eximstats DATA reject detection regexps improved. Fixes: #1093
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.78
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7PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
8 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
9 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
10
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11NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
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13NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
14 improved.
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19Exim version 4.77
20-----------------
21
22PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
23 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
24
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25TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
26
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27TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
28 whitespace trailer
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30TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
31 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
32
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33TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
34 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
35 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
36
37 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
38 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
39 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
40 not safe for signals.
41
42 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
43 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
44 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
45 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
46 exiwhat.
47
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48TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
49
50 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
51 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
52 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
53 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
54 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
55
56 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
57 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
58 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
59 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
60 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
61 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
62
63 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
64 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
65 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
66 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
67
68 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
69 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
70 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
71 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
72
73 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
74 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
75 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
76 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
77 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
78 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
79 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
80 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
81 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
82
83 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
84 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
85 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
86 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
87
88 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
89 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
90 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
91 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
92 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
93 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
94 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
95 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
96 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
97 details in the main documentation.
98
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99TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
100
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101TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
102
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103TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
104 repository when doing development or release builds.
105
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106PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
107 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 108
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109PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
110 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
111 Bugzilla 97.
112
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113PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
114
9e949f00 115PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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116 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
117
118PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
119 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 120
555ae6af 121PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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122 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
123
124PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
125 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 126
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127PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
128 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
129
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130PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
131 Bugzilla 1156.
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132 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
133 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 134
d6cc7c78 135PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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136 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
137 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
138
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139PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
140
3399bb60 141PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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142
143PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
144 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
145
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147Exim version 4.76
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149
150PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
151
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152PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
153 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
154
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155PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
156
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157PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
158
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159PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
160 Bugzilla 1098.
161
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162PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
163 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 164
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165TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
166 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
167
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168PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
169 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
170
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171PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
172 Bugzilla 1104.
173
c8d52a00 174TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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175 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
176
177TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
178 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
179 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
180 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
181
182PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
183 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 184
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186Exim version 4.75
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188
4c9ef03a 189NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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190 Bugzilla 1073
191
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192TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
193 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
194 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
195
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196TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
197 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
198
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199PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
200 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
201 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
202
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203PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
204 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
205
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206PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
207 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
208
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209NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
210 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
211
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212NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
213 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
214
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215PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
216 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 217
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218NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
219 Fixes bug 943.
220
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221PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
222 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
223
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224PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
225 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
226
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227PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
228 SQL string expansion failure details.
229 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
230
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231PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
232 Patch from Simon Arlott.
233
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234PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
235 extern declarations in function scope.
236 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
237
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238PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
239 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
240 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
241 a kernel bug).
242
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243PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
244 Patch from Mark Zealey.
245
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246PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
247 Patch from Mark Zealey.
248
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249PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
250 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
251
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252PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
253 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
254
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255NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
256 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
257 Dennis Davis.
258
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259PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
260
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261PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
262
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263NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
264 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 265
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266TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
267 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
268
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270Exim version 4.74
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272
273TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
274 consequences so log it to the panic log.
275
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276TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
277 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
278
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279TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
280
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281DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
282 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
283 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
284
285PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
286 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
287 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
288
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289PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
290 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
291 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
292 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
293
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294PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
295 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
296 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
297 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
298
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299PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
300 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
301 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
302 arbitrary files.
303
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304PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
305 (Wolfgang Breyha)
306
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307PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
308 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
309 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
310 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
311 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
312
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316
317PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
318 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
319 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
320
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321PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
322 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
323
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324JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
325
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326PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
327
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328PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
329
ec5a0394 330PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 331
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332PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
333
453a6645 334PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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335 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
336 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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337 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
338
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339PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
340 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
341 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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342 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
343 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 344
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345PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
346
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347PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
348
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349PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
350
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351PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
352
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353PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
354
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355PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
356
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357PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
358
6a8de854 359PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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360 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
361 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 362
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363JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
364
365JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
366 "exim" to be used
55c75993 367
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368PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
369 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
370
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371PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
372 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
373 Notification from John Horne.
374
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375PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
376 compatible.
377
378PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
379 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
380 it normally works.
381
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382DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
383 access.
384
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385DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
386 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
387 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
388
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389DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
390 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
391 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
392 configuration file.
393
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394DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
395 option (effectively making it always true).
396
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397DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
398 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
399
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400DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
401 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
402
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403PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
404 run-time user, instead of root.
405
43236f35 406PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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407 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
408
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409DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
410 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
411 arguments.
3346ab01 412
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413DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
414 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
415 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
416
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417DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
418
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419NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
420
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422Exim version 4.72
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424
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425JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
426 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
427 typos
465e92cf 428
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429JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
430 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
431 (Finput)
edae0343 432
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433NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
434 Patch from Alain Williams
435
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436NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
437
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438NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
439 Patch from Andreas Metzler
440
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441NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
442 Patch from Kirill Miazine
443
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444NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
445
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446JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
447
a466095c 448NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 449 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 450
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451TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
452
453TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
454
455MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
456 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
457 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
458
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459NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
460 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 461
b26eacf1 462NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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463 Patch by Simon Arlott
464
179c5980 465PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 466 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 467
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469Exim version 4.71
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471
7d9f747b 472TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 473
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474NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
475
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476NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
477
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478NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
479
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480NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
481
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483Exim version 4.70
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485
cdd3bb85 486TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 487 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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488
489TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
490 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 491 Hirsch).
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492
493TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
494 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 495 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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496
497TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
498 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
499
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500NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
501 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
502 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
503 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
504
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505NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
506 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 507 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 508
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509TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
510
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511TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
512
dae9d94e 513NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 514 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 515
7d9f747b 516NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 517
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518TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
519 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
520 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
521 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
522
65a7d8c3 523NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 524 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 525
23510047 526TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 527
7d9f747b 528NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 529
7d8eec3a 530NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 531 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 532
89dec7b6
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533TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
534 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 535
a99de90c
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536TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
537 that they are available at delivery time.
538
e2803e40
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539TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
540
7199e1ee
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541TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
542 incoming_port log selectors.
543
e276e04b
TF
544TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
545 setting expands to an empty string.
546
ce552449 547NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 548 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 549
e765a0f1 550NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 551 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 552
4f054c63 553NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 554 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 555
7d9f747b
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556NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
557 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 558
7d9f747b
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559NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
560 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 561
b52bc06e 562NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 563 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 564
447de4b0
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565NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
566
4c69d561 567NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 568 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 569
d5c39246 570NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 571 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 572
0b23848a
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573TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
574
8f3414a1 575NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 576 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 577
fb6f955d
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578NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
579
580NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 581
7d9f747b
PP
582NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
583 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 584
7d9f747b
PP
585NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
586 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 587
7d9f747b
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588NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
589 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 590
7d9f747b
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591NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
592 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 593
7d9f747b
PP
594NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
595 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 596
7d9f747b
PP
597NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
598 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 599
7d9f747b
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600NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
601 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 602
7d9f747b 603NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 604 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 605
7d9f747b 606NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 607
7d9f747b
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608NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
609 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 610
7d9f747b 611NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 612
7d9f747b 613NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 614
7d9f747b 615NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 616
7d9f747b 617NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 618
17792b53 619NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 620 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 621
7d9f747b
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622NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
623 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 624
7d9f747b
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625NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
626 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 627
7d9f747b
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628NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
629 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 630
7d9f747b 631NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 632
7d9f747b 633NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 634
7d9f747b 635NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 636
7d9f747b 637NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 638
deafd5b3 639
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641-----------------
642
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643TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
644 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
645 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
646
647 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
648 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
649 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
650 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
651 build errors in sieve.c.
652
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653NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
654 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
655 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
656
f13cddcb
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657SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
658
7d9f747b 659NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 660
7d9f747b 661NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 662
7d9f747b 663NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
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664
665
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666Exim version 4.68
667-----------------
668
669PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
670
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671PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
672 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
673 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
674 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
675 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
676 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
677 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
678 for iplsearch lookups.
679
680 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
681 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
682 previously such lookups could never work.
683
684 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
685 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
686 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
687
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688TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
689 version.
690
0806a9c5
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691MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
692 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
693 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
694 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
695 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
696 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
697
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698TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
699 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
700
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701MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
702 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
703 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
704 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
705 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
706 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
707
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708PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
709 local_scan API.
710
93655c46
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711PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
712
6c512171
PH
713PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
714 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
715 encrypted.
716
717PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
718 by clients under certain conditions.
719
aa6dc513
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720PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
721 "_responses" off the end of the name.
722
a96603a0
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723PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
724
8f240103
PH
725PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
726 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
727
728PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
729
d677b2f2
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730PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
731
d52120f2
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732PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
733
64f2600a
PH
734PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
735 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
736
8669f003
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737PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
738
a4dc33a8
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739PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
740 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
741
d6a60c0f
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742PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
743
8f128379
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744PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
745
8932dffe
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746PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
747 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
748 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
749 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 750
ddea74fa 751PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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752 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
753 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
754
ddea74fa 755PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
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756 and InterBase are left for another time.)
