832
383317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3834 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3835 before starting the TLS session.
3836
383718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3838
383919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3840 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3841
384220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
3843 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
3844 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
3845 colon in the middle).
3846
3847
3848Exim version 4.32
3849-----------------
3850
3851 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
3852 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
3853 multiple configurations are in use.
3854
3855 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3856 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3857 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3858 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3859 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3860 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3861
3862 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3863 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3864
3865 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3866 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3867 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3868
3869 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3870 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3871 occurs.
3872
3873 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3874 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3875
3876 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3877
3878 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3879 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3880
3881 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3882
3883 -prval:sval
3884
3885 is equivalent to
3886
3887 -oMr rval -oMs sval
3888
3889 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3890 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3891 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3892 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3893 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3894
389510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3896 Exim's behaviour:
3897
3898 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3899 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3900 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3901 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3902 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3903 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3904
3905 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3906 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3907 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3908 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3909 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3910 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3911 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3912 string.
3913
3914 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3915 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3916 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3917 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3918 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3919
392011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3921
392212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3923 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3924 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3925
392613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3927
392814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3929 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3930 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3931 information.
3932
393315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3934 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3935
393616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3937 Three changes have been made:
3938
3939 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3940 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3941 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3942 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3943 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3944
3945 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
3946 been restored.
3947
3948 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
3949 the modified behaviour.
3950
3951
3952Exim version 4.31
3953-----------------
3954
3955 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
3956 Larry Rosenman.
3957
3958 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
3959 indeed breaks things for older releases.
3960
3961 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
3962 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
3963 try to track down a specific problem.
3964
3965 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
3966 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
3967 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
3968
3969 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3970 warning.
3971
3972 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3973 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3974 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3975 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3976 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3977 some earlier ones do not.
3978
3979 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3980
3981 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3982 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3983 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3984 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3985 address literals are enabled, of course).
3986
3987 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3988
398910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3990 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3991 by a command such as
3992
3993 exim -f "" ...
3994
3995 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3996
399711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3998
399912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4000 remained set. It is now erased.
4001
400213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4003 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4004
400514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4006 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4007 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4008 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4009 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4010 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4011 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4012 appropriate error code.
4013
401415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4015 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4016 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4017 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4018 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4019 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4020
402116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4022 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4023 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4024
402517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4026 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4027 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4028 terminate the header.
4029
403018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4031 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4032 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4033
403419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4035 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4036 (4.30/29). In particular:
4037
4038 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4039 imposed.
4040
4041 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4042 to write a maildirsize file.
4043
4044 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4045 the transport, the new value overrides.
4046
4047 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4048 count.
4049
405020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4051 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4052 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4053 space or a tab.
4054
405521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4056 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4057 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4058 the fallback hosts.
4059
406022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4061 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4062 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4063
406423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4065 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4066 using a union.
4067
406824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4069 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4070 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4071
407225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4073
407426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4075
407627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4077
407828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4079 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4080 become corrupted.
4081
408229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4083 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4084 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4085 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4086 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4087 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4088 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4089 too great.
4090
409130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4092 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4093 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4094 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4095 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4096 incorrectly.
4097
409831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4099 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4100 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4101 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4102 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4103 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4104 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4105 cached value only when the same options are set.
4106
410732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4108
410933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4110 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4111 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4112 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4113 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4114
411534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4116 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4117 it is clearly obsolete.
4118
411935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4120 transport.
4121
412236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4123 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4124 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4125 times.
4126
412737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4128 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4129 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4130 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4131 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4132
413338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4134 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4135 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4136 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4137
413839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4139
4140 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4141
4142 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4143 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4144 2^31.
4145
414640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4147 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4148 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4149 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4150 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4151 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4152 $localpart_data.
4153
415441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4155 with the -f command-line option.
4156
415742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4158 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4159 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4160 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4161 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4162 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4163
416443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4165 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4166 line.
4167
416844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4169 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4170 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4171 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4172 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4173 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4174 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4175 buffer is too small.
4176
417745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4178 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4179
418046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4181 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4182 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4183 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4184 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4185 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4186 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4187 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4188 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4189
419047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4191 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4192 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4193
419448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4195 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4196 ACL").
