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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Exim version 4.93
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10
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11JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
12 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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fc243e94 14JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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15 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
16 its own TCP segment.
17
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18JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
19 each verb.
20
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21JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
22
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23JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
24
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25JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
26 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
27
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28JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
29 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
30 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
31 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
32 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
33 suitably configured).
34
c05bdbd6 35JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
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36 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
37
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38JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
39 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
40 crash could result.
41
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42JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
43 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
44
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45JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
46 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
47 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
48 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
49 to this system.
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51JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
52 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
53 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
54
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55JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
56 output.
57
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58JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
59 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
60
3c55eef2 61JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 62 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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63 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
64 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
65 input).
66
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67HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
68 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
69 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
70 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
71 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
72
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73HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
74 shared (NFS) environment.
75
76HS/02 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
77 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
78 affected.
79
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80JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
81 on some platforms for bit 31.
82
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83JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
84 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
85 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
86 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
87 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
88 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
89 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
90 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
91
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95
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96JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
97 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
98
99JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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100 non-signal-safe functions being used.
101
102JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
103 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
104 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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106JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
107 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
108 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
109
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110JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
111 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
112 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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113 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
114 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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115 messed with.
116
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117PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
118 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
119
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120JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
121 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
122 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
123 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
124 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
125 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
126 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
127
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128JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
129 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
130
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131JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
132 legitimate.
133
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134JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
135 Previously this would segfault.
136
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137JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
138 segfault.
139
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140JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
141 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
142 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
143 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
144 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
145 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
146
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147JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
148
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149JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
150 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
151 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
152 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
153
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154JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
155
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156JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
157 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
158 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
159 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
160
5054c4fd 161JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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163JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
5054c4fd 164
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165JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
166 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
167 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
168
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169JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
170 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
171 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
172
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173PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
174
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175JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
176 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
177 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
178 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
179
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180PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
181 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
182 promised '?' replacement.
183
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184PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
185
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186JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
187 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
188 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
189 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
190 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
191
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192JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
193 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
194 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
195
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196JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
197 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
198 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
199
7ea1237c 200JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 201 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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202 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
203
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204JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
205 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
206 hope that is portable enough.
207
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208JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
209 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
210 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
211 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
212
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213JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
214 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
215 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
216
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217JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
218 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
219 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
220 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
221
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222JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
223 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
224
75c121f0 225JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 226 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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227 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
228 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
229
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230JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
231 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
232 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
233
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234JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
235 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
236 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
237 the previous G, M, k.
238
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239JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
240 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
241 it was unset.
242
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243JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
244 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
245 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
246 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
247
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248JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
249 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
250
de6f74f2 251JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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252 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
253 off past the nul-terimation.
254
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255JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
256 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
257 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
258 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
259 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
260
aa6e77af 261JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
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263JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
264 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
265 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
266 actually does fail.
267
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268AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
269 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
270
271JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
272 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
273 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
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275JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
276 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
277 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
278
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279JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
280 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
281
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283Exim version 4.91
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c39c8870 286GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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287 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
288 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
289 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
290 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
291 be defined in redis_servers.
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293GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
294 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
295
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296JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
297 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
298 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
299 extant use locations.
300
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301JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
302 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
303
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304JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
305 Previously only the last row was returned.
306
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307JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
308 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
309 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
310 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
311 input.
312
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313JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
314 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
315 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
316 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
317 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
318 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
319 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
320 Main pool for expansions.
321 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
322 active in the testsuite.
323 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
324
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325JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
326 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
327 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
328 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
329 round-robin DNS.
330
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331JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
332 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
333 failure response.
334
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335JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
336 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
337 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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338
339JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
340 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
341 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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343JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
344 rows affected is given instead).
345
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346JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
347 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
348
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349JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
350 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
351 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
352 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
353 for all multi-message initiating connections.
354
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355JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
356 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
357 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
358
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359JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
360 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
361 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
362 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
363 separate.
364
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365JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
366 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
367 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
368 fake-reject.
369
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370HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
371
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372JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
373 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
374
aab9a843 375PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 376 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 377 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 378
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379JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
380 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
381 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
382 and send a quit.
383
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384JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
385 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
386
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387JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
388 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
389 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
390
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391JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
392 for the build is renamed.
393
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394JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
395 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
396 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
397
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398JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
399 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
400 result replacing the original.
401
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402JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
403 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
404 and the resources needed to be freed.
405
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406JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
407
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408JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
409 was not propagated.
410
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411JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
412 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
413 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
414 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
415
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416JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
417 length value. Previously this would segfault.
418
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419HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
420 newer versions of the scanner.
421
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422JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
423 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
424 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
425 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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426 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
427 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
428 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 429
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430JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
431 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
432 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
433 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
434 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
435 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
436 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
437 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
438 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
439 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
440
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441JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
442 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
443
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444JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
445
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446HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
447 allows proper process termination in container environments.
448
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449JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
450 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
451
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452JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
453 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
454 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
455
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456JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
457 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
458 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 459 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 460
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461JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
462 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
463 would be spooled.
464
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465PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
466 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
467
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468HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
469 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
470 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
471 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
472 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 473
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474JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
475 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
476 lines.
477
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478JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
479 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
480
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481PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
482 suffix list.
483
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484JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
485 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
486 "bare" representation.
487
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488JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
489 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
490 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
491 corrupted the output.
492
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494Exim version 4.90
495-----------------
496
497JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
498 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
499 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
500 pairs of long lines into single ones.
501
856d1e16
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502PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
503 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
504
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505JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
506 This permits better logging.
507
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508JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
509 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
510 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
511 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
512 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 513 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 514
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515JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
516 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
517 "exiwhat" output.
518
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519PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
520 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
521 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
522
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523JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
524 than 255 are no longer allowed.
525
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526JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
527 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
528 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
529 client, there is no benefit for these.
530 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
531 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
532 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
533 is used (3.2.4 +).
534
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535PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
536 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
537
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538JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
539 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
540 erroneously found still-pending ones.
541
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542JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
543 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
544
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545JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
546 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
547 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
548 signature and again for transmission.
549
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550JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
551 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 552 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 553
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554JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
555 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
556 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
557 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
558 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
559 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
560 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
561
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562JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
563 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
564 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 565 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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567PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
568 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
569 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
570 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
571 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
572 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
573 processing options.
574
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575JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
576 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
577 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
578 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
579 connections.
925ac8e4 580
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581PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
582 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
583 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
584 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
585 versions.
586
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587JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
588 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
589 inaccessible.
590
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591JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
592 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
593 banner-time rejection.
594
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595JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
596 callout/hold.
597
8e041ae0
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598PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
599 is the name of a transport.
833c70bc
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600 Fixes bug 2140.
601
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602HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
603
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604JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
605 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
606
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607JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
608 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
609 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
610 during compilation.
611
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612JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
613 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
614 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 615 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 616
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617JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
618 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
619 initial verify call returned a defer.
620
ad1a76fe 621JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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622 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
623
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624JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
625 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
626
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627JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
628 if present. Previously it was ignored.
629
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630JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
631 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
632
7eb0e5d2
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633JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
634 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
635 extensible.
636
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637PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
638 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
639
dc4de9cc
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640PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
641 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
642 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
643
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644JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
645 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
646 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
647 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
648
0768462d 649HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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650 and confused the parent.
651
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652JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
653 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
654
9e0ed81f
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655JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
656 for log purposes.
657
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658JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
659 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
660 out-of-order delivery.
661
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662JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
663 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
664 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
665 error for the HELO.
666
e99a3a6c
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667JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
668 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
669 desynchronisation.
670
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671JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
672 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
673 one run was done. Bug 2189.
674
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675JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
676 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
677 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
678 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
679 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
680 message is still "Temporary local problem".
681
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682JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
683 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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684 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
685
686HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
687 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
688 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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690JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
691 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
692 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
693 though a different problem.
694
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9427e879 699JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 700 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 701
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702JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
703
4c57a40e
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704PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
705 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
706
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707JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
708 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
709
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710JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
711 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
712 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
713 before acknowledging the chunk.
714
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715PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
716 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
717 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
718
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719JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
720 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
721 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
722 should.
723
724JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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725 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
726 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 727
bd8fbe36 728JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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729 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
730
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731JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
732 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
733 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
734 body hash calculated value.
735
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736JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
737 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
738 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
739
44e6651b
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740JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
741
742JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
743 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
744
745JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
746 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
747 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
748
749JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
750 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
751 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
752 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
753 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
754 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
755
756JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
757 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
758 past that check, despite the cost.
759
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760JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
761 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
762 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
763
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764PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
765 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
766 TLS library to consume.
767
da88acae
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768PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
769
f6ef9370
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770PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
771
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772JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
773 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
774 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
775 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
776 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
777 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
778 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
779
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780PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
781
782PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
783
784PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
785 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
786 should be warning-free.
787
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788JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
789
790HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
791 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
792
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793HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
794 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
795 general solution here.
796
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797PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
798 already-broken messages in the queue.
799
4bb432cb
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800JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
801
3b1a84c8
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802JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
803
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808JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
809 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 810
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811JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
812 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
813 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
814
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815JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
816 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
817 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
818 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
819 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
820 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
821 if one fails this test.
822 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
823 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
824
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825JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
826 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
827
23bb6982 828JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 829 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 830
0bd1b1ed 831JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 832 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 833
20b9a2dc
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834JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
835 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
836
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837JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
838 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
839
1a6230a3
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840JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
841
cfab9d68
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842JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
843 certificate).
844
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845JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
846 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
847 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
848 connection after a verify cache hit.
849 Do not update it with the verify result either.
850
851JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
852 when routing results in more than one destination address.
853
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854JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
855 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
856 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
857 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
858 when the cutthrough connection is made).
859
0d9fa8c0
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860JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
861 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
862
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863JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
864 Previously they were not counted.
865
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866JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
867 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
868 that needed the lookup.
869
4c04137d 870JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
27b9e5f4
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871 distinguished as "(=".
872
1435d4b2
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873JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
874 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
875
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876JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
877
878JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
879 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 880
4c04137d 881JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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882 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
883
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884JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
885 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
886 compatible.
887
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888JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
889 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
890 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
891 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
892
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893JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
894
f59aaaaa 895JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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896 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
897 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 898
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899JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
900 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
901 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
902 be lost.
903
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904JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
905 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
906 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
907 itself :(
908
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909JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
910 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
911 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
912
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913JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
914 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
915 options.
916
ae5afa61
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917JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
918
317e40ac
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919PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
920 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
921
8b0fb68e
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922PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
923 are not in the system include path.
924
ad7fc6eb 925JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 926 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
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927 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
928 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 929
ee5b1e28
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930JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
931 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
932 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
933
5ddc9771
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934JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
935
8d73599f
JH
936HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
937 an incoming connection.
938
446415f5
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939HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
940 to rspamd.
941
8e53a4fc
HSHR
942HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
943 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 944
87cb4a16 945JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 946 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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948
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952JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
953 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
954 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
955 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 956
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957TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
958 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
959
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960TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
961 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
962 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
963 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
964 outgoing I= field.
965
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966JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
967 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
968 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
969 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
970 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
971 check on the next write.
972
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973HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
974 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
975 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
976 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
977 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
978
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979JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
980 mime_regex ACL conditions.
981
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982JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
983 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
984 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
985
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986JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
987 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
988 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
989 an authenticate fail is not an error.
990
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991HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
992 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
993
4c04137d 994JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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995 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
996
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997JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
998 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
999 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1000 distinct.
1001
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1002JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1003
1004JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1005
ec0eb1a3
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1006JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1007
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1008JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1009 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1010
98b98887 1011JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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1012 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1013
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1014JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1015
858e91c2
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1016JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1017 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1018
1019JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1020
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1021JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1022 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1023
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1024JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1025
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1026JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1027 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1028 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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1029 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1030 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1031 they will retry in-clear.
1032 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1033 at installation time.
1034
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1035HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1036 with the $config_file variable.
1037
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1038JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1039 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1040 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1041 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1042 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1043
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1044GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1045 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1046 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1047 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1048 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1049
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1050JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1051
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1052JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1053 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1054 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1055 list order is no longer honoured.
1056
4c04137d 1057JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1058 for DKIM processing.
1059
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1060JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1061 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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1063JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1064 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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1065 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1066 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1067
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1068JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1069 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1070
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1071JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1072 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1073
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1074JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1075 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1076
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1077JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1078
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1079JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1080 cached by the daemon.
1081
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1082JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1083 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1084
379ba7d0
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1085JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1086 keys are given for lookup.
1087
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1088JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1089 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1090 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1091 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1092
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1093JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1094 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1095 server-side so match that on older versions.