757
ddea74fa
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758PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
759
ce9f225c
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760PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
761
19897d52
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762PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
763
bc64a74d
PH
764PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
765 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
766 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
767
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769Exim version 4.67
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771
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772MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
773 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
774 Jan Srzednicki.
775
b4ed4da0
PH
776PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
777 issue a MAIL command.
778
431b7361
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779PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
780
781 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
782
783 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
784 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
785 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
786 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
787 item. This has been fixed.
788
789PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
790 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
791
83da1223
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792PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
793 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
794
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795PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
796 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
797 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
798
34c5e8dd
SC
799SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
800
bbe15da8
PH
801PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
802 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
803 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
804 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
805 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
806
0e8a9471
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807MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
808 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
809 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
810
f0872424
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811PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
812 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
813 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
814 the server_setid option was incorrect.
815
b01dd148
PH
816PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
817
6bf342e1
PH
818PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
819
273f34d0
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820PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
821 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
822 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
823 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
824 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
825
cf8b11a5
PH
826PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
827
41c7c167
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828PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
829 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
830 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
831 values).
832
9c57cbc0
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833PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
834
f3f065bb
PH
835PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
836
047bdd8c
PH
837PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
838
0ce9abe6
PH
839PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
840
0e22dfd1
PH
841PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
842
4c590bd1
PH
843PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
844 no_callout_flush is set.
845
09945f1e
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846PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
847 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
848 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
849 fixed.
850
c51b8e75
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851PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
852
e28326d8
PH
853PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
854 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
855 other ACL rejections are.
856
75b1493f
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857PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
858 with slight modification.
859
7c5214ec
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860PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
861 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
862
4311097e
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863PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
864 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
865 connection.
866
29f89cad
PH
867PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
868 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
869
5e687460
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870SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
871
c3611384
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872PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
873 expansion side effects.
874
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875PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
876 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
877 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
878 be the same.
879
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880MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
881 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
882 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
883
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884PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
885 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
886 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
887 were accidentally chopped off.
888
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889PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
890 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
891 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
892 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
893 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
894 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
895 pipelining has not been advertised.
896
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897PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
898
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899PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
900 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
901 This has been fixed.
902
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903PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
904 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
905 reported on Solaris.
906
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907PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
908 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
909 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
910 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
911 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
912 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
913 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
914
dee5a20a
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915PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
916 cpus.
917
d2ee6114
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918PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
919
b2d5182b
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920PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
921
79749a79
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922PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
923 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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PH
924 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
925 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
926 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
927 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 928
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929PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
930 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
931 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
932 host_all_ignored option.
933
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934PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
935 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
936 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
937 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
938 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
939 is what is supposed to happen).
940
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941PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
942 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
943 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
944 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
945 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
946 uses the Exim user.
947
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948PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
949 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
950 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
951 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
952 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
953 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
954 users.
955
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956PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
957
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958SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
959 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
960 (Jez Hancock).
961 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
962 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
963
3298c6c6
SC
964SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
965
a43a27c5
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966PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
967
58eb016e 968PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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969 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
970 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
971 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
972 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
973 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
974 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
975 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 976 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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977 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
978 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 979
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980PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
981 advertised in response to EHLO.
982
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986
987PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
988 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
989
990 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
991 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
992
993 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
994 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
995 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
996
997 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
998 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
999 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1000 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1001 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1002
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1006
1007TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1008 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1009 versions. (#438)
1010
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MH
1011MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1012 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1013 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1014
4362ff0d
PH
1015PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1016 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1017 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1018 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1019 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1020 rather than extend the field.
1021
93cfa765 1022
944e9e9c
TF
1023Exim version 4.64
1024-----------------
aa41d2de 1025
21d74bd9
TK
1026TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1027 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1028 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1029 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1030 these files.
1031
1032TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1033 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1034 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1035
1036TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1037 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1038 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1039
1040TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1041 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1042 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1043 in the field name.
1044
2b1c6e3a
PH
1045PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1046 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1047 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1048 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1049 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1050 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1051 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1052 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1053 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1054 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1055 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1056
1f872c80
PH
1057PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1058 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1059
1060PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1061 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1062 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1063 ignores EPIPE as well.
1064
d203e649
PH
1065PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1066 (quoted-printable decoding).
1067
cc2ed8f7 1068PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1069 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1070
ddfcd446
PH
1071PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1072
d45b1de8
PH
1073PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1074
1075PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1076
38a0a95f 1077PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1078 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1079
a2405d83
JJ
1080JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1081 in 4.64-PH/09.
1082
1083JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1084 miscellaneous code fixes
1085
6ea85e9a
PH
1086PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1087 rejections.
1088
26da7e20
PH
1089PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1090 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1091 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1092 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1093 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1094 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1095 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1096 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1097
14aa5a05 1098PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1099 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1100 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1101 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1102 function.
1103 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1104 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1105 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1106 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1107 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1108 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1109 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1110 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1111 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1112
ff75a1f7
PH
1113PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1114 decoding.
1115
e6f6568e
PH
1116PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1117 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1118 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1119 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1120 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1121 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1122 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1123 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1124
d6f6e0dc
PH
1125PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1126 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1127 list.
1128
322050c2
PH
1129PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1130 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1131 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1132 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1133 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1134 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1135 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1136 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1137 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1138 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1139 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1140 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1141 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1142
08955dd3
PH
1143PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1144 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1145 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1146 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1147 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1148 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1149 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1150
1eccaa59
PH
1151PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1152 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1153 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1154 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1155 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1156 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1157 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1158 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1159 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1160 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1161
602e59e5
PH
1162PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1163 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1164 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1165 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1166 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1167
411ef850
PH
1168PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1169 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1170 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1171 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1172 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1173 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1174 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1175
7befa435
PH
1176PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1177 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1178 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1179 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1180 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1181 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1182 been verified.
1183
48da4259 1184PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1185 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1186 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1187 and authorization.)
1188
48da4259
PH
1189PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1190 if any retry times were supplied.
1191
d1d5595c
PH
1192PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1193 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1194 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1195
0ef732d9
PH
1196PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1197
328895cc
PH
1198PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1199
fd700877
PH
1200PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1201 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1202 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1203 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1204 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1205 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1206
8dce1a6f
PH
1207PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1208 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1209
17af4a17
PH
1210PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1211 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1212 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1213
1214PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1215 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1216 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1217 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1218 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1219 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1220 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1221 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1222 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1223
1224 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1225 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1226 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1227 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1228 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1229 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1230 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1231 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1232 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1233
1234 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1235 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1236 hammering the server.
1237
c1114884
PH
1238PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1239 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1240
7a0743eb
PH
1241PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1242
0d85fa3f
PH
1243PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1244 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1245 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1246
1bf43b78
PH
1247PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1248 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1249 one case where this was not true.
1250
520de300
PH
1251PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1252 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1253 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1254 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1255 fails.
1256
48c7f9e2
PH
1257PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1258 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1259 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1260 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1261 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1262 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1263 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1264 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1265 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1266 smtp transport.
1267
99ea1c86
PH
1268PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1269 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1270 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1271 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1272
a2042e78
PH
1273PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1274 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1275
4fbcfc2e
PH
1276PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1277 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1278 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1279
aa41d2de
PH
1280PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1281
af561417
PH
1282PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1283
3cc66b45
PH
1284PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1285
194cc0e4
PH
1286PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1287 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1288 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1289 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1290
a401ddaa
PH
1291PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1292 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1293
4e88a19f
PH
1294PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1295 be meaningful with "accept".
1296
d7d7b289
SC
1297SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1298 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1299
1300SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1301 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1302 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1303
1304SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1305 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1306 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1307 there is data to show.
1308 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1309
1310SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1311 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1312 as well as the number of messages.
1313
1314SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1315 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1316 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1317
1318SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1319 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1320 have a flag are now skipped.
1321
1322SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1323 Added the -emptyok flag.
1324
1325SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1326 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1327
0ea2a468
JJ
1328JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1329 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1330 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1331
1332JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1333 match 4.64-PH/13
1334
1335JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1336 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1337
1338JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1339
1340JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1341 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1342
8a10f5a4
PH
1343PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1344
30e18802
PH
1345PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1346 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1347 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1348 contravention of the specifications.
1349
55728a4f
PH
1350PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1351 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1352 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1353
d7837193
PH
1354PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1355 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1356 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1357
87054a31
PH
1358PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1359
ea2c01d2
MH
1360MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1361 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1362 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1363 some point in the past.
1364
e4fa6968
PH
1365PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1366 transport during callout processing was broken.
1367
56f5d9bd
PH
1368PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1369 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1370
922e1c28
PH
1371PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1372 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1373
21eb6e72
PH
1374PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1375 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1376
a0540757
PH
1377PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1378
944e9e9c 1379
478be7b0
SC
1380Exim version 4.63
1381-----------------
1382
1383SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1384 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1385
1386SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1387 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1388 there is data to show.
