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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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10
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11JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
12 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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fc243e94 14JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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15 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
16 its own TCP segment.
17
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18JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
19 each verb.
20
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21JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
22
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23JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
24
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25JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
26 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
27
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28JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
29 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
30 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
31 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
32 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
33 suitably configured).
34
c05bdbd6 35JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
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36 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
37
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38JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
39 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
40 crash could result.
41
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42JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
43 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
44
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45JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
46 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
47 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
48 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
49 to this system.
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51JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
52 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
53 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
54
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55JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
56 output.
57
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58JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
59 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
60
3c55eef2 61JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 62 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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63 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
64 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
65 input).
66
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67HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
68 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
69 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
70 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
71 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
72
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73HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
74 shared (NFS) environment.
75
76HS/02 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
77 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
78 affected.
79
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80JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
81 on some platforms for bit 31.
82
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83JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
84 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
85 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
86 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
87 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
88 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
89 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
90 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
91
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92JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
93
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94JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
95 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
96
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97JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
98 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
99 facility.
100
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101JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
102 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
103 documentation.
104
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105JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
106 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
107 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
108 not do so.
109
59c0959a 110JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
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111 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
112 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
113
114JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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115 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
116 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
117 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
118 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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120JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
121 reject under TFO.
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efad2f41 123JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 124 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
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125 be requested on all coneections.
126
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127JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
128 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
129
6ee11061 130PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
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132JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
133 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
134 one for these; the option was ignored.
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136JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
137 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
138 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
139 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
140
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141JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
142 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
143 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
144 standards.
145
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146JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
147 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
148 error ignored was made.
149
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150JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
151
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152JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
153 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
154 values, to catch one form of exploit.
155
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156JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
157 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
158 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
159
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160JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
161 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
162 causing a segfault.
163
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167
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168JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
169 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
170
171JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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172 non-signal-safe functions being used.
173
174JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
175 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
176 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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178JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
179 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
180 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
181
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182JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
183 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
184 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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185 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
186 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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187 messed with.
188
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189PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
190 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
191
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192JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
193 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
194 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
195 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
196 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
197 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
198 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
199
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200JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
201 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
202
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203JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
204 legitimate.
205
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206JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
207 Previously this would segfault.
208
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209JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
210 segfault.
211
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212JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
213 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
214 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
215 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
216 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
217 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
218
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219JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
220
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221JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
222 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
223 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
224 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
225
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226JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
227
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228JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
229 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
230 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
231 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
232
5054c4fd 233JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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235JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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237JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
238 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
239 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
240
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241JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
242 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
243 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
244
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245PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
246
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247JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
248 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
249 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
250 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
251
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252PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
253 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
254 promised '?' replacement.
255
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256PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
257
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258JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
259 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
260 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
261 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
262 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
263
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264JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
265 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
266 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
267
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268JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
269 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
270 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
271
7ea1237c 272JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 273 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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274 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
275
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276JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
277 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
278 hope that is portable enough.
279
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280JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
281 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
282 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
283 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
284
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285JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
286 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
287 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
288
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289JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
290 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
291 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
292 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
293
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294JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
295 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
296
75c121f0 297JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 298 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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299 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
300 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
301
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302JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
303 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
304 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
305
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306JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
307 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
308 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
309 the previous G, M, k.
310
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311JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
312 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
313 it was unset.
314
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315JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
316 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
317 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
318 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
319
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320JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
321 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
322
de6f74f2 323JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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324 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
325 off past the nul-terimation.
326
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327JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
328 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
329 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
330 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
331 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
332
aa6e77af 333JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
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335JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
336 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
337 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
338 actually does fail.
339
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340AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
341 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
342
343JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
344 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
345 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
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347JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
348 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
349 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
350
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351JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
352 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
353
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c39c8870 358GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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359 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
360 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
361 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
362 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
363 be defined in redis_servers.
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365GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
366 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
367
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368JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
369 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
370 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
371 extant use locations.
372
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373JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
374 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
375
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376JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
377 Previously only the last row was returned.
378
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379JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
380 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
381 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
382 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
383 input.
384
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385JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
386 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
387 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
388 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
389 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
390 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
391 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
392 Main pool for expansions.
393 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
394 active in the testsuite.
395 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
396
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397JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
398 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
399 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
400 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
401 round-robin DNS.
402
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403JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
404 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
405 failure response.
406
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407JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
408 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
409 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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410
411JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
412 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
413 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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415JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
416 rows affected is given instead).
417
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418JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
419 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
420
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421JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
422 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
423 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
424 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
425 for all multi-message initiating connections.
426
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427JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
428 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
429 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
430
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431JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
432 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
433 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
434 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
435 separate.
436
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437JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
438 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
439 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
440 fake-reject.
441
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442HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
443
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444JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
445 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
446
aab9a843 447PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 448 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 449 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 450
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451JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
452 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
453 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
454 and send a quit.
455
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456JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
457 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
458
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459JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
460 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
461 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
462
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463JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
464 for the build is renamed.
465
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466JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
467 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
468 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
469
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470JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
471 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
472 result replacing the original.
473
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474JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
475 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
476 and the resources needed to be freed.
477
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478JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
479
e6532c4a
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480JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
481 was not propagated.
482
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483JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
484 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
485 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
486 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
487
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488JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
489 length value. Previously this would segfault.
490
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491HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
492 newer versions of the scanner.
493
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494JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
495 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
496 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
497 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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498 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
499 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
500 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 501
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502JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
503 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
504 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
505 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
506 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
507 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
508 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
509 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
510 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
511 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
512
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513JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
514 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
515
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516JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
517
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518HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
519 allows proper process termination in container environments.
520
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521JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
522 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
523
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524JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
525 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
526 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
527
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528JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
529 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
530 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 531 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 532
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533JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
534 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
535 would be spooled.
536
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537PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
538 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
539
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540HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
541 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
542 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
543 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
544 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 545
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546JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
547 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
548 lines.
549
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550JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
551 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
552
ddd16464
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553PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
554 suffix list.
555
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556JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
557 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
558 "bare" representation.
559
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560JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
561 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
562 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
563 corrupted the output.
564
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568
569JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
570 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
571 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
572 pairs of long lines into single ones.
573
856d1e16
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574PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
575 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
576
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577JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
578 This permits better logging.
579
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580JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
581 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
582 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
583 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
584 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 585 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 586
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587JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
588 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
589 "exiwhat" output.
590
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591PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
592 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
593 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
594
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595JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
596 than 255 are no longer allowed.
597
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598JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
599 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
600 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
601 client, there is no benefit for these.
602 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
603 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
604 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
605 is used (3.2.4 +).
606
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607PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
608 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
609
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610JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
611 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
612 erroneously found still-pending ones.
613
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614JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
615 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
616
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617JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
618 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
619 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
620 signature and again for transmission.
621
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622JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
623 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 624 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 625
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626JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
627 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
628 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
629 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
630 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
631 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
632 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
633
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634JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
635 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
636 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 637 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 638
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639PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
640 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
641 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
642 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
643 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
644 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
645 processing options.
646
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647JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
648 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
649 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
650 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
651 connections.
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653PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
654 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
655 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
656 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
657 versions.
658
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659JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
660 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
661 inaccessible.
662
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663JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
664 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
665 banner-time rejection.
666
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667JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
668 callout/hold.
669
8e041ae0
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670PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
671 is the name of a transport.
833c70bc
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672 Fixes bug 2140.
673
35a04365
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674HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
675
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676JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
677 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
678
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679JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
680 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
681 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
682 during compilation.
683
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684JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
685 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
686 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 687 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 688
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689JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
690 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
691 initial verify call returned a defer.
692
ad1a76fe 693JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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694 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
695
ad1a76fe
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696JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
697 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
698
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699JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
700 if present. Previously it was ignored.
701
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702JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
703 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
704
7eb0e5d2
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705JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
706 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
707 extensible.
708
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709PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
710 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
711
dc4de9cc
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712PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
713 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
714 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
715
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716JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
717 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
718 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
719 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
720
0768462d 721HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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722 and confused the parent.
723
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724JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
725 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
726
9e0ed81f
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727JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
728 for log purposes.
729
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730JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
731 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
732 out-of-order delivery.
733
e5ab0ba9
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734JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
735 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
736 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
737 error for the HELO.
738
e99a3a6c
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739JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
740 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
741 desynchronisation.
742
18067c75
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743JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
744 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
745 one run was done. Bug 2189.
746
72934ba7
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747JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
748 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
749 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
750 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
751 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
752 message is still "Temporary local problem".
753
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754JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
755 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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756 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
757
758HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
759 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
760 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 761
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762JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
763 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
764 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
765 though a different problem.
766
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9427e879 771JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 772 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 773
7b283890
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774JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
775
4c57a40e
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776PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
777 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
778
5d036699
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779JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
780 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
781
f4630439
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782JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
783 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
784 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
785 before acknowledging the chunk.
786
f988ce57
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787PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
788 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
789 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
790
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791JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
792 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
793 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
794 should.
795
796JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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797 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
798 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 799
bd8fbe36 800JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
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801 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
802
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803JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
804 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
805 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
806 body hash calculated value.
807
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808JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
809 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
810 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
811
44e6651b
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812JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
813
814JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
815 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
816
817JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
818 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
819 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
820
821JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
822 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
823 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
824 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
825 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
826 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
827
828JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
829 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
830 past that check, despite the cost.
831
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832JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
833 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
834 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
835
f700ea4d
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836PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
837 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
838 TLS library to consume.
839
da88acae
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840PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
841
f6ef9370
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842PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
843
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844JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
845 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
846 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
847 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
848 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
849 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
850 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
851
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852PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
853
854PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
855
856PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
857 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
858 should be warning-free.
859
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860JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
861
862HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
863 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
864
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865HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
866 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
867 general solution here.
868
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869PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
870 already-broken messages in the queue.
871
4bb432cb
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872JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
873
3b1a84c8
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874JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
875
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880JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
881 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 882
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883JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
884 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
885 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
886
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887JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
888 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
889 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
890 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
891 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
892 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
893 if one fails this test.
894 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
895 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
896
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897JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
898 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
899
23bb6982 900JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 901 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 902
0bd1b1ed 903JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 904 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 905
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906JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
907 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
908
05392bbc
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909JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
910 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
911
1a6230a3
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912JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
913
cfab9d68
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914JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
915 certificate).
916
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917JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
918 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
919 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
920 connection after a verify cache hit.
921 Do not update it with the verify result either.
922
923JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
924 when routing results in more than one destination address.
925
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926JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
927 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
928 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
929 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
930 when the cutthrough connection is made).
931
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932JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
933 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
934
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935JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
936 Previously they were not counted.
937
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938JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
939 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
940 that needed the lookup.
941
4c04137d 942JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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943 distinguished as "(=".
944
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945JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
946 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
947
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948JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
949
950JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
951 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 952
4c04137d 953JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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954 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
955
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956JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
957 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
958 compatible.
959
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960JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
961 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
962 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
963 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
964
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965JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
966
f59aaaaa 967JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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968 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
969 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 970
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971JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
972 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
973 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
974 be lost.
975
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976JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
977 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
978 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
979 itself :(
980
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981JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
982 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
983 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
984
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985JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
986 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
987 options.
988
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989JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
990
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991PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
992 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
993
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994PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
995 are not in the system include path.
996
ad7fc6eb 997JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 998 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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999 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1000 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1001
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1002JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1003 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1004 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1005
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1006JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1007
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1008HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1009 an incoming connection.
1010
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1011HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1012 to rspamd.
1013
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1014HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1015 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1016
87cb4a16 1017JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1018 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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1019
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1024JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1025 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1026 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1027 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1028
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1029TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1030 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1031
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1032TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1033 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1034 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1035 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1036 outgoing I= field.
1037
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1038JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1039 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1040 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1041 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1042 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1043 check on the next write.
1044
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1045HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1046 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1047 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1048 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1049 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1050
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1051JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1052 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1053
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1054JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1055 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1056 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1057
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1058JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1059 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1060 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1061 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1062
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1063HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1064 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1065
4c04137d 1066JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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1067 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1068
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1069JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1070 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1071 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1072 distinct.
1073
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1074JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1075
1076JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1077
ec0eb1a3
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1078JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1079
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1080JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1081 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1082
98b98887 1083JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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1084 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1085
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1086JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1087
858e91c2
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1088JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1089 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1090
1091JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1092
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1093JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1094 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1095
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1096JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1097
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1098JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1099 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1100 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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1101 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1102 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1103 they will retry in-clear.
1104 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1105 at installation time.
1106
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1107HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1108 with the $config_file variable.