1096
07c73177 1097JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1098 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1099 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1100
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1101JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1102 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1103
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1104JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1105 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1106 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1107 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1108 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1109 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1110 initial truncated version.
1111
ab9152ff 1112JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1113
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1114JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1115
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1116JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1117 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1118
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1119JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1120
bc3c7bb7 1121HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1122
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1123JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1124 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1125 induced overflows.
1126
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1127JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1128 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1129 stage.
1130
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1131JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1132 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1133
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1134JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1135 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1136 former class.
1137
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1138JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1139 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1140 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1141
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1142JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1143 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1144 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1145 extraction. Accept either.
1146
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1151JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1152 expanded.
1153
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1154JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1155
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1156JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1157 it.
1158
01a4a5c5 1159JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1160 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1161 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1162 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1163
cb1d7830 1164JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1165 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1166 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1167
610ff438 1168JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1169 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1170 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1171 TLS connections
610ff438 1172
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1173JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1174 sites use this now.
1175
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1176JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1177 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1178 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1179 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1180 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1181
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1182JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1183 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1184 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1185
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1186JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1187
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1188JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1189 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1190
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1191JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1192 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1193
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1194JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1195 /defer_ok option.
1196
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1197JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1198 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1199
fd4d8871 1200JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1201 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1202 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1203
1204JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1205 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1206 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1207
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1208JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1209 timeout value per server.
1210
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1211JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1212 now have the list separator specified.
1213
8a512ed5 1214JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1215 option values.
8a512ed5 1216
82c0c8ea 1217JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1218 under OpenSSL.
1219
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1220JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1221
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1222JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1223 rather than the verbs used.
1224
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1225JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1226 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1227
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1228JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1229
cfab9d68 1230HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1231 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1232
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1233JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1234 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1235
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1236HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1237 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1238
4c04137d 1239JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1240
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1241JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1242
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1243JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1244 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1245 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1246 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1247
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1248JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1249
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1250JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1251 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1252
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1253JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1254 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1255
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1256JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1257
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1258JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1259
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1260JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1261
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1262JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1263 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1264
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1265JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1266 added for tls authenticator.
1267
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1268HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1269
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1274TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1275 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1276 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1277 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1278 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1279 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1280 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1281
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1282TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1283 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1284 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1285 function when detected.
1286
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1287JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1288 cause callback expansion.
1289
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1290TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1291 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1292 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1293 instead of bool when processing it.
1294
0f06b4f2 1295JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1296 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1297
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1298JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1299
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1300JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1301
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1302TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1303
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1304TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1305 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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1307JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1308 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1309 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1310 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1311 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1312 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1313
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1314JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1315 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1316 exceeded it.
1317
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1318JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1319 version 3.3.6 or later.
1320
4c04137d 1321JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1322 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1323 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1324 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1325 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1326 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1327 option is defined.
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1329TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1330 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1331
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1332JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1333 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1334 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1335 matches.
1336
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1337JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1338 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1339 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1340
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1341JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1342 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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1343
1344JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1345 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1346 syntax errors.
1347
3394b36a 1348JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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1349
1350JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1351 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1352
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1353TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1354 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1355 tarball.
1356
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1357JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1358
4c04137d 1359JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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1360 Bug 1561.
1361
1362JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1363 output list separator was used.
1364
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1368TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1369 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1370 return.
1f0ebb98 1371
a612424f 1372JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1373 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1375JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1376
1377TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1378 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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1384TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1385
1386 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1387 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1388 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1389 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1390 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1391 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1392
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1393TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1394 utilities have not been installed.
1395
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JH
1396JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1397 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1398
5428a946
TL
1399TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1400 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1401
a3c86431
TL
1402TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1403 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
TL
1404 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1405 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1406
aa26e137
JH
1407JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1408
5a1b8443
WB
1409TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1410 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1411
72c9e342
PP
1412PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1413 not dns_use_dnssec.
1414
76f44207
WB
1415JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1416
770747fd
MFM
1417TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1418 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1419 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1420
8ddef691 1421TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1422 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1423 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1424 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1425 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1426 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1427
b9c2e32f
AR
1428JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1429
e45a1c37
JH
1430JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1431 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1432
67d81c10
JH
1433JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1434 failed delivery.
1435
b1f8e4f8
JH
1436JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1437
511a6c14 1438JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1439
1440JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1441 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1442
51c7471d
JH
1443JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1444 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1445
3695be34
TL
1446TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1447
1e06383a
TL
1448JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1449
76146973
JH
1450JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1451 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1452
1453 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1454 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1455 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1456
8c8b8274
TL
1457TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1458 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1459 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1460 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1461
35aba663
JH
1462JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1463
8c51eead 1464JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1465 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1466 lookup).
8c51eead 1467
deae092e
HS
1468TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1469 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1470 Schlichting.
35aba663 1471
fd3b6a4a 1472JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1473 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1474
8d91c6dc
LT
1475TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1476 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1477
2b4a568d
JH
1478JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1479
d2af03f4
HS
1480TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1481 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1482 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1483
9d1c15ef
JH
1484JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1485 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1486
44662487
JH
1487JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1488 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1489 hosts_request_ocsp.
1490
ed3bba5f 1491JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1492 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1493 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1494
8ccd00b1
JH
1495JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1496
8ded8589
TL
1497TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1498 Christian Aistleitner.
1499
f2de3a33
JH
1500JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1501
6eb02f88
TL
1502TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1503 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1504
00bff6f6
JH
1505JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1506 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1507
071c51f7
JH
1508JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1509 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1510
a6d4c44e
TF
1511TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1512 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1513
3ae173e7
ACK
1514TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1515 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1516
c13d09b8
TL
1517TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1518 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1519 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1520
0df4ab80
JH
1521JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1522
66be95e0
PP
1523PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1524 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1525 Jasper Wallace.
1526
1bd0d12b
JH
1527JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1528
0de7239e
TL
1529TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1530 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1531 CVE-2014-2972
1532
fd3b6a4a 1533
2c422e6f 1534Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1535-----------------
1536
1537PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1538
12f69989
PP
1539PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1540 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1541
54c90be1
PP
1542PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1543 by GnuTLS.
1544
1f4a55da
PP
1545PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1546 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1547 routines.
1548
13363eba 1549PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1550
66645890 1551PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1552 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1553 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1554 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1555 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1556
a3fb9793 1557PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1558 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1559 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1560 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1561 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1562 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1563
d27f98fe 1564TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1565
6822b909
TL
1566TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1567
e7568d51
TL
1568TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1569 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1570
ae0e32ee 1571TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1572 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1573 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1574
1575TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1576
e2658fff
TL
1577TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1578
83712b39
TL
1579TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1580 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1581
976b7e9f
JH
1582JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1583
be4a1376
JH
1584JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1585
ec4b68e5
PP
1586PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1587
d7148a07
NM
1588NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1589 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1590
585121e2 1591JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1592
2519e60d
TL
1593PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1594 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1595 function.
a5f239e4 1596
13d08c90
PP
1597PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1598 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1599
bef3ea7f
JH
1600JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1601 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1602 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1603
846726c5
JH
1604JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1605
3a796370
JH
1606JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1607
ea722490 1608JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1609 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1610
b1b05573
JH
1611JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1612 Bugzilla 884.
1613
362145b5
JH
1614JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1615 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1616
3c0a92dc
JH
1617JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1618 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1619
6d7c6175
PP
1620PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1621 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1622 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1623
6f123593
JH
1624JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1625 authenticators.
1626
c8e2fc1e
JH
1627JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1628 for control.
1629
005ac57f
PP
1630PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1631
3f1df0e3
PP
1632PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1633 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1634 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1635 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1636
67bd1ab3
TF
1637TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1638
1639 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1640 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1641 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1642 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1643 the retry rules.
1644
1645 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1646 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1647 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1648
1649 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1650 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1651 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1652 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1653
1ddeb334
TF
1654 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1655 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1656 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1657 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1658 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1659 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1660 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1661
1662 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1663 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1664
326cdc37
TF
1665TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1666
1667 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1668
1669 Resent-From: f
1670
1671 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1672 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1673 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1674 username as equal to the username.
1675
1676 This change corrects that bug.
1677
f62514b3
GF
1678GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1679 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1680 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1681
eb505532
TF
1682TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1683
14c7b357
PP
1684PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1685 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1686 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1687 NULL dereference and crash.
1688
94eaf700
PP
1689JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1690
6f5a440a
PP
1691PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1692 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1693 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1694
514ee161
SC
1695SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1696
fd98a5c6
JH
1697JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1698 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1699 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1700 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1701 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1702 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1703 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1704 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1705 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1706 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1707 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1708
035c7f1e
PP
1709PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1710 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1711
ff284120
PP
1712PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1713 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1714 Bugzilla 880.
1715
26e72755
PP
1716PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1717 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1718 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1719 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1720 an empty string is now equivalent.
1721
0fbd9bff
PP
1722PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1723 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1724 not performing validation itself.
1725
700d22f3
PP
1726PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1727 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1728
fcc8e047
JH
1729JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1730 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1731
4c04137d 1732TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1733
8c020188
PP
1734PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1735 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1736 other false fix of the same issue.
1737 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1738 Bugzilla 1363.
1739
d13cdd30
PP
1740PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1741 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1742
e2fbf4a2
PP
1743PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1744 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1745 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1746
f4c1088b
PP
1747PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1748 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1749 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1750
c5c2182f
PP
1751TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1752
73431ca9
JH
1753JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1754
2d07a215
TL
1755TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1756 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1757
a30a8861
TL
1758TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1759 Alexander Miroch.
1760
33382dd9
TL
1761TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1762 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1763 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1764 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1765 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1766
046172e6
TL
1767TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1768 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1769
581d7bee 1770TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1771 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1772 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1773
1774TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1775 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1776 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1777 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1778
237b2cf2
TL
1779TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1780
9fc5a352
TL
1781TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1782 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1783 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1784
b10e4ec2
TL
1785TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1786
e2cebd74
TL
1787TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1788 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1789 interaction.
1790
1791TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1792 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1793
2519e60d
TL
1794TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1795 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1796
e78e6ecf 1797
4263f395
PP
1798Exim version 4.80.1
1799-------------------
1800
1801PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1802 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1803 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1804
ea722490 1805
b1770b6e 1806Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1807-----------------
1808
1809PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1810 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1811 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1812
23c7e742
NM
1813NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1814
b322aac8
NM
1815NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1816 improved.
1817
4a891427
NM
1818NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1819
c1e794ba 1820PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1821
97753960
PP
1822PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1823
1824PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1825 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1826
df6303fa
PP
1827PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1828 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1829
7e6a8985
PP
1830PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1831 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1832
f1e05cc7 1833PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1834 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1835 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1836
4c287009
PP
1837PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1838
b98bb9ac
PP
1839PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1840 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1841
4a6a987a
PP
1842PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1843
c45dd180 1844PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1845
7db8d074
PP
1846PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1847 non-compliant senders.
1848 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1849
eae0036b 1850NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1851 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1852 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1853
dec5017e
PP
1854PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1855 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1856 in spool file corruption.
1857
c80c5570
PP
1858PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1859 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1860 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1861 "Got SSL error 2".
1862
076b11e2
PP
1863TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1864 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1865 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1866
5407bfff
JH
1867JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1868 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1869
9e45c72b
PP
1870JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1871
e74376d8
PP
1872PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1873 diagnostics.
1874 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1875
4c04137d 1876PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1877 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1878 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1879
7be682ca
PP
1880PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1881 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1882 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1883 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1884
ef840681
PP
1885PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1886 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1887
5bfb4cdf
PP
1888PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1889 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1890 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1891 resolver implementation change.
1892
c6e95d22
PP
1893PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1894 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1895
9cbad13b
PP
1896PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1897
9ee44efb
PP
1898PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1899
6a6084f8
PP
1900PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1901 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1902
12dd53c7
PP
1903PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1904 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1905
9e45c72b 1906JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1907 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1908
17c76198
PP
1909PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1910 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1911 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1912 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1913 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1914
53947857 1915PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1916
eae0036b 1917PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1918 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1919 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1920
9e45c72b 1921JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1922
7390e768
PP
1923PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1924 read-only, out of scope).
1925 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1926
08488c86
PP
1927PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1928 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1929 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1930 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1931
6475bd82
PP
1932PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1933
81f91683
PP
1934PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1935 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1936 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1937 real issues in debug logging.
1938
5779e6aa
PP
1939PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1940 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1941
3375e053
PP
1942PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1943 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1944 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1945
1946PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1947 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1948 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1949 problems.