1389 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1390
1391SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1392 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1393
2b965a65
TF
1394TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1395 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1396
45b91596
PH
1397TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1398 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1399
c59f5781
TF
1400TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1401 submissions from trusted users.
1402
90fc3069
TF
1403TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1404 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1405
6083aca0
TF
1406TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1407 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1408 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1409 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1410 there is now a framework to start from.
1411
765b530f
PH
1412PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1413 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1414 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1415
4e167a8c
PH
1416PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1417
4608d683
PH
1418PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1419
b8dc3e4a
PH
1420PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1421
5418e93b
PH
1422PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1423 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1424 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1425
b4a9bda2
PH
1426PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1427 libradius.
1428
45b91596
PH
1429PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1430 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1431 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1432
5547e2c5
PH
1433PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1434 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1435 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1436 its arguments.
1437
dbcef0ea
PH
1438PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1439 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1440 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1441 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1442 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1443
25257489
PH
1444PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1445 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1446
c816d124
PH
1447PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1448
a9ccd69a
PH
1449PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1450 operations in malware.c.
1451
75fa1910
PH
1452PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1453 signatures.
1454
a7d7aa58
PH
1455PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1456 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1457 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1458 all.
1459
42119b09
PH
1460PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1461 statements to "add_header".
1462
41609df5
PH
1463PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1464 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1465
a5bd321b
PH
1466PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1467 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1468 latter.
1469
e85a7ad5 1470PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1471 so that it is now:
1472
e85a7ad5
PH
1473 ${if or { \
1474 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1475 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1476 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1477 }{no}{yes}}
1478
e85a7ad5
PH
1479 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1480 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1481
d8fe1c03
PH
1482PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1483 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1484
16282d2b
PH
1485PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1486 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1487 any possible encoding problems.
1488
35d40a98
PH
1489PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1490 but not after initializing Perl.
1491
034d99ab
PH
1492PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1493 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1494 apparently, which is not desirable.
1495
6ec97b1b
PH
1496PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1497 queries.
1498
e22ca4ac
JJ
1499JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1500 --not options
1501
1502JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1503
33d73e3b
PH
1504PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1505 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1506 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1507 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1508
9ecb03f3
PH
1509PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1510 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1511 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1512
084efe8d
PH
1513PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1514 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1515 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1516 0.12.
1517
366fc9f0
PH
1518PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1519 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1520 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1521 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1522 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1523
c59f5781 1524
c887c79e
TF
1525Exim version 4.62
1526-----------------
1527
1528TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1529 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1530
1cce3af8
PH
1531PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1532 patch).
1533
afb3eaaf
PH
1534PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1535 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1536 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1537 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1538 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1539 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1540 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1541 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1542 451 error is used.
1543
e173618b
PH
1544PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1545
dd16e114
PH
1546PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1547 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1548 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1549
f7fd3850
PH
1550PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1551 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1552 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1553 odd errors.
1554
d87df92c
PH
1555PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1556 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1557
7e9f683d
PH
1558PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1559 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1560 option (which defaults to 0600).
1561
bfad5236
PH
1562PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1563
01c490df
PH
1564PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1565 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1566 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1567 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1568 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1569 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1570 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1571
d6629cdc
PH
1572PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1573
1cce3af8 1574
214e2000
PH
1575Exim version 4.61
1576-----------------
1577
1578PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1579 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1580 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1581 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1582 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1583 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1584 addresses as local.
1585
f9daeae0
PH
1586PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1587 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1588
7e66e54d
PH
1589PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1590
c8ea1597
PH
1591PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1592 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1593 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1594 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1595 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1596 grumble.
1597
911f6fde
PH
1598PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1599 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1600
47ca6d6c
PH
1601PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1602 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1603 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1604 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1605 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1606
ed0e9820
PH
1607PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1608 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1609 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1610 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1611
eff37e47
PH
1612PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1613 be the same on different OS.
1614
1921d2ea
PH
1615PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1616 testing.
1617
b3f69ca8
JJ
1618JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1619 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1620
1621JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1622 in 4.61-PH/06
1623
424a1c63
PH
1624PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1625 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1626 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1627 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1628 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1629 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1630 bounce message.
1631
7a100415
PH
1632PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1633 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1634 when Exim was called.
1635
19b9dc85
PH
1636PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1637 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1638
309bd837
PH
1639PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1640 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1641 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1642 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1643
59e82a2a
PH
1644PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1645 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1646 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1647 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1648 changes:
1649
1650 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1651 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1652 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1653
1654 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1655 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1656 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1657
9edc04ce
PH
1658PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1659 feature).
1660
1349e1e5
PH
1661PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1662 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1663 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1664 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1665 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1666 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1667 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1668 values from the SRV records were lost.
1669
ea49d0e1
PH
1670PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1671 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1672 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1673
064a94c9
PH
1674PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1675 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1676 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1677
727071f8
PH
1678PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1679 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1680 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1681 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1682 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1683 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1684 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1685 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1686 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1687 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1688
f78eb7c6
PH
1689PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1690 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1691 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1692
21c28500
PH
1693PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1694 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1695
1696PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1697 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1698 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1699 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1700 is given.
1701
1688f43b
PH
1702PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1703 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1704 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1705
1706PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1707 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1708 PH/23 above applies.
1709
9675b384
PH
1710PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1711 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1712 (for which there is an explicit test).
1713
6a3f1455
PH
1714PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1715
dac79d3e
PH
1716PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1717 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1718 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1719 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1720 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1721
5977a0b3
PH
1722PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1723 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1724 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1725 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1726
c91535f3
PH
1727PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1728 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1729 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1730
0d46a8c8
PH
1731PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1732
278c6e6c
PH
1733PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1734
2cbb4081
PH
1735PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1736 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1737 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1738
3eef829e
PH
1739PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1740 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1741 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1742 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1743 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1744
1ab95fa6
PH
1745PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1746 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1747 the message gets confusing).
1748
230205fc
PH
1749PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1750 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1751 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1752 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1753
75e0e026
PH
1754PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1755 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1756 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1757 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1758 same order.
1759
1760PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1761 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1762 the different processes.
1763
145396a6
PH
1764PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1765
3cd34f13
PH
1766PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1767
11121d3d
JJ
1768JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1769 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1770
1771JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1772 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1773
1774JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1775 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1776 messages matching specified criteria.
1777
8def5aaf
PH
1778PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1779
929ba01c
PH
1780PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1781 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1782
2632889e
PH
1783PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1784 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1785 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1786 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1787 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1788 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1789 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1790 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1791 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1792 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1793
944a9c55
PH
1794PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1795 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1796 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1797
4a23603b
PH
1798PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1799
4730f942
PH
1800PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1801 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1802 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1803 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1804 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1805 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1806 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1807 the variable.
1808
30dba1e6
PH
1809PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1810 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1811
382afc6b
PH
1812PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1813
a86229cf
PH
1814PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1815
50c99ba6
PH
1816PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1817
d35e429d
PH
1818PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1819 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1820 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1821 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1822 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1823 size of the count of files.
1824
f90d018c
PH
1825PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1826
75def545
PH
1827PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1828 used in LMTP mode:
1829
1830 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1831 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1832 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1833 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1834
1835 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1836 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1837 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1838
1839PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1840 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1841 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1842 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1843 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1844
c46782ef
PH
1845PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1846 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1847
71fafd95
PH
1848PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1849 will now be deprecated.
1850
2c5db4fd
PH
1851PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1852
9cf6b11a
JJ
1853JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1854 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1855 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1856
1857JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1858 with very large, slow to parse queues
1859
1860JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1861
1862JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1863
898d150f
PH
1864PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1865 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1866 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1867 SMTP output lines.
1868
46218253
PH
1869PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1870 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1871 Sieve code now uses this.
1872
e97957bc
PH
1873PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1874 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1875
81e509d7
PH
1876PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1877 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1878
3d240ff7
PH
1879PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1880
b37c4101
PH
1881PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1882 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1883 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1884 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1885 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1886
79378e0f
PH
1887PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1888 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1889 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1890 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1891
e49c7bb4
PH
1892PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1893
d114ec46
PH
1894PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1895
f3d7df6c
PH
1896PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1897 is preferred over IPv4.
1898
715ab376
PH
1899PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1900 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1901 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1902 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1903 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1904 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1905 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1906
6b31b150
PH
1907PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1908 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1909 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1910
1911PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1912
d515a917
PH
1913PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1914 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1915 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1916 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1917 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1918 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1919 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1920 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1921 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1922 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1923 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1924
9b8fadde
PH
1925PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1926 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1927 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1928
214e2000 1929
5de37277
PH
1930Exim version 4.60
1931-----------------
1932
cc38ddbf
PH
1933PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1934
1935 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1936 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1937
1938 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1939 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1940 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1941
72fdd6ae
PH
1942PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1943
1944 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1945 not a single digit.