4197
419849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4199 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4200 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4201 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4202 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4203
420450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4205 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4206 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4207 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4208 is set.
4209
421051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4211
421252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4213
421453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4215 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4216
421754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4218 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4219 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4220
422155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4222 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4223 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4224 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4225 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4226
422756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4228 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4229 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4230 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4231 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4232 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4233 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4234
423557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4236 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4237 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4238 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4239 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4240 the test of how many are available.
4241
424258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4243 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4244 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4245 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4246 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4247 new message is started.
4248
424959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4250 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4251
425260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4253 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4254
425561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4256 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4257 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4258 is no long logged.
4259
426062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4261 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4262 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4263 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4264 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4265 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4266 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4267
426863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4269 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4270 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4271 interpreted as octal.
4272
427364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4274 setting.
4275
427665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4277 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4278 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4279 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4280 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4281 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4282
428366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4284 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4285 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4286 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4287
4288 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4289 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4290 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4291 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4292
4293 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4294 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4295 is a bug fix.
4296
4297 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4298 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4299
430067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4301
430268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4303 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4304 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4305 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4306
430769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4308 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4309 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4310 supplied", which is not helpful.
4311
431270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4313 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4314 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4315
431671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4317 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4318 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4319 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4320 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4321 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4322 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4323 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4324
432572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4326 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4327 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4328 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4329 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4330
433173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4332 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4333 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4334 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4335 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4336 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4337
433874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4339 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4340 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4341
434275. Added write_rejectlog option.
4343
434476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4345 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4346 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4347 variables.
4348
434977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4350
435178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4352 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4353 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4354 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4355 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4356 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4357 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4358 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4359
436079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4361 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4362 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4363 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4364 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4365
436680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4367 Haardt.
4368
436981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4370 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4371 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4372 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4373 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4374 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4375 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4376 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4377 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4378
4379
4380Exim version 4.30
4381-----------------
4382
4383 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4384 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4385 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4386
4387 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4388 fixed.
4389
4390 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4391 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4392 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4393
4394 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4395 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4396 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4397 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4398 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4399 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4400
4401 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4402 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4403 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4404 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4405 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4406 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4407 the Exim test suite.
4408
4409 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4410 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4411 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4412 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4413
4414 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4415 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4416 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4417 specify it in this variable.
4418
4419 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4420 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4421 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4422 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4423
4424 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4425 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4426 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4427 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4428
4429 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4430 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4431 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4432 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4433 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4434
4435 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4436
443710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4438 they are logged.
4439
444011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4441 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4442 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4443 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4444 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4445
444612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4447 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4448
444913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4450 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4451 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4452 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4453 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4454
445514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4456 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4457
445815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4459 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4460 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4461
446216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4463 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4464
446517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4466 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4467
446818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4469 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4470 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4471
447219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4473 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4474
447520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4476 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4477 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4478 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4479
448021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4481
448222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4483 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4484 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4485 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4486
448723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4488
448924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4490 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4491
449225. Added .include_if_exists.
4493
449426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4495 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4496 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4497 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4498 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4499 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4500
450127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4502
450328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4504 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4505 this.
4506
450729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4508
450930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4510 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4511
4512 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4513 550 Sender verify failed
4514
4515 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4516 the final line of the response.
4517
451831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4519 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4520 all other user lookups.
4521
452232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4523 delivery time.
4524
452533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4526 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4527 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4528 result into an int without checking.
4529
453034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4531 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4532 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4533
453435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4535 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4536 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4537 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4538
453936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4540 correctly.
4541
454237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4543 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4544
454538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4546 to the empty sender.
4547
454839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4549 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4550 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4551 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4552 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4553 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4554 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4555 panic log.
4556
455740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4558 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4559 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4560 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4561 used.
4562
456341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4564 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4565
456642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4567 timestamps.
4568
456943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4570 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4571
457244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4573
457445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4575 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4576 logs.
4577
457846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4579 as soon as it is encountered.
4580
458147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4582
458348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4584 rewritten to "<>".