3375e053 1950
9d26b8c0
PP
1951PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1952 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1953
57eb9e91 1954PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1955 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1956 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1957 needs to override this, it can.
1958
16880d1a
PP
1959PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1960 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1961 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1962
a799883d
PP
1963PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1964 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1965 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1966 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1967
3ecab157 1968PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1969
0599f9cf 1970
867fcbf5
PP
1971Exim version 4.77
1972-----------------
1973
1974PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1975 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1976
f1a29782
TF
1977TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1978
ab42bd23
TK
1979TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1980 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1981
0ca0cf52
TF
1982TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1983 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1984
921b12ca
TF
1985TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1986 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1987 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1988
1989 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1990 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1991 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1992 not safe for signals.
1993
1994 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1995 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1996 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1997 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1998 exiwhat.
1999
c99ce5c9
TF
2000TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2001
2002 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2003 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2004 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2005 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2006 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2007
2008 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2009 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2010 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2011 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2012 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2013 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2014
2015 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2016 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2017 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2018 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2019
2020 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2021 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2022 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2023 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2024
2025 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2026 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2027 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2028 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2029 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2030 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2031 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2032 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2033 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2034
2035 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2036 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2037 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2038 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2039
2040 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2041 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2042 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2043 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2044 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2045 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2046 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2047 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2048 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2049 details in the main documentation.
2050
3634fc25
TF
2051TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2052
792e8a19
TF
2053TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2054
5901f0ab
TF
2055TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2056 repository when doing development or release builds.
2057
7f2a2a43
PP
2058PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2059 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2060
061b7ebd
PP
2061PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2062 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2063 Bugzilla 97.
2064
e12f8c32
PP
2065PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2066
9e949f00 2067PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2068 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2069
2070PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2071 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2072
555ae6af 2073PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2074 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2075
2076PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2077 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2078
6f7fe114
PP
2079PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2080 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2081
c566dd90
PP
2082PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2083 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2084 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2085 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2086
d6cc7c78 2087PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2088 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2089 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2090
0d0e4455
PP
2091PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2092
3399bb60 2093PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2094
2095PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2096 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2097
0ca0cf52 2098
10906672
PP
2099Exim version 4.76
2100-----------------
2101
2102PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2103
754a0503
PP
2104PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2105 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2106
c0c7b2da
PP
2107PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2108
e97d1f08
PP
2109PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2110
084c1d8c
PP
2111PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2112 Bugzilla 1098.
2113
4e7ee012
PP
2114PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2115 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2116
c8d52a00
PP
2117TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2118 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2119
54e7ce4a
PP
2120PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2121 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2122
5ee6f336
PP
2123PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2124 Bugzilla 1104.
2125
c8d52a00 2126TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2127 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2128
2129TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2130 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2131 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2132 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2133
2134PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2135 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2136
10906672 2137
aa097c4c
NM
2138Exim version 4.75
2139-----------------
2140
4c04137d 2141NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2142 Bugzilla 1073
2143
7f3d9eff
TF
2144TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2145 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2146 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2147
159f52d2
TF
2148TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2149 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2150
0cc9542a
PP
2151PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2152 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2153 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2154
f7274286
PP
2155PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2156 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2157
7b797365
PP
2158PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2159 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2160
caacae52
NM
2161NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2162 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2163
09dcaba9
NM
2164NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2165 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2166
bc19a55b
PP
2167PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2168 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2169
bd4c9759
NM
2170NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2171 Fixes bug 943.
2172
b72aab72
PP
2173PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2174 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2175
2fe76745
PP
2176PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2177 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2178
76aa570c
PP
2179PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2180 SQL string expansion failure details.
2181 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2182
f1e5fef5
PP
2183PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2184 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2185
4d805ee9
PP
2186PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2187 extern declarations in function scope.
2188 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2189
cd59ab18
PP
2190PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2191 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2192 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2193 a kernel bug).
2194
332f5cf3
PP
2195PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2196 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2197
29cfeb94
PP
2198PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2199 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2200
660242ad
PP
2201PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2202 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2203
bc4bc4c5
PP
2204PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2205 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2206
2e64baa9
NM
2207NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2208 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2209 Dennis Davis.
2210
4c04137d 2211PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2212
6bac1a9a
PP
2213PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2214
552193f0
NM
2215NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2216 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2217
1b587e48
TF
2218TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2219 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2220
aa097c4c 2221
8c07b69f
TF
2222Exim version 4.74
2223-----------------
2224
2225TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2226 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2227
c0ea85ab
TF
2228TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2229 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2230
0761d44e
TF
2231TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2232
0a349494
PP
2233DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2234 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2235 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2236
2237PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2238 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2239 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2240
fea24b2e
PP
2241PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2242 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2243 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2244 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2245
6545de78
PP
2246PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2247 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2248 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2249 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2250
1670ef10
PP
2251PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2252 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2253 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2254 arbitrary files.
2255
c0886197
PP
2256PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2257 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2258
b7487bce
PP
2259PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2260 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2261 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2262 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2263 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2264
8c07b69f 2265
97fd1e48 2266Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2267-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2268
2269PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2270 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2271 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2272
6901c596
PP
2273PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2274 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2275
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2276JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2277
77bb000f
PP
2278PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2279
a29e5231
PP
2280PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2281
ec5a0394 2282PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2283
55c75993
PP
2284PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2285
453a6645 2286PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2287 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2288 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2289 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2290
8544e77a
PP
2291PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2292 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2293 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2294 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2295 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2296
83e029d5
PP
2297PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2298
ed7f7860
PP
2299PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2300
7d9f747b
PP
2301PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2302
4b2241d2
PP
2303PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2304
10385c15
PP
2305PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2306
dbc4b90d
PP
2307PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2308
532be449
PP
2309PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2310
6a8de854 2311PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2312 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2313 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2314
5dc43717
JJ
2315JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2316
2317JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2318 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2319
3346ab01
PP
2320PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2321 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2322
491fab4c
PP
2323PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2324 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2325 Notification from John Horne.
2326
13eb9497
PP
2327PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2328 compatible.
2329
2330PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2331 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2332 it normally works.
2333
7f36d675
DW
2334DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2335 access.
2336
c1d94452
DW
2337DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2338 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2339 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2340
e2f5dc15
DW
2341DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2342 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2343 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2344 configuration file.
2345
cd25e41d
DW
2346DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2347 option (effectively making it always true).
2348
261dc43e
DW
2349DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2350 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2351
fa32850b
DW
2352DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2353 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2354
79d4bc3d
PP
2355PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2356 run-time user, instead of root.
2357
43236f35 2358PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2359 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2360
fb08281f
DW
2361DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2362 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2363 arguments.
3346ab01 2364
74935b98
DW
2365DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2366 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2367 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2368
90b6341f
DW
2369DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2370
57730b52
ML
2371NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2372
66581d1e 2373
465e92cf
JJ
2374Exim version 4.72
2375-----------------
2376
453a6645
PP
2377JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2378 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2379 typos
465e92cf 2380
453a6645
PP
2381JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2382 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2383 (Finput)
edae0343 2384
9bd3e22c
NM
2385NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2386 Patch from Alain Williams
2387
bb576ff7
NM
2388NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2389
5a1a5845
NM
2390NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2391 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2392
981a9fad
NM
2393NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2394 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2395
7fc497ee
NM
2396NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2397
1a41defa
JJ
2398JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2399
a466095c 2400NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2401 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2402
94a6bd0b
NM
2403TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2404
2405TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2406
2407MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2408 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2409 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2410
c1b141a8
NM
2411NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2412 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2413
b26eacf1 2414NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2415 Patch by Simon Arlott
2416
179c5980 2417PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2418 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2419
9bd3e22c 2420
7c6d71af
NM
2421Exim version 4.71
2422-----------------
2423
7d9f747b 2424TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2425
f013fb92
NM
2426NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2427
0eb8eedd
NM
2428NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2429
663ee6d9
NM
2430NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2431
177ebd9b
NM
2432NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2433
7c6d71af 2434
210f147e
NM
2435Exim version 4.70
2436-----------------
2437
cdd3bb85 2438TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2439 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2440
2441TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2442 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2443 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2444
2445TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2446 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2447 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2448
2449TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2450 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2451
210f147e
NM
2452NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2453 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2454 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2455 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2456
deafd5b3
NM
2457NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2458 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2459 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2460
089793a4
TF
2461TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2462
5f16ca82
TF
2463TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2464
dae9d94e 2465NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2466 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2467
7d9f747b 2468NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2469
06864c44
TF
2470TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2471 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2472 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2473 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2474
65a7d8c3 2475NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2476 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2477
23510047 2478TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2479
7d9f747b 2480NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2481
7d8eec3a 2482NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2483 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2484
89dec7b6
TF
2485TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2486 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2487
a99de90c
TF
2488TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2489 that they are available at delivery time.
2490
e2803e40
TF
2491TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2492
7199e1ee
TF
2493TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2494 incoming_port log selectors.
2495
e276e04b
TF
2496TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2497 setting expands to an empty string.
2498
ce552449 2499NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2500 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2501
e765a0f1 2502NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2503 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2504
4f054c63 2505NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2506 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2507
7d9f747b
PP
2508NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2509 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2510
7d9f747b
PP
2511NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2512 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2513
b52bc06e 2514NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2515 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2516
447de4b0
NM
2517NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2518
4c69d561 2519NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2520 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2521
d5c39246 2522NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2523 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2524
0b23848a
TK
2525TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2526
8f3414a1 2527NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2528 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2529
fb6f955d
NM
2530NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2531
2532NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2533
7d9f747b
PP
2534NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2535 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2536
7d9f747b
PP
2537NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2538 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2539
7d9f747b
PP
2540NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2541 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2542
7d9f747b
PP
2543NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2544 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2545
7d9f747b
PP
2546NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2547 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2548
7d9f747b
PP
2549NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2550 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2551
7d9f747b
PP
2552NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2553 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2554
7d9f747b 2555NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2556 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2557
7d9f747b 2558NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2559
7d9f747b
PP
2560NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2561 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2562
7d9f747b 2563NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2564
7d9f747b 2565NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2566
7d9f747b 2567NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2568
7d9f747b 2569NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2570
17792b53 2571NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2572 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2573
7d9f747b
PP
2574NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2575 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2576
91576cec 2577NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2578 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2579
7d9f747b
PP
2580NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2581 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2582
7d9f747b 2583NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2584
7d9f747b 2585NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2586
7d9f747b 2587NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2588
7d9f747b 2589NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2590
deafd5b3 2591
47db1125
NM
2592Exim version 4.69
2593-----------------
2594
4b3504d0
TK
2595TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2596 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2597 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2598
2599 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2600 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2601 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2602 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2603 build errors in sieve.c.
2604
81ea09ca
NM
2605NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2606 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2607 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2608
f13cddcb
SC
2609SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2610
7d9f747b 2611NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2612
7d9f747b 2613NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2614
7d9f747b 2615NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2616
2617
eb4c0de6
PH
2618Exim version 4.68
2619-----------------
2620
2621PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2622
6a3bceb1
PH
2623PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2624 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2625 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2626 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2627 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2628 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2629 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2630 for iplsearch lookups.
2631
2632 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2633 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2634 previously such lookups could never work.
2635
4c04137d 2636 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2637 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2638 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2639
2e30fa9d
TK
2640TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2641 version.
2642
0806a9c5
MH
2643MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2644 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2645 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2646 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2647 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2648 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2649
ae276964
TK
2650TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2651 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2652
0f2cbd1b
MH
2653MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2654 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2655 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2656 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2657 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2658 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2659
2b85bce7
PH
2660PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2661 local_scan API.
2662
93655c46
PH
2663PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2664
6c512171
PH
2665PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2666 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2667 encrypted.
2668
2669PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2670 by clients under certain conditions.
2671
aa6dc513
PH
2672PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2673 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2674
a96603a0
PH
2675PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2676
8f240103
PH
2677PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2678 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2679
2680PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2681
d677b2f2
PH
2682PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2683
d52120f2
PH
2684PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2685
64f2600a
PH
2686PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2687 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2688
8669f003
PH
2689PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2690
a4dc33a8
PH
2691PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2692 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2693
d6a60c0f
PH
2694PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2695
8f128379
PH
2696PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2697
8932dffe
PH
2698PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2699 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2700 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2701 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2702
ddea74fa 2703PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2704 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2705 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2706
ddea74fa 2707PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2708 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2709
ddea74fa
PH
2710PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2711
ce9f225c
PH
2712PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2713
19897d52
PH
2714PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2715
bc64a74d
PH
2716PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2717 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2718 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2719
eb4c0de6 2720
b4ed4da0
PH
2721Exim version 4.67
2722-----------------
2723
22ad45c9
MH
2724MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2725 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2726 Jan Srzednicki.