1946
1947 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1948 string.
1949
1950 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1951 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1952 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1953 silly things.
1954
1955 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1956 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1957
1958 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1959 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1960
cb741023
PH
1961PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1962 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1963 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1964
f174f16e
PH
1965PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1966 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1967
c25242d7
PH
1968PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1969 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1970
1971 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1972
1973 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1974 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1975 this:
1976
1977 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1978
82c19f95
PH
1979PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1980 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1981 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1982 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1983 identical. For example:
1984
1985 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1986
1987 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1988 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1989 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1990
d7ffbc12
PH
1991PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1992 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1993 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1994 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1995
9f526266
PH
1996PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1997 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1998 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1999 message.
2000
87fcc8b9
PH
2001PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2002
2003 o fixes some comments
2004 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2005 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2006 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2007 and documents the missing references header update
2008
2009 and most important:
2010
2011 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2012 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2013 result)
2014
456682f5
PH
2015PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2016 Electronic Mail") by including:
2017
2018 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2019
2020 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2021 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2022 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2023 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2024 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2025
2026 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2027
2028 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2029
2030 The auto-replied keyword:
2031
2032 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2033 message by an automatic process,
2034
2035 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2036
2037 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2038 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2039
2040 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2041 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2042 other messages.
2043
3e46c1aa
PH
2044PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2045 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2046
49826d12
PH
2047PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2048
eba0c039
PH
2049PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2050 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2051 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2052
a0d6ba8a
PH
2053PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2054 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2055 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2056
f0917727
PH
2057PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2058 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2059 and treats the condition as false.
2060
096fee00
PH
2061PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2062
024bd3c2
PH
2063PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2064 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2065 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2066 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2067 not changing the active code.
2068
2069 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2070 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2071
2072 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2073 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2074
df199fec
PH
2075PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2076 (Bugzilla #53).
2077
d27f1df3
PH
2078PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2079 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2080 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2081 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2082 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2083 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2084 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2085 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2086 the text comparison.
2087
96776534
PH
2088PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2089 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2090 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2091 The same fix has been applied.
2092
5de37277 2093
9a799bc0
PH
2094Exim version 4.54
2095-----------------
2096
2097PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2098 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2099 It now does.
2100
99a4b039
PH
2101PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2102 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2103
2104PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2105
4b233853
PH
2106PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2107 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2108 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2109 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2110 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2111
8857ccfd
PH
2112TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2113 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2114 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2115 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2116 or /domain=).
2117
433a2980
PH
2118PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2119 testing suite.
2120
3e46c1aa 2121
9a799bc0 2122
e3a311ba
TK
2123Exim version 4.53
2124-----------------
2125
2126TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2127 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2128
13b685f9
PH
2129PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2130
395ff96d
PH
2131PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2132
5b68f6e4
PH
2133PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2134 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2135 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2136
1ab52c69
PH
2137PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2138 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2139 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2140
b07e6aa3
PH
2141PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2142 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2143 operating systems.
2144
254e032f
PH
2145PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2146 ${stat: expansion item.
2147
3af76a81
PH
2148PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2149 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2150
2548ba04
PH
2151PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2152 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2153 file for comments.
2154
b6c6011d
PH
2155PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2156
cf39cf57
PH
2157PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2158 setting.
2159
f1513293
PH
2160PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2161 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2162
727549a4
PH
2163TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2164
af46795e
PH
2165PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2166 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2167 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2168 the end of the subprocess.
2169
d7b47fd0
PH
2170PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2171 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2172 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2173 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2174 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2175
ee744174
JJ
2176JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2177
b582ab87
PH
2178TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2179
41a13e0a
PH
2180PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2181 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2182
f625cc5a
PH
2183PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2184
2185PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2186
21f7af35
PH
2187PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2188 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2189 HP-UX compiler.
2190
31480e42
PH
2191PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2192
2d280592
PH
2193PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2194 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2195 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2196
7cd1141b
PH
2197PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2198 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2199
2200PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2201 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2202
750af86e
PH
2203PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2204 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2205
2206 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2207 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2208
2209 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2210 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2211 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2212 contributed by a Radius user.
2213
2214PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2215 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2216
4304270b
TK
2217TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2218 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2219
750af86e
PH
2220PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2221 available.
2222
64ffc24f
PH
2223PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2224 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2225 received.
2226
5dd9625b
PH
2227PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2228 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2229 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2230 header lines when this was not necessary.
2231
5591031b
PH
2232PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2233
ba18e66a
PH
2234PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2235 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2236 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2237 exists".
2238
9cec981f
PH
2239PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2240 -bV or -d is used.
2241
aa2b5c79
PH
2242PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2243 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2244 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2245 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2246
48a53b7f
PH
2247PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2248
1c59d63b
PH
2249PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2250
671012da
TK
2251TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2252
1509d3a8
PH
2253PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2254
2255PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2256 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2257 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2258 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2259 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2260 settings.
2261
2262PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2263
2fe1a124
PH
2264PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2265 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2266 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2267 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2268 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2269 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2270 which is clearly wrong.
2271
8800895a
PH
2272PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2273
ccfdb010
PH
2274PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2275 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2276 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2277 subsequently added.
2278
1130bfb0
PH
2279PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2280 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2281
ebcb507f
PH
2282PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2283
c35e155c
PH
2284PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2285 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2286
95d1f782
PH
2287PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2288 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2289
fd6de02e
PH
2290PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2291 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2292
58de37c5
PH
2293PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2294 recipients, not senders.
2295
261cf466
TF
2296TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2297 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2298
3ee512ff
PH
2299PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2300
e08c430f
PH
2301PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2302
bef5a11f
PH
2303PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2304 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2305 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2306 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2307
7546de58
TF
2308TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2309
e5d5a95f
TF
2310TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2311 clock is set back in time.
2312
2e88a017
TF
2313TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2314 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2315
a5f65aa4
TF
2316TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2317 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2318
e7726cbf
PH
2319PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2320 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2321 (see PH/47 above).
2322
a7fdad5b
TF
2323TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2324 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2325 header rewrites.
2326
6af56900
PH
2327PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2328 type ("H").
2329
0925ede6
PH
2330PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2331
66afa403
TF
2332TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2333 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2334 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2335
0154e85a
TF
2336TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2337 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2338 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2339 helo verification defer as a failure.
2340
16f12c76
PH
2341PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2342 actual error message.
2343
bbe902f0 2344
e5a9dba6
PH
2345Exim version 4.52
2346-----------------
2347
2348TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2349
22c3b60b
PH
2350PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2351 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2352 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2353 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2354
06a9b4b5
PH
2355TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2356
c1ac6996
PH
2357PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2358 can still be requested.
2359
9c7a242c
PH
2360PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2361 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2362 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2363 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2364
87ba3f5f
PH
2365TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2366 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2367 circumstances, but probably never did.
2368
2369PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2370 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2371 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2372 in the header line.
2373
29aba418
TF
2374TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2375
fe0dab11
TF
2376TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2377 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2378
11d337a4
TK
2379TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2380
2381TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2382
415c8f3b
PH
2383PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2384 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2385 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2386 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2387 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2388 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2389
958541e9
PH
2390PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2391 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2392 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2393 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2394 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2395 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2396
c206415f
TK
2397TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2398 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2399
2a4be8f9
PH
2400PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2401 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2402
1cba11c5
SC
2403SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2404 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2405
2406SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2407
2408SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2409
2410SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2411
2412SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2413
2414SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2415
2416SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2417
1005d00e
TK
2418TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2419
2420TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2421 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2422 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2423
2424TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2425 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2426 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2427 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2428
9b4768fa
PH
2429PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2430 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2431 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2432
2433PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2434 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2435 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2436 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2437
0d7eb84a
PH
2438PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2439 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2440 to be made).
2441
2442PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2443 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2444 should work with maildirs and everything.
2445
40727bee
TK
2446TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2447 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2448
554d2369
TF
2449TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2450 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2451
1f922db1
PH
2452PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2453 function for BDB 4.3.
2454
ef213c3b
PH
2455PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2456
8ac170f3
PH
2457PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2458 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2459 involved.
2460
b1c749bb
PH
2461PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2462 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2463 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2464 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2465 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2466 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2467
4aac9b49
PH
2468PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2469 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2470 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2471 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2472 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2473 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2474 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2475 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2476
294520c8
TK
2477TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2478 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2479 details.
2480
5bd022fe
PH
2481PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2482 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2483
90e9ce59
PH
2484PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2485 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2486 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2487 test. It is now used for both.
2488
5ea81592
PH
2489PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2490 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2491 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2492 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2493 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2494 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2495
c6c2dc1d
PH
2496PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2497 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2498 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2499 string_vformat().
2500
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PH
2501PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2502 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2503 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2504
9a26b6b2
PH
2505PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2506 experimental DomainKeys support:
2507
2508 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2509 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2510 the control was given.
