ChangeLog: note cyrus plugin use situation
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.81
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7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
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30
31PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
32 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
33 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
34
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35NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
36
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37NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
38 improved.
39
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40NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
41
c1e794ba 42PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 43
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44PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
45
46PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
47 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
48
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49PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
50 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
51
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52PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
53 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
54
f1e05cc7 55PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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56 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
57 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 58
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59PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
60
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61PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
62 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
63
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64PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
65
c45dd180 66PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 67
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68PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
69 non-compliant senders.
70 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
71
eae0036b 72NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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73 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
74 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
75
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76PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
77 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
78 in spool file corruption.
79
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80PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
81 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
82 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
83 "Got SSL error 2".
84
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85TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
86 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
87 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
88
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89JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
90 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
91
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92JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
93
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94PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
95 diagnostics.
96 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
97
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98PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
99 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
100 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
101
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102PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
103 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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104 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
105 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 106
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107PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
108 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
109
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110PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
111 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
112 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
113 resolver implementation change.
114
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115PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
116 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
117
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118PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
119
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120PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
121
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122PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
123 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
124
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125PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
126 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
127
9e45c72b 128JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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129 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
130
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131PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
132 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
133 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
134 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 135 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 136
53947857 137PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 138
eae0036b 139PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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140 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
141 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 142
9e45c72b 143JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 144
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145PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
146 read-only, out of scope).
147 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
148
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149PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
150 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
151 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
152 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
153
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154PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
155
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156PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
157 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
158 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
159 real issues in debug logging.
160
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161PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
162 assignment on my part. Fixed.
163
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164PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
165 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
166 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
167
168PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
169 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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170 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
171 problems.
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173PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
174 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
175
57eb9e91 176PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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177 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
178 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
179 needs to override this, it can.
180
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181PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
182 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
183 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
184
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185PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
186 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
187 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
188 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
189
3ecab157 190PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 191
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193Exim version 4.77
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195
196PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
197 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
198
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199TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
200
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201TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
202 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 203
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204TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
205 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
206
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207TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
208 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
209 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
210
211 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
212 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
213 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
214 not safe for signals.
215
216 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
217 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
218 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
219 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
220 exiwhat.
221
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222TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
223
224 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
225 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
226 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
227 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
228 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
229
230 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
231 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
232 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
233 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
234 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
235 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
236
237 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
238 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
239 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
240 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
241
242 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
243 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
244 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
245 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
246
247 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
248 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
249 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
250 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
251 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
252 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
253 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
254 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
255 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
256
257 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
258 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
259 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
260 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
261
262 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
263 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
264 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
265 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
266 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
267 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
268 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
269 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
270 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
271 details in the main documentation.
272
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273TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
274
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275TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
276
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277TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
278 repository when doing development or release builds.
279
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280PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
281 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 282
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283PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
284 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
285 Bugzilla 97.
286
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287PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
288
9e949f00 289PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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290 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
291
292PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
293 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 294
555ae6af 295PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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296 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
297
298PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
299 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 300
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301PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
302 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
303
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304PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
305 Bugzilla 1156.
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306 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
307 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 308
d6cc7c78 309PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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310 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
311 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
312
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313PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
314
3399bb60 315PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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316
317PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
318 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
319
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323
324PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
325
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326PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
327 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
328
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329PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
330
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331PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
332
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333PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
334 Bugzilla 1098.
335
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336PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
337 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 338
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339TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
340 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
341
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342PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
343 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
344
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345PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
346 Bugzilla 1104.
347
c8d52a00 348TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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349 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
350
351TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
352 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
353 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
354 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
355
356PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
357 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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360Exim version 4.75
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362
4c9ef03a 363NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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364 Bugzilla 1073
365
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366TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
367 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
368 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
369
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370TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
371 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
372
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373PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
374 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
375 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
376
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377PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
378 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
379
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380PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
381 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
382
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383NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
384 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
385
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386NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
387 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
388
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389PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
390 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 391
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392NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
393 Fixes bug 943.
394
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395PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
396 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
397
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398PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
399 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
400
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401PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
402 SQL string expansion failure details.
403 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
404
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405PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
406 Patch from Simon Arlott.
407
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408PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
409 extern declarations in function scope.
410 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
411
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412PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
413 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
414 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
415 a kernel bug).
416
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417PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
418 Patch from Mark Zealey.
419
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420PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
421 Patch from Mark Zealey.
422
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423PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
424 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
425
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426PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
427 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
428
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429NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
430 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
431 Dennis Davis.
432
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433PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
434
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435PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
436
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437NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
438 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 439
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440TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
441 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
442
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446
447TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
448 consequences so log it to the panic log.
449
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450TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
451 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
452
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453TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
454
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455DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
456 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
457 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
458
459PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
460 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
461 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
462
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463PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
464 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
465 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
466 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
467
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468PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
469 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
470 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
471 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
472
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473PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
474 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
475 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
476 arbitrary files.
477
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478PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
479 (Wolfgang Breyha)
480
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481PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
482 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
483 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
484 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
485 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
486
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490
491PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
492 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
493 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
494
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495PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
496 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
497
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498JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
499
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500PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
501
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502PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
503
ec5a0394 504PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 505
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506PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
507
453a6645 508PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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509 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
510 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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511 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
512
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513PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
514 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
515 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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516 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
517 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 518
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519PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
520
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521PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
522
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523PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
524
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525PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
526
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527PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
528
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529PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
530
532be449
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531PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
532
6a8de854 533PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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534 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
535 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 536
5dc43717
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537JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
538
539JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
540 "exim" to be used
55c75993 541
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542PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
543 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
544
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545PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
546 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
547 Notification from John Horne.
548
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549PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
550 compatible.
551
552PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
553 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
554 it normally works.
555
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556DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
557 access.
558
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559DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
560 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
561 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
562
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563DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
564 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
565 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
566 configuration file.
567
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568DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
569 option (effectively making it always true).
570
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571DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
572 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
573
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574DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
575 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
576
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577PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
578 run-time user, instead of root.
579
43236f35 580PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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581 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
582
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583DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
584 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
585 arguments.
3346ab01 586
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587DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
588 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
589 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
590
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591DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
592
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593NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
594
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596Exim version 4.72
597-----------------
598
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599JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
600 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
601 typos
465e92cf 602
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603JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
604 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
605 (Finput)
edae0343 606
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607NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
608 Patch from Alain Williams
609
bb576ff7
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610NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
611
5a1a5845
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612NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
613 Patch from Andreas Metzler
614
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615NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
616 Patch from Kirill Miazine
617
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618NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
619
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620JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
621
a466095c 622NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 623 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 624
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625TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
626
627TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
628
629MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
630 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
631 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
632
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633NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
634 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 635
b26eacf1 636NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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637 Patch by Simon Arlott
638
179c5980 639PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 640 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 641
9bd3e22c 642
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643Exim version 4.71
644-----------------
645
7d9f747b 646TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 647
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648NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
649
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650NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
651
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652NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
653
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654NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
655
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657Exim version 4.70
658-----------------
659
cdd3bb85 660TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 661 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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662
663TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
664 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 665 Hirsch).
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666
667TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
668 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 669 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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670
671TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
672 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
673
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674NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
675 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
676 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
677 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
678
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679NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
680 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 681 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 682
089793a4
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683TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
684
5f16ca82
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685TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
686
dae9d94e 687NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 688 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 689
7d9f747b 690NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 691
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692TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
693 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
694 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
695 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
696
65a7d8c3 697NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 698 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 699
23510047 700TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 701
7d9f747b 702NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 703
7d8eec3a 704NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 705 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 706
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707TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
708 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 709
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710TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
711 that they are available at delivery time.
712
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713TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
714
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715TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
716 incoming_port log selectors.
717
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718TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
719 setting expands to an empty string.
720
ce552449 721NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 722 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 723
e765a0f1 724NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 725 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 726
4f054c63 727NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 728 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 729
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730NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
731 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 732
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733NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
734 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 735
b52bc06e 736NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 737 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 738
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739NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
740
4c69d561 741NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 742 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 743
d5c39246 744NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 745 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 746
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747TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
748
8f3414a1 749NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 750 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 751
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752NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
753
754NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 755
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756NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
757 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 758
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759NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
760 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 761
7d9f747b
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762NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
763 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 764
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765NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
766 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 767
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768NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
769 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 770
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771NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
772 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 773
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774NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
775 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 776
7d9f747b 777NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 778 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 779
7d9f747b 780NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 781
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782NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
783 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 784
7d9f747b 785NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 786
7d9f747b 787NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 788
7d9f747b 789NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 790
7d9f747b 791NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 792
17792b53 793NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 794 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 795
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796NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
797 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 798
91576cec 799NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 800 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 801
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802NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
803 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 804
7d9f747b 805NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 806
7d9f747b 807NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 808
7d9f747b 809NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 810
7d9f747b 811NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 812
deafd5b3 813
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816
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817TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
818 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
819 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
820
821 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
822 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
823 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
824 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
825 build errors in sieve.c.