1109
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1110JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1111 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1112 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1113 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1114 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1115
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1116GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1117 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1118 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1119 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1120 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1121
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1122JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1123
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1124JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1125 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1126 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1127 list order is no longer honoured.
1128
4c04137d 1129JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1130 for DKIM processing.
1131
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1132JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1133 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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1135JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1136 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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1137 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1138 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1139
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1140JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1141 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1142
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1143JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1144 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1145
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1146JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1147 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1148
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1149JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1150
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1151JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1152 cached by the daemon.
1153
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1154JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1155 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1156
379ba7d0
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1157JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1158 keys are given for lookup.
1159
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1160JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1161 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1162 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1163 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1164
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1165JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1166 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1167 server-side so match that on older versions.
1168
07c73177 1169JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1170 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1171 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1172
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1173JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1174 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1175
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1176JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1177 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1178 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1179 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1180 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1181 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1182 initial truncated version.
1183
ab9152ff 1184JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1185
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1186JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1187
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1188JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1189 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1190
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1191JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1192
bc3c7bb7 1193HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1194
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1195JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1196 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1197 induced overflows.
1198
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1199JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1200 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1201 stage.
1202
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1203JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1204 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1205
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1206JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1207 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1208 former class.
1209
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1210JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1211 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1212 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1213
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1214JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1215 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1216 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1217 extraction. Accept either.
1218
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1223JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1224 expanded.
1225
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1226JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1227
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1228JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1229 it.
1230
01a4a5c5 1231JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1232 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1233 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1234 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1235
cb1d7830 1236JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1237 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1238 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1239
610ff438 1240JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1241 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1242 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1243 TLS connections
610ff438 1244
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1245JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1246 sites use this now.
1247
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1248JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1249 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1250 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1251 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1252 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1253
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1254JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1255 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1256 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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1258JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1259
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1260JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1261 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1262
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1263JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1264 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1265
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1266JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1267 /defer_ok option.
1268
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1269JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1270 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1271
fd4d8871 1272JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1273 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1274 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1275
1276JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1277 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1278 specify a port-range.
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1280JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1281 timeout value per server.
1282
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1283JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1284 now have the list separator specified.
1285
8a512ed5 1286JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1287 option values.
8a512ed5 1288
82c0c8ea 1289JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1290 under OpenSSL.
1291
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1292JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1293
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1294JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1295 rather than the verbs used.
1296
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1297JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1298 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1299
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1300JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1301
cfab9d68 1302HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1303 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1304
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1305JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1306 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1307
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1308HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1309 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1310
4c04137d 1311JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1312
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1313JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1314
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1315JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1316 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1317 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1318 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1319
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1320JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1321
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1322JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1323 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1324
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1325JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1326 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1327
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1328JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1329
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1330JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1331
7137ca4b
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1332JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1333
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1334JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1335 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1336
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1337JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1338 added for tls authenticator.
1339
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1340HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1341
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1346TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1347 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1348 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1349 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1350 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1351 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1352 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1353
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1354TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1355 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1356 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1357 function when detected.
1358
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1359JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1360 cause callback expansion.
1361
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1362TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1363 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1364 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1365 instead of bool when processing it.
1366
0f06b4f2 1367JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1368 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1369
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1370JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1371
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1372JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1373
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1374TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1375
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1376TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1377 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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1379JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1380 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1381 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1382 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1383 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1384 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1385
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1386JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1387 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1388 exceeded it.
1389
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1390JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1391 version 3.3.6 or later.
1392
4c04137d 1393JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
JH
1394 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1395 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1396 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
JH
1397 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1398 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1399 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1400
eca4debb
TL
1401TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1402 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1403
8d692470
JH
1404JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1405 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1406 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1407 matches.
1408
e9477a08
JH
1409JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1410 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1411 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1412
ad4c5ff9
JH
1413JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1414 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
1415
1416JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1417 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1418 syntax errors.
1419
3394b36a 1420JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1421
1422JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1423 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1424
3394b36a
TL
1425TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1426 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1427 tarball.
1428
ad4c5ff9
JH
1429JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1430
4c04137d 1431JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1432 Bug 1561.
1433
1434JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1435 output list separator was used.
1436
8bc732e8 1437
1f0ebb98
TL
1438Exim version 4.84
1439-----------------
09728d20
TL
1440TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1441 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1442 return.
1f0ebb98 1443
a612424f 1444JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1445 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
JH
1446
1447JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1448
1449TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1450 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1451
1f0ebb98 1452
c0e56233
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1453Exim version 4.83
1454-----------------
1455
1456TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1457
1458 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1459 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1460 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1461 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1462 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1463 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1464
7245734e
TF
1465TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1466 utilities have not been installed.
1467
fd5dad68
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1468JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1469 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1470
5428a946
TL
1471TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1472 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1473
a3c86431
TL
1474TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1475 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1476 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1477 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1478
aa26e137
JH
1479JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1480
5a1b8443
WB
1481TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1482 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1483
72c9e342
PP
1484PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1485 not dns_use_dnssec.
1486
76f44207
WB
1487JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1488
770747fd
MFM
1489TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1490 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1491 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1492
8ddef691 1493TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1494 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1495 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1496 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1497 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1498 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1499
b9c2e32f
AR
1500JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1501
e45a1c37
JH
1502JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1503 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1504
67d81c10
JH
1505JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1506 failed delivery.
1507
b1f8e4f8
JH
1508JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1509
511a6c14 1510JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1511
1512JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1513 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1514
51c7471d
JH
1515JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1516 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1517
3695be34
TL
1518TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1519
1e06383a
TL
1520JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1521
76146973
JH
1522JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1523 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1524
1525 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1526 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1527 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1528
8c8b8274
TL
1529TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1530 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1531 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1532 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1533
35aba663
JH
1534JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1535
8c51eead 1536JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1537 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1538 lookup).
8c51eead 1539
deae092e
HS
1540TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1541 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1542 Schlichting.
35aba663 1543
fd3b6a4a 1544JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1545 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1546
8d91c6dc
LT
1547TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1548 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1549
2b4a568d
JH
1550JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1551
d2af03f4
HS
1552TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1553 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1554 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1555
9d1c15ef
JH
1556JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1557 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1558
44662487
JH
1559JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1560 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1561 hosts_request_ocsp.
1562
ed3bba5f 1563JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1564 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1565 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1566
8ccd00b1
JH
1567JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1568
8ded8589
TL
1569TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1570 Christian Aistleitner.
1571
f2de3a33
JH
1572JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1573
6eb02f88
TL
1574TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1575 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1576
00bff6f6
JH
1577JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1578 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1579
071c51f7
JH
1580JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1581 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1582
a6d4c44e
TF
1583TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1584 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1585
3ae173e7
ACK
1586TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1587 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1588
c13d09b8
TL
1589TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1590 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1591 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1592
0df4ab80
JH
1593JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1594
66be95e0
PP
1595PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1596 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1597 Jasper Wallace.
1598
1bd0d12b
JH
1599JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1600
0de7239e
TL
1601TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1602 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1603 CVE-2014-2972
1604
fd3b6a4a 1605
2c422e6f 1606Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1607-----------------
1608
1609PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1610
12f69989
PP
1611PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1612 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1613
54c90be1
PP
1614PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1615 by GnuTLS.
1616
1f4a55da
PP
1617PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1618 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1619 routines.
1620
13363eba 1621PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1622
66645890 1623PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1624 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1625 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1626 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1627 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1628
a3fb9793 1629PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1630 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1631 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1632 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1633 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1634 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1635
d27f98fe 1636TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1637
6822b909
TL
1638TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1639
e7568d51
TL
1640TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1641 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1642
ae0e32ee 1643TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1644 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1645 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1646
1647TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1648
e2658fff
TL
1649TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1650
83712b39
TL
1651TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1652 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1653
976b7e9f
JH
1654JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1655
be4a1376
JH
1656JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1657
ec4b68e5
PP
1658PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1659
d7148a07
NM
1660NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1661 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1662
585121e2 1663JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1664
2519e60d
TL
1665PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1666 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1667 function.
a5f239e4 1668
13d08c90
PP
1669PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1670 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1671
bef3ea7f
JH
1672JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1673 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1674 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1675
846726c5
JH
1676JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1677
3a796370
JH
1678JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1679
ea722490 1680JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1681 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1682
b1b05573
JH
1683JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1684 Bugzilla 884.
1685
362145b5
JH
1686JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1687 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1688
3c0a92dc
JH
1689JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1690 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1691
6d7c6175
PP
1692PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1693 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1694 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1695
6f123593
JH
1696JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1697 authenticators.
1698
c8e2fc1e
JH
1699JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1700 for control.
1701
005ac57f
PP
1702PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1703
3f1df0e3
PP
1704PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1705 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1706 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1707 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1708
67bd1ab3
TF
1709TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1710
1711 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1712 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1713 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1714 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1715 the retry rules.
1716
1717 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1718 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1719 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1720
1721 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1722 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1723 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1724 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1725
1ddeb334
TF
1726 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1727 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1728 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1729 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1730 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1731 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1732 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1733
1734 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1735 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1736
326cdc37
TF
1737TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1738
1739 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1740
1741 Resent-From: f
1742
1743 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1744 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1745 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1746 username as equal to the username.
1747
1748 This change corrects that bug.
1749
f62514b3
GF
1750GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1751 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1752 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1753
eb505532
TF
1754TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1755
14c7b357
PP
1756PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1757 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1758 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1759 NULL dereference and crash.
1760
94eaf700
PP
1761JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1762
6f5a440a
PP
1763PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1764 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1765 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1766
514ee161
SC
1767SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1768
fd98a5c6
JH
1769JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1770 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1771 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1772 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1773 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1774 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1775 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1776 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1777 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1778 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1779 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1780
035c7f1e
PP
1781PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1782 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1783
ff284120
PP
1784PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1785 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1786 Bugzilla 880.
1787
26e72755
PP
1788PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1789 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1790 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1791 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1792 an empty string is now equivalent.
1793
0fbd9bff
PP
1794PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1795 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1796 not performing validation itself.
1797
700d22f3
PP
1798PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1799 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1800
fcc8e047
JH
1801JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1802 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1803
4c04137d 1804TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1805
8c020188
PP
1806PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1807 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1808 other false fix of the same issue.
1809 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1810 Bugzilla 1363.
1811
d13cdd30
PP
1812PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1813 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1814
e2fbf4a2
PP
1815PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1816 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1817 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1818
f4c1088b
PP
1819PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1820 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1821 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1822
c5c2182f
PP
1823TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1824
73431ca9
JH
1825JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1826
2d07a215
TL
1827TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1828 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1829
a30a8861
TL
1830TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1831 Alexander Miroch.
1832
33382dd9
TL
1833TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1834 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1835 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1836 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1837 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1838
046172e6
TL
1839TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1840 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1841
581d7bee 1842TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1843 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1844 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1845
1846TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1847 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1848 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1849 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1850
237b2cf2
TL
1851TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1852
9fc5a352
TL
1853TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1854 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1855 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1856
b10e4ec2
TL
1857TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1858
e2cebd74
TL
1859TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1860 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1861 interaction.
1862
1863TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1864 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1865
2519e60d
TL
1866TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1867 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1868
e78e6ecf 1869
4263f395
PP
1870Exim version 4.80.1
1871-------------------
1872
1873PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1874 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1875 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1876
ea722490 1877
b1770b6e 1878Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1879-----------------
1880
1881PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1882 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1883 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1884
23c7e742
NM
1885NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1886
b322aac8
NM
1887NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1888 improved.
1889
4a891427
NM
1890NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1891
c1e794ba 1892PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1893
97753960
PP
1894PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1895
1896PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1897 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1898
df6303fa
PP
1899PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1900 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1901
7e6a8985
PP
1902PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1903 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1904
f1e05cc7 1905PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1906 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1907 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1908
4c287009
PP
1909PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1910
b98bb9ac
PP
1911PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1912 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1913
4a6a987a
PP
1914PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1915
c45dd180 1916PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1917
7db8d074
PP
1918PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1919 non-compliant senders.
1920 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1921
eae0036b 1922NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1923 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1924 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1925
dec5017e
PP
1926PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1927 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1928 in spool file corruption.
1929
c80c5570
PP
1930PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1931 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1932 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1933 "Got SSL error 2".
1934
076b11e2
PP
1935TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1936 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1937 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1938
5407bfff
JH
1939JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1940 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1941
9e45c72b
PP
1942JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1943
e74376d8
PP
1944PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1945 diagnostics.
1946 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1947
4c04137d 1948PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1949 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1950 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1951
7be682ca
PP
1952PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1953 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1954 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1955 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1956
ef840681
PP
1957PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1958 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1959
5bfb4cdf
PP
1960PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1961 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1962 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1963 resolver implementation change.