2511
2512 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2513
4aee0225
PH
2514PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2515
32d668a5
PH
2516PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2517
8187c3f3
PH
2518PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2519 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2520 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2521 db.h files).
2522
ff790e47 2523PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2524 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2525 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2526 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2527 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2528 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2529 course.
ff790e47 2530
5417f6d1
PH
2531PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2532 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2533 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2534 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2535 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2536 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2537
59cf8544
PH
2538PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2539 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2540 do -d+all out of habit.
2541
e7ad8a65
PH
2542PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2543 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2544 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2545
ade42478
PH
2546PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2547 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2548 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2549 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2550 record types that Exim uses.
2551
182ad5cf
PH
2552PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2553 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2554 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2555 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2556 non-existent file that was broken.
2557
b0d9fc80
TK
2558TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2559 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2560
2561TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2562 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2563 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2564
2565TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2566
47c7a64a
PH
2567PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2568 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2569 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2570 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2571 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2572 same time.
2573
a388bce4
SC
2574SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2575 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2576 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2577 at a slight CPU cost.
2578
2579SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2580 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2581
2582SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2583 by Marc Sherman.
2584
0793e4ed
SC
2585SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2586
c58b88df
PH
2587PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2588 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2589
e7ad8a65 2590
7982096b
PH
2591Exim version 4.51
2592-----------------
2593
1a46a8c5
PH
2594TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2595 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2596
2f079f46 2597TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2598
2599TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2600
2601PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2602 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2603
2604PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2605 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2606 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2607 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2608 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2609 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2610 file.
2611
2612PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2613 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2614 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2615 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2616 these two options.
2617
2618PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2619 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2620 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2621 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2622 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2623 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2624 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2625 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2626
2627PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2628 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2629
2630PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2631 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2632 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2633 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2634 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2635 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2636
2637PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2638 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2639 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2640 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2641
2642PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2643 Finch).
2644
2645PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2646 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2647
49c2d5ea
PH
2648PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2649 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2650 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2651 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2652 message.
49c2d5ea 2653
bf759a8b
PH
2654PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2655
83364d30
PH
2656PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2657 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2658
7999bbd7
PH
2659PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2660 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2661 to what was transported.)
2662
7dbf77c9
PH
2663TF/01 Added $received_time.
2664
74e0617f
PH
2665PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2666 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2667 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2668 spamd_address settings.
2669
2f079f46
PH
2670PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2671 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2672 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2673 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2674 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2675
8c841523
PH
2676PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2677
7766a4f0
PH
2678PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2679 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2680 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2681 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2682 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2683
8b417f2c
PH
2684PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2685 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2686
901f42cb
PH
2687PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2688 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2689 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2690 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2691 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2692 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2693 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2694 for failure.
2695
f9b9210e
PH
2696PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2697 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2698 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2699 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2700 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2701 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2702 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2703 "input=".
2704
54cdb463
PH
2705PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2706
cf00dad6
PH
2707PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2708 driver and ACL definitions.
2709
acb1b346
PH
2710PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2711 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2712
c5ddb310
PH
2713PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2714 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2715 understands it better than I do:
2716
2717 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2718 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2719
2720 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2721 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2722 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2723 => three warnings about OTP not working
2724 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2725
2726 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2727 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2728 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2729 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2730 for each call.)
2731 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2732 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2733
2734 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2735 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2736 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2737
31619da6
PH
2738PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2739 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2740 specified.
2741
bebaf0fc
PH
2742PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2743 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2744 "Linux".
2745
475fe28a
PH
2746PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2747 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2748 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2749
2750 warn !verify = sender
2751 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2752
2753 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2754 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2755
7e8bec7a
PH
2756PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2757
2758 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2759 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2760
2761 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2762 nomenclature these days.)
2763
e4a89c47
PH
2764PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2765 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2766
5ca2a9a1
PH
2767PH/30 In these circumstances:
2768 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2769 . First host does not offer TLS;
2770 . First host accepts first address;
2771 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2772 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2773 . Second host accepts second address.
2774 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2775 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2776 address.
7e8bec7a 2777
c688b954
PH
2778PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2779 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2780 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2781 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2782 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2783
fed77020
PH
2784PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2785 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2786
7fe1560f
PH
2787PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2788 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2789
ebb6e6d5
PH
2790PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2791 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2792 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2793
9c4e8f60
PH
2794PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2795 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2796 overlooked.
2797
2798PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2799
d7174846
PH
2800PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2801 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2802 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2803 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2804 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2805 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2806 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2807
2808 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2809 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2810 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2811 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2812 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2813
2814 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2815 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2816 routed further.
2817
cfe75fc3
PH
2818PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2819 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2820 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2821 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2822 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2823 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2824
be22d70e
PH
2825PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2826
0612b098
PH
2827PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2828 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2829 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2830 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2831 printable escape sequences.
2832
2e0c1448
PH
2833PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2834 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2835 body only.
2836
447d236c
PH
2837PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2838 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2839 are as follows:
2840
2841 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2842 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2843 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2844 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2845 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2846
2847 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2848 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2849 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2850
d20976dc
PH
2851PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2852
f656d135
PH
2853PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2854 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2855 play with."
2856
2e2a30b4
PH
2857PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2858 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2859 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2860 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2861 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2862 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2863 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2864 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2865 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2866 the log output.
2867
9176e9f0
PH
2868PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2869 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2870 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2871 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2872 "make".
2873
7982096b 2874
bbe902f0
PH
2875A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2876----------------------------------------
2877
2878Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2879changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2880needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2881in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2882that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2883release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2884from 4.43.
2885
2886I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
28874.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2888those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2889historical information.
2890
2891
f7b63901 2892Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2893-----------------
2894
5fe762f6
PH
2895 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2896
139059f6 2897 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2898 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2899
7086e875
PH
2900 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2901 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2902 place.
2903
35af9f61
PH
2904 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2905 filter fails to execute.
2906
b668c215
PH
2907 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2908 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2909 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2910 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2911 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2912
a494b1e1
PH
2913 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2914
2915 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2916 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2917 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2918 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2919
c5fcb476
PH
2920 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2921 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2922 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2923 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2924 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2925
69358f02
PH
2926 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2927
5be20824
PH
292810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2929
eb2c0248
PH
293011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2931 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2932 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2933 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2934
2a3eea10
PH
293512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2936 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2937 sender verification.
2938
293913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2940 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2941
23c7ff99
PH
294214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2943
4deaf07d
PH
294415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2945 connection timeout.
2946
926e1192
PH
294716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2948 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2949
650edc6f
PH
295017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2951 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2952
2c7db3f5
PH
295318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2954 information about exactly what failed.
2955
3d235903
PH
295619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2957
7c7ad977
PH
295820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2959 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2960 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2961
981756db
PH
296221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2963 It is now set to "smtps".
2964
d4eb88df
PH
296522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2966 ignore_target_hosts.
2967
296823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2969 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2970 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2971 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2972 "[x.x.x.x]".
2973
7d468ab8
PH
297424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2975 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2976 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2977
297825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2979 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2980 wake it up if nothing else does.
2981
62c0818f
PH
298226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2983 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2984 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2985 end up negative.
2986
26034054
PH
298727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2988 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2989
af66f652
PH
299028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2991
90af77f4
PH
299229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2993 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2994 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2995 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2996 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2997 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2998 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2999 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3000
d8ef3577
PH
300130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3002 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3003 than one IP address.
3004
5cb8cbc6
PH
300531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3006 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3007 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3008 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3009
14702f5b
PH
301032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3011 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3012 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3013 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3014 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3015 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3016
063b1e99
PH
301733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3018 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3019 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3020 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3021
652e1b65
PH
302234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3023 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3024 respected.
3025
6f0c9a4f
PH
302635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3027 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3028 $sender_host_address.
3029
33397d19
PH
303036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3031 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3032 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3033 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3034 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3035 very small.
3036
7bb56e1f
PH
303737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3038
3039 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3040 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3041
ea3bc19b
PH
3042 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3043 just the host names, not the priorities.
3044
3045 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3046 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3047 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3048
ea3bc19b 3049 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3050 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3051
0bcb2a0e
PH
305238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3053 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3054 domain.
3055
2ac0e484
PH
305639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3057
4e1fde53
PH
305840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3059 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3060
de365ded
PH
306141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3062 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3063 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3064
f05da2e8
PH
306542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3066
d6453af2
PH
306743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3068
f7b63901
PH
306944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3070
307145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3072 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3073 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3074 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3075 because the tests only now provoked it.
3076
a444213a
PH
307746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3078 (this can affect the format of dates).
3079
0ec020ea
PH
308047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3081 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3082 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3083 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3084
b1206957
PH
308548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3086
308749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3088 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3089 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3090 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3091
26dd5a95
PH
309250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3093 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3094 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3095
343b2385
PH
309651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3097 autoreply.
3098
1c5466b9
PH
309952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3100 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3101 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3102 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3103 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3104 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3105 is going on).