826
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827NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
828 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
829 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
830
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831SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
832
7d9f747b 833NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 834
7d9f747b 835NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 836
7d9f747b 837NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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838
839
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840Exim version 4.68
841-----------------
842
843PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
844
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845PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
846 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
847 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
848 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
849 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
850 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
851 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
852 for iplsearch lookups.
853
854 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
855 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
856 previously such lookups could never work.
857
858 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
859 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
860 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
861
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862TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
863 version.
864
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865MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
866 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
867 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
868 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
869 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
870 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
871
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872TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
873 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
874
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875MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
876 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
877 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
878 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
879 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
880 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
881
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882PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
883 local_scan API.
884
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885PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
886
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887PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
888 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
889 encrypted.
890
891PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
892 by clients under certain conditions.
893
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894PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
895 "_responses" off the end of the name.
896
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897PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
898
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899PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
900 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
901
902PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
903
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904PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
905
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906PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
907
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908PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
909 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
910
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911PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
912
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913PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
914 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
915
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916PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
917
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918PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
919
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920PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
921 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
922 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
923 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 924
ddea74fa 925PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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926 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
927 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
928
ddea74fa 929PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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930 and InterBase are left for another time.)
931
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932PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
933
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934PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
935
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936PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
937
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938PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
939 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
940 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
941
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943Exim version 4.67
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945
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946MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
947 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
948 Jan Srzednicki.
949
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950PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
951 issue a MAIL command.
952
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953PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
954
955 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
956
957 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
958 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
959 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
960 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
961 item. This has been fixed.
962
963PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
964 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
965
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966PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
967 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
968
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969PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
970 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
971 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
972
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973SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
974
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975PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
976 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
977 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
978 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
979 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
980
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981MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
982 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
983 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
984
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985PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
986 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
987 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
988 the server_setid option was incorrect.
989
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990PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
991
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992PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
993
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994PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
995 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
996 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
997 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
998 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
999
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PH
1000PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1001
41c7c167
PH
1002PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1003 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1004 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1005 values).
1006
9c57cbc0
PH
1007PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1008
f3f065bb
PH
1009PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1010
047bdd8c
PH
1011PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1012
0ce9abe6
PH
1013PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1014
0e22dfd1
PH
1015PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1016
4c590bd1
PH
1017PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1018 no_callout_flush is set.
1019
09945f1e
PH
1020PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1021 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1022 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1023 fixed.
1024
c51b8e75
PH
1025PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1026
e28326d8
PH
1027PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1028 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1029 other ACL rejections are.
1030
75b1493f
PH
1031PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1032 with slight modification.
1033
7c5214ec
PH
1034PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1035 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1036
4311097e
PH
1037PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1038 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1039 connection.
1040
29f89cad
PH
1041PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1042 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1043
5e687460
SC
1044SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1045
c3611384
PH
1046PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1047 expansion side effects.
1048
5a11a7b4
PH
1049PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1050 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1051 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1052 be the same.
1053
0e20aff9
MH
1054MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1055 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1056 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1057
ca86f471
PH
1058PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1059 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1060 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1061 were accidentally chopped off.
1062
a14e5636
PH
1063PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1064 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1065 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1066 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1067 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1068 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1069 pipelining has not been advertised.
1070
ec95d1a6
PH
1071PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1072
42855d71
PH
1073PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1074 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1075 This has been fixed.
1076
57c2c631
PH
1077PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1078 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1079 reported on Solaris.
1080
58c01c94
PH
1081PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1082 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1083 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1084 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1085 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1086 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1087 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1088
dee5a20a
PH
1089PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1090 cpus.
1091
d2ee6114
PH
1092PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1093
b2d5182b
PH
1094PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1095
79749a79
PH
1096PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1097 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1098 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1099 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1100 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1101 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1102
c456d9bb
PH
1103PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1104 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1105 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1106 host_all_ignored option.
1107
cd9868ec
PH
1108PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1109 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1110 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1111 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1112 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1113 is what is supposed to happen).
1114
ebeaf996
PH
1115PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1116 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1117 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1118 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1119 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1120 uses the Exim user.
1121
2679d413
PH
1122PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1123 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1124 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1125 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1126 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1127 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1128 users.
1129
84024b72
PH
1130PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1131
8005d38e
SC
1132SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1133 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1134 (Jez Hancock).
1135 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1136 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1137
3298c6c6
SC
1138SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1139
a43a27c5
PH
1140PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1141
58eb016e 1142PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1143 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1144 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1145 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1146 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1147 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1148 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1149 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1150 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1151 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1152 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1153
b43a74ea
PH
1154PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1155 advertised in response to EHLO.
1156
b4ed4da0 1157
5dd1517f
PH
1158Exim version 4.66
1159-----------------
1160
1161PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1162 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1163
1164 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1165 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1166
1167 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1168 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1169 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1170
1171 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1172 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1173 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1174 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1175 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1176
1177
93cfa765
TK
1178Exim version 4.65
1179-----------------
1180
1181TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1182 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1183 versions. (#438)
1184
d6066548
MH
1185MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1186 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1187 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1188
4362ff0d
PH
1189PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1190 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1191 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1192 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1193 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1194 rather than extend the field.
1195
93cfa765 1196
944e9e9c
TF
1197Exim version 4.64
1198-----------------
aa41d2de 1199
21d74bd9
TK
1200TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1201 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1202 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1203 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1204 these files.
1205
1206TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1207 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1208 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1209
1210TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1211 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1212 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1213
1214TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1215 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1216 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1217 in the field name.
1218
2b1c6e3a
PH
1219PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1220 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1221 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1222 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1223 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1224 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1225 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1226 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1227 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1228 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1229 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1230
1f872c80
PH
1231PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1232 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1233
1234PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1235 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1236 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1237 ignores EPIPE as well.
1238
d203e649
PH
1239PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1240 (quoted-printable decoding).
1241
cc2ed8f7 1242PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1243 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1244
ddfcd446
PH
1245PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1246
d45b1de8
PH
1247PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1248
1249PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1250
38a0a95f 1251PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1252 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1253
a2405d83
JJ
1254JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1255 in 4.64-PH/09.
1256
1257JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1258 miscellaneous code fixes
1259
6ea85e9a
PH
1260PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1261 rejections.
1262
26da7e20
PH
1263PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1264 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1265 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1266 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1267 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1268 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1269 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1270 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1271
14aa5a05 1272PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1273 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1274 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1275 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1276 function.
1277 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1278 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1279 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1280 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1281 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1282 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1283 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1284 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1285 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1286
ff75a1f7
PH
1287PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1288 decoding.
1289
e6f6568e
PH
1290PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1291 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1292 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1293 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1294 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1295 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1296 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1297 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1298
d6f6e0dc
PH
1299PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1300 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1301 list.
1302
322050c2
PH
1303PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1304 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1305 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1306 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1307 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1308 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1309 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1310 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1311 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1312 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1313 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1314 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1315 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1316
08955dd3
PH
1317PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1318 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1319 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1320 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1321 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1322 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1323 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1324
1eccaa59
PH
1325PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1326 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1327 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1328 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1329 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1330 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1331 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1332 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1333 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1334 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1335
602e59e5
PH
1336PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1337 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1338 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1339 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1340 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1341
411ef850
PH
1342PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1343 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1344 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1345 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1346 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1347 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1348 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1349
7befa435
PH
1350PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1351 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1352 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1353 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1354 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1355 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1356 been verified.
1357
48da4259 1358PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1359 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1360 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1361 and authorization.)
1362
48da4259
PH
1363PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1364 if any retry times were supplied.
1365
d1d5595c
PH
1366PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1367 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1368 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1369
0ef732d9
PH
1370PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1371
328895cc
PH
1372PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1373
fd700877
PH
1374PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1375 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1376 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1377 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1378 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1379 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1380
8dce1a6f
PH
1381PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1382 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1383
17af4a17
PH
1384PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1385 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1386 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1387
1388PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1389 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1390 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1391 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1392 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1393 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1394 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1395 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1396 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1397
1398 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1399 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1400 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1401 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1402 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1403 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1404 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1405 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1406 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1407
1408 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1409 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1410 hammering the server.
1411
c1114884
PH
1412PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1413 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1414
7a0743eb
PH
1415PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1416
0d85fa3f
PH
1417PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1418 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1419 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1420
1bf43b78
PH
1421PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1422 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1423 one case where this was not true.
1424
520de300
PH
1425PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1426 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1427 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1428 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1429 fails.
1430
48c7f9e2
PH
1431PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1432 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1433 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1434 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1435 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1436 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1437 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1438 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1439 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1440 smtp transport.
1441
99ea1c86
PH
1442PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1443 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1444 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1445 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1446
a2042e78
PH
1447PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1448 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1449
4fbcfc2e
PH
1450PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1451 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1452 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1453
aa41d2de
PH
1454PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1455
af561417
PH
1456PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1457
3cc66b45
PH
1458PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1459
194cc0e4
PH
1460PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1461 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1462 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1463 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1464
a401ddaa
PH
1465PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1466 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1467
4e88a19f
PH
1468PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1469 be meaningful with "accept".
1470
d7d7b289
SC
1471SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1472 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1473
1474SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1475 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1476 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1477
1478SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1479 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1480 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1481 there is data to show.