1964
c6e95d22
PP
1965PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1966 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1967
9cbad13b
PP
1968PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1969
9ee44efb
PP
1970PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1971
6a6084f8
PP
1972PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1973 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1974
12dd53c7
PP
1975PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1976 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1977
9e45c72b 1978JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1979 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1980
17c76198
PP
1981PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1982 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1983 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1984 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1985 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1986
53947857 1987PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1988
eae0036b 1989PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1990 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1991 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1992
9e45c72b 1993JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1994
7390e768
PP
1995PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1996 read-only, out of scope).
1997 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1998
08488c86
PP
1999PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2000 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2001 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2002 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2003
6475bd82
PP
2004PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2005
81f91683
PP
2006PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2007 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2008 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2009 real issues in debug logging.
2010
5779e6aa
PP
2011PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2012 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2013
3375e053
PP
2014PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2015 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2016 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2017
2018PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2019 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2020 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2021 problems.
3375e053 2022
9d26b8c0
PP
2023PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2024 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2025
57eb9e91 2026PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2027 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2028 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2029 needs to override this, it can.
2030
16880d1a
PP
2031PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2032 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2033 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2034
a799883d
PP
2035PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2036 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2037 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2038 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2039
3ecab157 2040PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2041
0599f9cf 2042
867fcbf5
PP
2043Exim version 4.77
2044-----------------
2045
2046PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2047 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2048
f1a29782
TF
2049TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2050
ab42bd23
TK
2051TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2052 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2053
0ca0cf52
TF
2054TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2055 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2056
921b12ca
TF
2057TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2058 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2059 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2060
2061 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2062 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2063 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2064 not safe for signals.
2065
2066 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2067 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2068 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2069 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2070 exiwhat.
2071
c99ce5c9
TF
2072TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2073
2074 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2075 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2076 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2077 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2078 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2079
2080 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2081 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2082 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2083 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2084 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2085 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2086
2087 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2088 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2089 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2090 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2091
2092 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2093 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2094 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2095 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2096
2097 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2098 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2099 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2100 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2101 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2102 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2103 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2104 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2105 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2106
2107 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2108 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2109 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2110 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2111
2112 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2113 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2114 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2115 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2116 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2117 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2118 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2119 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2120 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2121 details in the main documentation.
2122
3634fc25
TF
2123TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2124
792e8a19
TF
2125TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2126
5901f0ab
TF
2127TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2128 repository when doing development or release builds.
2129
7f2a2a43
PP
2130PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2131 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2132
061b7ebd
PP
2133PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2134 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2135 Bugzilla 97.
2136
e12f8c32
PP
2137PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2138
9e949f00 2139PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2140 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2141
2142PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2143 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2144
555ae6af 2145PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2146 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2147
2148PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2149 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2150
6f7fe114
PP
2151PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2152 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2153
c566dd90
PP
2154PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2155 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2156 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2157 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2158
d6cc7c78 2159PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2160 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2161 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2162
0d0e4455
PP
2163PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2164
3399bb60 2165PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2166
2167PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2168 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2169
0ca0cf52 2170
10906672
PP
2171Exim version 4.76
2172-----------------
2173
2174PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2175
754a0503
PP
2176PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2177 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2178
c0c7b2da
PP
2179PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2180
e97d1f08
PP
2181PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2182
084c1d8c
PP
2183PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2184 Bugzilla 1098.
2185
4e7ee012
PP
2186PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2187 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2188
c8d52a00
PP
2189TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2190 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2191
54e7ce4a
PP
2192PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2193 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2194
5ee6f336
PP
2195PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2196 Bugzilla 1104.
2197
c8d52a00 2198TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2199 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2200
2201TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2202 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2203 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2204 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2205
2206PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2207 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2208
10906672 2209
aa097c4c
NM
2210Exim version 4.75
2211-----------------
2212
4c04137d 2213NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2214 Bugzilla 1073
2215
7f3d9eff
TF
2216TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2217 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2218 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2219
159f52d2
TF
2220TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2221 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2222
0cc9542a
PP
2223PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2224 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2225 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2226
f7274286
PP
2227PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2228 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2229
7b797365
PP
2230PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2231 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2232
caacae52
NM
2233NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2234 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2235
09dcaba9
NM
2236NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2237 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2238
bc19a55b
PP
2239PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2240 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2241
bd4c9759
NM
2242NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2243 Fixes bug 943.
2244
b72aab72
PP
2245PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2246 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2247
2fe76745
PP
2248PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2249 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2250
76aa570c
PP
2251PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2252 SQL string expansion failure details.
2253 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2254
f1e5fef5
PP
2255PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2256 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2257
4d805ee9
PP
2258PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2259 extern declarations in function scope.
2260 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2261
cd59ab18
PP
2262PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2263 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2264 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2265 a kernel bug).
2266
332f5cf3
PP
2267PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2268 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2269
29cfeb94
PP
2270PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2271 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2272
660242ad
PP
2273PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2274 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2275
bc4bc4c5
PP
2276PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2277 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2278
2e64baa9
NM
2279NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2280 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2281 Dennis Davis.
2282
4c04137d 2283PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2284
6bac1a9a
PP
2285PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2286
552193f0
NM
2287NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2288 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2289
1b587e48
TF
2290TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2291 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2292
aa097c4c 2293
8c07b69f
TF
2294Exim version 4.74
2295-----------------
2296
2297TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2298 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2299
c0ea85ab
TF
2300TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2301 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2302
0761d44e
TF
2303TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2304
0a349494
PP
2305DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2306 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2307 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2308
2309PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2310 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2311 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2312
fea24b2e
PP
2313PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2314 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2315 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2316 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2317
6545de78
PP
2318PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2319 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2320 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2321 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2322
1670ef10
PP
2323PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2324 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2325 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2326 arbitrary files.
2327
c0886197
PP
2328PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2329 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2330
b7487bce
PP
2331PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2332 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2333 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2334 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2335 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2336
8c07b69f 2337
97fd1e48 2338Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2339-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2340
2341PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2342 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2343 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2344
6901c596
PP
2345PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2346 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2347
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2348JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2349
77bb000f
PP
2350PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2351
a29e5231
PP
2352PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2353
ec5a0394 2354PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2355
55c75993
PP
2356PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2357
453a6645 2358PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2359 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2360 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2361 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2362
8544e77a
PP
2363PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2364 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2365 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2366 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2367 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2368
83e029d5
PP
2369PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2370
ed7f7860
PP
2371PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2372
7d9f747b
PP
2373PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2374
4b2241d2
PP
2375PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2376
10385c15
PP
2377PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2378
dbc4b90d
PP
2379PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2380
532be449
PP
2381PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2382
6a8de854 2383PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2384 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2385 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2386
5dc43717
JJ
2387JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2388
2389JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2390 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2391
3346ab01
PP
2392PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2393 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2394
491fab4c
PP
2395PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2396 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2397 Notification from John Horne.
2398
13eb9497
PP
2399PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2400 compatible.
2401
2402PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2403 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2404 it normally works.
2405
7f36d675
DW
2406DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2407 access.
2408
c1d94452
DW
2409DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2410 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2411 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2412
e2f5dc15
DW
2413DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2414 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2415 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2416 configuration file.
2417
cd25e41d
DW
2418DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2419 option (effectively making it always true).
2420
261dc43e
DW
2421DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2422 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2423
fa32850b
DW
2424DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2425 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2426
79d4bc3d
PP
2427PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2428 run-time user, instead of root.
2429
43236f35 2430PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2431 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2432
fb08281f
DW
2433DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2434 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2435 arguments.
3346ab01 2436
74935b98
DW
2437DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2438 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2439 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2440
90b6341f
DW
2441DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2442
57730b52
ML
2443NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2444
66581d1e 2445
465e92cf
JJ
2446Exim version 4.72
2447-----------------
2448
453a6645
PP
2449JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2450 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2451 typos
465e92cf 2452
453a6645
PP
2453JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2454 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2455 (Finput)
edae0343 2456
9bd3e22c
NM
2457NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2458 Patch from Alain Williams
2459
bb576ff7
NM
2460NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2461
5a1a5845
NM
2462NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2463 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2464
981a9fad
NM
2465NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2466 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2467
7fc497ee
NM
2468NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2469
1a41defa
JJ
2470JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2471
a466095c 2472NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2473 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2474
94a6bd0b
NM
2475TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2476
2477TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2478
2479MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2480 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2481 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2482
c1b141a8
NM
2483NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2484 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2485
b26eacf1 2486NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2487 Patch by Simon Arlott
2488
179c5980 2489PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2490 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2491
9bd3e22c 2492
7c6d71af
NM
2493Exim version 4.71
2494-----------------
2495
7d9f747b 2496TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2497
f013fb92
NM
2498NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2499
0eb8eedd
NM
2500NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2501
663ee6d9
NM
2502NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2503
177ebd9b
NM
2504NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2505
7c6d71af 2506
210f147e
NM
2507Exim version 4.70
2508-----------------
2509
cdd3bb85 2510TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2511 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2512
2513TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2514 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2515 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2516
2517TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2518 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2519 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2520
2521TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2522 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2523
210f147e
NM
2524NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2525 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2526 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2527 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2528
deafd5b3
NM
2529NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2530 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2531 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2532
089793a4
TF
2533TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2534
5f16ca82
TF
2535TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2536
dae9d94e 2537NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2538 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2539
7d9f747b 2540NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2541
06864c44
TF
2542TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2543 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2544 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2545 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2546
65a7d8c3 2547NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2548 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2549
23510047 2550TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2551
7d9f747b 2552NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2553
7d8eec3a 2554NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2555 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2556
89dec7b6
TF
2557TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2558 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2559
a99de90c
TF
2560TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2561 that they are available at delivery time.
2562
e2803e40
TF
2563TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2564
7199e1ee
TF
2565TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2566 incoming_port log selectors.
2567
e276e04b
TF
2568TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2569 setting expands to an empty string.
2570
ce552449 2571NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2572 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2573
e765a0f1 2574NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2575 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2576
4f054c63 2577NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2578 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2579
7d9f747b
PP
2580NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2581 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2582
7d9f747b
PP
2583NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2584 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2585
b52bc06e 2586NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2587 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2588
447de4b0
NM
2589NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2590
4c69d561 2591NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2592 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2593
d5c39246 2594NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2595 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2596
0b23848a
TK
2597TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2598
8f3414a1 2599NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2600 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2601
fb6f955d
NM
2602NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2603
2604NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2605
7d9f747b
PP
2606NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2607 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2608
7d9f747b
PP
2609NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2610 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2611
7d9f747b
PP
2612NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2613 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2614
7d9f747b
PP
2615NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2616 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2617
7d9f747b
PP
2618NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2619 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2620
7d9f747b
PP
2621NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2622 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2623
7d9f747b
PP
2624NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2625 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2626
7d9f747b 2627NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2628 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2629
7d9f747b 2630NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2631
7d9f747b
PP
2632NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2633 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2634
7d9f747b 2635NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2636
7d9f747b 2637NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2638
7d9f747b 2639NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2640
7d9f747b 2641NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2642
17792b53 2643NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2644 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2645
7d9f747b
PP
2646NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2647 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2648
91576cec 2649NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2650 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2651
7d9f747b
PP
2652NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2653 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2654
7d9f747b 2655NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2656
7d9f747b 2657NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2658
7d9f747b 2659NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2660
7d9f747b 2661NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2662
deafd5b3 2663
47db1125
NM
2664Exim version 4.69
2665-----------------
2666
4b3504d0
TK
2667TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2668 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2669 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2670
2671 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2672 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2673 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2674 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2675 build errors in sieve.c.
2676
81ea09ca
NM
2677NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2678 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2679 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2680
f13cddcb
SC
2681SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2682
7d9f747b 2683NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2684
7d9f747b 2685NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2686
7d9f747b 2687NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2688
2689
eb4c0de6
PH
2690Exim version 4.68
2691-----------------
2692
2693PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2694
6a3bceb1
PH
2695PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2696 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2697 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2698 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2699 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2700 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2701 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2702 for iplsearch lookups.
2703
2704 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2705 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2706 previously such lookups could never work.
2707
4c04137d 2708 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2709 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2710 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2711
2e30fa9d
TK
2712TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2713 version.
2714
0806a9c5
MH
2715MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2716 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2717 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2718 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2719 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2720 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2721
ae276964
TK
2722TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2723 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2724
0f2cbd1b
MH
2725MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2726 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2727 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2728 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2729 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2730 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2731
2b85bce7
PH
2732PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2733 local_scan API.
2734
93655c46
PH
2735PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2736
6c512171
PH
2737PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2738 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2739 encrypted.
2740
2741PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2742 by clients under certain conditions.