2727
b4ed4da0
PH
2728PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2729 issue a MAIL command.
2730
431b7361
PH
2731PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2732
2733 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2734
2735 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2736 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2737 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2738 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2739 item. This has been fixed.
2740
2741PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2742 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2743
83da1223
PH
2744PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2745 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2746
54fc8428
PH
2747PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2748 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2749 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2750
34c5e8dd
SC
2751SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2752
bbe15da8
PH
2753PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2754 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2755 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2756 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2757 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2758
0e8a9471
MH
2759MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2760 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2761 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2762
f0872424
PH
2763PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2764 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2765 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2766 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2767
b01dd148
PH
2768PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2769
6bf342e1
PH
2770PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2771
273f34d0
PH
2772PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2773 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2774 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2775 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2776 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2777
cf8b11a5
PH
2778PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2779
41c7c167
PH
2780PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2781 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2782 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2783 values).
2784
9c57cbc0
PH
2785PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2786
f3f065bb
PH
2787PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2788
047bdd8c
PH
2789PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2790
0ce9abe6
PH
2791PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2792
0e22dfd1
PH
2793PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2794
4c590bd1
PH
2795PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2796 no_callout_flush is set.
2797
09945f1e
PH
2798PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2799 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2800 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2801 fixed.
2802
c51b8e75
PH
2803PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2804
e28326d8 2805PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2806 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2807 other ACL rejections are.
2808
75b1493f
PH
2809PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2810 with slight modification.
2811
7c5214ec
PH
2812PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2813 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2814
4311097e
PH
2815PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2816 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2817 connection.
2818
29f89cad
PH
2819PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2820 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2821
5e687460
SC
2822SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2823
c3611384
PH
2824PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2825 expansion side effects.
2826
5a11a7b4
PH
2827PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2828 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2829 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2830 be the same.
2831
0e20aff9
MH
2832MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2833 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2834 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2835
ca86f471
PH
2836PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2837 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2838 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2839 were accidentally chopped off.
2840
a14e5636
PH
2841PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2842 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2843 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2844 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2845 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2846 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2847 pipelining has not been advertised.
2848
ec95d1a6
PH
2849PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2850
42855d71
PH
2851PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2852 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2853 This has been fixed.
2854
57c2c631
PH
2855PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2856 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2857 reported on Solaris.
2858
58c01c94
PH
2859PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2860 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2861 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2862 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2863 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2864 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2865 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2866
dee5a20a
PH
2867PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2868 cpus.
2869
d2ee6114
PH
2870PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2871
b2d5182b
PH
2872PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2873
79749a79
PH
2874PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2875 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2876 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2877 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2878 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2879 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2880
c456d9bb
PH
2881PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2882 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2883 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2884 host_all_ignored option.
2885
cd9868ec
PH
2886PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2887 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2888 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2889 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2890 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2891 is what is supposed to happen).
2892
ebeaf996
PH
2893PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2894 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2895 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2896 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2897 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2898 uses the Exim user.
2899
2679d413
PH
2900PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2901 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2902 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2903 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2904 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2905 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2906 users.
2907
84024b72
PH
2908PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2909
8005d38e
SC
2910SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2911 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2912 (Jez Hancock).
2913 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2914 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2915
3298c6c6
SC
2916SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2917
a43a27c5
PH
2918PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2919
58eb016e 2920PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2921 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2922 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2923 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2924 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2925 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2926 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2927 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2928 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2929 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2930 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2931
b43a74ea
PH
2932PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2933 advertised in response to EHLO.
2934
b4ed4da0 2935
5dd1517f
PH
2936Exim version 4.66
2937-----------------
2938
2939PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2940 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2941
2942 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2943 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2944
2945 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2946 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2947 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2948
2949 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2950 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2951 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2952 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2953 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2954
2955
93cfa765
TK
2956Exim version 4.65
2957-----------------
2958
2959TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2960 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2961 versions. (#438)
2962
d6066548
MH
2963MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2964 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2965 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2966
4362ff0d
PH
2967PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2968 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2969 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2970 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2971 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2972 rather than extend the field.
2973
93cfa765 2974
944e9e9c
TF
2975Exim version 4.64
2976-----------------
aa41d2de 2977
21d74bd9
TK
2978TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2979 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2980 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2981 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2982 these files.
2983
2984TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2985 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2986 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2987
2988TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2989 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2990 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2991
2992TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2993 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2994 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2995 in the field name.
2996
2b1c6e3a
PH
2997PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2998 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2999 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3000 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3001 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3002 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3003 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3004 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3005 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3006 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3007 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3008
1f872c80
PH
3009PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3010 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3011
3012PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3013 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3014 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3015 ignores EPIPE as well.
3016
d203e649
PH
3017PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3018 (quoted-printable decoding).
3019
cc2ed8f7 3020PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3021 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3022
ddfcd446
PH
3023PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3024
d45b1de8
PH
3025PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3026
3027PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3028
38a0a95f 3029PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3030 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3031
a2405d83
JJ
3032JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3033 in 4.64-PH/09.
3034
3035JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3036 miscellaneous code fixes
3037
6ea85e9a
PH
3038PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3039 rejections.
3040
26da7e20
PH
3041PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3042 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3043 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3044 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3045 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3046 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3047 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3048 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3049
14aa5a05 3050PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3051 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3052 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3053 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3054 function.
3055 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3056 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3057 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3058 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3059 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3060 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3061 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3062 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3063 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3064
ff75a1f7
PH
3065PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3066 decoding.
3067
e6f6568e
PH
3068PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3069 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3070 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3071 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3072 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3073 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3074 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3075 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3076
d6f6e0dc
PH
3077PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3078 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3079 list.
3080
322050c2
PH
3081PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3082 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3083 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3084 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3085 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3086 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3087 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3088 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3089 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3090 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3091 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3092 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3093 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3094
08955dd3
PH
3095PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3096 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3097 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3098 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3099 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3100 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3101 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3102
1eccaa59
PH
3103PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3104 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3105 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3106 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3107 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3108 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3109 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3110 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3111 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3112 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3113
602e59e5
PH
3114PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3115 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3116 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3117 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3118 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3119
411ef850
PH
3120PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3121 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3122 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3123 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3124 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3125 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3126 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3127
7befa435
PH
3128PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3129 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3130 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3131 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3132 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3133 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3134 been verified.
3135
48da4259 3136PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3137 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3138 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3139 and authorization.)
3140
48da4259
PH
3141PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3142 if any retry times were supplied.
3143
d1d5595c
PH
3144PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3145 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3146 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3147
0ef732d9
PH
3148PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3149
328895cc
PH
3150PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3151
fd700877
PH
3152PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3153 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3154 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3155 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3156 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3157 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3158
8dce1a6f
PH
3159PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3160 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3161
17af4a17
PH
3162PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3163 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3164 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3165
3166PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3167 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3168 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3169 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3170 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3171 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3172 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3173 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3174 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3175
3176 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3177 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3178 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3179 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3180 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3181 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3182 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3183 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3184 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3185
3186 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3187 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3188 hammering the server.
3189
c1114884
PH
3190PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3191 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3192
7a0743eb
PH
3193PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3194
0d85fa3f
PH
3195PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3196 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3197 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3198
1bf43b78
PH
3199PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3200 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3201 one case where this was not true.
3202
520de300
PH
3203PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3204 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3205 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3206 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3207 fails.
3208
48c7f9e2
PH
3209PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3210 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3211 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3212 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3213 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3214 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3215 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3216 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3217 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3218 smtp transport.
3219
99ea1c86
PH
3220PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3221 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3222 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3223 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3224
a2042e78
PH
3225PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3226 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3227
4fbcfc2e
PH
3228PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3229 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3230 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3231
aa41d2de
PH
3232PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3233
af561417
PH
3234PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3235
3cc66b45
PH
3236PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3237
194cc0e4
PH
3238PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3239 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3240 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3241 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3242
a401ddaa
PH
3243PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3244 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3245
4e88a19f
PH
3246PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3247 be meaningful with "accept".
3248
d7d7b289
SC
3249SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3250 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3251
3252SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3253 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3254 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3255
3256SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3257 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3258 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3259 there is data to show.
3260 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3261
3262SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3263 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3264 as well as the number of messages.
3265
3266SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3267 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3268 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3269
3270SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3271 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3272 have a flag are now skipped.
3273
3274SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3275 Added the -emptyok flag.
3276
3277SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3278 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3279
0ea2a468
JJ
3280JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3281 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3282 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3283
3284JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3285 match 4.64-PH/13
3286
3287JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3288 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3289
3290JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3291
3292JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3293 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3294
8a10f5a4
PH
3295PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3296
30e18802
PH
3297PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3298 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3299 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3300 contravention of the specifications.
3301
55728a4f
PH
3302PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3303 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3304 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3305
d7837193
PH
3306PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3307 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3308 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3309
87054a31
PH
3310PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3311
ea2c01d2
MH
3312MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3313 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3314 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3315 some point in the past.
3316
e4fa6968
PH
3317PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3318 transport during callout processing was broken.
3319
56f5d9bd
PH
3320PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3321 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3322
922e1c28
PH
3323PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3324 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3325
21eb6e72
PH
3326PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3327 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3328
a0540757
PH
3329PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3330
944e9e9c 3331
478be7b0
SC
3332Exim version 4.63
3333-----------------
3334
3335SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3336 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3337
3338SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3339 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3340 there is data to show.
3341 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3342
3343SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3344 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3345
2b965a65
TF
3346TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3347 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3348
45b91596
PH
3349TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3350 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3351
c59f5781
TF
3352TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3353 submissions from trusted users.
3354
90fc3069
TF
3355TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3356 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3357
6083aca0
TF
3358TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3359 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3360 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3361 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3362 there is now a framework to start from.
3363
765b530f
PH
3364PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3365 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3366 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3367
4e167a8c
PH
3368PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3369
4608d683
PH
3370PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3371
b8dc3e4a
PH
3372PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3373
5418e93b
PH
3374PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3375 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3376 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3377
b4a9bda2
PH
3378PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3379 libradius.
3380
45b91596
PH
3381PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3382 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3383 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3384
5547e2c5
PH
3385PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3386 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3387 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3388 its arguments.
3389
dbcef0ea
PH
3390PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3391 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3392 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3393 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3394 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3395
25257489
PH
3396PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3397 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3398
c816d124
PH
3399PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3400
a9ccd69a
PH
3401PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3402 operations in malware.c.
3403
75fa1910
PH
3404PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3405 signatures.
3406
a7d7aa58
PH
3407PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3408 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3409 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3410 all.
3411
42119b09
PH
3412PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3413 statements to "add_header".
3414
41609df5
PH
3415PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3416 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3417
a5bd321b
PH
3418PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3419 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3420 latter.
3421
e85a7ad5 3422PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3423 so that it is now:
3424
e85a7ad5
PH
3425 ${if or { \
3426 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3427 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3428 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3429 }{no}{yes}}
3430
e85a7ad5
PH
3431 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3432 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3433
d8fe1c03
PH
3434PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3435 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3436
16282d2b
PH
3437PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3438 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3439 any possible encoding problems.
3440
35d40a98
PH
3441PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3442 but not after initializing Perl.
3443
034d99ab
PH
3444PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3445 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3446 apparently, which is not desirable.
3447
6ec97b1b
PH
3448PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3449 queries.
3450
e22ca4ac
JJ
3451JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3452 --not options
3453
3454JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3455
33d73e3b
PH
3456PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3457 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3458 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3459 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3460
9ecb03f3
PH
3461PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3462 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3463 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3464
084efe8d
PH
3465PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3466 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3467 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3468 0.12.
3469
366fc9f0
PH
3470PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3471 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3472 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3473 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3474 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3475
c59f5781 3476
c887c79e
TF
3477Exim version 4.62
3478-----------------
3479
3480TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3481 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3482
1cce3af8
PH
3483PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3484 patch).
3485
afb3eaaf
PH
3486PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3487 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3488 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3489 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3490 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3491 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3492 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3493 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3494 451 error is used.
3495
e173618b
PH
3496PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3497
dd16e114
PH
3498PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3499 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3500 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3501
f7fd3850
PH
3502PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3503 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3504 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3505 odd errors.
3506
d87df92c
PH
3507PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3508 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3509
7e9f683d
PH
3510PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3511 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3512 option (which defaults to 0600).
3513
bfad5236
PH
3514PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3515
01c490df
PH
3516PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3517 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3518 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3519 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3520 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3521 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3522 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3523
d6629cdc
PH
3524PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3525
1cce3af8 3526
214e2000
PH
3527Exim version 4.61
3528-----------------
3529
3530PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3531 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3532 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3533 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3534 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3535 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3536 addresses as local.