1482 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1483
1484SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1485 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1486 as well as the number of messages.
1487
1488SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1489 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1490 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1491
1492SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1493 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1494 have a flag are now skipped.
1495
1496SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1497 Added the -emptyok flag.
1498
1499SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1500 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1501
0ea2a468
JJ
1502JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1503 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1504 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1505
1506JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1507 match 4.64-PH/13
1508
1509JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1510 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1511
1512JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1513
1514JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1515 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1516
8a10f5a4
PH
1517PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1518
30e18802
PH
1519PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1520 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1521 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1522 contravention of the specifications.
1523
55728a4f
PH
1524PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1525 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1526 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1527
d7837193
PH
1528PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1529 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1530 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1531
87054a31
PH
1532PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1533
ea2c01d2
MH
1534MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1535 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1536 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1537 some point in the past.
1538
e4fa6968
PH
1539PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1540 transport during callout processing was broken.
1541
56f5d9bd
PH
1542PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1543 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1544
922e1c28
PH
1545PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1546 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1547
21eb6e72
PH
1548PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1549 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1550
a0540757
PH
1551PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1552
944e9e9c 1553
478be7b0
SC
1554Exim version 4.63
1555-----------------
1556
1557SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1558 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1559
1560SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1561 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1562 there is data to show.
1563 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1564
1565SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1566 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1567
2b965a65
TF
1568TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1569 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1570
45b91596
PH
1571TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1572 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1573
c59f5781
TF
1574TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1575 submissions from trusted users.
1576
90fc3069
TF
1577TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1578 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1579
6083aca0
TF
1580TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1581 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1582 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1583 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1584 there is now a framework to start from.
1585
765b530f
PH
1586PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1587 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1588 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1589
4e167a8c
PH
1590PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1591
4608d683
PH
1592PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1593
b8dc3e4a
PH
1594PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1595
5418e93b
PH
1596PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1597 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1598 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1599
b4a9bda2
PH
1600PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1601 libradius.
1602
45b91596
PH
1603PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1604 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1605 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1606
5547e2c5
PH
1607PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1608 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1609 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1610 its arguments.
1611
dbcef0ea
PH
1612PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1613 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1614 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1615 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1616 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1617
25257489
PH
1618PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1619 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1620
c816d124
PH
1621PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1622
a9ccd69a
PH
1623PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1624 operations in malware.c.
1625
75fa1910
PH
1626PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1627 signatures.
1628
a7d7aa58
PH
1629PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1630 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1631 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1632 all.
1633
42119b09
PH
1634PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1635 statements to "add_header".
1636
41609df5
PH
1637PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1638 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1639
a5bd321b
PH
1640PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1641 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1642 latter.
1643
e85a7ad5 1644PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1645 so that it is now:
1646
e85a7ad5
PH
1647 ${if or { \
1648 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1649 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1650 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1651 }{no}{yes}}
1652
e85a7ad5
PH
1653 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1654 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1655
d8fe1c03
PH
1656PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1657 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1658
16282d2b
PH
1659PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1660 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1661 any possible encoding problems.
1662
35d40a98
PH
1663PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1664 but not after initializing Perl.
1665
034d99ab
PH
1666PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1667 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1668 apparently, which is not desirable.
1669
6ec97b1b
PH
1670PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1671 queries.
1672
e22ca4ac
JJ
1673JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1674 --not options
1675
1676JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1677
33d73e3b
PH
1678PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1679 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1680 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1681 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1682
9ecb03f3
PH
1683PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1684 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1685 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1686
084efe8d
PH
1687PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1688 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1689 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1690 0.12.
1691
366fc9f0
PH
1692PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1693 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1694 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1695 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1696 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1697
c59f5781 1698
c887c79e
TF
1699Exim version 4.62
1700-----------------
1701
1702TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1703 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1704
1cce3af8
PH
1705PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1706 patch).
1707
afb3eaaf
PH
1708PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1709 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1710 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1711 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1712 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1713 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1714 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1715 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1716 451 error is used.
1717
e173618b
PH
1718PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1719
dd16e114
PH
1720PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1721 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1722 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1723
f7fd3850
PH
1724PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1725 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1726 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1727 odd errors.
1728
d87df92c
PH
1729PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1730 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1731
7e9f683d
PH
1732PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1733 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1734 option (which defaults to 0600).
1735
bfad5236
PH
1736PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1737
01c490df
PH
1738PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1739 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1740 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1741 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1742 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1743 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1744 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1745
d6629cdc
PH
1746PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1747
1cce3af8 1748
214e2000
PH
1749Exim version 4.61
1750-----------------
1751
1752PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1753 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1754 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1755 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1756 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1757 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1758 addresses as local.
1759
f9daeae0
PH
1760PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1761 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1762
7e66e54d
PH
1763PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1764
c8ea1597
PH
1765PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1766 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1767 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1768 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1769 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1770 grumble.
1771
911f6fde
PH
1772PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1773 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1774
47ca6d6c
PH
1775PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1776 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1777 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1778 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1779 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1780
ed0e9820
PH
1781PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1782 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1783 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1784 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1785
eff37e47
PH
1786PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1787 be the same on different OS.
1788
1921d2ea
PH
1789PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1790 testing.
1791
b3f69ca8
JJ
1792JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1793 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1794
1795JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1796 in 4.61-PH/06
1797
424a1c63
PH
1798PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1799 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1800 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1801 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1802 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1803 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1804 bounce message.
1805
7a100415
PH
1806PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1807 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1808 when Exim was called.
1809
19b9dc85
PH
1810PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1811 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1812
309bd837
PH
1813PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1814 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1815 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1816 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1817
59e82a2a
PH
1818PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1819 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1820 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1821 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1822 changes:
1823
1824 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1825 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1826 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1827
1828 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1829 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1830 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1831
9edc04ce
PH
1832PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1833 feature).
1834
1349e1e5
PH
1835PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1836 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1837 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1838 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1839 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1840 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1841 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1842 values from the SRV records were lost.
1843
ea49d0e1
PH
1844PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1845 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1846 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1847
064a94c9
PH
1848PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1849 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1850 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1851
727071f8
PH
1852PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1853 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1854 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1855 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1856 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1857 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1858 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1859 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1860 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1861 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1862
f78eb7c6
PH
1863PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1864 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1865 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1866
21c28500
PH
1867PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1868 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1869
1870PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1871 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1872 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1873 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1874 is given.
1875
1688f43b
PH
1876PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1877 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1878 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1879
1880PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1881 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1882 PH/23 above applies.
1883
9675b384
PH
1884PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1885 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1886 (for which there is an explicit test).
1887
6a3f1455
PH
1888PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1889
dac79d3e
PH
1890PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1891 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1892 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1893 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1894 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1895
5977a0b3
PH
1896PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1897 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1898 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1899 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1900
c91535f3
PH
1901PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1902 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1903 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1904
0d46a8c8
PH
1905PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1906
278c6e6c
PH
1907PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1908
2cbb4081
PH
1909PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1910 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1911 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1912
3eef829e
PH
1913PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1914 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1915 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1916 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1917 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1918
1ab95fa6
PH
1919PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1920 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1921 the message gets confusing).
1922
230205fc
PH
1923PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1924 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1925 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1926 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1927
75e0e026
PH
1928PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1929 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1930 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1931 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1932 same order.
1933
1934PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1935 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1936 the different processes.
1937
145396a6
PH
1938PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1939
3cd34f13
PH
1940PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1941
11121d3d
JJ
1942JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1943 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1944
1945JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1946 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1947
1948JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1949 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1950 messages matching specified criteria.
1951
8def5aaf
PH
1952PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1953
929ba01c
PH
1954PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1955 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1956
2632889e
PH
1957PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1958 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1959 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1960 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1961 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1962 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1963 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1964 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1965 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1966 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1967
944a9c55
PH
1968PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1969 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1970 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1971
4a23603b
PH
1972PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1973
4730f942
PH
1974PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1975 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1976 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1977 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1978 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1979 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1980 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1981 the variable.
1982
30dba1e6
PH
1983PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1984 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1985
382afc6b
PH
1986PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1987
a86229cf
PH
1988PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1989
50c99ba6
PH
1990PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1991
d35e429d
PH
1992PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1993 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1994 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1995 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1996 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1997 size of the count of files.
1998
f90d018c
PH
1999PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2000
75def545
PH
2001PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2002 used in LMTP mode:
2003
2004 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2005 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2006 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2007 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2008
2009 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2010 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2011 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2012
2013PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2014 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2015 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2016 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2017 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2018
c46782ef
PH
2019PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2020 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2021
71fafd95
PH
2022PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2023 will now be deprecated.
2024
2c5db4fd
PH
2025PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2026
9cf6b11a
JJ
2027JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2028 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2029 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2030
2031JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2032 with very large, slow to parse queues
2033
2034JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2035
2036JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2037
898d150f
PH
2038PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2039 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2040 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2041 SMTP output lines.
2042
46218253
PH
2043PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2044 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2045 Sieve code now uses this.