3106
55ee9ee3
PH
310753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3108 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3109 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3110 the line.
3111
d38f8232
PH
311254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3113 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3114 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3115
3116 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3117 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3118 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3119 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3120 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3121 so I produce this patch..."
3122
3295e65b
PH
3123 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3124 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3125 is not defined.
3126
7102e136
PH
312755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3128 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3129 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3130 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3131 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3132
3ca0ba97
PH
313356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3134
c2bcbe20
PH
313557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3136 long debug lines gets shown.
3137
18ce445d
PH
313858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3139 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3140
1f5b4c3d
PH
314159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3142
3143 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3144 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3145 of $primary_hostname.
3146
b975ba52
PH
314760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3148 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3149 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3150 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3151 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3152 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3153 by change 4.50/55 above.
3154
3155 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3156 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3157 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3158 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3159 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3160 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3161 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3162
316361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3164 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3165 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3166 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3167
17ffcae7
PH
316862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3169 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3170
d95f9fdb
PH
317163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3172 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3173 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3174 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3175 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3176
86b8287f
PH
317764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3178 This has been fixed.
3179
60dc5e56
PH
318065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3181 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3182 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3183 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3184 the caching.)
3185
533244af
PH
318666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3187
a5a28604
PH
318867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3189 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3190 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3191 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3192
7e634d24
PH
319368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3194 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3195
3e11c26b
PH
319669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3197 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3198 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3199
6729cf78
PH
320070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3201 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3202 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3203 message there.
3204
00f00ca5
PH
320571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3206 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3207 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3208
c9bdd01c
PH
320972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3210 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3211 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3212 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3213
d43194df
PH
321473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3215 during host lookups.
3216
fe5b5d0b
PH
321774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3218 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3219
3220 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3221
76a2d7ba
PH
322275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3223 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3224 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3225 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3226 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3227 background.
3228
322976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3230 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3231
04f7d5b9
PH
323277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3233 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3234 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3235
bc60667e
PH
323678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3237
bb6e88ff
PH
323879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3239 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3240 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3241 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3242 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3243 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3244 process earlier.
3245
1e70f85b
PH
324680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3247 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3248 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3249 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3250 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3251
325281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3253 tables).
3254
4e01f9d6
PH
325582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3256
1ee1cef2
PH
325783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3258 "vacation" handling.
3259
6e2b4ccc
PH
326084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3261 OS variants using glibc.
3262
8e669ac1
PH
326385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3264
495ae4b0 3265
bbe902f0
PH
3266----------------------------------------------------
3267See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3268----------------------------------------------------
3269
3270
3271Exim version 4.44
3272-----------------
3273
3274 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3275 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3276 transport
3277
3278 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3279 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3280 place.
3281
3282 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3283 filter fails to execute.
3284
3285 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3286 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3287 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3288 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3289 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3290
3291 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3292 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3293 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3294 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3295
3296 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3297 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3298 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3299 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3300 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3301
3302 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3303
3304 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3305 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3306 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3307 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3308
3309 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3310 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3311 sender verification.
3312
331310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3314 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3315
331611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3317 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3318
331912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3320 ignore_target_hosts.
3321
332213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3323 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3324 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3325 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3326 "[x.x.x.x]".
3327
332814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3329 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3330 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3331
333215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3333 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3334 wake it up if nothing else does.
3335
333616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3337 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3338 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3339 end up negative.
3340
334117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3342 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3343
ea3a6f44 334418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3345
334619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3347 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3348 empty pattern.
3349
335020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3351 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3352 one IP address.
3353
ea3a6f44
NM
335421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3355 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3356 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3357 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3358 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3359 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3360
ea3a6f44
NM
336122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3362 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3363 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3364
336523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3366 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3367 $sender_host_address.
3368
336924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3370
ea3a6f44
NM
337125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3372 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3373 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3374
337526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3376 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3377
ea3a6f44
NM
337827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3379 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3380
ea3a6f44
NM
338128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3382 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3383 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3384 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3385
338629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3387 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3388 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3389
ea3a6f44
NM
339030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3391 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3392 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3393 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3394
ea3a6f44
NM
339531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3396 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3397 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3398
ea3a6f44
NM
339931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3400 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3401
ea3a6f44
NM
340232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3403 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3404 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3405 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3406 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3407 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3408 is going on).
bbe902f0 3409
ea3a6f44
NM
341033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3411 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3412 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3413 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3414 CAN-2005-0021
3415
ea3a6f44
NM
341634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3417 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3418 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3419 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3420 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3421 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3422 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3423
3424 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3425 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3426 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3427 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3428 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3429 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3430 CAN-2005-0021
3431
ea3a6f44
NM
343235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3433 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3434 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3435 CAN-2005-0022
3436
ea3a6f44
NM
343736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3438 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3439 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3440 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3441 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3442
ea3a6f44
NM
344337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3444 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3445 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3446 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3447 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3448
ea3a6f44
NM
344938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3450 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3451 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3452 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3453 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3454
3455
495ae4b0
PH
3456Exim version 4.43
3457-----------------
3458
3459 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3460 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3461 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3462 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3463 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3464 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3465 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3466
3467 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3468 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3469 the delivery.
3470
3471 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3472
3473 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3474
3475 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3476 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3477 to local_scan().
3478
3479 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3480 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3481 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3482 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3483 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3484
3485 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3486 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3487
3488 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3489
3490 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3491
349210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3493 header_sender only.
3494
349511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3496 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3497
349812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3499 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3500 affecting debugging statements).
3501
350213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3503
350414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3505 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3506 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3507 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3508 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3509 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3510 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3511 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3512 after the received time, and all would be well.
3513
351415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3515 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3516 condition in an expansion string.
3517
351816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3519
352017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3521 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3522 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3523 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3524 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3525 job under whatever limits there are.
3526
352718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3528
352919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3530 space).
3531
353220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3533 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3534 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3535 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3536 return path is set.
3537
353821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3539 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3540 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3541 binary data in such strings.
3542
354322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3544
354523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3546 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3547 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3548 failure, which is pointless.
3549
355024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3551
355225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3553
355426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3555 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3556 Sender: header lines.
3557
355827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3559 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3560 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3561
356228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3563 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3564 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3565 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3566 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3567 happens.
3568
356929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3570 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3571 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3572 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3573 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3574
357530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3576 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3577 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3578 1024.
3579
358031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3581 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3582
358332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3584 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3585
358633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3587
358832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3589
359033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3591
359234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3593 syntax error.
3594
359535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3596
359736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3598
359937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3600 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3601 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3602 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3603
360438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3605 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3606
3607
3608Exim version 4.42
3609-----------------
3610
3611 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3612 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3613 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3614 it was not quoted.
3615 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3616 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3617 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3618 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3619 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3620 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3621
3622 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3623 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3624 verification failure".
3625
3626 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3627 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3628 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3629 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3630
3631 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3632 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3633 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3634 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3635 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3636 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3637 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3638 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3639 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3640 treated as a timeout.
3641
3642 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3643 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3644 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3645 not set for Exim filters).
3646
3647 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3648 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3649 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3650
3651 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3652
3653 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3654 try to make them clearer.
3655
3656 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3657 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3658
3659 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3660
3661 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3662
366310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3664 only the Cygwin environment.
3665
366611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3667 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3668 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3669 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3670 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3671
367212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3673 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3674 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3675 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3676 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3677 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3678 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3679
368013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3681 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3682
368314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3684
3685 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3686 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3687 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3688
3689 To: susanne@some.where
3690
3691 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3692 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3693 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3694 of addresses in From: header lines).
3695
3696 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3697 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3698 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3699
3700 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3701 treated as non-personal.
3702
3703 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3704 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3705
370615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3707
370816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3709
371017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3711 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3712 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3713
371418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3715 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3716
371719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3718 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3719 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3720 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3721 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3722 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3723
372420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3725 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3726 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3727 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3728 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3729 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3730 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3731 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3732
3733 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3734
373521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3736 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3737
373822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3739 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3740 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3741
374223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3743 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3744
374524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3746 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3747 rather than long int.
3748
374925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3750
375126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3752
3753
3754Exim version 4.41
3755-----------------
3756
3757 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3758 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3759 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3760 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3761 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3762 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3763
3764
3765Exim version 4.40
3766-----------------
3767
3768 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3769 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3770
3771 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3772 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3773 socklen_t is defined.
3774
3775 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3776 always exist.
3777
3778 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3779 configured.
3780
3781 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3782 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3783 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3784 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3785 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3786
3787 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3788 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3789 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3790 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3791
3792 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3793 of flapping under certain conditions.
3794
3795 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3796 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3797 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3798
3799 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3800
380110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3802
380311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3804 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3805 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3806 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3807
380812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3809 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3810 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3811 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3812 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3813 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3814 preserved with the message after it was received.
3815
381613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3817 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3818 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3819 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3820 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3821 test suite worked just fine.