3537
f9daeae0
PH
3538PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3539 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3540
7e66e54d
PH
3541PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3542
c8ea1597
PH
3543PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3544 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3545 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3546 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3547 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3548 grumble.
3549
911f6fde
PH
3550PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3551 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3552
47ca6d6c
PH
3553PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3554 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3555 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3556 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3557 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3558
ed0e9820
PH
3559PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3560 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3561 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3562 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3563
eff37e47
PH
3564PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3565 be the same on different OS.
3566
1921d2ea
PH
3567PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3568 testing.
3569
b3f69ca8
JJ
3570JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3571 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3572
3573JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3574 in 4.61-PH/06
3575
424a1c63
PH
3576PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3577 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3578 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3579 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3580 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3581 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3582 bounce message.
3583
7a100415
PH
3584PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3585 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3586 when Exim was called.
3587
19b9dc85
PH
3588PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3589 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3590
309bd837
PH
3591PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3592 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3593 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3594 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3595
59e82a2a
PH
3596PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3597 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3598 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3599 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3600 changes:
3601
3602 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3603 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3604 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3605
3606 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3607 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3608 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3609
9edc04ce
PH
3610PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3611 feature).
3612
1349e1e5
PH
3613PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3614 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3615 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3616 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3617 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3618 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3619 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3620 values from the SRV records were lost.
3621
ea49d0e1
PH
3622PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3623 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3624 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3625
064a94c9
PH
3626PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3627 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3628 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3629
727071f8
PH
3630PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3631 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3632 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3633 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3634 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3635 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3636 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3637 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3638 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3639 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3640
f78eb7c6
PH
3641PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3642 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3643 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3644
21c28500
PH
3645PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3646 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3647
3648PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3649 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3650 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3651 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3652 is given.
3653
1688f43b
PH
3654PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3655 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3656 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3657
3658PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3659 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3660 PH/23 above applies.
3661
9675b384
PH
3662PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3663 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3664 (for which there is an explicit test).
3665
6a3f1455
PH
3666PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3667
dac79d3e
PH
3668PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3669 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3670 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3671 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3672 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3673
5977a0b3
PH
3674PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3675 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3676 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3677 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3678
c91535f3
PH
3679PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3680 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3681 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3682
0d46a8c8
PH
3683PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3684
278c6e6c
PH
3685PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3686
2cbb4081
PH
3687PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3688 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3689 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3690
3eef829e
PH
3691PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3692 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3693 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3694 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3695 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3696
1ab95fa6
PH
3697PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3698 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3699 the message gets confusing).
3700
230205fc
PH
3701PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3702 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3703 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3704 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3705
75e0e026
PH
3706PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3707 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3708 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3709 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3710 same order.
3711
3712PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3713 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3714 the different processes.
3715
145396a6
PH
3716PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3717
3cd34f13
PH
3718PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3719
11121d3d
JJ
3720JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3721 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3722
3723JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3724 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3725
3726JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3727 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3728 messages matching specified criteria.
3729
8def5aaf
PH
3730PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3731
929ba01c
PH
3732PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3733 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3734
2632889e
PH
3735PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3736 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3737 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3738 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3739 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3740 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3741 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3742 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3743 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3744 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3745
944a9c55
PH
3746PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3747 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3748 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3749
4a23603b
PH
3750PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3751
4730f942
PH
3752PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3753 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3754 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3755 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3756 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3757 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3758 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3759 the variable.
3760
30dba1e6
PH
3761PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3762 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3763
382afc6b
PH
3764PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3765
a86229cf
PH
3766PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3767
50c99ba6
PH
3768PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3769
d35e429d
PH
3770PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3771 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3772 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3773 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3774 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3775 size of the count of files.
3776
f90d018c
PH
3777PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3778
75def545
PH
3779PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3780 used in LMTP mode:
3781
3782 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3783 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3784 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3785 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3786
3787 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3788 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3789 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3790
3791PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3792 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3793 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3794 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3795 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3796
c46782ef
PH
3797PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3798 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3799
71fafd95
PH
3800PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3801 will now be deprecated.
3802
2c5db4fd
PH
3803PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3804
9cf6b11a
JJ
3805JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3806 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3807 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3808
3809JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3810 with very large, slow to parse queues
3811
3812JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3813
3814JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3815
898d150f
PH
3816PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3817 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3818 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3819 SMTP output lines.
3820
46218253
PH
3821PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3822 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3823 Sieve code now uses this.
3824
e97957bc
PH
3825PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3826 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3827
81e509d7
PH
3828PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3829 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3830
3d240ff7
PH
3831PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3832
b37c4101
PH
3833PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3834 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3835 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3836 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3837 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3838
79378e0f
PH
3839PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3840 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3841 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3842 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3843
e49c7bb4
PH
3844PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3845
d114ec46
PH
3846PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3847
f3d7df6c
PH
3848PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3849 is preferred over IPv4.
3850
715ab376
PH
3851PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3852 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3853 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3854 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3855 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3856 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3857 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3858
6b31b150
PH
3859PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3860 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3861 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3862
3863PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3864
d515a917
PH
3865PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3866 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3867 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3868 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3869 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3870 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3871 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3872 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3873 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3874 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3875 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3876
9b8fadde
PH
3877PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3878 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3879 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3880
214e2000 3881
5de37277
PH
3882Exim version 4.60
3883-----------------
3884
cc38ddbf
PH
3885PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3886
3887 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3888 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3889
3890 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3891 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3892 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3893
72fdd6ae
PH
3894PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3895
3896 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3897 not a single digit.
3898
3899 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3900 string.
3901
3902 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3903 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3904 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3905 silly things.
3906
3907 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3908 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3909
3910 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3911 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3912
cb741023
PH
3913PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3914 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3915 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3916
f174f16e
PH
3917PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3918 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3919
c25242d7
PH
3920PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3921 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3922
3923 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3924
3925 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3926 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3927 this:
3928
3929 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3930
82c19f95
PH
3931PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3932 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3933 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3934 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3935 identical. For example:
3936
3937 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3938
3939 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3940 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3941 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3942
d7ffbc12
PH
3943PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3944 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3945 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3946 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3947
9f526266
PH
3948PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3949 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3950 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3951 message.
3952
87fcc8b9
PH
3953PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3954
3955 o fixes some comments
3956 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3957 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3958 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3959 and documents the missing references header update
3960
3961 and most important:
3962
3963 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3964 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3965 result)
3966
456682f5
PH
3967PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3968 Electronic Mail") by including:
3969
3970 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3971
3972 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3973 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3974 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3975 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3976 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3977
3978 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3979
3980 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3981
3982 The auto-replied keyword:
3983
3984 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3985 message by an automatic process,
3986
3987 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3988
3989 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3990 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3991
3992 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3993 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3994 other messages.
3995
3e46c1aa
PH
3996PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3997 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3998
49826d12
PH
3999PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4000
eba0c039
PH
4001PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4002 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4003 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4004
a0d6ba8a
PH
4005PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4006 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4007 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4008
f0917727
PH
4009PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4010 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4011 and treats the condition as false.
4012
096fee00
PH
4013PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4014
024bd3c2
PH
4015PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4016 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4017 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4018 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4019 not changing the active code.
4020
4021 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4022 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4023
4024 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4025 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4026
df199fec
PH
4027PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4028 (Bugzilla #53).
4029
d27f1df3
PH
4030PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4031 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4032 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4033 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4034 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4035 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4036 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4037 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4038 the text comparison.
4039
96776534
PH
4040PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4041 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4042 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4043 The same fix has been applied.
4044
5de37277 4045
9a799bc0
PH
4046Exim version 4.54
4047-----------------
4048
4049PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4050 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4051 It now does.
4052
99a4b039
PH
4053PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4054 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4055
4056PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4057
4b233853
PH
4058PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4059 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4060 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4061 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4062 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4063
8857ccfd
PH
4064TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4065 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4066 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4067 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4068 or /domain=).
4069
433a2980
PH
4070PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4071 testing suite.
4072
3e46c1aa 4073
9a799bc0 4074
e3a311ba
TK
4075Exim version 4.53
4076-----------------
4077
4078TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4079 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4080
13b685f9
PH
4081PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4082
395ff96d
PH
4083PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4084
5b68f6e4
PH
4085PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4086 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4087 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4088
1ab52c69
PH
4089PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4090 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4091 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4092
b07e6aa3
PH
4093PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4094 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4095 operating systems.
4096
254e032f
PH
4097PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4098 ${stat: expansion item.
4099
3af76a81
PH
4100PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4101 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4102
2548ba04
PH
4103PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4104 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4105 file for comments.
4106
b6c6011d
PH
4107PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4108
cf39cf57
PH
4109PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4110 setting.
4111
f1513293
PH
4112PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4113 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4114
727549a4
PH
4115TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4116
af46795e
PH
4117PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4118 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4119 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4120 the end of the subprocess.
4121
d7b47fd0
PH
4122PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4123 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4124 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4125 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4126 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4127
ee744174
JJ
4128JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4129
b582ab87
PH
4130TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4131
41a13e0a
PH
4132PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4133 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4134
f625cc5a
PH
4135PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4136
4137PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4138
21f7af35
PH
4139PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4140 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4141 HP-UX compiler.
4142
31480e42
PH
4143PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4144
2d280592
PH
4145PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4146 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4147 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4148
7cd1141b
PH
4149PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4150 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4151
4152PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4153 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4154
750af86e
PH
4155PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4156 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4157
4158 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4159 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4160
4161 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4162 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4163 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4164 contributed by a Radius user.
4165
4166PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4167 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4168
4304270b
TK
4169TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4170 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4171
750af86e
PH
4172PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4173 available.
4174
64ffc24f
PH
4175PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4176 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4177 received.
4178
5dd9625b
PH
4179PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4180 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4181 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4182 header lines when this was not necessary.
4183
5591031b
PH
4184PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4185
ba18e66a
PH
4186PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4187 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4188 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4189 exists".
4190
9cec981f
PH
4191PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4192 -bV or -d is used.
4193
aa2b5c79
PH
4194PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4195 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4196 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4197 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4198
48a53b7f
PH
4199PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4200
1c59d63b
PH
4201PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4202
671012da
TK
4203TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4204
1509d3a8
PH
4205PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4206
4207PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4208 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4209 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4210 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4211 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4212 settings.
4213
4214PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4215
2fe1a124
PH
4216PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4217 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4218 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4219 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4220 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4221 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4222 which is clearly wrong.
4223
8800895a
PH
4224PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4225
ccfdb010
PH
4226PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4227 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4228 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4229 subsequently added.
4230
1130bfb0
PH
4231PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4232 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4233
ebcb507f
PH
4234PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4235
c35e155c
PH
4236PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4237 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4238
95d1f782
PH
4239PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4240 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4241
fd6de02e
PH
4242PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4243 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4244
58de37c5
PH
4245PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4246 recipients, not senders.
4247
261cf466
TF
4248TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4249 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4250
3ee512ff
PH
4251PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4252
e08c430f
PH
4253PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4254
bef5a11f
PH
4255PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4256 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4257 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4258 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4259
7546de58
TF
4260TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4261
e5d5a95f
TF
4262TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4263 clock is set back in time.
4264
2e88a017
TF
4265TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4266 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4267
a5f65aa4
TF
4268TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4269 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4270
e7726cbf
PH
4271PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4272 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4273 (see PH/47 above).
4274
a7fdad5b
TF
4275TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4276 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4277 header rewrites.
4278
6af56900
PH
4279PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4280 type ("H").
4281
0925ede6
PH
4282PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4283
66afa403
TF
4284TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4285 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4286 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4287
0154e85a
TF
4288TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4289 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4290 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4291 helo verification defer as a failure.
4292
16f12c76
PH
4293PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4294 actual error message.
4295
bbe902f0 4296
e5a9dba6
PH
4297Exim version 4.52
4298-----------------
4299
4300TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4301
22c3b60b
PH
4302PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4303 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4304 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4305 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4306
06a9b4b5
PH
4307TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4308
c1ac6996
PH
4309PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4310 can still be requested.
4311
9c7a242c
PH
4312PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4313 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4314 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4315 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4316
87ba3f5f
PH
4317TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4318 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4319 circumstances, but probably never did.
4320
4321PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4322 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4323 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4324 in the header line.