2046
e97957bc
PH
2047PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2048 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2049
81e509d7
PH
2050PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2051 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2052
3d240ff7
PH
2053PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2054
b37c4101
PH
2055PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2056 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2057 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2058 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2059 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2060
79378e0f
PH
2061PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2062 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2063 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2064 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2065
e49c7bb4
PH
2066PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2067
d114ec46
PH
2068PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2069
f3d7df6c
PH
2070PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2071 is preferred over IPv4.
2072
715ab376
PH
2073PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2074 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2075 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2076 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2077 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2078 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2079 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2080
6b31b150
PH
2081PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2082 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2083 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2084
2085PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2086
d515a917
PH
2087PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2088 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2089 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2090 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2091 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2092 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2093 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2094 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2095 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2096 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2097 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2098
9b8fadde
PH
2099PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2100 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2101 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2102
214e2000 2103
5de37277
PH
2104Exim version 4.60
2105-----------------
2106
cc38ddbf
PH
2107PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2108
2109 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2110 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2111
2112 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2113 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2114 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2115
72fdd6ae
PH
2116PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2117
2118 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2119 not a single digit.
2120
2121 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2122 string.
2123
2124 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2125 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2126 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2127 silly things.
2128
2129 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2130 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2131
2132 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2133 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2134
cb741023
PH
2135PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2136 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2137 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2138
f174f16e
PH
2139PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2140 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2141
c25242d7
PH
2142PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2143 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2144
2145 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2146
2147 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2148 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2149 this:
2150
2151 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2152
82c19f95
PH
2153PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2154 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2155 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2156 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2157 identical. For example:
2158
2159 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2160
2161 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2162 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2163 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2164
d7ffbc12
PH
2165PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2166 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2167 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2168 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2169
9f526266
PH
2170PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2171 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2172 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2173 message.
2174
87fcc8b9
PH
2175PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2176
2177 o fixes some comments
2178 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2179 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2180 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2181 and documents the missing references header update
2182
2183 and most important:
2184
2185 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2186 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2187 result)
2188
456682f5
PH
2189PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2190 Electronic Mail") by including:
2191
2192 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2193
2194 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2195 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2196 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2197 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2198 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2199
2200 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2201
2202 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2203
2204 The auto-replied keyword:
2205
2206 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2207 message by an automatic process,
2208
2209 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2210
2211 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2212 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2213
2214 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2215 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2216 other messages.
2217
3e46c1aa
PH
2218PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2219 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2220
49826d12
PH
2221PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2222
eba0c039
PH
2223PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2224 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2225 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2226
a0d6ba8a
PH
2227PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2228 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2229 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2230
f0917727
PH
2231PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2232 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2233 and treats the condition as false.
2234
096fee00
PH
2235PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2236
024bd3c2
PH
2237PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2238 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2239 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2240 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2241 not changing the active code.
2242
2243 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2244 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2245
2246 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2247 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2248
df199fec
PH
2249PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2250 (Bugzilla #53).
2251
d27f1df3
PH
2252PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2253 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2254 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2255 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2256 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2257 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2258 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2259 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2260 the text comparison.
2261
96776534
PH
2262PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2263 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2264 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2265 The same fix has been applied.
2266
5de37277 2267
9a799bc0
PH
2268Exim version 4.54
2269-----------------
2270
2271PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2272 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2273 It now does.
2274
99a4b039
PH
2275PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2276 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2277
2278PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2279
4b233853
PH
2280PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2281 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2282 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2283 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2284 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2285
8857ccfd
PH
2286TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2287 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2288 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2289 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2290 or /domain=).
2291
433a2980
PH
2292PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2293 testing suite.
2294
3e46c1aa 2295
9a799bc0 2296
e3a311ba
TK
2297Exim version 4.53
2298-----------------
2299
2300TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2301 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2302
13b685f9
PH
2303PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2304
395ff96d
PH
2305PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2306
5b68f6e4
PH
2307PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2308 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2309 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2310
1ab52c69
PH
2311PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2312 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2313 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2314
b07e6aa3
PH
2315PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2316 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2317 operating systems.
2318
254e032f
PH
2319PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2320 ${stat: expansion item.
2321
3af76a81
PH
2322PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2323 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2324
2548ba04
PH
2325PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2326 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2327 file for comments.
2328
b6c6011d
PH
2329PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2330
cf39cf57
PH
2331PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2332 setting.
2333
f1513293
PH
2334PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2335 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2336
727549a4
PH
2337TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2338
af46795e
PH
2339PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2340 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2341 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2342 the end of the subprocess.
2343
d7b47fd0
PH
2344PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2345 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2346 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2347 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2348 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2349
ee744174
JJ
2350JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2351
b582ab87
PH
2352TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2353
41a13e0a
PH
2354PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2355 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2356
f625cc5a
PH
2357PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2358
2359PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2360
21f7af35
PH
2361PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2362 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2363 HP-UX compiler.
2364
31480e42
PH
2365PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2366
2d280592
PH
2367PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2368 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2369 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2370
7cd1141b
PH
2371PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2372 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2373
2374PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2375 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2376
750af86e
PH
2377PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2378 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2379
2380 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2381 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2382
2383 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2384 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2385 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2386 contributed by a Radius user.
2387
2388PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2389 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2390
4304270b
TK
2391TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2392 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2393
750af86e
PH
2394PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2395 available.
2396
64ffc24f
PH
2397PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2398 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2399 received.
2400
5dd9625b
PH
2401PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2402 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2403 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2404 header lines when this was not necessary.
2405
5591031b
PH
2406PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2407
ba18e66a
PH
2408PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2409 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2410 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2411 exists".
2412
9cec981f
PH
2413PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2414 -bV or -d is used.
2415
aa2b5c79
PH
2416PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2417 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2418 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2419 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2420
48a53b7f
PH
2421PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2422
1c59d63b
PH
2423PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2424
671012da
TK
2425TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2426
1509d3a8
PH
2427PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2428
2429PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2430 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2431 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2432 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2433 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2434 settings.
2435
2436PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2437
2fe1a124
PH
2438PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2439 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2440 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2441 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2442 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2443 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2444 which is clearly wrong.
2445
8800895a
PH
2446PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2447
ccfdb010
PH
2448PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2449 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2450 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2451 subsequently added.
2452
1130bfb0
PH
2453PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2454 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2455
ebcb507f
PH
2456PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2457
c35e155c
PH
2458PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2459 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2460
95d1f782
PH
2461PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2462 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2463
fd6de02e
PH
2464PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2465 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2466
58de37c5
PH
2467PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2468 recipients, not senders.
2469
261cf466
TF
2470TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2471 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2472
3ee512ff
PH
2473PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2474
e08c430f
PH
2475PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2476
bef5a11f
PH
2477PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2478 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2479 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2480 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2481
7546de58
TF
2482TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2483
e5d5a95f
TF
2484TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2485 clock is set back in time.
2486
2e88a017
TF
2487TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2488 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2489
a5f65aa4
TF
2490TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2491 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2492
e7726cbf
PH
2493PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2494 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2495 (see PH/47 above).
2496
a7fdad5b
TF
2497TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2498 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2499 header rewrites.
2500
6af56900
PH
2501PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2502 type ("H").
2503
0925ede6
PH
2504PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2505
66afa403
TF
2506TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2507 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2508 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2509
0154e85a
TF
2510TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2511 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2512 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2513 helo verification defer as a failure.
2514
16f12c76
PH
2515PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2516 actual error message.
2517
bbe902f0 2518
e5a9dba6
PH
2519Exim version 4.52
2520-----------------
2521
2522TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2523
22c3b60b
PH
2524PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2525 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2526 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2527 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2528
06a9b4b5
PH
2529TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2530
c1ac6996
PH
2531PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2532 can still be requested.
2533
9c7a242c
PH
2534PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2535 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2536 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2537 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2538
87ba3f5f
PH
2539TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2540 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2541 circumstances, but probably never did.
2542
2543PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2544 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2545 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2546 in the header line.
2547
29aba418
TF
2548TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2549
fe0dab11
TF
2550TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2551 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2552
11d337a4
TK
2553TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2554
2555TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2556
415c8f3b
PH
2557PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2558 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2559 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2560 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2561 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2562 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2563
958541e9
PH
2564PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2565 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2566 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2567 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2568 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2569 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2570
c206415f
TK
2571TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2572 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2573
2a4be8f9
PH
2574PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2575 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2576
1cba11c5
SC
2577SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2578 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2579
2580SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2581
2582SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2583
2584SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2585
2586SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2587
2588SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2589
2590SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2591
1005d00e
TK
2592TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2593
2594TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2595 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2596 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2597
2598TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2599 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2600 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2601 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2602
9b4768fa
PH
2603PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2604 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2605 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2606
2607PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2608 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2609 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2610 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2611
0d7eb84a
PH
2612PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2613 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2614 to be made).
2615
2616PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2617 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2618 should work with maildirs and everything.
2619
40727bee
TK
2620TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2621 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2622
554d2369
TF
2623TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2624 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2625
1f922db1
PH
2626PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2627 function for BDB 4.3.
2628
ef213c3b
PH
2629PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2630
8ac170f3
PH
2631PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2632 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2633 involved.