3822
382314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3824 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3825 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3826
382715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3828 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3829 string.
3830
383116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3832 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3833 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3834 does not fully solve it.
3835
383617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3837 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3838 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3839 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3840 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3841
384218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3843 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3844 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3845
384619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3847 string, for example:
3848
3849 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3850
3851 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3852 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3853 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3854 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3855 the routers could not see them.
3856
385720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3858 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3859
386021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3861 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3862 output).
3863
386422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3865 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3866 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3867 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3868 that needed quoting.
3869
387023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3871 was not being matched caselessly.
3872
387324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3874 backslashes.
3875
387625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3877 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3878 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3879 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3880 when use_sender is false.
3881
388226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3883
388427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3885
388628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3887
388829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3889 the configuration file.
3890
389130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3892 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3893
389431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3895
389632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3897 bytes in the message body.
3898
389933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3900 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3901 delivery.
3902
390334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3904
390535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3906
390736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3908 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3909 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3910 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3911 another IP address.
3912
3913
3914Exim version 4.34
3915-----------------
3916
3917 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3918 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3919
3920 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3921 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3922 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3923 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3924 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3925
3926 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3927 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3928
3929 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3930 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3931 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3932
3933 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3934 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3935 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3936
3937 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3938 for routers.
3939
3940 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3941 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3942 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3943 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3944 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3945 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3946 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3947
3948
3949Exim version 4.33
3950-----------------
3951
3952 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3953 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3954 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3955 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3956 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3957 default (and expected) setting.
3958
3959 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3960 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3961 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3962 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3963
3964 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3965 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3966
3967 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3968 in domain lists.
3969
3970 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3971 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3972 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3973 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3974 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3975 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3976
3977 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3978 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3979 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3980
3981 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3982 part (NOT match_host).
3983
3984 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3985
3986 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3987 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3988 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3989 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3990 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3991 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3992 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
3993 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
3994 the same named file.
3995
399610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
3997 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
3998 when Exim is built.
3999
400011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4001 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4002 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4003 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4004 a host name.
4005
400612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4007 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4008 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4009
401013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4011
401214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4013
401415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4015
401616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4017 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4018
401917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4020 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4021 before starting the TLS session.
4022
402318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4024
402519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4026 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4027
402820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4029 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4030 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4031 colon in the middle).
4032
4033
4034Exim version 4.32
4035-----------------
4036
4037 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4038 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4039 multiple configurations are in use.
4040
4041 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4042 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4043 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4044 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4045 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4046 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4047
4048 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4049 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4050
4051 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4052 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4053 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4054
4055 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4056 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4057 occurs.
4058
4059 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4060 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4061
4062 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4063
4064 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4065 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4066
4067 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4068
4069 -prval:sval
4070
4071 is equivalent to
4072
4073 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4074
4075 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4076 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4077 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4078 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4079 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4080
408110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4082 Exim's behaviour:
4083
4084 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4085 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4086 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4087 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4088 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4089 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4090
4091 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4092 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4093 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4094 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4095 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4096 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4097 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4098 string.
4099
4100 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4101 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4102 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4103 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4104 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4105
410611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4107
410812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4109 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4110 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4111
411213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4113
411414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4115 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4116 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4117 information.
4118
411915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4120 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4121
412216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4123 Three changes have been made:
4124
4125 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4126 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4127 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4128 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4129 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4130
4131 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4132 been restored.
4133
4134 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4135 the modified behaviour.
4136
4137
4138Exim version 4.31
4139-----------------
4140
4141 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4142 Larry Rosenman.
4143
4144 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4145 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4146
4147 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4148 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4149 try to track down a specific problem.
4150
4151 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4152 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4153 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4154
4155 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4156 warning.
4157
4158 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4159 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4160 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4161 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4162 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4163 some earlier ones do not.
4164
4165 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4166
4167 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4168 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4169 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4170 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4171 address literals are enabled, of course).
4172
4173 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4174
417510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4176 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4177 by a command such as
4178
4179 exim -f "" ...
4180
4181 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4182
418311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4184
418512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4186 remained set. It is now erased.
4187
418813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4189 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4190
419114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4192 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4193 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4194 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4195 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4196 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4197 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4198 appropriate error code.
4199
420015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4201 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4202 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4203 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4204 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4205 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4206
420716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4208 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4209 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4210
421117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4212 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4213 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4214 terminate the header.
4215
421618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4217 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4218 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4219
422019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4221 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4222 (4.30/29). In particular:
4223
4224 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4225 imposed.
4226
4227 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4228 to write a maildirsize file.
4229
4230 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4231 the transport, the new value overrides.
4232
4233 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4234 count.
4235
423620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4237 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4238 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4239 space or a tab.
4240
424121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4242 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4243 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4244 the fallback hosts.
4245
424622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4247 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4248 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4249
425023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4251 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4252 using a union.
4253
425424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4255 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4256 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4257
425825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4259
426026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4261
426227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4263
426428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4265 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4266 become corrupted.
4267
426829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4269 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4270 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4271 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4272 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4273 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4274 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4275 too great.
4276
427730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4278 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4279 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4280 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4281 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4282 incorrectly.
4283
428431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4285 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4286 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4287 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4288 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4289 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4290 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4291 cached value only when the same options are set.
4292
429332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4294
429533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4296 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4297 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4298 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4299 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4300
430134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4302 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4303 it is clearly obsolete.
4304
430535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4306 transport.
4307
430836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4309 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4310 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4311 times.
4312
431337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4314 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4315 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4316 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4317 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4318
431938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4320 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4321 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4322 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4323
432439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4325
4326 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4327
4328 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4329 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4330 2^31.
4331
433240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4333 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4334 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4335 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4336 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4337 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4338 $localpart_data.
4339
434041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4341 with the -f command-line option.
4342
434342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4344 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4345 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4346 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4347 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4348 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4349
435043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4351 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4352 line.
4353
435444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4355 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4356 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4357 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4358 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4359 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4360 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4361 buffer is too small.
4362
436345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4364 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4365
436646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4367 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4368 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4369 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4370 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4371 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4372 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4373 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4374 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4375
437647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4377 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4378 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4379
438048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4381 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4382 ACL").
4383
438449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4385 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4386 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4387 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4388 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4389
439050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4391 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4392 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4393 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4394 is set.
4395
439651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4397
439852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4399
440053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4401 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4402
440354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4404 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4405 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4406
440755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4408 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4409 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4410 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4411 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4412
441356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4414 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4415 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4416 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4417 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4418 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4419 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4420
442157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4422 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4423 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4424 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4425 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4426 the test of how many are available.
4427
442858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4429 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4430 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4431 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4432 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4433 new message is started.
4434
443559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4436 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4437
443860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4439 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4440
444161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4442 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4443 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4444 is no long logged.
4445
444662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4447 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4448 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4449 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4450 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4451 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4452 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4453
445463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4455 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4456 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4457 interpreted as octal.
4458
445964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4460 setting.
4461
446265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4463 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4464 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4465 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4466 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4467 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4468
446966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4470 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4471 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4472 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4473
4474 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4475 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4476 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4477 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4478
4479 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4480 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4481 is a bug fix.
4482
4483 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4484 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4485
448667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4487
448868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4489 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4490 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4491 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4492
449369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4494 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4495 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4496 supplied", which is not helpful.
4497
449870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4499 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4500 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4501
450271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4503 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4504 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4505 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4506 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4507 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4508 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4509 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4510
451172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4512 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4513 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4514 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4515 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4516
451773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4518 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4519 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4520 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4521 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4522 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4523
452474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4525 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4526 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4527
452875. Added write_rejectlog option.
4529
453076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4531 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4532 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4533 variables.
4534
453577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4536
453778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4538 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4539 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4540 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4541 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4542 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4543 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4544 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4545
454679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4547 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4548 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4549 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4550 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4551
455280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4553 Haardt.
4554
455581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4556 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4557 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4558 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4559 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4560 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4561 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4562 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4563 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4564
4565
4566Exim version 4.30
4567-----------------
4568
4569 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4570 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4571 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4572
4573 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4574 fixed.
4575
4576 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4577 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4578 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4579
4580 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4581 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4582 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4583 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4584 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4585 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4586
4587 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4588 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4589 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4590 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4591 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4592 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4593 the Exim test suite.
4594
4595 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4596 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4597 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4598 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4599
4600 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4601 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4602 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4603 specify it in this variable.
4604
4605 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4606 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4607 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4608 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4609
4610 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4611 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4612 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4613 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4614
4615 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4616 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4617 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4618 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4619 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4620
4621 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4622
462310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4624 they are logged.
4625
462611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4627 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4628 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4629 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4630 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4631
463212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4633 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4634
463513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4636 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4637 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4638 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4639 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4640
464114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4642 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4643
464415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4645 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4646 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4647
464816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4649 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4650
465117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4652 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4653
465418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4655 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4656 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4657
465819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4659 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4660
466120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4662 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4663 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4664 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4665
466621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4667
466822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4669 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4670 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4671 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4672
467323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4674
467524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4676 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4677
467825. Added .include_if_exists.
4679
468026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4681 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4682 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4683 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4684 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4685 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4686
468727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4688
468928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4690 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4691 this.