4325
29aba418
TF
4326TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4327
fe0dab11
TF
4328TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4329 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4330
11d337a4
TK
4331TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4332
4333TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4334
415c8f3b
PH
4335PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4336 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4337 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4338 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4339 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4340 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4341
958541e9
PH
4342PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4343 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4344 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4345 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4346 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4347 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4348
c206415f
TK
4349TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4350 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4351
2a4be8f9
PH
4352PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4353 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4354
1cba11c5
SC
4355SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4356 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4357
4c04137d 4358SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4359
4360SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4361
4362SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4363
4364SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4365
4366SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4367
4368SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4369
1005d00e
TK
4370TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4371
4372TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4373 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4374 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4375
4376TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4377 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4378 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4379 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4380
9b4768fa
PH
4381PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4382 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4383 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4384
4385PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4386 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4387 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4388 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4389
0d7eb84a
PH
4390PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4391 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4392 to be made).
4393
4394PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4395 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4396 should work with maildirs and everything.
4397
40727bee
TK
4398TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4399 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4400
554d2369
TF
4401TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4402 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4403
1f922db1
PH
4404PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4405 function for BDB 4.3.
4406
ef213c3b
PH
4407PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4408
8ac170f3
PH
4409PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4410 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4411 involved.
4412
b1c749bb
PH
4413PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4414 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4415 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4416 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4417 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4418 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4419
4aac9b49
PH
4420PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4421 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4422 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4423 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4424 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4425 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4426 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4427 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4428
294520c8
TK
4429TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4430 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4431 details.
4432
5bd022fe
PH
4433PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4434 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4435
90e9ce59
PH
4436PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4437 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4438 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4439 test. It is now used for both.
4440
5ea81592
PH
4441PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4442 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4443 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4444 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4445 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4446 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4447
c6c2dc1d
PH
4448PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4449 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4450 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4451 string_vformat().
4452
fffffe4c
PH
4453PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4454 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4455 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4456
9a26b6b2
PH
4457PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4458 experimental DomainKeys support:
4459
4460 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4461 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4462 the control was given.
4463
4464 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4465
4aee0225
PH
4466PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4467
32d668a5
PH
4468PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4469
8187c3f3
PH
4470PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4471 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4472 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4473 db.h files).
4474
ff790e47 4475PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4476 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4477 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4478 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4479 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4480 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4481 course.
ff790e47 4482
5417f6d1
PH
4483PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4484 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4485 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4486 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4487 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4488 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4489
59cf8544
PH
4490PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4491 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4492 do -d+all out of habit.
4493
e7ad8a65
PH
4494PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4495 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4496 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4497
ade42478
PH
4498PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4499 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4500 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4501 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4502 record types that Exim uses.
4503
182ad5cf
PH
4504PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4505 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4506 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4507 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4508 non-existent file that was broken.
4509
b0d9fc80
TK
4510TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4511 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4512
4513TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4514 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4515 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4516
4517TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4518
47c7a64a
PH
4519PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4520 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4521 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4522 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4523 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4524 same time.
4525
a388bce4
SC
4526SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4527 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4528 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4529 at a slight CPU cost.
4530
4531SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4532 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4533
4534SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4535 by Marc Sherman.
4536
0793e4ed
SC
4537SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4538
c58b88df
PH
4539PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4540 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4541
e7ad8a65 4542
7982096b
PH
4543Exim version 4.51
4544-----------------
4545
1a46a8c5
PH
4546TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4547 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4548
2f079f46 4549TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4550
4551TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4552
4553PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4554 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4555
4556PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4557 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4558 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4559 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4560 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4561 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4562 file.
4563
4564PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4565 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4566 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4567 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4568 these two options.
4569
4570PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4571 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4572 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4573 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4574 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4575 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4576 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4577 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4578
4579PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4580 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4581
4582PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4583 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4584 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4585 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4586 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4587 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4588
4589PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4590 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4591 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4592 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4593
4594PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4595 Finch).
4596
4597PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4598 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4599
49c2d5ea
PH
4600PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4601 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4602 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4603 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4604 message.
49c2d5ea 4605
bf759a8b
PH
4606PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4607
83364d30
PH
4608PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4609 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4610
7999bbd7
PH
4611PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4612 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4613 to what was transported.)
4614
7dbf77c9
PH
4615TF/01 Added $received_time.
4616
74e0617f
PH
4617PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4618 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4619 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4620 spamd_address settings.
4621
2f079f46
PH
4622PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4623 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4624 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4625 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4626 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4627
8c841523
PH
4628PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4629
7766a4f0
PH
4630PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4631 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4632 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4633 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4634 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4635
8b417f2c
PH
4636PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4637 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4638
901f42cb
PH
4639PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4640 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4641 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4642 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4643 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4644 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4645 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4646 for failure.
4647
f9b9210e
PH
4648PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4649 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4650 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4651 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4652 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4653 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4654 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4655 "input=".
4656
54cdb463
PH
4657PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4658
cf00dad6
PH
4659PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4660 driver and ACL definitions.
4661
acb1b346
PH
4662PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4663 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4664
c5ddb310
PH
4665PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4666 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4667 understands it better than I do:
4668
4669 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4670 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4671
4672 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4673 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4674 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4675 => three warnings about OTP not working
4676 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4677
4678 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4679 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4680 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4681 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4682 for each call.)
4683 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4684 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4685
4686 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4687 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4688 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4689
31619da6
PH
4690PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4691 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4692 specified.
4693
bebaf0fc
PH
4694PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4695 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4696 "Linux".
4697
475fe28a
PH
4698PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4699 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4700 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4701
4702 warn !verify = sender
4703 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4704
4705 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4706 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4707
7e8bec7a
PH
4708PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4709
4710 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4711 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4712
4713 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4714 nomenclature these days.)
4715
e4a89c47
PH
4716PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4717 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4718
5ca2a9a1
PH
4719PH/30 In these circumstances:
4720 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4721 . First host does not offer TLS;
4722 . First host accepts first address;
4723 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4724 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4725 . Second host accepts second address.
4726 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4727 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4728 address.
7e8bec7a 4729
c688b954
PH
4730PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4731 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4732 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4733 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4734 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4735
fed77020
PH
4736PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4737 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4738
7fe1560f
PH
4739PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4740 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4741
ebb6e6d5
PH
4742PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4743 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4744 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4745
9c4e8f60
PH
4746PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4747 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4748 overlooked.
4749
4750PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4751
d7174846
PH
4752PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4753 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4754 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4755 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4756 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4757 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4758 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4759
4760 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4761 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4762 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4763 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4764 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4765
4766 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4767 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4768 routed further.
4769
cfe75fc3
PH
4770PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4771 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4772 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4773 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4774 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4775 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4776
be22d70e
PH
4777PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4778
0612b098
PH
4779PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4780 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4781 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4782 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4783 printable escape sequences.
4784
2e0c1448
PH
4785PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4786 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4787 body only.
4788
447d236c
PH
4789PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4790 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4791 are as follows:
4792
4793 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4794 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4795 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4796 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4797 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4798
4799 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4800 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4801 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4802
d20976dc
PH
4803PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4804
f656d135
PH
4805PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4806 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4807 play with."
4808
2e2a30b4
PH
4809PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4810 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4811 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4812 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4813 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4814 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4815 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4816 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4817 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4818 the log output.
4819
9176e9f0
PH
4820PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4821 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4822 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4823 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4824 "make".
4825
7982096b 4826
bbe902f0
PH
4827A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4828----------------------------------------
4829
4830Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4831changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4832needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4833in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4834that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4835release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4836from 4.43.
4837
4838I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
48394.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4840those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4841historical information.
4842
4843
f7b63901 4844Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4845-----------------
4846
5fe762f6
PH
4847 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4848
139059f6 4849 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4850 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4851
7086e875
PH
4852 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4853 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4854 place.
4855
35af9f61
PH
4856 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4857 filter fails to execute.
4858
b668c215
PH
4859 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4860 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4861 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4862 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4863 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4864
a494b1e1
PH
4865 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4866
4867 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4868 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4869 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4870 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4871
c5fcb476
PH
4872 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4873 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4874 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4875 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4876 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4877
69358f02
PH
4878 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4879
5be20824
PH
488010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4881
eb2c0248
PH
488211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4883 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4884 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4885 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4886
2a3eea10
PH
488712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4888 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4889 sender verification.
4890
489113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4892 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4893
23c7ff99
PH
489414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4895
4deaf07d
PH
489615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4897 connection timeout.
4898
926e1192
PH
489916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4900 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4901
650edc6f
PH
490217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4903 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4904
2c7db3f5
PH
490518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4906 information about exactly what failed.
4907
3d235903
PH
490819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4909
7c7ad977
PH
491020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4911 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4912 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4913
981756db
PH
491421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4915 It is now set to "smtps".
4916
d4eb88df
PH
491722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4918 ignore_target_hosts.
4919
492023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4921 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4922 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4923 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4924 "[x.x.x.x]".
4925
7d468ab8
PH
492624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4927 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4928 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4929
493025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4931 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4932 wake it up if nothing else does.
4933
62c0818f
PH
493426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4935 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4936 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4937 end up negative.
4938
26034054
PH
493927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4940 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4941
af66f652
PH
494228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4943
90af77f4
PH
494429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4945 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4946 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4947 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4948 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4949 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4950 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4951 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4952
d8ef3577
PH
495330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4954 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4955 than one IP address.
4956
5cb8cbc6
PH
495731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4958 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4959 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4960 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4961
14702f5b
PH
496232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4963 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4964 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4965 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4966 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4967 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4968
063b1e99
PH
496933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4970 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4971 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4972 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4973
652e1b65
PH
497434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4975 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4976 respected.
4977
6f0c9a4f
PH
497835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4979 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4980 $sender_host_address.
4981
33397d19
PH
498236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4983 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4984 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4985 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4986 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4987 very small.
4988
7bb56e1f
PH
498937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4990
4991 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4992 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4993
ea3bc19b
PH
4994 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4995 just the host names, not the priorities.
4996
4997 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4998 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4999 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5000
ea3bc19b 5001 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5002 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5003
0bcb2a0e
PH
500438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5005 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5006 domain.
5007
2ac0e484
PH
500839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5009
4e1fde53
PH
501040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5011 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5012
de365ded
PH
501341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5014 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5015 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5016
f05da2e8
PH
501742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5018
d6453af2
PH
501943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5020
f7b63901
PH
502144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5022
502345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5024 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5025 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5026 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5027 because the tests only now provoked it.
5028
a444213a
PH
502946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5030 (this can affect the format of dates).
5031
0ec020ea
PH
503247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5033 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5034 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5035 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5036
b1206957
PH
503748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5038
503949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5040 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5041 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5042 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5043
26dd5a95
PH
504450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5045 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5046 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5047
343b2385
PH
504851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5049 autoreply.
5050
1c5466b9
PH
505152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5052 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5053 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5054 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5055 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5056 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5057 is going on).
5058
55ee9ee3
PH
505953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5060 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5061 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5062 the line.
5063
d38f8232
PH
506454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5065 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5066 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5067
5068 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5069 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5070 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5071 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5072 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5073 so I produce this patch..."
5074
3295e65b
PH
5075 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5076 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5077 is not defined.
5078
7102e136
PH
507955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5080 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5081 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5082 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5083 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5084
3ca0ba97
PH
508556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5086
c2bcbe20
PH
508757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5088 long debug lines gets shown.
5089
18ce445d
PH
509058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5091 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5092
1f5b4c3d
PH
509359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5094
5095 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5096 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5097 of $primary_hostname.
5098
b975ba52
PH
509960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5100 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5101 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5102 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5103 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5104 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5105 by change 4.50/55 above.
5106
5107 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5108 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5109 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5110 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5111 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5112 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5113 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5114
511561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5116 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5117 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5118 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5119
17ffcae7
PH
512062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5121 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5122
d95f9fdb
PH
512363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5124 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5125 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5126 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5127 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5128
86b8287f
PH
512964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5130 This has been fixed.
5131
60dc5e56
PH
513265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5133 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5134 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5135 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5136 the caching.)
5137
533244af
PH
513866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5139
a5a28604
PH
514067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5141 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5142 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5143 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5144
7e634d24
PH
514568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5146 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5147
3e11c26b
PH
514869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5149 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5150 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5151
6729cf78
PH
515270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5153 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5154 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5155 message there.
5156
00f00ca5
PH
515771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5158 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5159 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5160
c9bdd01c
PH
516172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5162 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5163 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5164 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5165
d43194df
PH
516673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5167 during host lookups.
5168
fe5b5d0b
PH
516974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5170 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5171
5172 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5173
76a2d7ba
PH
517475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5175 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5176 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5177 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5178 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5179 background.
5180
518176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5182 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5183
04f7d5b9
PH
518477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5185 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5186 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5187
bc60667e
PH
518878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5189
bb6e88ff
PH
519079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5191 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5192 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5193 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5194 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5195 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5196 process earlier.