2634
b1c749bb
PH
2635PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2636 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2637 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2638 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2639 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2640 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2641
4aac9b49
PH
2642PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2643 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2644 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2645 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2646 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2647 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2648 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2649 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2650
294520c8
TK
2651TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2652 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2653 details.
2654
5bd022fe
PH
2655PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2656 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2657
90e9ce59
PH
2658PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2659 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2660 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2661 test. It is now used for both.
2662
5ea81592
PH
2663PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2664 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2665 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2666 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2667 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2668 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2669
c6c2dc1d
PH
2670PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2671 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2672 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2673 string_vformat().
2674
fffffe4c
PH
2675PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2676 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2677 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2678
9a26b6b2
PH
2679PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2680 experimental DomainKeys support:
2681
2682 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2683 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2684 the control was given.
2685
2686 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2687
4aee0225
PH
2688PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2689
32d668a5
PH
2690PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2691
8187c3f3
PH
2692PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2693 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2694 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2695 db.h files).
2696
ff790e47 2697PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2698 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2699 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2700 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2701 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2702 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2703 course.
ff790e47 2704
5417f6d1
PH
2705PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2706 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2707 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2708 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2709 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2710 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2711
59cf8544
PH
2712PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2713 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2714 do -d+all out of habit.
2715
e7ad8a65
PH
2716PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2717 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2718 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2719
ade42478
PH
2720PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2721 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2722 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2723 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2724 record types that Exim uses.
2725
182ad5cf
PH
2726PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2727 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2728 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2729 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2730 non-existent file that was broken.
2731
b0d9fc80
TK
2732TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2733 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2734
2735TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2736 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2737 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2738
2739TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2740
47c7a64a
PH
2741PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2742 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2743 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2744 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2745 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2746 same time.
2747
a388bce4
SC
2748SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2749 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2750 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2751 at a slight CPU cost.
2752
2753SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2754 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2755
2756SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2757 by Marc Sherman.
2758
0793e4ed
SC
2759SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2760
c58b88df
PH
2761PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2762 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2763
e7ad8a65 2764
7982096b
PH
2765Exim version 4.51
2766-----------------
2767
1a46a8c5
PH
2768TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2769 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2770
2f079f46 2771TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2772
2773TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2774
2775PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2776 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2777
2778PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2779 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2780 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2781 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2782 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2783 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2784 file.
2785
2786PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2787 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2788 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2789 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2790 these two options.
2791
2792PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2793 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2794 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2795 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2796 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2797 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2798 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2799 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2800
2801PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2802 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2803
2804PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2805 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2806 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2807 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2808 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2809 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2810
2811PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2812 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2813 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2814 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2815
2816PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2817 Finch).
2818
2819PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2820 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2821
49c2d5ea
PH
2822PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2823 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2824 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2825 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2826 message.
49c2d5ea 2827
bf759a8b
PH
2828PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2829
83364d30
PH
2830PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2831 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2832
7999bbd7
PH
2833PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2834 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2835 to what was transported.)
2836
7dbf77c9
PH
2837TF/01 Added $received_time.
2838
74e0617f
PH
2839PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2840 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2841 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2842 spamd_address settings.
2843
2f079f46
PH
2844PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2845 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2846 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2847 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2848 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2849
8c841523
PH
2850PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2851
7766a4f0
PH
2852PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2853 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2854 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2855 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2856 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2857
8b417f2c
PH
2858PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2859 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2860
901f42cb
PH
2861PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2862 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2863 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2864 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2865 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2866 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2867 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2868 for failure.
2869
f9b9210e
PH
2870PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2871 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2872 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2873 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2874 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2875 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2876 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2877 "input=".
2878
54cdb463
PH
2879PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2880
cf00dad6
PH
2881PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2882 driver and ACL definitions.
2883
acb1b346
PH
2884PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2885 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2886
c5ddb310
PH
2887PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2888 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2889 understands it better than I do:
2890
2891 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2892 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2893
2894 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2895 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2896 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2897 => three warnings about OTP not working
2898 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2899
2900 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2901 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2902 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2903 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2904 for each call.)
2905 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2906 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2907
2908 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2909 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2910 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2911
31619da6
PH
2912PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2913 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2914 specified.
2915
bebaf0fc
PH
2916PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2917 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2918 "Linux".
2919
475fe28a
PH
2920PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2921 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2922 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2923
2924 warn !verify = sender
2925 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2926
2927 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2928 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2929
7e8bec7a
PH
2930PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2931
2932 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2933 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2934
2935 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2936 nomenclature these days.)
2937
e4a89c47
PH
2938PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2939 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2940
5ca2a9a1
PH
2941PH/30 In these circumstances:
2942 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2943 . First host does not offer TLS;
2944 . First host accepts first address;
2945 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2946 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2947 . Second host accepts second address.
2948 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2949 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2950 address.
7e8bec7a 2951
c688b954
PH
2952PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2953 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2954 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2955 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2956 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2957
fed77020
PH
2958PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2959 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2960
7fe1560f
PH
2961PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2962 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2963
ebb6e6d5
PH
2964PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2965 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2966 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2967
9c4e8f60
PH
2968PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2969 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2970 overlooked.
2971
2972PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2973
d7174846
PH
2974PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2975 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2976 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2977 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2978 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2979 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2980 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2981
2982 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2983 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2984 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2985 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2986 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2987
2988 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2989 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2990 routed further.
2991
cfe75fc3
PH
2992PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2993 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2994 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2995 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2996 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2997 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2998
be22d70e
PH
2999PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3000
0612b098
PH
3001PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3002 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3003 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3004 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3005 printable escape sequences.
3006
2e0c1448
PH
3007PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3008 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3009 body only.
3010
447d236c
PH
3011PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3012 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3013 are as follows:
3014
3015 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3016 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3017 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3018 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3019 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3020
3021 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3022 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3023 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3024
d20976dc
PH
3025PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3026
f656d135
PH
3027PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3028 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3029 play with."
3030
2e2a30b4
PH
3031PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3032 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3033 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3034 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3035 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3036 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3037 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3038 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3039 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3040 the log output.
3041
9176e9f0
PH
3042PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3043 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3044 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3045 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3046 "make".
3047
7982096b 3048
bbe902f0
PH
3049A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3050----------------------------------------
3051
3052Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3053changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3054needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3055in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3056that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3057release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3058from 4.43.
3059
3060I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
30614.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3062those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3063historical information.
3064
3065
f7b63901 3066Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3067-----------------
3068
5fe762f6
PH
3069 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3070
139059f6 3071 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3072 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3073
7086e875
PH
3074 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3075 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3076 place.
3077
35af9f61
PH
3078 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3079 filter fails to execute.
3080
b668c215
PH
3081 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3082 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3083 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3084 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3085 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3086
a494b1e1
PH
3087 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3088
3089 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3090 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3091 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3092 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3093
c5fcb476
PH
3094 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3095 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3096 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3097 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3098 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3099
69358f02
PH
3100 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3101
5be20824
PH
310210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3103
eb2c0248
PH
310411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3105 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3106 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3107 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3108
2a3eea10
PH
310912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3110 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3111 sender verification.
3112
311313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3114 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3115
23c7ff99
PH
311614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3117
4deaf07d
PH
311815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3119 connection timeout.
3120
926e1192
PH
312116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3122 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3123
650edc6f
PH
312417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3125 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3126
2c7db3f5
PH
312718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3128 information about exactly what failed.
3129
3d235903
PH
313019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3131
7c7ad977
PH
313220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3133 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3134 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3135
981756db
PH
313621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3137 It is now set to "smtps".
3138
d4eb88df
PH
313922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3140 ignore_target_hosts.
3141
314223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3143 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3144 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3145 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3146 "[x.x.x.x]".
3147
7d468ab8
PH
314824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3149 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3150 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3151
315225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3153 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3154 wake it up if nothing else does.
3155
62c0818f
PH
315626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3157 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3158 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3159 end up negative.
3160
26034054
PH
316127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3162 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3163
af66f652
PH
316428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3165
90af77f4
PH
316629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3167 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3168 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3169 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3170 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3171 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3172 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3173 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3174
d8ef3577
PH
317530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3176 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3177 than one IP address.
3178
5cb8cbc6
PH
317931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3180 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3181 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3182 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3183
14702f5b
PH
318432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3185 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3186 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3187 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3188 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3189 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3190
063b1e99
PH
319133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3192 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3193 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3194 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3195
652e1b65
PH
319634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3197 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3198 respected.
3199
6f0c9a4f
PH
320035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3201 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3202 $sender_host_address.
3203
33397d19
PH
320436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3205 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3206 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3207 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3208 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3209 very small.
3210
7bb56e1f
PH
321137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3212
3213 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3214 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3215
ea3bc19b
PH
3216 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3217 just the host names, not the priorities.
3218
3219 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3220 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3221 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3222
ea3bc19b 3223 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3224 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3225
0bcb2a0e
PH
322638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3227 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3228 domain.