2743
aa6dc513
PH
2744PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2745 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2746
a96603a0
PH
2747PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2748
8f240103
PH
2749PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2750 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2751
2752PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2753
d677b2f2
PH
2754PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2755
d52120f2
PH
2756PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2757
64f2600a
PH
2758PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2759 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2760
8669f003
PH
2761PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2762
a4dc33a8
PH
2763PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2764 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2765
d6a60c0f
PH
2766PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2767
8f128379
PH
2768PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2769
8932dffe
PH
2770PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2771 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2772 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2773 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2774
ddea74fa 2775PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2776 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2777 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2778
ddea74fa 2779PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2780 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2781
ddea74fa
PH
2782PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2783
ce9f225c
PH
2784PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2785
19897d52
PH
2786PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2787
bc64a74d
PH
2788PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2789 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2790 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2791
eb4c0de6 2792
b4ed4da0
PH
2793Exim version 4.67
2794-----------------
2795
22ad45c9
MH
2796MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2797 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2798 Jan Srzednicki.
2799
b4ed4da0
PH
2800PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2801 issue a MAIL command.
2802
431b7361
PH
2803PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2804
2805 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2806
2807 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2808 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2809 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2810 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2811 item. This has been fixed.
2812
2813PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2814 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2815
83da1223
PH
2816PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2817 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2818
54fc8428
PH
2819PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2820 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2821 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2822
34c5e8dd
SC
2823SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2824
bbe15da8
PH
2825PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2826 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2827 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2828 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2829 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2830
0e8a9471
MH
2831MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2832 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2833 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2834
f0872424
PH
2835PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2836 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2837 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2838 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2839
b01dd148
PH
2840PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2841
6bf342e1
PH
2842PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2843
273f34d0
PH
2844PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2845 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2846 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2847 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2848 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2849
cf8b11a5
PH
2850PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2851
41c7c167
PH
2852PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2853 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2854 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2855 values).
2856
9c57cbc0
PH
2857PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2858
f3f065bb
PH
2859PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2860
047bdd8c
PH
2861PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2862
0ce9abe6
PH
2863PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2864
0e22dfd1
PH
2865PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2866
4c590bd1
PH
2867PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2868 no_callout_flush is set.
2869
09945f1e
PH
2870PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2871 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2872 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2873 fixed.
2874
c51b8e75
PH
2875PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2876
e28326d8 2877PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2878 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2879 other ACL rejections are.
2880
75b1493f
PH
2881PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2882 with slight modification.
2883
7c5214ec
PH
2884PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2885 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2886
4311097e
PH
2887PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2888 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2889 connection.
2890
29f89cad
PH
2891PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2892 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2893
5e687460
SC
2894SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2895
c3611384
PH
2896PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2897 expansion side effects.
2898
5a11a7b4
PH
2899PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2900 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2901 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2902 be the same.
2903
0e20aff9
MH
2904MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2905 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2906 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2907
ca86f471
PH
2908PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2909 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2910 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2911 were accidentally chopped off.
2912
a14e5636
PH
2913PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2914 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2915 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2916 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2917 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2918 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2919 pipelining has not been advertised.
2920
ec95d1a6
PH
2921PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2922
42855d71
PH
2923PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2924 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2925 This has been fixed.
2926
57c2c631
PH
2927PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2928 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2929 reported on Solaris.
2930
58c01c94
PH
2931PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2932 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2933 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2934 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2935 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2936 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2937 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2938
dee5a20a
PH
2939PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2940 cpus.
2941
d2ee6114
PH
2942PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2943
b2d5182b
PH
2944PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2945
79749a79
PH
2946PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2947 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2948 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2949 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2950 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2951 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2952
c456d9bb
PH
2953PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2954 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2955 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2956 host_all_ignored option.
2957
cd9868ec
PH
2958PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2959 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2960 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2961 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2962 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2963 is what is supposed to happen).
2964
ebeaf996
PH
2965PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2966 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2967 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2968 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2969 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2970 uses the Exim user.
2971
2679d413
PH
2972PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2973 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2974 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2975 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2976 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2977 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2978 users.
2979
84024b72
PH
2980PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2981
8005d38e
SC
2982SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2983 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2984 (Jez Hancock).
2985 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2986 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2987
3298c6c6
SC
2988SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2989
a43a27c5
PH
2990PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2991
58eb016e 2992PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2993 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2994 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2995 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2996 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2997 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2998 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2999 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3000 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3001 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3002 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3003
b43a74ea
PH
3004PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3005 advertised in response to EHLO.
3006
b4ed4da0 3007
5dd1517f
PH
3008Exim version 4.66
3009-----------------
3010
3011PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3012 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3013
3014 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3015 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3016
3017 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3018 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3019 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3020
3021 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3022 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3023 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3024 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3025 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3026
3027
93cfa765
TK
3028Exim version 4.65
3029-----------------
3030
3031TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3032 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3033 versions. (#438)
3034
d6066548
MH
3035MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3036 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3037 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3038
4362ff0d
PH
3039PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3040 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3041 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3042 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3043 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3044 rather than extend the field.
3045
93cfa765 3046
944e9e9c
TF
3047Exim version 4.64
3048-----------------
aa41d2de 3049
21d74bd9
TK
3050TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3051 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3052 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3053 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3054 these files.
3055
3056TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3057 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3058 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3059
3060TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3061 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3062 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3063
3064TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3065 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3066 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3067 in the field name.
3068
2b1c6e3a
PH
3069PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3070 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3071 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3072 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3073 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3074 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3075 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3076 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3077 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3078 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3079 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3080
1f872c80
PH
3081PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3082 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3083
3084PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3085 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3086 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3087 ignores EPIPE as well.
3088
d203e649
PH
3089PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3090 (quoted-printable decoding).
3091
cc2ed8f7 3092PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3093 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3094
ddfcd446
PH
3095PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3096
d45b1de8
PH
3097PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3098
3099PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3100
38a0a95f 3101PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3102 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3103
a2405d83
JJ
3104JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3105 in 4.64-PH/09.
3106
3107JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3108 miscellaneous code fixes
3109
6ea85e9a
PH
3110PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3111 rejections.
3112
26da7e20
PH
3113PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3114 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3115 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3116 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3117 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3118 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3119 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3120 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3121
14aa5a05 3122PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3123 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3124 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3125 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3126 function.
3127 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3128 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3129 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3130 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3131 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3132 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3133 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3134 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3135 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3136
ff75a1f7
PH
3137PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3138 decoding.
3139
e6f6568e
PH
3140PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3141 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3142 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3143 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3144 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3145 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3146 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3147 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3148
d6f6e0dc
PH
3149PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3150 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3151 list.
3152
322050c2
PH
3153PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3154 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3155 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3156 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3157 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3158 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3159 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3160 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3161 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3162 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3163 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3164 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3165 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3166
08955dd3
PH
3167PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3168 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3169 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3170 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3171 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3172 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3173 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3174
1eccaa59
PH
3175PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3176 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3177 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3178 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3179 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3180 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3181 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3182 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3183 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3184 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3185
602e59e5
PH
3186PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3187 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3188 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3189 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3190 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3191
411ef850
PH
3192PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3193 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3194 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3195 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3196 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3197 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3198 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3199
7befa435
PH
3200PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3201 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3202 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3203 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3204 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3205 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3206 been verified.
3207
48da4259 3208PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3209 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3210 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3211 and authorization.)
3212
48da4259
PH
3213PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3214 if any retry times were supplied.
3215
d1d5595c
PH
3216PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3217 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3218 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3219
0ef732d9
PH
3220PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3221
328895cc
PH
3222PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3223
fd700877
PH
3224PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3225 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3226 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3227 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3228 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3229 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3230
8dce1a6f
PH
3231PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3232 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3233
17af4a17
PH
3234PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3235 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3236 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3237
3238PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3239 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3240 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3241 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3242 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3243 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3244 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3245 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3246 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3247
3248 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3249 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3250 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3251 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3252 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3253 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3254 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3255 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3256 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3257
3258 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3259 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3260 hammering the server.
3261
c1114884
PH
3262PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3263 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3264
7a0743eb
PH
3265PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3266
0d85fa3f
PH
3267PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3268 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3269 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3270
1bf43b78
PH
3271PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3272 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3273 one case where this was not true.
3274
520de300
PH
3275PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3276 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3277 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3278 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3279 fails.
3280
48c7f9e2
PH
3281PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3282 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3283 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3284 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3285 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3286 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3287 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3288 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3289 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3290 smtp transport.
3291
99ea1c86
PH
3292PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3293 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3294 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3295 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3296
a2042e78
PH
3297PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3298 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3299
4fbcfc2e
PH
3300PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3301 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3302 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3303
aa41d2de
PH
3304PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3305
af561417
PH
3306PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3307
3cc66b45
PH
3308PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3309
194cc0e4
PH
3310PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3311 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3312 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3313 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3314
a401ddaa
PH
3315PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3316 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3317
4e88a19f
PH
3318PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3319 be meaningful with "accept".
3320
d7d7b289
SC
3321SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3322 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3323
3324SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3325 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3326 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3327
3328SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3329 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3330 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3331 there is data to show.
3332 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3333
3334SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3335 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3336 as well as the number of messages.
3337
3338SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3339 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3340 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3341
3342SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3343 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3344 have a flag are now skipped.
3345
3346SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3347 Added the -emptyok flag.
3348
3349SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3350 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3351
0ea2a468
JJ
3352JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3353 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3354 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3355
3356JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3357 match 4.64-PH/13
3358
3359JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3360 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3361
3362JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3363
3364JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3365 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3366
8a10f5a4
PH
3367PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3368
30e18802
PH
3369PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3370 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3371 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3372 contravention of the specifications.
3373
55728a4f
PH
3374PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3375 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3376 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3377
d7837193
PH
3378PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3379 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3380 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3381
87054a31
PH
3382PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3383
ea2c01d2
MH
3384MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3385 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3386 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3387 some point in the past.
3388
e4fa6968
PH
3389PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3390 transport during callout processing was broken.
3391
56f5d9bd
PH
3392PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3393 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3394
922e1c28
PH
3395PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3396 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3397
21eb6e72
PH
3398PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3399 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3400
a0540757
PH
3401PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3402
944e9e9c 3403
478be7b0
SC
3404Exim version 4.63
3405-----------------
3406
3407SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3408 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3409
3410SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3411 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3412 there is data to show.
3413 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3414
3415SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3416 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3417
2b965a65
TF
3418TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3419 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3420
45b91596
PH
3421TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3422 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3423
c59f5781
TF
3424TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3425 submissions from trusted users.
3426
90fc3069
TF
3427TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3428 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3429
6083aca0
TF
3430TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3431 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3432 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3433 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3434 there is now a framework to start from.
3435
765b530f
PH
3436PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3437 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3438 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3439
4e167a8c
PH
3440PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3441
4608d683
PH
3442PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3443
b8dc3e4a
PH
3444PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3445
5418e93b
PH
3446PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3447 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3448 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3449
b4a9bda2
PH
3450PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3451 libradius.
3452
45b91596
PH
3453PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3454 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3455 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3456
5547e2c5
PH
3457PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3458 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3459 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3460 its arguments.
3461
dbcef0ea
PH
3462PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3463 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3464 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3465 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3466 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3467
25257489
PH
3468PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3469 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3470
c816d124
PH
3471PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3472
a9ccd69a
PH
3473PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3474 operations in malware.c.
3475
75fa1910
PH
3476PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3477 signatures.
3478
a7d7aa58
PH
3479PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3480 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3481 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3482 all.
3483
42119b09
PH
3484PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3485 statements to "add_header".
3486
41609df5
PH
3487PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3488 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3489
a5bd321b
PH
3490PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3491 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3492 latter.
3493
e85a7ad5 3494PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3495 so that it is now:
3496
e85a7ad5
PH
3497 ${if or { \
3498 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3499 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3500 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3501 }{no}{yes}}
3502
e85a7ad5
PH
3503 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3504 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3505
d8fe1c03
PH
3506PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3507 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3508
16282d2b
PH
3509PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3510 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3511 any possible encoding problems.
3512
35d40a98
PH
3513PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3514 but not after initializing Perl.
3515
034d99ab
PH
3516PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3517 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3518 apparently, which is not desirable.
3519
6ec97b1b
PH
3520PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3521 queries.
3522
e22ca4ac
JJ
3523JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3524 --not options
3525
3526JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3527
33d73e3b
PH
3528PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3529 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3530 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3531 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3532
9ecb03f3
PH
3533PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3534 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3535 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3536
084efe8d
PH
3537PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3538 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3539 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3540 0.12.