5197
1e70f85b
PH
519880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5199 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5200 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5201 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5202 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5203
520481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5205 tables).
5206
4e01f9d6
PH
520782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5208
1ee1cef2
PH
520983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5210 "vacation" handling.
5211
6e2b4ccc
PH
521284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5213 OS variants using glibc.
5214
8e669ac1
PH
521585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5216
495ae4b0 5217
bbe902f0
PH
5218----------------------------------------------------
5219See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5220----------------------------------------------------
5221
5222
5223Exim version 4.44
5224-----------------
5225
5226 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5227 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5228 transport
5229
5230 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5231 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5232 place.
5233
5234 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5235 filter fails to execute.
5236
5237 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5238 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5239 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5240 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5241 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5242
5243 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5244 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5245 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5246 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5247
5248 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5249 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5250 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5251 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5252 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5253
5254 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5255
5256 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5257 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5258 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5259 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5260
5261 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5262 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5263 sender verification.
5264
526510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5266 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5267
526811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5269 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5270
527112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5272 ignore_target_hosts.
5273
527413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5275 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5276 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5277 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5278 "[x.x.x.x]".
5279
528014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5281 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5282 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5283
528415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5285 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5286 wake it up if nothing else does.
5287
528816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5289 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5290 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5291 end up negative.
5292
529317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5294 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5295
ea3a6f44 529618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5297
529819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5299 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5300 empty pattern.
5301
530220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5303 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5304 one IP address.
5305
ea3a6f44
NM
530621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5307 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5308 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5309 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5310 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5311 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5312
ea3a6f44
NM
531322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5314 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5315 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5316
531723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5318 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5319 $sender_host_address.
5320
532124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5322
ea3a6f44
NM
532325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5324 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5325 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5326
532726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5328 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5329
ea3a6f44
NM
533027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5331 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5332
ea3a6f44
NM
533328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5334 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5335 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5336 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5337
533829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5339 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5340 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5341
ea3a6f44
NM
534230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5343 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5344 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5345 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5346
ea3a6f44
NM
534731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5348 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5349 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5350
ea3a6f44
NM
535131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5352 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5353
ea3a6f44
NM
535432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5355 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5356 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5357 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5358 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5359 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5360 is going on).
bbe902f0 5361
ea3a6f44
NM
536233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5363 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5364 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5365 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5366 CAN-2005-0021
5367
ea3a6f44
NM
536834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5369 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5370 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5371 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5372 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5373 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5374 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5375
5376 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5377 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5378 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5379 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5380 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5381 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5382 CAN-2005-0021
5383
ea3a6f44
NM
538435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5385 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5386 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5387 CAN-2005-0022
5388
ea3a6f44
NM
538936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5390 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5391 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5392 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5393 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5394
ea3a6f44
NM
539537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5396 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5397 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5398 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5399 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5400
ea3a6f44
NM
540138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5402 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5403 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5404 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5405 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5406
5407
495ae4b0
PH
5408Exim version 4.43
5409-----------------
5410
5411 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5412 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5413 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5414 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5415 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5416 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5417 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5418
5419 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5420 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5421 the delivery.
5422
5423 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5424
5425 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5426
5427 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5428 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5429 to local_scan().
5430
5431 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5432 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5433 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5434 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5435 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5436
5437 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5438 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5439
5440 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5441
5442 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5443
544410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5445 header_sender only.
5446
544711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5448 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5449
545012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5451 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5452 affecting debugging statements).
5453
545413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5455
545614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5457 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5458 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5459 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5460 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5461 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5462 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5463 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5464 after the received time, and all would be well.
5465
546615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5467 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5468 condition in an expansion string.
5469
547016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5471
547217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5473 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5474 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5475 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5476 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5477 job under whatever limits there are.
5478
547918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5480
548119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5482 space).
5483
548420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5485 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5486 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5487 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5488 return path is set.
5489
549021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5491 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5492 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5493 binary data in such strings.
5494
549522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5496
549723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5498 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5499 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5500 failure, which is pointless.
5501
550224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5503
550425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5505
550626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5507 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5508 Sender: header lines.
5509
551027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5511 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5512 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5513
551428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5515 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5516 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5517 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5518 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5519 happens.
5520
552129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5522 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5523 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5524 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5525 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5526
552730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5528 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5529 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5530 1024.
5531
553231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5533 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5534
553532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5536 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5537
553833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5539
554032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5541
554233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5543
554434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5545 syntax error.
5546
554735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5548
554936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5550
555137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5552 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5553 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5554 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5555
555638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5557 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5558
5559
5560Exim version 4.42
5561-----------------
5562
5563 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5564 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5565 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5566 it was not quoted.
5567 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5568 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5569 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5570 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5571 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5572 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5573
5574 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5575 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5576 verification failure".
5577
5578 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5579 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5580 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5581 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5582
5583 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5584 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5585 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5586 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5587 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5588 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5589 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5590 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5591 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5592 treated as a timeout.
5593
5594 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5595 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5596 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5597 not set for Exim filters).
5598
5599 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5600 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5601 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5602
5603 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5604
5605 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5606 try to make them clearer.
5607
5608 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5609 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5610
5611 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5612
5613 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5614
561510. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5616 only the Cygwin environment.
5617
561811. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5619 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5620 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5621 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5622 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5623
562412. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5625 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5626 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5627 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5628 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5629 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5630 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5631
563213. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5633 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5634
563514. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5636
5637 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5638 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5639 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5640
5641 To: susanne@some.where
5642
5643 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5644 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5645 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5646 of addresses in From: header lines).
5647
5648 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5649 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5650 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5651
5652 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5653 treated as non-personal.
5654
5655 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5656 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5657
565815. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5659
566016. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5661
566217. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5663 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5664 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5665
566618. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5667 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5668
566919. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5670 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5671 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5672 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5673 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5674 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5675
567620. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5677 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5678 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5679 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5680 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5681 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5682 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5683 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5684
5685 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5686
568721. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5688 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5689
569022. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5691 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5692 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5693
569423. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5695 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5696
569724. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5698 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5699 rather than long int.
5700
570125. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5702
570326. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5704
5705
5706Exim version 4.41
5707-----------------
5708
5709 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5710 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5711 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5712 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5713 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5714 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5715
5716
5717Exim version 4.40
5718-----------------
5719
5720 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5721 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5722
5723 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5724 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5725 socklen_t is defined.
5726
5727 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5728 always exist.
5729
5730 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5731 configured.
5732
5733 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5734 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5735 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5736 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5737 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5738
5739 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5740 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5741 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5742 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5743
5744 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5745 of flapping under certain conditions.
5746
5747 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5748 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5749 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5750
5751 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5752
575310. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5754
575511. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5756 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5757 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5758 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5759
576012. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5761 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5762 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5763 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5764 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5765 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5766 preserved with the message after it was received.
5767
576813. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5769 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5770 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5771 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5772 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5773 test suite worked just fine.
5774
577514. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5776 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5777 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5778
577915. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5780 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5781 string.
5782
578316. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5784 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5785 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5786 does not fully solve it.
5787
578817. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5789 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5790 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5791 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5792 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5793
579418. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5795 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5796 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5797
579819. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5799 string, for example:
5800
5801 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5802
5803 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5804 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5805 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5806 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5807 the routers could not see them.
5808
580920. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5810 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5811
581221. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5813 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5814 output).
5815
581622. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5817 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5818 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5819 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5820 that needed quoting.
5821
582223. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5823 was not being matched caselessly.
5824
582524. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5826 backslashes.
5827
582825. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5829 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5830 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5831 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5832 when use_sender is false.
5833
583426. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5835
583627. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5837
583828. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5839
584029. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5841 the configuration file.
5842
584330. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5844 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5845
584631. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5847
584832. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5849 bytes in the message body.
5850
585133. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5852 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5853 delivery.
5854
585534. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5856
585735. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5858
585936. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5860 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5861 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5862 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5863 another IP address.
5864
5865
5866Exim version 4.34
5867-----------------
5868
5869 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5870 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5871
5872 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5873 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5874 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5875 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5876 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5877
5878 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5879 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5880
5881 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5882 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5883 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5884
5885 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5886 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5887 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5888
5889 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5890 for routers.
5891
5892 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5893 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5894 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5895 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5896 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5897 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5898 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5899
5900
5901Exim version 4.33
5902-----------------
5903
5904 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5905 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5906 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5907 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5908 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5909 default (and expected) setting.
5910
5911 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5912 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5913 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5914 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5915
5916 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5917 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5918
5919 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5920 in domain lists.
5921
5922 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5923 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5924 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5925 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5926 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5927 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5928
5929 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5930 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5931 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5932
5933 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5934 part (NOT match_host).
5935
5936 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5937
5938 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5939 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5940 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5941 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5942 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5943 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5944 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5945 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5946 the same named file.
5947
594810. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5949 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5950 when Exim is built.
5951
595211. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5953 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5954 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5955 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5956 a host name.
5957
595812. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5959 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5960 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5961
596213. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5963
596414. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5965
596615. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5967
596816. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5969 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5970
597117. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5972 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5973 before starting the TLS session.
5974
597518. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5976
597719. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5978 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5979
598020. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5981 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5982 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5983 colon in the middle).
5984
5985
5986Exim version 4.32
5987-----------------
5988
5989 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5990 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5991 multiple configurations are in use.
5992
5993 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5994 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5995 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5996 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5997 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5998 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5999
6000 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6001 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6002
6003 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6004 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6005 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6006
6007 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6008 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6009 occurs.
6010
6011 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6012 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6013
6014 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6015
6016 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6017 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6018
6019 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6020
6021 -prval:sval
6022
6023 is equivalent to
6024
6025 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6026
6027 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6028 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6029 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6030 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6031 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6032
603310. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6034 Exim's behaviour:
6035
6036 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6037 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6038 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6039 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6040 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6041 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6042
6043 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6044 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6045 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6046 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6047 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6048 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6049 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6050 string.
6051
6052 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6053 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6054 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6055 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6056 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6057
605811. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6059
606012. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6061 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6062 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6063
606413. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6065
606614. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6067 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6068 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6069 information.
6070
607115. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6072 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6073
607416. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6075 Three changes have been made:
6076
6077 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6078 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6079 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6080 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6081 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6082
6083 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6084 been restored.
6085
6086 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6087 the modified behaviour.
6088
6089
6090Exim version 4.31
6091-----------------
6092
6093 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6094 Larry Rosenman.
6095
6096 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6097 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6098
6099 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6100 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6101 try to track down a specific problem.
6102
6103 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6104 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6105 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6106
6107 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6108 warning.
6109
6110 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6111 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6112 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6113 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6114 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6115 some earlier ones do not.
6116
6117 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6118
6119 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6120 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6121 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6122 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6123 address literals are enabled, of course).
6124
6125 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6126
612710. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6128 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6129 by a command such as
6130
6131 exim -f "" ...
6132
6133 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6134
613511. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6136
613712. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6138 remained set. It is now erased.
6139
614013. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6141 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6142
614314. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6144 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6145 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6146 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6147 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6148 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6149 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6150 appropriate error code.
6151
615215. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6153 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6154 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6155 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6156 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6157 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6158
615916. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6160 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6161 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6162
616317. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6164 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6165 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6166 terminate the header.
6167
616818. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6169 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6170 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6171
617219. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6173 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6174 (4.30/29). In particular:
6175
6176 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6177 imposed.
6178
6179 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6180 to write a maildirsize file.
6181
6182 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6183 the transport, the new value overrides.
6184
6185 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6186 count.
6187
618820. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6189 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6190 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6191 space or a tab.
6192
619321. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6194 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6195 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6196 the fallback hosts.
6197
619822. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6199 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6200 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6201
620223. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6203 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6204 using a union.
6205
620624. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6207 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6208 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6209
621025. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6211
621226. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6213
621427. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6215
621628. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6217 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6218 become corrupted.
6219
622029. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6221 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6222 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6223 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6224 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6225 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6226 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6227 too great.
6228
622930. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6230 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6231 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6232 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6233 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6234 incorrectly.
6235
623631. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6237 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6238 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6239 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6240 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6241 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6242 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6243 cached value only when the same options are set.
6244
624532. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6246
624733. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6248 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6249 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6250 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6251 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6252
625334: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6254 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6255 it is clearly obsolete.
6256
625735. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6258 transport.
6259
626036. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6261 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6262 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6263 times.
6264
626537. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6266 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6267 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6268 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6269 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6270
627138. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6272 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6273 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6274 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6275
627639. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6277
6278 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6279
6280 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6281 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6282 2^31.