3229
2ac0e484
PH
323039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3231
4e1fde53
PH
323240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3233 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3234
de365ded
PH
323541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3236 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3237 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3238
f05da2e8
PH
323942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3240
d6453af2
PH
324143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3242
f7b63901
PH
324344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3244
324545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3246 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3247 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3248 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3249 because the tests only now provoked it.
3250
a444213a
PH
325146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3252 (this can affect the format of dates).
3253
0ec020ea
PH
325447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3255 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3256 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3257 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3258
b1206957
PH
325948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3260
326149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3262 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3263 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3264 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3265
26dd5a95
PH
326650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3267 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3268 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3269
343b2385
PH
327051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3271 autoreply.
3272
1c5466b9
PH
327352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3274 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3275 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3276 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3277 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3278 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3279 is going on).
3280
55ee9ee3
PH
328153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3282 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3283 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3284 the line.
3285
d38f8232
PH
328654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3287 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3288 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3289
3290 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3291 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3292 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3293 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3294 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3295 so I produce this patch..."
3296
3295e65b
PH
3297 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3298 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3299 is not defined.
3300
7102e136
PH
330155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3302 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3303 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3304 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3305 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3306
3ca0ba97
PH
330756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3308
c2bcbe20
PH
330957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3310 long debug lines gets shown.
3311
18ce445d
PH
331258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3313 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3314
1f5b4c3d
PH
331559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3316
3317 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3318 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3319 of $primary_hostname.
3320
b975ba52
PH
332160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3322 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3323 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3324 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3325 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3326 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3327 by change 4.50/55 above.
3328
3329 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3330 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3331 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3332 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3333 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3334 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3335 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3336
333761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3338 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3339 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3340 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3341
17ffcae7
PH
334262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3343 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3344
d95f9fdb
PH
334563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3346 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3347 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3348 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3349 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3350
86b8287f
PH
335164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3352 This has been fixed.
3353
60dc5e56
PH
335465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3355 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3356 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3357 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3358 the caching.)
3359
533244af
PH
336066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3361
a5a28604
PH
336267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3363 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3364 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3365 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3366
7e634d24
PH
336768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3368 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3369
3e11c26b
PH
337069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3371 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3372 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3373
6729cf78
PH
337470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3375 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3376 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3377 message there.
3378
00f00ca5
PH
337971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3380 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3381 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3382
c9bdd01c
PH
338372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3384 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3385 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3386 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3387
d43194df
PH
338873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3389 during host lookups.
3390
fe5b5d0b
PH
339174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3392 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3393
3394 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3395
76a2d7ba
PH
339675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3397 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3398 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3399 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3400 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3401 background.
3402
340376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3404 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3405
04f7d5b9
PH
340677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3407 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3408 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3409
bc60667e
PH
341078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3411
bb6e88ff
PH
341279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3413 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3414 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3415 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3416 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3417 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3418 process earlier.
3419
1e70f85b
PH
342080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3421 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3422 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3423 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3424 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3425
342681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3427 tables).
3428
4e01f9d6
PH
342982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3430
1ee1cef2
PH
343183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3432 "vacation" handling.
3433
6e2b4ccc
PH
343484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3435 OS variants using glibc.
3436
8e669ac1
PH
343785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3438
495ae4b0 3439
bbe902f0
PH
3440----------------------------------------------------
3441See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3442----------------------------------------------------
3443
3444
3445Exim version 4.44
3446-----------------
3447
3448 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3449 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3450 transport
3451
3452 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3453 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3454 place.
3455
3456 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3457 filter fails to execute.
3458
3459 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3460 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3461 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3462 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3463 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3464
3465 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3466 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3467 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3468 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3469
3470 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3471 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3472 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3473 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3474 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3475
3476 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3477
3478 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3479 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3480 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3481 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3482
3483 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3484 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3485 sender verification.
3486
348710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3488 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3489
349011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3491 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3492
349312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3494 ignore_target_hosts.
3495
349613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3497 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3498 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3499 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3500 "[x.x.x.x]".
3501
350214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3503 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3504 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3505
350615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3507 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3508 wake it up if nothing else does.
3509
351016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3511 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3512 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3513 end up negative.
3514
351517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3516 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3517
ea3a6f44 351818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3519
352019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3521 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3522 empty pattern.
3523
352420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3525 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3526 one IP address.
3527
ea3a6f44
NM
352821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3529 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3530 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3531 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3532 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3533 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3534
ea3a6f44
NM
353522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3536 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3537 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3538
353923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3540 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3541 $sender_host_address.
3542
354324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3544
ea3a6f44
NM
354525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3546 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3547 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3548
354926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3550 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3551
ea3a6f44
NM
355227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3553 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3554
ea3a6f44
NM
355528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3556 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3557 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3558 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3559
356029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3561 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3562 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3563
ea3a6f44
NM
356430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3565 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3566 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3567 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3568
ea3a6f44
NM
356931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3570 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3571 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3572
ea3a6f44
NM
357331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3574 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3575
ea3a6f44
NM
357632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3577 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3578 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3579 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3580 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3581 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3582 is going on).
bbe902f0 3583
ea3a6f44
NM
358433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3585 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3586 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3587 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3588 CAN-2005-0021
3589
ea3a6f44
NM
359034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3591 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3592 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3593 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3594 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3595 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3596 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3597
3598 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3599 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3600 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3601 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3602 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3603 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3604 CAN-2005-0021
3605
ea3a6f44
NM
360635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3607 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3608 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3609 CAN-2005-0022
3610
ea3a6f44
NM
361136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3612 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3613 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3614 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3615 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3616
ea3a6f44
NM
361737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3618 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3619 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3620 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3621 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3622
ea3a6f44
NM
362338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3624 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3625 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3626 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3627 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3628
3629
495ae4b0
PH
3630Exim version 4.43
3631-----------------
3632
3633 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3634 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3635 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3636 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3637 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3638 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3639 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3640
3641 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3642 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3643 the delivery.
3644
3645 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3646
3647 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3648
3649 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3650 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3651 to local_scan().
3652
3653 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3654 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3655 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3656 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3657 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3658
3659 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3660 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3661
3662 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3663
3664 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3665
366610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3667 header_sender only.
3668
366911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3670 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3671
367212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3673 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3674 affecting debugging statements).
3675
367613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3677
367814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3679 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3680 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3681 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3682 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3683 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3684 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3685 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3686 after the received time, and all would be well.
3687
368815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3689 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3690 condition in an expansion string.
3691
369216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3693
369417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3695 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3696 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3697 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3698 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3699 job under whatever limits there are.
3700
370118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3702
370319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3704 space).
3705
370620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3707 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3708 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3709 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3710 return path is set.
3711
371221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3713 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3714 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3715 binary data in such strings.
3716
371722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3718
371923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3720 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3721 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3722 failure, which is pointless.
3723
372424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3725
372625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3727
372826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3729 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3730 Sender: header lines.
3731
373227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3733 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3734 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3735
373628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3737 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3738 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3739 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3740 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3741 happens.
3742
374329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3744 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3745 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3746 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3747 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3748
374930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3750 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3751 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3752 1024.
3753
375431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3755 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3756
375732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3758 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3759
376033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3761
376232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3763
376433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3765
376634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3767 syntax error.
3768
376935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3770
377136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3772
377337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3774 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3775 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3776 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3777
377838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3779 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3780
3781
3782Exim version 4.42
3783-----------------
3784
3785 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3786 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3787 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3788 it was not quoted.
3789 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3790 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3791 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3792 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3793 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3794 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3795
3796 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3797 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3798 verification failure".
3799
3800 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3801 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3802 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3803 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3804
3805 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3806 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3807 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3808 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3809 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3810 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3811 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3812 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3813 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3814 treated as a timeout.
3815
3816 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3817 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3818 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3819 not set for Exim filters).
3820
3821 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3822 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3823 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3824
3825 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3826
3827 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3828 try to make them clearer.
3829
3830 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3831 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3832
3833 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3834
3835 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3836
383710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3838 only the Cygwin environment.
3839
384011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3841 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3842 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3843 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3844 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3845
384612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3847 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3848 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3849 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3850 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3851 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3852 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3853
385413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3855 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3856
385714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3858
3859 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3860 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3861 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3862
3863 To: susanne@some.where
3864
3865 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3866 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3867 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3868 of addresses in From: header lines).
3869
3870 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3871 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3872 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3873
3874 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3875 treated as non-personal.
3876
3877 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3878 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3879
388015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3881
388216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3883
388417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3885 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3886 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3887
388818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3889 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3890
389119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3892 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3893 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3894 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3895 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3896 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3897
389820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3899 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3900 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3901 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3902 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3903 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3904 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3905 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3906
3907 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3908
390921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3910 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3911
391222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3913 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3914 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3915
391623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3917 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3918
391924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3920 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3921 rather than long int.
3922
392325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3924
392526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3926
3927
3928Exim version 4.41
3929-----------------
3930
3931 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3932 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3933 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3934 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3935 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3936 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3937
3938
3939Exim version 4.40
3940-----------------
3941
3942 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3943 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3944
3945 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3946 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3947 socklen_t is defined.
3948
3949 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3950 always exist.
3951
3952 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3953 configured.