3541
366fc9f0
PH
3542PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3543 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3544 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3545 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3546 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3547
c59f5781 3548
c887c79e
TF
3549Exim version 4.62
3550-----------------
3551
3552TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3553 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3554
1cce3af8
PH
3555PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3556 patch).
3557
afb3eaaf
PH
3558PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3559 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3560 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3561 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3562 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3563 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3564 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3565 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3566 451 error is used.
3567
e173618b
PH
3568PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3569
dd16e114
PH
3570PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3571 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3572 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3573
f7fd3850
PH
3574PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3575 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3576 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3577 odd errors.
3578
d87df92c
PH
3579PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3580 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3581
7e9f683d
PH
3582PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3583 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3584 option (which defaults to 0600).
3585
bfad5236
PH
3586PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3587
01c490df
PH
3588PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3589 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3590 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3591 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3592 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3593 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3594 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3595
d6629cdc
PH
3596PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3597
1cce3af8 3598
214e2000
PH
3599Exim version 4.61
3600-----------------
3601
3602PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3603 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3604 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3605 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3606 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3607 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3608 addresses as local.
3609
f9daeae0
PH
3610PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3611 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3612
7e66e54d
PH
3613PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3614
c8ea1597
PH
3615PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3616 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3617 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3618 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3619 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3620 grumble.
3621
911f6fde
PH
3622PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3623 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3624
47ca6d6c
PH
3625PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3626 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3627 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3628 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3629 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3630
ed0e9820
PH
3631PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3632 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3633 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3634 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3635
eff37e47
PH
3636PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3637 be the same on different OS.
3638
1921d2ea
PH
3639PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3640 testing.
3641
b3f69ca8
JJ
3642JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3643 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3644
3645JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3646 in 4.61-PH/06
3647
424a1c63
PH
3648PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3649 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3650 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3651 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3652 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3653 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3654 bounce message.
3655
7a100415
PH
3656PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3657 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3658 when Exim was called.
3659
19b9dc85
PH
3660PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3661 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3662
309bd837
PH
3663PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3664 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3665 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3666 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3667
59e82a2a
PH
3668PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3669 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3670 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3671 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3672 changes:
3673
3674 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3675 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3676 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3677
3678 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3679 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3680 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3681
9edc04ce
PH
3682PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3683 feature).
3684
1349e1e5
PH
3685PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3686 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3687 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3688 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3689 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3690 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3691 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3692 values from the SRV records were lost.
3693
ea49d0e1
PH
3694PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3695 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3696 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3697
064a94c9
PH
3698PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3699 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3700 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3701
727071f8
PH
3702PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3703 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3704 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3705 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3706 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3707 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3708 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3709 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3710 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3711 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3712
f78eb7c6
PH
3713PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3714 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3715 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3716
21c28500
PH
3717PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3718 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3719
3720PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3721 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3722 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3723 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3724 is given.
3725
1688f43b
PH
3726PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3727 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3728 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3729
3730PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3731 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3732 PH/23 above applies.
3733
9675b384
PH
3734PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3735 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3736 (for which there is an explicit test).
3737
6a3f1455
PH
3738PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3739
dac79d3e
PH
3740PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3741 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3742 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3743 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3744 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3745
5977a0b3
PH
3746PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3747 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3748 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3749 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3750
c91535f3
PH
3751PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3752 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3753 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3754
0d46a8c8
PH
3755PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3756
278c6e6c
PH
3757PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3758
2cbb4081
PH
3759PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3760 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3761 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3762
3eef829e
PH
3763PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3764 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3765 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3766 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3767 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3768
1ab95fa6
PH
3769PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3770 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3771 the message gets confusing).
3772
230205fc
PH
3773PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3774 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3775 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3776 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3777
75e0e026
PH
3778PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3779 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3780 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3781 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3782 same order.
3783
3784PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3785 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3786 the different processes.
3787
145396a6
PH
3788PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3789
3cd34f13
PH
3790PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3791
11121d3d
JJ
3792JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3793 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3794
3795JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3796 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3797
3798JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3799 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3800 messages matching specified criteria.
3801
8def5aaf
PH
3802PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3803
929ba01c
PH
3804PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3805 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3806
2632889e
PH
3807PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3808 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3809 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3810 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3811 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3812 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3813 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3814 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3815 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3816 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3817
944a9c55
PH
3818PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3819 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3820 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3821
4a23603b
PH
3822PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3823
4730f942
PH
3824PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3825 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3826 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3827 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3828 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3829 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3830 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3831 the variable.
3832
30dba1e6
PH
3833PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3834 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3835
382afc6b
PH
3836PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3837
a86229cf
PH
3838PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3839
50c99ba6
PH
3840PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3841
d35e429d
PH
3842PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3843 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3844 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3845 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3846 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3847 size of the count of files.
3848
f90d018c
PH
3849PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3850
75def545
PH
3851PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3852 used in LMTP mode:
3853
3854 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3855 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3856 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3857 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3858
3859 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3860 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3861 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3862
3863PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3864 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3865 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3866 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3867 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3868
c46782ef
PH
3869PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3870 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3871
71fafd95
PH
3872PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3873 will now be deprecated.
3874
2c5db4fd
PH
3875PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3876
9cf6b11a
JJ
3877JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3878 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3879 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3880
3881JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3882 with very large, slow to parse queues
3883
3884JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3885
3886JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3887
898d150f
PH
3888PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3889 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3890 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3891 SMTP output lines.
3892
46218253
PH
3893PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3894 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3895 Sieve code now uses this.
3896
e97957bc
PH
3897PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3898 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3899
81e509d7
PH
3900PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3901 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3902
3d240ff7
PH
3903PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3904
b37c4101
PH
3905PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3906 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3907 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3908 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3909 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3910
79378e0f
PH
3911PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3912 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3913 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3914 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3915
e49c7bb4
PH
3916PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3917
d114ec46
PH
3918PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3919
f3d7df6c
PH
3920PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3921 is preferred over IPv4.
3922
715ab376
PH
3923PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3924 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3925 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3926 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3927 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3928 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3929 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3930
6b31b150
PH
3931PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3932 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3933 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3934
3935PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3936
d515a917
PH
3937PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3938 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3939 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3940 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3941 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3942 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3943 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3944 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3945 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3946 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3947 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3948
9b8fadde
PH
3949PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3950 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3951 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3952
214e2000 3953
5de37277
PH
3954Exim version 4.60
3955-----------------
3956
cc38ddbf
PH
3957PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3958
3959 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3960 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3961
3962 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3963 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3964 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3965
72fdd6ae
PH
3966PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3967
3968 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3969 not a single digit.
3970
3971 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3972 string.
3973
3974 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3975 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3976 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3977 silly things.
3978
3979 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3980 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3981
3982 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3983 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3984
cb741023
PH
3985PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3986 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3987 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3988
f174f16e
PH
3989PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3990 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3991
c25242d7
PH
3992PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3993 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3994
3995 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3996
3997 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3998 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3999 this:
4000
4001 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4002
82c19f95
PH
4003PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4004 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4005 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4006 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4007 identical. For example:
4008
4009 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4010
4011 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4012 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4013 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4014
d7ffbc12
PH
4015PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4016 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4017 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4018 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4019
9f526266
PH
4020PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4021 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4022 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4023 message.
4024
87fcc8b9
PH
4025PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4026
4027 o fixes some comments
4028 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4029 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4030 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4031 and documents the missing references header update
4032
4033 and most important:
4034
4035 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4036 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4037 result)
4038
456682f5
PH
4039PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4040 Electronic Mail") by including:
4041
4042 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4043
4044 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4045 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4046 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4047 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4048 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4049
4050 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4051
4052 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4053
4054 The auto-replied keyword:
4055
4056 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4057 message by an automatic process,
4058
4059 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4060
4061 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4062 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4063
4064 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4065 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4066 other messages.
4067
3e46c1aa
PH
4068PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4069 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4070
49826d12
PH
4071PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4072
eba0c039
PH
4073PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4074 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4075 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4076
a0d6ba8a
PH
4077PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4078 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4079 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4080
f0917727
PH
4081PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4082 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4083 and treats the condition as false.
4084
096fee00
PH
4085PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4086
024bd3c2
PH
4087PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4088 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4089 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4090 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4091 not changing the active code.
4092
4093 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4094 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4095
4096 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4097 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4098
df199fec
PH
4099PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4100 (Bugzilla #53).
4101
d27f1df3
PH
4102PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4103 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4104 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4105 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4106 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4107 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4108 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4109 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4110 the text comparison.
4111
96776534
PH
4112PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4113 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4114 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4115 The same fix has been applied.
4116
5de37277 4117
9a799bc0
PH
4118Exim version 4.54
4119-----------------
4120
4121PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4122 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4123 It now does.
4124
99a4b039
PH
4125PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4126 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4127
4128PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4129
4b233853
PH
4130PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4131 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4132 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4133 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4134 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4135
8857ccfd
PH
4136TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4137 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4138 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4139 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4140 or /domain=).
4141
433a2980
PH
4142PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4143 testing suite.
4144
3e46c1aa 4145
9a799bc0 4146
e3a311ba
TK
4147Exim version 4.53
4148-----------------
4149
4150TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4151 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4152
13b685f9
PH
4153PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4154
395ff96d
PH
4155PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4156
5b68f6e4
PH
4157PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4158 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4159 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4160
1ab52c69
PH
4161PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4162 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4163 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4164
b07e6aa3
PH
4165PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4166 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4167 operating systems.
4168
254e032f
PH
4169PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4170 ${stat: expansion item.
4171
3af76a81
PH
4172PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4173 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4174
2548ba04
PH
4175PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4176 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4177 file for comments.
4178
b6c6011d
PH
4179PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4180
cf39cf57
PH
4181PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4182 setting.
4183
f1513293
PH
4184PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4185 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4186
727549a4
PH
4187TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4188
af46795e
PH
4189PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4190 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4191 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4192 the end of the subprocess.
4193
d7b47fd0
PH
4194PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4195 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4196 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4197 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4198 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4199
ee744174
JJ
4200JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4201
b582ab87
PH
4202TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4203
41a13e0a
PH
4204PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4205 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4206
f625cc5a
PH
4207PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4208
4209PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4210
21f7af35
PH
4211PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4212 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4213 HP-UX compiler.
4214
31480e42
PH
4215PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4216
2d280592
PH
4217PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4218 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4219 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4220
7cd1141b
PH
4221PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4222 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4223
4224PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4225 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4226
750af86e
PH
4227PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4228 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4229
4230 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4231 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4232
4233 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4234 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4235 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4236 contributed by a Radius user.
4237
4238PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4239 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4240
4304270b
TK
4241TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4242 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4243
750af86e
PH
4244PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4245 available.
4246
64ffc24f
PH
4247PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4248 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4249 received.
4250
5dd9625b
PH
4251PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4252 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4253 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4254 header lines when this was not necessary.
4255
5591031b
PH
4256PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4257
ba18e66a
PH
4258PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4259 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4260 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4261 exists".
4262
9cec981f
PH
4263PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4264 -bV or -d is used.
4265
aa2b5c79
PH
4266PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4267 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4268 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4269 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4270
48a53b7f
PH
4271PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4272
1c59d63b
PH
4273PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4274
671012da
TK
4275TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4276
1509d3a8
PH
4277PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4278
4279PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4280 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4281 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4282 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4283 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4284 settings.
4285
4286PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4287
2fe1a124
PH
4288PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4289 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4290 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4291 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4292 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4293 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4294 which is clearly wrong.
4295
8800895a
PH
4296PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4297
ccfdb010
PH
4298PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4299 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4300 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4301 subsequently added.
4302
1130bfb0
PH
4303PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4304 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4305
ebcb507f
PH
4306PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4307
c35e155c
PH
4308PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4309 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4310
95d1f782
PH
4311PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4312 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4313
fd6de02e
PH
4314PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4315 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4316
58de37c5
PH
4317PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4318 recipients, not senders.
4319
261cf466
TF
4320TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4321 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4322
3ee512ff
PH
4323PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4324
e08c430f
PH
4325PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4326
bef5a11f
PH
4327PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4328 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4329 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4330 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4331
7546de58
TF
4332TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4333
e5d5a95f
TF
4334TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4335 clock is set back in time.
4336
2e88a017
TF
4337TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4338 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4339
a5f65aa4
TF
4340TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4341 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4342
e7726cbf
PH
4343PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4344 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4345 (see PH/47 above).
4346
a7fdad5b
TF
4347TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4348 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4349 header rewrites.
4350
6af56900
PH
4351PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4352 type ("H").
4353
0925ede6
PH
4354PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4355
66afa403
TF
4356TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4357 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4358 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4359
0154e85a
TF
4360TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4361 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4362 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4363 helo verification defer as a failure.