4585
458649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4587 recognizes a tab character.
4588
458950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4590 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4591 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4592 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4593
459451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4595
459652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4597 crash.
4598
459953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4600
460154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4602
460355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4604 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4605 2822.
4606
460756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4608 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4609 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4610 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4611 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4612
461357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4614 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4615
461658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4617 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4618 list (.included file names were always shown).
4619
462059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4621 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4622 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4623 root at that time.
4624
462560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4626 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4627
462861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4629
463062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4631
463263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4633
463464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4635 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4636 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4637 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4638 failures to open the logs.
4639
464065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4641 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4642 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4643 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4644 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4645 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4646 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4647
4648
4649Exim version 4.24
4650-----------------
4651
4652 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4653 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4654 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4655 change 4.23/1.
4656
4657 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4658 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4659 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4660
4661 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4662 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4663 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4664
4665 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4666 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4667 causing some misleading effects.
4668
4669 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4670 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4671 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4672
4673 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4674 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4675 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4676 queue-runner function directly.
4677
4678
4679Exim version 4.23
4680-----------------
4681
4682 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4683 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4684
4685 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4686 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4687 was always written to the default place.
4688
4689 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4690 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4691 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4692
4693 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4694
4695 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4696
4697 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4698 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4699 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4700
4701 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4702 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4703 must start.
4704
4705 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4706 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4707 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4708
4709 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4710 command line option is disabled.
4711
4712 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4713 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4714
4715 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4716
4717 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4718
4719 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4720 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4721
472210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4723
472411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4725 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4726 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4727 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4728 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4729 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4730
473112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4732 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4733 timeout.
4734
473513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4736 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4737
473814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4739 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4740
474115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4742 received was valid base64.
4743
474416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4745 name of the variable that was being set.
4746
474717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4748
474918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4750 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4751 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4752 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4753 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4754 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4755
475619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4757
475820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4759 nor realm was specified.
4760
476121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4762 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4763 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4764 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4765
476622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4767 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4768 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4769
477023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4771 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4772 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4773
477424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4775 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4776 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4777 some systems use these upper case variants.
4778
477925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4780 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4781 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4782 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4783
478426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
4785
478627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
4787 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
4788
478928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
4790 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
4791 expansion variable.
4792
479329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
4794
479530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
4796 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
4797 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
4798 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
4799
480031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
4801 using it.
4802
480332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
4804 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
4805 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
4806
480733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
4808 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
4809
481034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
4811 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
4812 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
4813 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
4814
481535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
4816 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
4817 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
4818
481936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
4820
482137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
4822 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
4823 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
4824 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
4825 aborted.
4826
482738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
4828 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
4829 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
4830
483139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
4832
483340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
4834 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
4835
483641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
4837 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
4838
483942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
4840 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
4841 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
4842 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
4843 when emails are that large.
4844
4845
4846
4847Exim version 4.22
4848-----------------
4849
4850 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
4851 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
4852
4853 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
4854 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
4855 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
4856
4857 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
4858 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
4859 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
4860
4861 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
4862 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
4863 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
4864 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
4865 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
4866
4867 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
4868 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
4869 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
4870 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
4871 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
4872 ever.
4873
4874 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
4875 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
4876 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
4877 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
4878 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
4879 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
4880 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
4881 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
4882 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
4883 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
4884 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
4885 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
4886 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
4887 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
4888
4889 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
4890 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
4891 parameterised it.
4892
4893 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
4894 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
4895 error should be diagnosed.
4896
4897 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
4898 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
4899 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
4900 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
4901 appeared instead of "NULL".
4902
490310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
4904 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
4905 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
4906 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
4907 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
4908 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
4909 proceeds).
4910
4911 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
4912 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4913 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4914
4915
4916Exim version 4.21
4917-----------------
4918
4919 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4920 or receiver verification errors.
4921
4922 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
4923 name.
4924
4925 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
4926 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
4927 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
4928 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
4929
4930 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
4931 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
4932 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
4933 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
4934 shouldn't happen again.