3954
3955 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3956 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3957 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3958 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3959 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3960
3961 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3962 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3963 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3964 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3965
3966 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3967 of flapping under certain conditions.
3968
3969 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3970 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3971 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3972
3973 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3974
397510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3976
397711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3978 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3979 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3980 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3981
398212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3983 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3984 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3985 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3986 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3987 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3988 preserved with the message after it was received.
3989
399013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3991 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3992 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3993 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3994 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3995 test suite worked just fine.
3996
399714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3998 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3999 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4000
400115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4002 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4003 string.
4004
400516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4006 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4007 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4008 does not fully solve it.
4009
401017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4011 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4012 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4013 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4014 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4015
401618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4017 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4018 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4019
402019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4021 string, for example:
4022
4023 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4024
4025 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4026 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4027 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4028 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4029 the routers could not see them.
4030
403120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4032 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4033
403421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4035 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4036 output).
4037
403822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4039 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4040 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4041 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4042 that needed quoting.
4043
404423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4045 was not being matched caselessly.
4046
404724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4048 backslashes.
4049
405025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4051 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4052 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4053 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4054 when use_sender is false.
4055
405626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4057
405827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4059
406028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4061
406229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4063 the configuration file.
4064
406530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4066 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4067
406831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4069
407032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4071 bytes in the message body.
4072
407333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4074 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4075 delivery.
4076
407734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4078
407935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4080
408136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4082 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4083 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4084 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4085 another IP address.
4086
4087
4088Exim version 4.34
4089-----------------
4090
4091 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4092 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4093
4094 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4095 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4096 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4097 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4098 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4099
4100 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4101 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4102
4103 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4104 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4105 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4106
4107 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4108 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4109 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4110
4111 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4112 for routers.
4113
4114 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4115 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4116 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4117 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4118 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4119 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4120 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4121
4122
4123Exim version 4.33
4124-----------------
4125
4126 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4127 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4128 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4129 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4130 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4131 default (and expected) setting.
4132
4133 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4134 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4135 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4136 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4137
4138 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4139 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4140
4141 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4142 in domain lists.
4143
4144 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4145 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4146 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4147 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4148 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4149 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4150
4151 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4152 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4153 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4154
4155 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4156 part (NOT match_host).
4157
4158 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4159
4160 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4161 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4162 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4163 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4164 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4165 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4166 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4167 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4168 the same named file.
4169
417010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4171 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4172 when Exim is built.
4173
417411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4175 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4176 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4177 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4178 a host name.
4179
418012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4181 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4182 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4183
418413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4185
418614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4187
418815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4189
419016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4191 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4192
419317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4194 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4195 before starting the TLS session.
4196
419718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4198
419919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4200 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4201
420220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4203 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4204 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4205 colon in the middle).
4206
4207
4208Exim version 4.32
4209-----------------
4210
4211 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4212 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4213 multiple configurations are in use.
4214
4215 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4216 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4217 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4218 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4219 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4220 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4221
4222 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4223 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4224
4225 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4226 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4227 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4228
4229 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4230 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4231 occurs.
4232
4233 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4234 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4235
4236 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4237
4238 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4239 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4240
4241 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4242
4243 -prval:sval
4244
4245 is equivalent to
4246
4247 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4248
4249 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4250 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4251 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4252 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4253 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4254
425510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4256 Exim's behaviour:
4257
4258 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4259 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4260 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4261 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4262 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4263 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4264
4265 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4266 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4267 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4268 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4269 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4270 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4271 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4272 string.
4273
4274 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4275 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4276 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4277 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4278 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4279
428011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4281
428212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4283 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4284 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4285
428613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4287
428814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4289 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4290 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4291 information.
4292
429315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4294 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4295
429616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4297 Three changes have been made:
4298
4299 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4300 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4301 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4302 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4303 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4304
4305 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4306 been restored.
4307
4308 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4309 the modified behaviour.
4310
4311
4312Exim version 4.31
4313-----------------
4314
4315 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4316 Larry Rosenman.
4317
4318 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4319 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4320
4321 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4322 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4323 try to track down a specific problem.
4324
4325 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4326 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4327 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4328
4329 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4330 warning.
4331
4332 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4333 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4334 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4335 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4336 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4337 some earlier ones do not.
4338
4339 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4340
4341 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4342 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4343 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4344 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4345 address literals are enabled, of course).
4346
4347 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4348
434910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4350 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4351 by a command such as
4352
4353 exim -f "" ...
4354
4355 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4356
435711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4358
435912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4360 remained set. It is now erased.
4361
436213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4363 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4364
436514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4366 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4367 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4368 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4369 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4370 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4371 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4372 appropriate error code.
4373
437415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4375 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4376 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4377 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4378 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4379 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4380
438116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4382 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4383 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4384
438517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4386 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4387 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4388 terminate the header.
4389
439018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4391 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4392 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4393
439419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4395 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4396 (4.30/29). In particular:
4397
4398 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4399 imposed.
4400
4401 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4402 to write a maildirsize file.
4403
4404 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4405 the transport, the new value overrides.
4406
4407 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4408 count.
4409
441020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4411 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4412 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4413 space or a tab.
4414
441521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4416 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4417 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4418 the fallback hosts.
4419
442022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4421 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4422 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4423
442423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4425 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4426 using a union.
4427
442824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4429 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4430 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4431
443225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4433
443426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4435
443627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4437
443828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4439 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4440 become corrupted.
4441
444229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4443 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4444 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4445 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4446 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4447 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4448 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4449 too great.
4450
445130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4452 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4453 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4454 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4455 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4456 incorrectly.
4457
445831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4459 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4460 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4461 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4462 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4463 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4464 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4465 cached value only when the same options are set.
4466
446732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4468
446933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4470 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4471 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4472 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4473 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4474
447534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4476 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4477 it is clearly obsolete.
4478
447935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4480 transport.
4481
448236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4483 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4484 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4485 times.
4486
448737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4488 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4489 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4490 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4491 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4492
449338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4494 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4495 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4496 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4497
449839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4499
4500 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4501
4502 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4503 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4504 2^31.
4505
450640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4507 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4508 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4509 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4510 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4511 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4512 $localpart_data.
4513
451441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4515 with the -f command-line option.
4516
451742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4518 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4519 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4520 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4521 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4522 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4523
452443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4525 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4526 line.
4527
452844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4529 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4530 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4531 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4532 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4533 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4534 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4535 buffer is too small.
4536
453745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4538 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4539
454046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4541 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4542 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4543 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4544 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4545 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4546 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4547 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4548 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4549
455047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4551 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4552 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4553
455448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4555 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4556 ACL").
4557
455849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4559 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4560 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4561 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4562 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4563
456450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4565 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4566 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4567 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4568 is set.
4569
457051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4571
457252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4573
457453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4575 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4576
457754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4578 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4579 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4580
458155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4582 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4583 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4584 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4585 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4586
458756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4588 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4589 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4590 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4591 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4592 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4593 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4594
459557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4596 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4597 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4598 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4599 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4600 the test of how many are available.
4601
460258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4603 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4604 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4605 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4606 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4607 new message is started.
4608
460959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4610 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4611
461260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4613 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4614
461561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4616 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4617 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4618 is no long logged.
4619
462062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4621 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4622 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4623 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4624 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4625 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4626 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4627
462863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4629 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4630 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4631 interpreted as octal.
4632
463364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4634 setting.
4635
463665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4637 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4638 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4639 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4640 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4641 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4642
464366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4644 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4645 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4646 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4647
4648 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4649 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4650 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4651 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4652
4653 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4654 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4655 is a bug fix.
4656
4657 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4658 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4659
466067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4661
466268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4663 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4664 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4665 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4666
466769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4668 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4669 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4670 supplied", which is not helpful.
4671
467270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4673 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4674 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4675
467671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4677 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4678 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4679 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4680 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4681 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4682 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4683 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4684
468572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4686 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4687 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4688 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4689 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4690
469173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4692 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4693 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4694 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4695 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4696 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4697
469874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4699 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4700 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4701
470275. Added write_rejectlog option.
4703
470476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4705 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4706 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4707 variables.
4708
470977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4710
471178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4712 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4713 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4714 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4715 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4716 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4717 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4718 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4719
472079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4721 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4722 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4723 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4724 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4725
472680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4727 Haardt.
4728
472981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4730 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4731 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4732 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4733 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4734 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4735 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4736 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4737 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4738
4739
4740Exim version 4.30
4741-----------------
4742
4743 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4744 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4745 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4746
4747 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4748 fixed.
4749
4750 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4751 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4752 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4753
4754 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4755 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4756 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4757 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4758 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4759 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4760
4761 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4762 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4763 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4764 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4765 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4766 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4767 the Exim test suite.
4768
4769 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4770 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4771 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4772 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4773
4774 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4775 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4776 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4777 specify it in this variable.
4778
4779 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4780 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4781 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4782 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4783
4784 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4785 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4786 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4787 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4788
4789 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4790 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4791 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4792 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4793 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4794
4795 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4796
479710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4798 they are logged.