4364
16f12c76
PH
4365PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4366 actual error message.
4367
bbe902f0 4368
e5a9dba6
PH
4369Exim version 4.52
4370-----------------
4371
4372TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4373
22c3b60b
PH
4374PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4375 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4376 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4377 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4378
06a9b4b5
PH
4379TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4380
c1ac6996
PH
4381PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4382 can still be requested.
4383
9c7a242c
PH
4384PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4385 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4386 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4387 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4388
87ba3f5f
PH
4389TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4390 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4391 circumstances, but probably never did.
4392
4393PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4394 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4395 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4396 in the header line.
4397
29aba418
TF
4398TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4399
fe0dab11
TF
4400TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4401 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4402
11d337a4
TK
4403TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4404
4405TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4406
415c8f3b
PH
4407PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4408 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4409 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4410 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4411 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4412 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4413
958541e9
PH
4414PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4415 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4416 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4417 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4418 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4419 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4420
c206415f
TK
4421TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4422 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4423
2a4be8f9
PH
4424PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4425 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4426
1cba11c5
SC
4427SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4428 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4429
4c04137d 4430SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4431
4432SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4433
4434SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4435
4436SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4437
4438SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4439
4440SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4441
1005d00e
TK
4442TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4443
4444TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4445 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4446 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4447
4448TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4449 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4450 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4451 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4452
9b4768fa
PH
4453PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4454 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4455 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4456
4457PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4458 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4459 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4460 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4461
0d7eb84a
PH
4462PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4463 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4464 to be made).
4465
4466PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4467 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4468 should work with maildirs and everything.
4469
40727bee
TK
4470TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4471 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4472
554d2369
TF
4473TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4474 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4475
1f922db1
PH
4476PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4477 function for BDB 4.3.
4478
ef213c3b
PH
4479PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4480
8ac170f3
PH
4481PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4482 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4483 involved.
4484
b1c749bb
PH
4485PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4486 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4487 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4488 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4489 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4490 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4491
4aac9b49
PH
4492PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4493 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4494 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4495 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4496 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4497 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4498 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4499 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4500
294520c8
TK
4501TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4502 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4503 details.
4504
5bd022fe
PH
4505PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4506 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4507
90e9ce59
PH
4508PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4509 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4510 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4511 test. It is now used for both.
4512
5ea81592
PH
4513PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4514 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4515 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4516 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4517 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4518 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4519
c6c2dc1d
PH
4520PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4521 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4522 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4523 string_vformat().
4524
fffffe4c
PH
4525PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4526 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4527 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4528
9a26b6b2
PH
4529PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4530 experimental DomainKeys support:
4531
4532 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4533 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4534 the control was given.
4535
4536 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4537
4aee0225
PH
4538PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4539
32d668a5
PH
4540PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4541
8187c3f3
PH
4542PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4543 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4544 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4545 db.h files).
4546
ff790e47 4547PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4548 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4549 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4550 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4551 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4552 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4553 course.
ff790e47 4554
5417f6d1
PH
4555PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4556 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4557 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4558 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4559 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4560 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4561
59cf8544
PH
4562PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4563 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4564 do -d+all out of habit.
4565
e7ad8a65
PH
4566PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4567 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4568 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4569
ade42478
PH
4570PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4571 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4572 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4573 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4574 record types that Exim uses.
4575
182ad5cf
PH
4576PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4577 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4578 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4579 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4580 non-existent file that was broken.
4581
b0d9fc80
TK
4582TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4583 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4584
4585TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4586 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4587 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4588
4589TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4590
47c7a64a
PH
4591PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4592 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4593 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4594 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4595 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4596 same time.
4597
a388bce4
SC
4598SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4599 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4600 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4601 at a slight CPU cost.
4602
4603SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4604 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4605
4606SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4607 by Marc Sherman.
4608
0793e4ed
SC
4609SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4610
c58b88df
PH
4611PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4612 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4613
e7ad8a65 4614
7982096b
PH
4615Exim version 4.51
4616-----------------
4617
1a46a8c5
PH
4618TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4619 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4620
2f079f46 4621TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4622
4623TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4624
4625PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4626 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4627
4628PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4629 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4630 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4631 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4632 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4633 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4634 file.
4635
4636PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4637 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4638 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4639 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4640 these two options.
4641
4642PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4643 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4644 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4645 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4646 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4647 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4648 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4649 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4650
4651PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4652 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4653
4654PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4655 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4656 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4657 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4658 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4659 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4660
4661PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4662 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4663 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4664 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4665
4666PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4667 Finch).
4668
4669PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4670 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4671
49c2d5ea
PH
4672PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4673 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4674 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4675 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4676 message.
49c2d5ea 4677
bf759a8b
PH
4678PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4679
83364d30
PH
4680PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4681 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4682
7999bbd7
PH
4683PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4684 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4685 to what was transported.)
4686
7dbf77c9
PH
4687TF/01 Added $received_time.
4688
74e0617f
PH
4689PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4690 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4691 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4692 spamd_address settings.
4693
2f079f46
PH
4694PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4695 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4696 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4697 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4698 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4699
8c841523
PH
4700PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4701
7766a4f0
PH
4702PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4703 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4704 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4705 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4706 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4707
8b417f2c
PH
4708PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4709 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4710
901f42cb
PH
4711PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4712 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4713 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4714 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4715 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4716 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4717 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4718 for failure.
4719
f9b9210e
PH
4720PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4721 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4722 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4723 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4724 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4725 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4726 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4727 "input=".
4728
54cdb463
PH
4729PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4730
cf00dad6
PH
4731PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4732 driver and ACL definitions.
4733
acb1b346
PH
4734PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4735 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4736
c5ddb310
PH
4737PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4738 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4739 understands it better than I do:
4740
4741 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4742 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4743
4744 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4745 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4746 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4747 => three warnings about OTP not working
4748 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4749
4750 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4751 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4752 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4753 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4754 for each call.)
4755 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4756 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4757
4758 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4759 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4760 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4761
31619da6
PH
4762PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4763 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4764 specified.
4765
bebaf0fc
PH
4766PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4767 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4768 "Linux".
4769
475fe28a
PH
4770PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4771 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4772 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4773
4774 warn !verify = sender
4775 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4776
4777 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4778 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4779
7e8bec7a
PH
4780PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4781
4782 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4783 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4784
4785 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4786 nomenclature these days.)
4787
e4a89c47
PH
4788PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4789 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4790
5ca2a9a1
PH
4791PH/30 In these circumstances:
4792 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4793 . First host does not offer TLS;
4794 . First host accepts first address;
4795 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4796 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4797 . Second host accepts second address.
4798 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4799 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4800 address.
7e8bec7a 4801
c688b954
PH
4802PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4803 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4804 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4805 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4806 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4807
fed77020
PH
4808PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4809 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4810
7fe1560f
PH
4811PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4812 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4813
ebb6e6d5
PH
4814PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4815 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4816 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4817
9c4e8f60
PH
4818PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4819 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4820 overlooked.
4821
4822PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4823
d7174846
PH
4824PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4825 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4826 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4827 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4828 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4829 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4830 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4831
4832 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4833 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4834 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4835 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4836 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4837
4838 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4839 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4840 routed further.
4841
cfe75fc3
PH
4842PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4843 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4844 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4845 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4846 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4847 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4848
be22d70e
PH
4849PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4850
0612b098
PH
4851PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4852 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4853 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4854 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4855 printable escape sequences.
4856
2e0c1448
PH
4857PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4858 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4859 body only.
4860
447d236c
PH
4861PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4862 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4863 are as follows:
4864
4865 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4866 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4867 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4868 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4869 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4870
4871 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4872 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4873 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4874
d20976dc
PH
4875PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4876
f656d135
PH
4877PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4878 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4879 play with."
4880
2e2a30b4
PH
4881PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4882 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4883 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4884 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4885 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4886 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4887 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4888 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4889 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4890 the log output.
4891
9176e9f0
PH
4892PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4893 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4894 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4895 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4896 "make".
4897
7982096b 4898
bbe902f0
PH
4899A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4900----------------------------------------
4901
4902Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4903changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4904needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4905in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4906that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4907release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4908from 4.43.
4909
4910I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
49114.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4912those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4913historical information.
4914
4915
f7b63901 4916Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4917-----------------
4918
5fe762f6
PH
4919 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4920
139059f6 4921 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4922 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4923
7086e875
PH
4924 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4925 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4926 place.
4927
35af9f61
PH
4928 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4929 filter fails to execute.
4930
b668c215
PH
4931 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4932 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4933 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4934 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4935 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4936
a494b1e1
PH
4937 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4938
4939 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4940 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4941 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4942 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4943
c5fcb476
PH
4944 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4945 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4946 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4947 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4948 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4949
69358f02
PH
4950 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4951
5be20824
PH
495210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4953
eb2c0248
PH
495411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4955 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4956 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4957 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4958
2a3eea10
PH
495912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4960 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4961 sender verification.
4962
496313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4964 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4965
23c7ff99
PH
496614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4967
4deaf07d
PH
496815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4969 connection timeout.
4970
926e1192
PH
497116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4972 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4973
650edc6f
PH
497417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4975 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4976
2c7db3f5
PH
497718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4978 information about exactly what failed.
4979
3d235903
PH
498019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4981
7c7ad977
PH
498220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4983 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4984 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4985
981756db
PH
498621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4987 It is now set to "smtps".
4988
d4eb88df
PH
498922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4990 ignore_target_hosts.
4991
499223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4993 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4994 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4995 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4996 "[x.x.x.x]".
4997
7d468ab8
PH
499824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4999 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5000 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5001
500225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5003 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5004 wake it up if nothing else does.
5005
62c0818f
PH
500626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5007 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5008 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5009 end up negative.
5010
26034054
PH
501127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5012 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5013
af66f652
PH
501428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5015
90af77f4
PH
501629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5017 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5018 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5019 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5020 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5021 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5022 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5023 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5024
d8ef3577
PH
502530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5026 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5027 than one IP address.
5028
5cb8cbc6
PH
502931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5030 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5031 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5032 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5033
14702f5b
PH
503432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5035 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5036 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5037 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5038 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5039 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5040
063b1e99
PH
504133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5042 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5043 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5044 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5045
652e1b65
PH
504634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5047 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5048 respected.
5049
6f0c9a4f
PH
505035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5051 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5052 $sender_host_address.
5053
33397d19
PH
505436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5055 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5056 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5057 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5058 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5059 very small.
5060
7bb56e1f
PH
506137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5062
5063 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5064 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5065
ea3bc19b
PH
5066 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5067 just the host names, not the priorities.
5068
5069 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5070 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5071 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5072
ea3bc19b 5073 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5074 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5075
0bcb2a0e
PH
507638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5077 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5078 domain.
5079
2ac0e484
PH
508039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5081
4e1fde53
PH
508240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5083 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5084
de365ded
PH
508541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5086 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5087 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5088
f05da2e8
PH
508942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5090
d6453af2
PH
509143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5092
f7b63901
PH
509344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5094
509545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5096 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5097 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5098 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5099 because the tests only now provoked it.
5100
a444213a
PH
510146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5102 (this can affect the format of dates).
5103
0ec020ea
PH
510447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5105 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5106 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5107 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5108
b1206957
PH
510948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5110
511149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5112 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5113 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5114 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5115
26dd5a95
PH
511650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5117 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5118 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5119
343b2385
PH
512051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5121 autoreply.
5122
1c5466b9
PH
512352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5124 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5125 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5126 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5127 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5128 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5129 is going on).
5130
55ee9ee3
PH
513153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5132 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5133 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5134 the line.
5135
d38f8232
PH
513654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5137 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5138 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5139
5140 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5141 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5142 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5143 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5144 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5145 so I produce this patch..."
5146
3295e65b
PH
5147 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5148 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5149 is not defined.
5150
7102e136
PH
515155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5152 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5153 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5154 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5155 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5156
3ca0ba97
PH
515756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5158
c2bcbe20
PH
515957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5160 long debug lines gets shown.
5161
18ce445d
PH
516258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5163 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5164
1f5b4c3d
PH
516559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5166
5167 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5168 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5169 of $primary_hostname.
5170
b975ba52
PH
517160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5172 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5173 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5174 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5175 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5176 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5177 by change 4.50/55 above.
5178
5179 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5180 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5181 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5182 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5183 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5184 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5185 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5186
518761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5188 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5189 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5190 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5191
17ffcae7
PH
519262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5193 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5194
d95f9fdb
PH
519563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5196 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5197 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5198 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5199 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5200
86b8287f
PH
520164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5202 This has been fixed.
5203
60dc5e56
PH
520465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5205 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5206 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5207 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5208 the caching.)