4935
4936 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
4937 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
4938 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
4939
4940 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
4941 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
4942
4943 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
4944
4945 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
4946 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
4947
4948 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
4949 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
4950 RFC.
4951
495210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
4953 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
4954 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
4955
495611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
4957 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
4958 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
4959 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
4960
496112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
4962 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
4963 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
4964 to define what should happen).
4965
496613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
4967 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
4968 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
4969
497014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4971
497215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4973
497416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4975 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4976
497717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
4978 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
4979 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
4980 structure in all cases.
4981
4982 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
4983 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
4984 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
4985 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
4986
498718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
4988 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
4989 domain name.
4990
499119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
4992 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
4993
499420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
4995 MD5 (which is deprecated).
4996
499721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
4998 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
4999 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5000
500122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5002 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5003 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5004
500523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5006 the book and for uniformity.
5007
500824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5009
501025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5011 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5012 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5013 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5014 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5015 non-existent command as the problem.
5016
501726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5018 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5019 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5020
502127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5022
502328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5024 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5025 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5026
502729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5028 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5029 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5030 timestamps using strftime().
5031
503230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5033 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5034
503532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5036 transport-time rewrites.
5037
503833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5039 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5040 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5041 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5042
504334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5044 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5045
504635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5047 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5048 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5049 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5050 comma and a space.
5051
505236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5053 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5054 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5055 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5056 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5057 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5058 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5059
506037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5061 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5062 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5063 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5064 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5065
506638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5067 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5068 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5069 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5070 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5071 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5072 remaining text gets split now.
5073
507439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5075 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5076 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5077 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5078
507940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5080 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5081 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5082 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5083 $return_path.
5084
508541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5086 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5087 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5088 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5089 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5090 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5091 passed through if needed.
5092
509342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5094 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5095 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5096 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5097 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5098 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5099
510043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5101 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5102 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5103 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5104 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5105
510644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5107 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5108 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5109 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5110 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5111
511245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5113 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5114 noticed.
5115
511646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5117 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5118 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5119 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5120 mayhem of various kinds.
5121
512247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5123 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5124 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5125 the right test for positive values.
5126
512748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5128 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5129 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5130 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5131 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5132 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5133 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5134 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5135 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5136 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5137 envelope.
5138
513949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5140 module.
5141
514250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5143 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5144 forbidding it.
5145
514651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5147 the existing equality matching.
5148
514952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5150 dealing with inode numbers.
5151
515253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5153 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5154 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5155
515654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5157 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5158 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5159 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5160 local_scan().
5161
516255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5163 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5164 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5165 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5166 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5167 relay addresses has also been removed.
5168
516956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5170
517157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5172 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5173 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5174
517558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5176 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5177 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5178 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5179 processing applies to CR:
5180
5181 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5182 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5183
5184 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5185 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5186 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5187 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5188
518959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5190 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5191 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5192
519360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5194 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5195 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5196 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5197 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5198 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5199 arisen.
5200
520161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5202 program routers.
5203
520462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5205 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5206 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5207 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5208 adds:
5209
5210 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5211
5212 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5213
5214 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5215
521663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5217 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5218 not considered personal.
5219
522064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5221
522265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5223
522466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5225
522667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5227 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5228 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5229 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5230 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5231 header lines, and spool format errors.
5232
523368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5234 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5235 for more flexibility.
5236
523769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5238 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5239 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5240
524170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5242 Sabourenkov.
5243
524471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5245 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5246 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5247 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5248 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5249 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5250 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5251 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5252 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5253
525472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5255 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5256 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5257 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5258 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5259 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5260 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5261
526273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5263 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5264 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5265
526674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5267 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5268 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5269 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5270 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5271 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5272 instead of killing the process with assert().
5273
527475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5275 than Unicode encoding.
5276
527776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5278 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5279 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5280 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5281
528277. Added process_log_path.
5283
528478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5285 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5286
528779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5288 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5289
529080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5291 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5292 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5293
529481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5295 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5296 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5297 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5298 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5299 were applied:
5300
5301 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5302 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5303 as invalid.
5304
530582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5306 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5307 they will be used during message reception.
5308
5309
5310Exim version 4.20
5311-----------------
5312
5313The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5314
5315****