4799
480011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4801 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4802 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4803 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4804 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4805
480612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4807 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4808
480913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4810 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4811 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4812 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4813 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4814
481514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4816 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4817
481815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4819 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4820 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4821
482216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4823 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4824
482517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4826 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4827
482818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4829 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4830 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4831
483219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4833 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4834
483520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4836 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4837 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4838 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4839
484021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4841
484222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4843 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4844 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4845 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4846
484723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4848
484924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4850 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4851
485225. Added .include_if_exists.
4853
485426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4855 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4856 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4857 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4858 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4859 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4860
486127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4862
486328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4864 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4865 this.
4866
486729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4868
486930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4870 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4871
4872 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4873 550 Sender verify failed
4874
4875 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4876 the final line of the response.
4877
487831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4879 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4880 all other user lookups.
4881
488232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4883 delivery time.
4884
488533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4886 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4887 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4888 result into an int without checking.
4889
489034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4891 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4892 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4893
489435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4895 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4896 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4897 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4898
489936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4900 correctly.
4901
490237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4903 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4904
490538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4906 to the empty sender.
4907
490839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4909 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4910 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4911 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4912 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4913 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4914 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4915 panic log.
4916
491740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4918 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4919 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4920 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4921 used.
4922
492341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4924 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4925
492642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4927 timestamps.
4928
492943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4930 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4931
493244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4933
493445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4935 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4936 logs.
4937
493846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4939 as soon as it is encountered.
4940
494147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4942
494348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4944 rewritten to "<>".
4945
494649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4947 recognizes a tab character.
4948
494950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4950 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4951 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4952 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4953
495451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4955
495652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4957 crash.
4958
495953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4960
496154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4962
496355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4964 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4965 2822.
4966
496756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4968 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4969 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4970 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4971 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4972
497357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4974 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4975
497658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4977 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4978 list (.included file names were always shown).
4979
498059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4981 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4982 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4983 root at that time.
4984
498560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4986 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4987
498861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4989
499062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4991
499263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4993
499464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4995 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4996 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4997 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4998 failures to open the logs.
4999
500065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5001 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5002 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5003 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5004 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5005 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5006 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5007
5008
5009Exim version 4.24
5010-----------------
5011
5012 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5013 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5014 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5015 change 4.23/1.
5016
5017 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5018 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5019 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5020
5021 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5022 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5023 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5024
5025 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5026 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5027 causing some misleading effects.
5028
5029 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5030 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5031 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5032
5033 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5034 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5035 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5036 queue-runner function directly.
5037
5038
5039Exim version 4.23
5040-----------------
5041
5042 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5043 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5044
5045 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5046 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5047 was always written to the default place.
5048
5049 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5050 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5051 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5052
5053 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5054
5055 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5056
5057 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5058 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5059 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5060
5061 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5062 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5063 must start.
5064
5065 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5066 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5067 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5068
5069 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5070 command line option is disabled.
5071
5072 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5073 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5074
5075 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5076
5077 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5078
5079 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5080 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5081
508210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5083
508411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5085 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5086 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5087 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5088 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5089 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5090
509112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5092 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5093 timeout.
5094
509513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5096 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5097
509814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5099 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5100
510115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5102 received was valid base64.
5103
510416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5105 name of the variable that was being set.
5106
510717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5108
510918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5110 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5111 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5112 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5113 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5114 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5115
511619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5117
511820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5119 nor realm was specified.
5120
512121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5122 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5123 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5124 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5125
512622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5127 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5128 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5129
513023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5131 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5132 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5133
513424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5135 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5136 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5137 some systems use these upper case variants.
5138
513925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5140 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5141 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5142 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5143
514426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5145
514627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5147 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5148
514928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5150 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5151 expansion variable.
5152
515329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5154
515530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5156 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5157 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5158 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5159
516031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5161 using it.
5162
516332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5164 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5165 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5166
516733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5168 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5169
517034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5171 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5172 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5173 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5174
517535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5176 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5177 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5178
517936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5180
518137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5182 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5183 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5184 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5185 aborted.
5186
518738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5188 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5189 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5190
519139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5192
519340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5194 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5195
519641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5197 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5198
519942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5200 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5201 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5202 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5203 when emails are that large.
5204
5205
5206
5207Exim version 4.22
5208-----------------
5209
5210 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5211 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5212
5213 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5214 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5215 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5216
5217 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5218 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5219 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5220
5221 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5222 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5223 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5224 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5225 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5226
5227 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5228 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5229 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5230 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5231 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5232 ever.
5233
5234 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5235 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5236 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5237 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5238 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5239 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5240 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5241 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5242 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5243 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5244 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5245 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5246 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5247 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5248
5249 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5250 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5251 parameterised it.
5252
5253 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5254 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5255 error should be diagnosed.
5256
5257 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5258 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5259 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5260 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5261 appeared instead of "NULL".
5262
526310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5264 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5265 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5266 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5267 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5268 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5269 proceeds).
5270
5271 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5272 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5273 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5274
5275
5276Exim version 4.21
5277-----------------
5278
5279 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5280 or receiver verification errors.
5281
5282 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5283 name.
5284
5285 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5286 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5287 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5288 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5289
5290 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5291 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5292 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5293 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5294 shouldn't happen again.
5295
5296 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5297 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5298 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5299
5300 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5301 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5302
5303 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5304
5305 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5306 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5307
5308 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5309 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5310 RFC.
5311
531210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5313 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5314 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5315
531611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5317 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5318 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5319 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5320
532112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5322 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5323 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5324 to define what should happen).
5325
532613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5327 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5328 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5329
533014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5331
533215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5333
533416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5335 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5336
533717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5338 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5339 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5340 structure in all cases.
5341
5342 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5343 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5344 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5345 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5346
534718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5348 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5349 domain name.
5350
535119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5352 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5353
535420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5355 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5356
535721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5358 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5359 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5360
536122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5362 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5363 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5364
536523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5366 the book and for uniformity.
5367
536824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5369
537025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5371 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5372 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5373 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5374 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5375 non-existent command as the problem.
5376
537726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5378 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5379 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5380
538127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5382
538328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5384 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5385 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5386
538729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5388 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5389 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5390 timestamps using strftime().
5391
539230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5393 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5394
539532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5396 transport-time rewrites.
5397
539833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5399 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5400 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5401 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5402
540334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5404 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5405
540635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5407 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5408 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5409 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5410 comma and a space.
5411
541236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5413 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5414 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5415 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5416 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5417 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5418 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5419
542037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5421 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5422 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5423 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5424 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5425
542638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5427 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5428 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5429 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5430 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5431 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5432 remaining text gets split now.
5433
543439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5435 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5436 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5437 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5438
543940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5440 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5441 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5442 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5443 $return_path.
5444
544541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5446 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5447 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5448 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5449 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5450 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5451 passed through if needed.
5452
545342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5454 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5455 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5456 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5457 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5458 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5459
546043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5461 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5462 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5463 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5464 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5465
546644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5467 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5468 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5469 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5470 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5471
547245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5473 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5474 noticed.
5475
547646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5477 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5478 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5479 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5480 mayhem of various kinds.
5481
548247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5483 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5484 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5485 the right test for positive values.
5486
548748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5488 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5489 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5490 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5491 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5492 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5493 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5494 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5495 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5496 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5497 envelope.
5498
549949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5500 module.
5501
550250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5503 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5504 forbidding it.
5505
550651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5507 the existing equality matching.
5508
550952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5510 dealing with inode numbers.
5511
551253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5513 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5514 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5515
551654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5517 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5518 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5519 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5520 local_scan().
5521
552255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5523 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5524 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5525 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5526 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5527 relay addresses has also been removed.
5528
552956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5530
553157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5532 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5533 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5534
553558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5536 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5537 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5538 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5539 processing applies to CR:
5540
5541 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5542 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5543
5544 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5545 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5546 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5547 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5548
554959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5550 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5551 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5552
555360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5554 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5555 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5556 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5557 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5558 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5559 arisen.
5560
556161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5562 program routers.
5563
556462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5565 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5566 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5567 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5568 adds:
5569
5570 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5571
5572 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5573
5574 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5575
557663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5577 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5578 not considered personal.
5579
558064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5581
558265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5583
558466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5585
558667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5587 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5588 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5589 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5590 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5591 header lines, and spool format errors.
5592
559368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5594 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5595 for more flexibility.
5596
559769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5598 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5599 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5600
560170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5602 Sabourenkov.
5603
560471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5605 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5606 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5607 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5608 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5609 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5610 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5611 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5612 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5613
561472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5615 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5616 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5617 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5618 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5619 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5620 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5621
562273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5623 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5624 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5625
562674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5627 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5628 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5629 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5630 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5631 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5632 instead of killing the process with assert().
5633
563475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5635 than Unicode encoding.
5636
563776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5638 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5639 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5640 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5641
564277. Added process_log_path.
5643
564478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5645 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5646
564779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5648 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5649
565080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5651 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5652 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5653
565481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5655 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5656 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5657 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5658 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5659 were applied:
5660
5661 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5662 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5663 as invalid.
5664
566582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5666 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5667 they will be used during message reception.
5668
5669
5670Exim version 4.20
5671-----------------
5672
5673The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5674
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