6283
628440. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6285 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6286 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6287 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6288 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6289 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6290 $localpart_data.
6291
629241. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6293 with the -f command-line option.
6294
629542. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6296 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6297 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6298 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6299 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6300 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6301
630243. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6303 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6304 line.
6305
630644. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6307 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6308 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6309 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6310 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6311 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6312 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6313 buffer is too small.
6314
631545. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6316 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6317
631846. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6319 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6320 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6321 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6322 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6323 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6324 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6325 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6326 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6327
632847. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6329 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6330 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6331
633248. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6333 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6334 ACL").
6335
633649. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6337 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6338 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6339 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6340 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6341
634250. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6343 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6344 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6345 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6346 is set.
6347
634851. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6349
635052. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6351
635253. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6353 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6354
635554. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6356 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6357 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6358
635955. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6360 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6361 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6362 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6363 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6364
636556. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6366 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6367 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6368 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6369 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6370 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6371 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6372
637357. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6374 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6375 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6376 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6377 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6378 the test of how many are available.
6379
638058. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6381 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6382 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6383 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6384 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6385 new message is started.
6386
638759. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6388 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6389
639060. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6391 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6392
639361. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6394 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6395 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6396 is no long logged.
6397
639862. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6399 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6400 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6401 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6402 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6403 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6404 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6405
640663. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6407 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6408 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6409 interpreted as octal.
6410
641164. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6412 setting.
6413
641465. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6415 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6416 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6417 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6418 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6419 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6420
642166. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6422 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6423 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6424 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6425
6426 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6427 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6428 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6429 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6430
6431 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6432 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6433 is a bug fix.
6434
6435 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6436 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6437
643867. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6439
644068. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6441 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6442 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6443 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6444
644569. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6446 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6447 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6448 supplied", which is not helpful.
6449
645070. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6451 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6452 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6453
645471. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6455 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6456 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6457 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6458 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6459 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6460 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6461 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6462
646372. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6464 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6465 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6466 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6467 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6468
646973. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6470 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6471 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6472 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6473 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6474 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6475
647674. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6477 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6478 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6479
648075. Added write_rejectlog option.
6481
648276. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6483 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6484 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6485 variables.
6486
648777. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6488
648978. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6490 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6491 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6492 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6493 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6494 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6495 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6496 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6497
649879. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6499 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6500 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6501 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6502 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6503
650480. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6505 Haardt.
6506
650781. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6508 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6509 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6510 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6511 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6512 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6513 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6514 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6515 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6516
6517
6518Exim version 4.30
6519-----------------
6520
6521 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6522 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6523 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6524
6525 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6526 fixed.
6527
6528 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6529 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6530 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6531
6532 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6533 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6534 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6535 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6536 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6537 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6538
6539 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6540 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6541 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6542 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6543 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6544 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6545 the Exim test suite.
6546
6547 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6548 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6549 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6550 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6551
6552 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6553 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6554 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6555 specify it in this variable.
6556
6557 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6558 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6559 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6560 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6561
6562 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6563 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6564 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6565 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6566
6567 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6568 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6569 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6570 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6571 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6572
6573 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6574
657510. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6576 they are logged.
6577
657811. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6579 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6580 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6581 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6582 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6583
658412. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6585 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6586
658713. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6588 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6589 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6590 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6591 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6592
659314. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6594 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6595
659615. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6597 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6598 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6599
660016. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6601 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6602
660317. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6604 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6605
660618. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6607 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6608 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6609
661019. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6611 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6612
661320. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6614 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6615 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6616 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6617
661821. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6619
662022. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6621 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6622 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6623 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6624
662523. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6626
662724. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6628 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6629
663025. Added .include_if_exists.
6631
663226. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6633 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6634 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6635 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6636 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6637 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6638
663927. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6640
664128. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6642 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6643 this.
6644
664529. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6646
664730. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6648 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6649
6650 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6651 550 Sender verify failed
6652
6653 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6654 the final line of the response.
6655
665631. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6657 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6658 all other user lookups.
6659
666032. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6661 delivery time.
6662
666333. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6664 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6665 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6666 result into an int without checking.
6667
666834. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6669 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6670 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6671
667235. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6673 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6674 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6675 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6676
667736. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6678 correctly.
6679
668037. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6681 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6682
668338. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6684 to the empty sender.
6685
668639. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6687 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6688 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6689 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6690 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6691 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6692 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6693 panic log.
6694
669540. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6696 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6697 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6698 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6699 used.
6700
670141. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6702 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6703
670442. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6705 timestamps.
6706
670743. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6708 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6709
671044. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6711
671245. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6713 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6714 logs.
6715
671646. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6717 as soon as it is encountered.
6718
671947. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6720
672148. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6722 rewritten to "<>".
6723
672449. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6725 recognizes a tab character.
6726
672750. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6728 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6729 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6730 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6731
673251. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6733
673452. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6735 crash.
6736
673753. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6738
673954. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6740
674155. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6742 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6743 2822.
6744
674556. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6746 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6747 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6748 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6749 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6750
675157. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6752 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6753
675458. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6755 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6756 list (.included file names were always shown).
6757
675859. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6759 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6760 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6761 root at that time.
6762
676360. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6764 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6765
676661. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6767
676862. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6769
677063. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6771
677264. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6773 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6774 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6775 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6776 failures to open the logs.
6777
677865. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6779 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6780 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6781 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6782 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6783 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6784 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6785
6786
6787Exim version 4.24
6788-----------------
6789
6790 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6791 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6792 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6793 change 4.23/1.
6794
6795 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6796 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6797 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6798
6799 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6800 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6801 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6802
6803 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6804 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6805 causing some misleading effects.
6806
6807 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6808 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6809 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6810
6811 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6812 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6813 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6814 queue-runner function directly.
6815
6816
6817Exim version 4.23
6818-----------------
6819
6820 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6821 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6822
6823 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6824 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6825 was always written to the default place.
6826
6827 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6828 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6829 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6830
6831 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6832
6833 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6834
6835 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6836 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6837 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6838
6839 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6840 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6841 must start.
6842
6843 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6844 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6845 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6846
6847 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6848 command line option is disabled.
6849
6850 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6851 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6852
6853 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6854
6855 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6856
6857 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6858 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6859
686010. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6861
686211. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6863 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6864 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6865 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6866 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6867 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6868
686912. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6870 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6871 timeout.
6872
687313. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6874 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6875
687614. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6877 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6878
687915. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6880 received was valid base64.
6881
688216. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6883 name of the variable that was being set.
6884
688517. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6886
688718. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6888 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6889 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6890 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6891 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6892 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6893
689419. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6895
689620. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6897 nor realm was specified.
6898
689921. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6900 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6901 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6902 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6903
690422. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6905 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6906 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6907
690823. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6909 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6910 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6911
691224. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6913 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6914 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6915 some systems use these upper case variants.
6916
691725. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6918 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6919 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6920 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6921
692226. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6923
692427. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6925 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6926
692728. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6928 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6929 expansion variable.
6930
693129. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6932
693330. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6934 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6935 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6936 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6937
693831. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6939 using it.
6940
694132. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6942 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6943 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6944
694533. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6946 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6947
694834. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6949 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6950 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6951 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6952
695335. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6954 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6955 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6956
695736. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6958
695937. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6960 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6961 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6962 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6963 aborted.
6964
696538. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6966 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6967 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6968
696939. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6970
697140. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6972 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6973
697441. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6975 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6976
697742. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6978 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6979 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6980 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6981 when emails are that large.
6982
6983
6984
6985Exim version 4.22
6986-----------------
6987
6988 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6989 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6990
6991 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6992 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6993 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6994
6995 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6996 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6997 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6998
6999 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7000 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7001 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7002 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7003 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7004
7005 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7006 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7007 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7008 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7009 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7010 ever.
7011
7012 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7013 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7014 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7015 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7016 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7017 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7018 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7019 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7020 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7021 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7022 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7023 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7024 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7025 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7026
7027 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7028 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7029 parameterised it.
7030
7031 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7032 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7033 error should be diagnosed.
7034
7035 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7036 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7037 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7038 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7039 appeared instead of "NULL".
7040
704110. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7042 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7043 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7044 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7045 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7046 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7047 proceeds).
7048
7049 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7050 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7051 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7052
7053
7054Exim version 4.21
7055-----------------
7056
7057 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7058 or receiver verification errors.
7059
7060 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7061 name.
7062
7063 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7064 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7065 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7066 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7067
7068 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7069 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7070 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7071 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7072 shouldn't happen again.
7073
7074 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7075 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7076 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7077
7078 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7079 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7080
7081 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7082
7083 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7084 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7085
7086 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7087 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7088 RFC.
7089
709010. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7091 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7092 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7093
709411. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7095 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7096 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7097 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7098
709912. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7100 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7101 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7102 to define what should happen).
7103
710413. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7105 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7106 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7107
710814. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7109
711015. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7111
711216. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7113 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7114
4c04137d 711517. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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7116 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7117 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7118 structure in all cases.
7119
7120 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7121 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7122 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7123 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7124
712518. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7126 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7127 domain name.
7128
712919. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7130 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7131
713220. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7133 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7134
713521. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7136 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7137 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7138
713922. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7140 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7141 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7142
714323. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7144 the book and for uniformity.
7145
714624. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7147
714825. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7149 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
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7150 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7151 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7152 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7153 non-existent command as the problem.
7154
715526. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7156 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7157 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7158
715927. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7160
716128. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7162 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7163 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7164
716529. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7166 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7167 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7168 timestamps using strftime().
7169
717030. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7171 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7172
717332. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7174 transport-time rewrites.
7175
717633. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7177 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7178 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7179 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7180
718134. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7182 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7183
718435. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7185 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7186 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7187 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7188 comma and a space.
7189
719036. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7191 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7192 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7193 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7194 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7195 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7196 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7197
719837. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7199 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7200 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7201 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7202 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7203
720438. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7205 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7206 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7207 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7208 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7209 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7210 remaining text gets split now.
7211
721239. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7213 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7214 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7215 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7216
721740. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7218 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7219 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7220 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7221 $return_path.
7222
722341. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7224 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7225 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7226 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7227 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7228 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7229 passed through if needed.
7230
723142. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7232 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7233 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7234 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7235 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7236 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7237
723843. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7239 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7240 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7241 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7242 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7243
724444. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7245 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7246 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7247 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7248 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7249
725045. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7251 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7252 noticed.
7253
725446. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7255 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7256 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7257 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7258 mayhem of various kinds.
7259
726047. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7261 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7262 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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7263 the right test for positive values.
7264
726548. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7266 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7267 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7268 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7269 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7270 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7271 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7272 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7273 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7274 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7275 envelope.
7276
727749. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7278 module.
7279
728050. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7281 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7282 forbidding it.
7283
728451. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7285 the existing equality matching.
7286
728752. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7288 dealing with inode numbers.
7289
729053. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7291 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7292 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7293
729454. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7295 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7296 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7297 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7298 local_scan().
7299
730055. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7301 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7302 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7303 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7304 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7305 relay addresses has also been removed.
7306
730756. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7308
730957. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7310 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7311 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7312
731358. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7314 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7315 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7316 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7317 processing applies to CR:
7318
7319 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7320 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7321
7322 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7323 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7324 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7325 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7326
732759. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7328 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7329 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7330
733160. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7332 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7333 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7334 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7335 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7336 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7337 arisen.
7338
733961. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7340 program routers.
7341
734262. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7343 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7344 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7345 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7346 adds:
7347
7348 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7349
7350 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7351
7352 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7353
735463. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7355 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7356 not considered personal.
7357
735864. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7359
736065. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7361
736266. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7363
736467. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7365 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7366 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7367 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7368 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7369 header lines, and spool format errors.
7370
737168. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7372 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7373 for more flexibility.
7374
737569. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7376 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7377 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7378
737970. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7380 Sabourenkov.
7381
738271. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7383 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7384 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7385 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7386 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7387 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7388 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7389 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7390 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7391
739272. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7393 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7394 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7395 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7396 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7397 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7398 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7399
740073. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7401 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7402 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7403
740474. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7405 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7406 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7407 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7408 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7409 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7410 instead of killing the process with assert().
7411
741275. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7413 than Unicode encoding.
7414
741576. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7416 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7417 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7418 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7419
742077. Added process_log_path.
7421
742278. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7423 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7424
742579. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7426 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7427
742880. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7429 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7430 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7431
743281. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7433 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7434 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7435 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7436 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7437 were applied:
7438
7439 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7440 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7441 as invalid.
7442
744382. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7444 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7445 they will be used during message reception.
7446
7447
7448Exim version 4.20
7449-----------------
7450
7451The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7452
7453****