5209
533244af
PH
521066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5211
a5a28604
PH
521267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5213 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5214 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5215 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5216
7e634d24
PH
521768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5218 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5219
3e11c26b
PH
522069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5221 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5222 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5223
6729cf78
PH
522470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5225 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5226 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5227 message there.
5228
00f00ca5
PH
522971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5230 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5231 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5232
c9bdd01c
PH
523372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5234 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5235 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5236 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5237
d43194df
PH
523873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5239 during host lookups.
5240
fe5b5d0b
PH
524174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5242 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5243
5244 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5245
76a2d7ba
PH
524675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5247 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5248 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5249 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5250 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5251 background.
5252
525376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5254 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5255
04f7d5b9
PH
525677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5257 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5258 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5259
bc60667e
PH
526078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5261
bb6e88ff
PH
526279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5263 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5264 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5265 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5266 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5267 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5268 process earlier.
5269
1e70f85b
PH
527080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5271 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5272 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5273 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5274 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5275
527681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5277 tables).
5278
4e01f9d6
PH
527982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5280
1ee1cef2
PH
528183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5282 "vacation" handling.
5283
6e2b4ccc
PH
528484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5285 OS variants using glibc.
5286
8e669ac1
PH
528785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5288
495ae4b0 5289
bbe902f0
PH
5290----------------------------------------------------
5291See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5292----------------------------------------------------
5293
5294
5295Exim version 4.44
5296-----------------
5297
5298 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5299 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5300 transport
5301
5302 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5303 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5304 place.
5305
5306 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5307 filter fails to execute.
5308
5309 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5310 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5311 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5312 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5313 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5314
5315 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5316 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5317 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5318 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5319
5320 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5321 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5322 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5323 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5324 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5325
5326 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5327
5328 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5329 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5330 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5331 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5332
5333 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5334 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5335 sender verification.
5336
533710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5338 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5339
534011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5341 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5342
534312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5344 ignore_target_hosts.
5345
534613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5347 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5348 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5349 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5350 "[x.x.x.x]".
5351
535214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5353 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5354 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5355
535615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5357 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5358 wake it up if nothing else does.
5359
536016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5361 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5362 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5363 end up negative.
5364
536517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5366 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5367
ea3a6f44 536818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5369
537019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5371 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5372 empty pattern.
5373
537420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5375 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5376 one IP address.
5377
ea3a6f44
NM
537821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5379 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5380 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5381 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5382 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5383 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5384
ea3a6f44
NM
538522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5386 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5387 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5388
538923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5390 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5391 $sender_host_address.
5392
539324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5394
ea3a6f44
NM
539525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5396 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5397 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5398
539926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5400 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5401
ea3a6f44
NM
540227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5403 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5404
ea3a6f44
NM
540528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5406 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5407 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5408 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5409
541029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5411 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5412 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5413
ea3a6f44
NM
541430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5415 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5416 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5417 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5418
ea3a6f44
NM
541931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5420 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5421 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5422
ea3a6f44
NM
542331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5424 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5425
ea3a6f44
NM
542632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5427 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5428 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5429 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5430 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5431 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5432 is going on).
bbe902f0 5433
ea3a6f44
NM
543433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5435 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5436 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5437 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5438 CAN-2005-0021
5439
ea3a6f44
NM
544034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5441 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5442 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5443 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5444 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5445 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5446 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5447
5448 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5449 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5450 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5451 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5452 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5453 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5454 CAN-2005-0021
5455
ea3a6f44
NM
545635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5457 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5458 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5459 CAN-2005-0022
5460
ea3a6f44
NM
546136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5462 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5463 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5464 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5465 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5466
ea3a6f44
NM
546737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5468 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5469 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5470 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5471 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5472
ea3a6f44
NM
547338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5474 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5475 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5476 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5477 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5478
5479
495ae4b0
PH
5480Exim version 4.43
5481-----------------
5482
5483 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5484 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5485 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5486 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5487 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5488 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5489 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5490
5491 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5492 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5493 the delivery.
5494
5495 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5496
5497 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5498
5499 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5500 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5501 to local_scan().
5502
5503 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5504 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5505 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5506 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5507 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5508
5509 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5510 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5511
5512 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5513
5514 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5515
551610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5517 header_sender only.
5518
551911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5520 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5521
552212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5523 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5524 affecting debugging statements).
5525
552613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5527
552814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5529 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5530 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5531 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5532 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5533 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5534 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5535 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5536 after the received time, and all would be well.
5537
553815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5539 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5540 condition in an expansion string.
5541
554216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5543
554417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5545 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5546 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5547 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5548 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5549 job under whatever limits there are.
5550
555118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5552
555319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5554 space).
5555
555620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5557 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5558 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5559 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5560 return path is set.
5561
556221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5563 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5564 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5565 binary data in such strings.
5566
556722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5568
556923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5570 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5571 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5572 failure, which is pointless.
5573
557424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5575
557625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5577
557826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5579 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5580 Sender: header lines.
5581
558227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5583 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5584 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5585
558628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5587 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5588 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5589 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5590 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5591 happens.
5592
559329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5594 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5595 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5596 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5597 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5598
559930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5600 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5601 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5602 1024.
5603
560431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5605 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5606
560732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5608 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5609
561033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5611
561232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5613
561433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5615
561634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5617 syntax error.
5618
561935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5620
562136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5622
562337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5624 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5625 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5626 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5627
562838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5629 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5630
5631
5632Exim version 4.42
5633-----------------
5634
5635 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5636 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5637 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5638 it was not quoted.
5639 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5640 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5641 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5642 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5643 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5644 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5645
5646 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5647 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5648 verification failure".
5649
5650 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5651 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5652 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5653 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5654
5655 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5656 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5657 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5658 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5659 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5660 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5661 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5662 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5663 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5664 treated as a timeout.
5665
5666 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5667 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5668 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5669 not set for Exim filters).
5670
5671 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5672 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5673 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5674
5675 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5676
5677 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5678 try to make them clearer.
5679
5680 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5681 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5682
5683 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5684
5685 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5686
568710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5688 only the Cygwin environment.
5689
569011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5691 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5692 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5693 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5694 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5695
569612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5697 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5698 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5699 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5700 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5701 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5702 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5703
570413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5705 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5706
570714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5708
5709 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5710 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5711 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5712
5713 To: susanne@some.where
5714
5715 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5716 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5717 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5718 of addresses in From: header lines).
5719
5720 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5721 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5722 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5723
5724 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5725 treated as non-personal.
5726
5727 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5728 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5729
573015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5731
573216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5733
573417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5735 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5736 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5737
573818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5739 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5740
574119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5742 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5743 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5744 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5745 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5746 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5747
574820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5749 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5750 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5751 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5752 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5753 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5754 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5755 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5756
5757 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5758
575921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5760 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5761
576222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5763 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5764 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5765
576623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5767 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5768
576924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5770 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5771 rather than long int.
5772
577325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5774
577526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5776
5777
5778Exim version 4.41
5779-----------------
5780
5781 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5782 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5783 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5784 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5785 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5786 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5787
5788
5789Exim version 4.40
5790-----------------
5791
5792 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5793 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5794
5795 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5796 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5797 socklen_t is defined.
5798
5799 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5800 always exist.
5801
5802 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5803 configured.
5804
5805 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5806 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5807 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5808 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5809 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5810
5811 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5812 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5813 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5814 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5815
5816 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5817 of flapping under certain conditions.
5818
5819 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5820 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5821 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5822
5823 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5824
582510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5826
582711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5828 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5829 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5830 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5831
583212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5833 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5834 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5835 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5836 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5837 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5838 preserved with the message after it was received.
5839
584013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5841 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5842 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5843 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5844 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5845 test suite worked just fine.
5846
584714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5848 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5849 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5850
585115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5852 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5853 string.
5854
585516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5856 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5857 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5858 does not fully solve it.
5859
586017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5861 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5862 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5863 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5864 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5865
586618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5867 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5868 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5869
587019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5871 string, for example:
5872
5873 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5874
5875 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5876 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5877 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5878 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5879 the routers could not see them.
5880
588120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5882 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5883
588421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5885 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5886 output).
5887
588822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5889 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5890 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5891 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5892 that needed quoting.
5893
589423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5895 was not being matched caselessly.
5896
589724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5898 backslashes.
5899
590025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5901 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5902 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5903 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5904 when use_sender is false.
5905
590626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5907
590827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5909
591028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5911
591229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5913 the configuration file.
5914
591530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5916 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5917
591831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5919
592032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5921 bytes in the message body.
5922
592333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5924 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5925 delivery.
5926
592734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5928
592935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5930
593136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5932 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5933 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5934 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5935 another IP address.
5936
5937
5938Exim version 4.34
5939-----------------
5940
5941 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5942 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5943
5944 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5945 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5946 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5947 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5948 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5949
5950 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5951 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5952
5953 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5954 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5955 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5956
5957 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5958 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5959 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5960
5961 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5962 for routers.
5963
5964 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5965 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5966 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5967 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5968 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5969 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5970 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5971
5972
5973Exim version 4.33
5974-----------------
5975
5976 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5977 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5978 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5979 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5980 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5981 default (and expected) setting.
5982
5983 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5984 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5985 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5986 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5987
5988 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5989 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5990
5991 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5992 in domain lists.
5993
5994 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5995 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5996 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5997 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5998 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5999 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6000
6001 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6002 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6003 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6004
6005 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6006 part (NOT match_host).
6007
6008 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6009
6010 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6011 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6012 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6013 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6014 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6015 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6016 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6017 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6018 the same named file.
6019
602010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6021 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6022 when Exim is built.
6023
602411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6025 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6026 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6027 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6028 a host name.
6029
603012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6031 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6032 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6033
603413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6035
603614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6037
603815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6039
604016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6041 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6042
604317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6044 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6045 before starting the TLS session.
6046
604718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6048
604919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6050 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6051
605220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6053 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6054 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6055 colon in the middle).
6056
6057
6058Exim version 4.32
6059-----------------
6060
6061 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6062 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6063 multiple configurations are in use.
6064
6065 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6066 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6067 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6068 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6069 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6070 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6071
6072 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6073 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6074
6075 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6076 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6077 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6078
6079 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6080 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6081 occurs.
6082
6083 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6084 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6085
6086 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6087
6088 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6089 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6090
6091 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6092
6093 -prval:sval
6094
6095 is equivalent to
6096
6097 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6098
6099 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6100 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6101 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6102 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6103 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6104
610510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6106 Exim's behaviour:
6107
6108 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6109 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6110 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6111 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6112 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6113 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6114
6115 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6116 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6117 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6118 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6119 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6120 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6121 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6122 string.
6123
6124 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6125 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6126 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6127 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6128 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6129
613011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6131
613212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6133 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6134 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6135
613613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6137
613814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6139 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6140 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6141 information.
6142
614315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6144 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6145
614616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6147 Three changes have been made:
6148
6149 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6150 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6151 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6152 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6153 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6154
6155 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6156 been restored.
6157
6158 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6159 the modified behaviour.
6160
6161
6162Exim version 4.31
6163-----------------
6164
6165 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6166 Larry Rosenman.
6167
6168 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6169 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6170
6171 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6172 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6173 try to track down a specific problem.
6174
6175 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6176 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6177 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6178
6179 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6180 warning.
6181
6182 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6183 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6184 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6185 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6186 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6187 some earlier ones do not.
6188
6189 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6190
6191 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6192 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6193 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6194 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6195 address literals are enabled, of course).
6196
6197 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6198
619910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6200 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6201 by a command such as
6202
6203 exim -f "" ...
6204
6205 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6206
620711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6208
620912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6210 remained set. It is now erased.
6211
621213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6213 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6214
621514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6216 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6217 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6218 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6219 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6220 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6221 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6222 appropriate error code.
6223
622415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6225 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6226 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6227 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6228 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6229 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6230
623116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6232 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6233 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6234
623517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6236 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6237 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6238 terminate the header.
6239
624018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6241 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6242 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6243
624419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6245 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6246 (4.30/29). In particular:
6247
6248 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6249 imposed.
6250
6251 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6252 to write a maildirsize file.
6253
6254 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6255 the transport, the new value overrides.
6256
6257 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6258 count.
6259
626020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6261 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6262 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6263 space or a tab.
6264
626521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6266 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6267 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6268 the fallback hosts.
6269
627022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6271 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6272 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6273
627423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6275 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6276 using a union.
6277
627824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6279 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6280 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6281
628225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6283
628426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6285
628627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6287
628828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6289 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6290 become corrupted.
6291
629229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6293 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6294 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6295 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6296 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6297 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6298 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6299 too great.
6300
630130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6302 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6303 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6304 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6305 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6306 incorrectly.