4692
469329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4694
469530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4696 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4697
4698 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4699 550 Sender verify failed
4700
4701 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4702 the final line of the response.
4703
470431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4705 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4706 all other user lookups.
4707
470832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4709 delivery time.
4710
471133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4712 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4713 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4714 result into an int without checking.
4715
471634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4717 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4718 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4719
472035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4721 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4722 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4723 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4724
472536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4726 correctly.
4727
472837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4729 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4730
473138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4732 to the empty sender.
4733
473439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4735 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4736 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4737 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4738 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4739 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4740 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4741 panic log.
4742
474340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4744 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4745 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4746 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4747 used.
4748
474941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4750 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4751
475242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4753 timestamps.
4754
475543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4756 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4757
475844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4759
476045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4761 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4762 logs.
4763
476446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4765 as soon as it is encountered.
4766
476747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4768
476948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4770 rewritten to "<>".
4771
477249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4773 recognizes a tab character.
4774
477550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4776 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4777 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4778 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4779
478051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4781
478252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4783 crash.
4784
478553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4786
478754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4788
478955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4790 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4791 2822.
4792
479356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4794 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4795 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4796 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4797 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4798
479957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4800 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4801
480258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4803 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4804 list (.included file names were always shown).
4805
480659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4807 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4808 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4809 root at that time.
4810
481160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4812 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4813
481461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4815
481662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4817
481863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4819
482064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4821 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4822 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4823 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4824 failures to open the logs.
4825
482665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4827 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4828 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4829 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4830 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4831 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4832 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4833
4834
4835Exim version 4.24
4836-----------------
4837
4838 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4839 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4840 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4841 change 4.23/1.
4842
4843 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4844 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4845 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4846
4847 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4848 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4849 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4850
4851 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4852 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4853 causing some misleading effects.
4854
4855 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4856 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4857 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4858
4859 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4860 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4861 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4862 queue-runner function directly.
4863
4864
4865Exim version 4.23
4866-----------------
4867
4868 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4869 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4870
4871 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4872 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4873 was always written to the default place.
4874
4875 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4876 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4877 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4878
4879 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4880
4881 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4882
4883 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4884 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4885 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4886
4887 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4888 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4889 must start.
4890
4891 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4892 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4893 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4894
4895 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4896 command line option is disabled.
4897
4898 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4899 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4900
4901 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4902
4903 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4904
4905 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4906 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4907
490810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4909
491011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4911 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4912 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4913 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4914 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4915 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4916
491712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4918 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4919 timeout.
4920
492113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4922 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4923
492414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4925 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4926
492715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4928 received was valid base64.
4929
493016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4931 name of the variable that was being set.
4932
493317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4934
493518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4936 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4937 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4938 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4939 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4940 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4941
494219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4943
494420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4945 nor realm was specified.
4946
494721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4948 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4949 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4950 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4951
495222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4953 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4954 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4955
495623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4957 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4958 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4959
496024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4961 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4962 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4963 some systems use these upper case variants.
4964
496525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4966 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4967 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4968 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4969
497026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
4971
497227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
4973 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
4974
497528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
4976 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
4977 expansion variable.
4978
497929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
4980
498130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
4982 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
4983 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
4984 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
4985
498631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
4987 using it.
4988
498932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
4990 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
4991 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
4992
499333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
4994 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
4995
499634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
4997 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
4998 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
4999 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5000
500135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5002 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5003 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5004
500536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5006
500737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5008 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5009 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5010 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5011 aborted.
5012
501338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5014 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5015 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5016
501739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5018
501940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5020 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5021
502241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5023 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5024
502542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5026 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5027 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5028 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5029 when emails are that large.
5030
5031
5032
5033Exim version 4.22
5034-----------------
5035
5036 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5037 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5038
5039 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5040 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5041 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5042
5043 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5044 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5045 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5046
5047 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5048 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5049 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5050 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5051 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5052
5053 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5054 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5055 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5056 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5057 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5058 ever.
5059
5060 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5061 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5062 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5063 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5064 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5065 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5066 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5067 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5068 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5069 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5070 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5071 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5072 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5073 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5074
5075 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5076 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5077 parameterised it.
5078
5079 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5080 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5081 error should be diagnosed.
5082
5083 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5084 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5085 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5086 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5087 appeared instead of "NULL".
5088
508910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5090 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5091 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5092 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5093 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5094 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5095 proceeds).
5096
5097 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5098 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5099 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5100
5101
5102Exim version 4.21
5103-----------------
5104
5105 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5106 or receiver verification errors.
5107
5108 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5109 name.
5110
5111 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5112 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5113 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5114 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5115
5116 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5117 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5118 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5119 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5120 shouldn't happen again.
5121
5122 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5123 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5124 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5125
5126 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5127 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5128
5129 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5130
5131 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5132 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5133
5134 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5135 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5136 RFC.
5137
513810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5139 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5140 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5141
514211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5143 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5144 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5145 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5146
514712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5148 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5149 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5150 to define what should happen).
5151
515213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5153 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5154 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5155
515614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5157
515815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5159
516016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5161 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5162
516317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5164 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5165 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5166 structure in all cases.
5167
5168 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5169 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5170 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5171 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5172
517318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5174 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5175 domain name.
5176
517719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5178 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5179
518020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5181 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5182
518321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5184 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5185 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5186
518722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5188 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5189 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5190
519123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5192 the book and for uniformity.
5193
519424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5195
519625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5197 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5198 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5199 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5200 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5201 non-existent command as the problem.
5202
520326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5204 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5205 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5206
520727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5208
520928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5210 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5211 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5212
521329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5214 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5215 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5216 timestamps using strftime().
5217
521830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5219 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5220
522132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5222 transport-time rewrites.
5223
522433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5225 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5226 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5227 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5228
522934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5230 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5231
523235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5233 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5234 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5235 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5236 comma and a space.
5237
523836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5239 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5240 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5241 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5242 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5243 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5244 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5245
524637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5247 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5248 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5249 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5250 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5251
525238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5253 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5254 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5255 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5256 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5257 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5258 remaining text gets split now.
5259
526039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5261 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5262 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5263 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5264
526540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5266 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5267 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5268 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5269 $return_path.
5270
527141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5272 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5273 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5274 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5275 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5276 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5277 passed through if needed.
5278
527942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5280 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5281 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5282 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5283 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5284 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5285
528643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5287 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5288 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5289 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5290 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5291
529244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5293 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5294 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5295 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5296 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5297
529845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5299 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5300 noticed.
5301
530246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5303 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5304 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5305 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5306 mayhem of various kinds.
5307
530847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5309 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5310 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5311 the right test for positive values.
5312
531348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5314 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5315 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5316 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5317 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5318 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5319 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5320 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5321 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5322 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5323 envelope.
5324
532549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5326 module.
5327
532850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5329 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5330 forbidding it.
5331
533251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5333 the existing equality matching.
5334
533552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5336 dealing with inode numbers.
5337
533853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5339 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5340 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5341
534254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5343 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5344 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5345 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5346 local_scan().
5347
534855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5349 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5350 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5351 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5352 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5353 relay addresses has also been removed.
5354
535556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5356
535757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5358 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5359 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5360
536158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5362 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5363 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5364 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5365 processing applies to CR:
5366
5367 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5368 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5369
5370 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5371 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5372 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5373 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5374
537559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5376 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5377 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5378
537960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5380 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5381 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5382 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5383 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5384 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5385 arisen.
5386
538761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5388 program routers.
5389
539062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5391 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5392 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5393 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5394 adds:
5395
5396 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5397
5398 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5399
5400 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5401
540263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5403 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5404 not considered personal.
5405
540664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5407
540865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5409
541066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5411
541267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5413 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5414 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5415 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5416 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5417 header lines, and spool format errors.
5418
541968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5420 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5421 for more flexibility.
5422
542369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5424 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5425 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5426
542770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5428 Sabourenkov.
5429
543071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5431 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5432 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5433 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5434 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5435 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5436 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5437 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5438 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5439
544072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5441 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5442 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5443 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5444 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5445 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5446 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5447
544873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5449 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5450 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5451
545274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5453 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5454 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5455 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5456 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5457 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5458 instead of killing the process with assert().
5459
546075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5461 than Unicode encoding.
5462
546376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5464 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5465 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5466 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5467
546877. Added process_log_path.
5469
547078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5471 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5472
547379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5474 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5475
547680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5477 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5478 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5479
548081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5481 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5482 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5483 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5484 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5485 were applied:
5486
5487 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5488 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5489 as invalid.
5490
549182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5492 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5493 they will be used during message reception.
5494
5495
5496Exim version 4.20
5497-----------------
5498
5499The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5500
5501****