6307
630831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6309 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6310 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6311 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6312 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6313 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6314 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6315 cached value only when the same options are set.
6316
631732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6318
631933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6320 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6321 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6322 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6323 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6324
632534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6326 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6327 it is clearly obsolete.
6328
632935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6330 transport.
6331
633236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6333 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6334 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6335 times.
6336
633737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6338 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6339 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6340 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6341 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6342
634338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6344 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6345 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6346 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6347
634839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6349
6350 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6351
6352 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6353 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6354 2^31.
6355
635640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6357 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6358 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6359 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6360 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6361 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6362 $localpart_data.
6363
636441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6365 with the -f command-line option.
6366
636742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6368 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6369 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6370 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6371 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6372 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6373
637443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6375 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6376 line.
6377
637844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6379 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6380 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6381 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6382 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6383 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6384 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6385 buffer is too small.
6386
638745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6388 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6389
639046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6391 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6392 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6393 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6394 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6395 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6396 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6397 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6398 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6399
640047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6401 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6402 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6403
640448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6405 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6406 ACL").
6407
640849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6409 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6410 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6411 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6412 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6413
641450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6415 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6416 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6417 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6418 is set.
6419
642051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6421
642252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6423
642453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6425 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6426
642754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6428 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6429 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6430
643155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6432 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6433 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6434 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6435 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6436
643756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6438 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6439 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6440 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6441 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6442 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6443 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6444
644557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6446 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6447 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6448 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6449 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6450 the test of how many are available.
6451
645258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6453 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6454 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6455 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6456 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6457 new message is started.
6458
645959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6460 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6461
646260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6463 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6464
646561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6466 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6467 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6468 is no long logged.
6469
647062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6471 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6472 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6473 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6474 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6475 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6476 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6477
647863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6479 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6480 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6481 interpreted as octal.
6482
648364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6484 setting.
6485
648665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6487 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6488 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6489 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6490 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6491 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6492
649366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6494 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6495 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6496 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6497
6498 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6499 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6500 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6501 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6502
6503 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6504 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6505 is a bug fix.
6506
6507 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6508 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6509
651067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6511
651268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6513 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6514 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6515 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6516
651769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6518 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6519 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6520 supplied", which is not helpful.
6521
652270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6523 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6524 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6525
652671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6527 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6528 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6529 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6530 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6531 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6532 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6533 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6534
653572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6536 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6537 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6538 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6539 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6540
654173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6542 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6543 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6544 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6545 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6546 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6547
654874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6549 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6550 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6551
655275. Added write_rejectlog option.
6553
655476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6555 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6556 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6557 variables.
6558
655977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6560
656178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6562 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6563 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6564 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6565 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6566 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6567 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6568 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6569
657079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6571 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6572 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6573 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6574 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6575
657680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6577 Haardt.
6578
657981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6580 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6581 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6582 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6583 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6584 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6585 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6586 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6587 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6588
6589
6590Exim version 4.30
6591-----------------
6592
6593 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6594 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6595 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6596
6597 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6598 fixed.
6599
6600 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6601 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6602 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6603
6604 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6605 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6606 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6607 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6608 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6609 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6610
6611 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6612 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6613 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6614 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6615 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6616 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6617 the Exim test suite.
6618
6619 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6620 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6621 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6622 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6623
6624 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6625 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6626 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6627 specify it in this variable.
6628
6629 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6630 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6631 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6632 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6633
6634 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6635 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6636 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6637 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6638
6639 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6640 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6641 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6642 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6643 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6644
6645 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6646
664710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6648 they are logged.
6649
665011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6651 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6652 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6653 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6654 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6655
665612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6657 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6658
665913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6660 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6661 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6662 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6663 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6664
666514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6666 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6667
666815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6669 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6670 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6671
667216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6673 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6674
667517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6676 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6677
667818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6679 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6680 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6681
668219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6683 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6684
668520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6686 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6687 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6688 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6689
669021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6691
669222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6693 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6694 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6695 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6696
669723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6698
669924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6700 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6701
670225. Added .include_if_exists.
6703
670426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6705 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6706 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6707 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6708 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6709 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6710
671127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6712
671328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6714 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6715 this.
6716
671729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6718
671930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6720 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6721
6722 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6723 550 Sender verify failed
6724
6725 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6726 the final line of the response.
6727
672831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6729 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6730 all other user lookups.
6731
673232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6733 delivery time.
6734
673533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6736 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6737 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6738 result into an int without checking.
6739
674034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6741 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6742 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6743
674435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6745 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6746 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6747 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6748
674936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6750 correctly.
6751
675237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6753 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6754
675538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6756 to the empty sender.
6757
675839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6759 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6760 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6761 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6762 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6763 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6764 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6765 panic log.
6766
676740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6768 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6769 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6770 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6771 used.
6772
677341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6774 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6775
677642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6777 timestamps.
6778
677943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6780 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6781
678244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6783
678445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6785 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6786 logs.
6787
678846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6789 as soon as it is encountered.
6790
679147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6792
679348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6794 rewritten to "<>".
6795
679649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6797 recognizes a tab character.
6798
679950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6800 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6801 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6802 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6803
680451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6805
680652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6807 crash.
6808
680953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6810
681154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6812
681355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6814 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6815 2822.
6816
681756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6818 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6819 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6820 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6821 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6822
682357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6824 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6825
682658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6827 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6828 list (.included file names were always shown).
6829
683059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6831 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6832 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6833 root at that time.
6834
683560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6836 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6837
683861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6839
684062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6841
684263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6843
684464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6845 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6846 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6847 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6848 failures to open the logs.
6849
685065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6851 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6852 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6853 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6854 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6855 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6856 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6857
6858
6859Exim version 4.24
6860-----------------
6861
6862 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6863 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6864 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6865 change 4.23/1.
6866
6867 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6868 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6869 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6870
6871 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6872 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6873 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6874
6875 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6876 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6877 causing some misleading effects.
6878
6879 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6880 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6881 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6882
6883 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6884 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6885 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6886 queue-runner function directly.
6887
6888
6889Exim version 4.23
6890-----------------
6891
6892 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6893 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6894
6895 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6896 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6897 was always written to the default place.
6898
6899 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6900 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6901 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6902
6903 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6904
6905 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6906
6907 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6908 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6909 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6910
6911 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6912 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6913 must start.
6914
6915 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6916 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6917 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6918
6919 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6920 command line option is disabled.
6921
6922 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6923 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6924
6925 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6926
6927 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6928
6929 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6930 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6931
693210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6933
693411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6935 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6936 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6937 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6938 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6939 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6940
694112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6942 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6943 timeout.
6944
694513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6946 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6947
694814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6949 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6950
695115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6952 received was valid base64.
6953
695416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6955 name of the variable that was being set.
6956
695717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6958
695918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6960 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6961 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6962 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6963 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6964 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6965
696619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6967
696820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6969 nor realm was specified.
6970
697121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6972 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6973 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6974 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6975
697622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6977 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6978 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6979
698023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6981 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6982 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6983
698424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6985 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6986 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6987 some systems use these upper case variants.
6988
698925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6990 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6991 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6992 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6993
699426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6995
699627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6997 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6998
699928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7000 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7001 expansion variable.
7002
700329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7004
700530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7006 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7007 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7008 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7009
701031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7011 using it.
7012
701332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7014 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7015 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7016
701733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7018 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7019
702034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7021 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7022 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7023 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7024
702535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7026 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7027 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7028
702936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7030
703137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7032 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7033 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7034 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7035 aborted.
7036
703738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7038 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7039 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7040
704139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7042
704340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7044 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7045
704641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7047 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7048
704942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7050 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7051 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7052 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7053 when emails are that large.
7054
7055
7056
7057Exim version 4.22
7058-----------------
7059
7060 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7061 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7062
7063 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7064 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7065 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7066
7067 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7068 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7069 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7070
7071 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7072 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7073 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7074 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7075 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7076
7077 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7078 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7079 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7080 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7081 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7082 ever.
7083
7084 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7085 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7086 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7087 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7088 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7089 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7090 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7091 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7092 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7093 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7094 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7095 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7096 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7097 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7098
7099 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7100 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7101 parameterised it.
7102
7103 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7104 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7105 error should be diagnosed.
7106
7107 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7108 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7109 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7110 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7111 appeared instead of "NULL".
7112
711310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7114 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7115 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7116 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7117 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7118 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7119 proceeds).
7120
7121 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7122 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7123 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7124
7125
7126Exim version 4.21
7127-----------------
7128
7129 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7130 or receiver verification errors.
7131
7132 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7133 name.
7134
7135 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7136 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7137 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7138 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7139
7140 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7141 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7142 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7143 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7144 shouldn't happen again.
7145
7146 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7147 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7148 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7149
7150 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7151 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7152
7153 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7154
7155 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7156 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7157
7158 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7159 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7160 RFC.
7161
716210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7163 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7164 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7165
716611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7167 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7168 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7169 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7170
717112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7172 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7173 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7174 to define what should happen).
7175
717613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7177 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7178 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7179
718014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7181
718215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7183
718416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7185 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7186
4c04137d 718717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
7188 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7189 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7190 structure in all cases.
7191
7192 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7193 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7194 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7195 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7196
719718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7198 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7199 domain name.
7200
720119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7202 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7203
720420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7205 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7206
720721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7208 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7209 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7210
721122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7212 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7213 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7214
721523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7216 the book and for uniformity.
7217
721824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7219
722025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7221 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
7222 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7223 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7224 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7225 non-existent command as the problem.
7226
722726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7228 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7229 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7230
723127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7232
723328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7234 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7235 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7236
723729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7238 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7239 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7240 timestamps using strftime().
7241
724230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7243 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7244
724532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7246 transport-time rewrites.
7247
724833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7249 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7250 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7251 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7252
725334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7254 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7255
725635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7257 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7258 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7259 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7260 comma and a space.
7261
726236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7263 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7264 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7265 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7266 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7267 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7268 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7269
727037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7271 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7272 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7273 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7274 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7275
727638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7277 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7278 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7279 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7280 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7281 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7282 remaining text gets split now.
7283
728439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7285 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7286 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7287 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7288
728940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7290 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7291 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7292 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7293 $return_path.
7294
729541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7296 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7297 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7298 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7299 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7300 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7301 passed through if needed.
7302
730342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7304 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7305 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7306 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7307 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7308 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7309
731043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7311 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7312 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7313 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7314 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7315
731644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7317 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7318 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7319 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7320 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7321
732245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7323 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7324 noticed.
7325
732646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7327 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7328 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7329 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7330 mayhem of various kinds.
7331
733247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7333 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7334 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
7335 the right test for positive values.
7336
733748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7338 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7339 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7340 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7341 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7342 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7343 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7344 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7345 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7346 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7347 envelope.
7348
734949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7350 module.
7351
735250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7353 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7354 forbidding it.
7355
735651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7357 the existing equality matching.
7358
735952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7360 dealing with inode numbers.
7361
736253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7363 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7364 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7365
736654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7367 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7368 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7369 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7370 local_scan().
7371
737255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7373 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7374 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7375 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7376 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7377 relay addresses has also been removed.
7378
737956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7380
738157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7382 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7383 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7384
738558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7386 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7387 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7388 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7389 processing applies to CR:
7390
7391 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7392 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7393
7394 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7395 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7396 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7397 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7398
739959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7400 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7401 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7402
740360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7404 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7405 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7406 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7407 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7408 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7409 arisen.
7410
741161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7412 program routers.
7413
741462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7415 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7416 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7417 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7418 adds:
7419
7420 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7421
7422 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7423
7424 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7425
742663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7427 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7428 not considered personal.
7429
743064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7431
743265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7433
743466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7435
743667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7437 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7438 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7439 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7440 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7441 header lines, and spool format errors.
7442
744368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7444 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7445 for more flexibility.
7446
744769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7448 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7449 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7450
745170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7452 Sabourenkov.
7453
745471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7455 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7456 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7457 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7458 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7459 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7460 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7461 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7462 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7463
746472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7465 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7466 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7467 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7468 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7469 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7470 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7471
747273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7473 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7474 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7475
747674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7477 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7478 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7479 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7480 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7481 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7482 instead of killing the process with assert().
7483
748475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7485 than Unicode encoding.
7486
748776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7488 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7489 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7490 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7491
749277. Added process_log_path.
7493
749478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7495 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7496
749779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7498 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7499
750080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7501 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7502 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7503
750481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7505 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7506 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7507 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7508 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7509 were applied:
7510
7511 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7512 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7513 as invalid.
7514
751582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7516 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7517 they will be used during message reception.
7518
7519
7520Exim version 4.20
7521-----------------
7522
7523The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7524
7525****